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How to supercharge your marketing strategy with AI automation

Sprout Social

The intuitive collaboration between artificial intelligence (AI) and human effort is driving innovation across a range of industries such as health sciences, supply chain management, manufacturing and research & development. These insights help brands personalize content for marketing and advertising.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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How to use social listening tools for business-wide success

Sprout Social

Social media is the world’s largest and most transparent focus group. Social listening lets you tap into that focus group, their conversations and the trends happening not just around your brand, but around your industry as a whole. Social media is now a major part of the average person’s news diet.

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How—and Why—to Break Social Media Marketing Out of Its Silo

Content Standard

When Facebook was introduced back in 2004, it was a college “social network.” ” Users could connect with other users, join chat groups, organize events, and post photos. Social was becoming a real-time focus group, customer service channel, and e-commerce store all in one.

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity

Social media makes it easy to connect with new people who share your interests…anywhere on earth. Before social networks (and even more so before email became widespread), it was difficult to make and maintain acquaintances with professional peers or people with similar interests in other parts of the country, much less the world.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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How to Find and Hire a Director of Marketing for Your Business

Single Grain

Here are the different duties of a marketing director: Conduct Market Research and Analysis. Market research is a vital component of business strategy. Therefore, a marketing director should ideate, prepare and distribute different press releases, even working with a PR agency to reach reputable media houses and journalists.