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Social Media – Trends, Attracting Followers and Instagram Changes

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. But you’re not attracting new followers. This week among the 6 social media reads, ways to attract followers. Plus trends, changes to Instagram and learning from other’s mistakes: 13 Ways Your Business Can Attract More Social Media Followers Social media and marketing pros share their advice for how small businesses can get more followers and likes on Facebook, Twitter and their LinkedIn company pages. Social Media Trends to Watch In order to stay on top of your marketing game, you need to know what’s going on in this… 

Email Marketing – Learn From Mistakes and Grow Lists Thru Social

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Email marketing is consistently ranked as the best channel in terms of return on investment. 68% of companies rate the channel as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. (1) For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. (2) Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. (3) How do you maximize this marketing strategy? Here’s 8 articles / 36 tips to help with your email marketing: 5 Costly Email Marketing Mistakes to Avoid At All Costs mistakes can cost the company or person sending them some serious credibility points. To prevent this from happening to you,… 

Oklahoma Conference on Tourism Summary

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The Oklahoma Conference on Tourism was held yesterday in Oklahoma City. Great sessions on branding, social media, customer service, motorcoach marketing, festival and events marketing, agritourism, destination development, and attracting Gen Y (millennials) to your destination. Naturally, quite a few ‘little nuggets’ of take-aways… Secret to #socialmedia #marketing per @SheilaS of @TourismCurrents: “Work your butt off!” 3 times to market on #socialmedia: before, during and after. Too many forget last two and (social media) account goes cold. @SheilaS Your #CVB is not reaching #millennials. No app. Website (is) not mobile friendly. (You need to) treat #socialmedia like traditional media. “Don’t discount a… 

Social Media – Checklist, Acronyms, Budget and Helpful Apps

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You’re told you can market your business for no money on social media. (In this collection, we have a link to a video that says that.) So you want to get started. Start here: Your Essential Social Media Checklist Replace “actor” with your industry and go through the “essential social media checklist… (that) will help you create social media accounts that more clearly reflect who you are, help grow your fan base, and build lasting industry relationships.” Now learn these: Social Media Acronyms That All Marketers Should Know (The) comprehensive list of the latest social media acronyms will help you survive your… 

Email Marketing – 11 Tips and How Email is Like Elections

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Your email marketing campaigns are underway! You have a well-designed email with a call-to-action or two. Creative, well thought-out subject lines. Are your campaigns working? Wait! You’re not utilizing email in your marketing? Huffington Post recommends email as one of 3 Places to Put Your Marketing Dollars Instead of Social Media Social media ROI isn’t close to the effectiveness of email marketing. Period. To help with your campaigns… 6 Email Marketing Challenges And How To Overcome Them Let’s take a closer look at the biggest issues plaguing marketers and the solutions for each. 5 Ways a Patient E-newsletter Will Make Your… 

Social Media – 25 Trends and Sites to Watch; 38 Other Tips

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As they say, “why recreate the wheel?” and when it comes to social media practices, it’s okay to watch popular or successful accounts, see what they’re doing and try to emulate. If you truly struggle with your campaigns, take a look at these first two articles to learn how you might “do” social media better: 20 Popular Social Media Sites Right Now (The article) profiled 20 most popular social media websites so you can now make informed marketing decisions. 5 Trends from Social Media Marketing World 2016 Here are five of the biggest trends discussed at Social Media Marketing World.… 

Email Marketing – 15 Tips and Measuring Your Success

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Your email marketing campaigns are underway! You have a well-designed email with a call-to-action or two. Creative, well thought-out subject lines. Are your campaigns working? Here’s 15 fixes to help with the success of your campaigns and how to measure your success: 5 Practical Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Campaign Here are five practical tips that help you get more subscribers as well as increase your engagement. Spring Sending: Time for a Fresh Start A few suggestions that should help to provide some well-needed tender loving care for your marketing efforts. (And remember … given all that your email… 

Tourism Best Practices – National Travel and Tourism Week Edition

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It’s National Travel and Tourism Week in the United States. A week to spotlight the 15.1M jobs and $2.1T the industry generates for the U.S. economy. What a better week for our largest collection of Tourism Best Practices. These are innovative programs tourism professionals at Convention and Visitors Bureaus – CVBs (or Destination Marketing Organizations – DMOs) are doing to increase visitation in their destinations. We start outside the U.S. You’ve heard of multi-city or multi-county collaborations. How about multi-nation? Report: Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic to Forge Multi-Destination Arrangement Efforts to boost cooperation between Jamaica and Cuba in the area… 

Social (verb) people engaging with each other part 2

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“Social media” suggests that we are sociable with those that like us, follow us or connect with us. However, as we get busier and busier, we too often either use a social media management tool like Hootsuite, schedule our posts/tweets and never review them after they are posted, or we quickly log on to Facebook, post and log off, never reviewing the interactions. We’ve shared a few ways to engage more through Twitter. As Facebook changes their algorithms and our posts appear in less and less news feeds, we focus on Facebook and – as our new definition of social…