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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… 

Social Media – Snapchat, Twitter and 16 Tips

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You’re just getting a knack of Facebook, just rid your Twitter account of the egg-head and now there’s Snapchat! One more social media platform to manage. But is Snapchat worth your marketing-strapped resources? That answer Twitter analytics and 16 other tips and suggestions: Does Snapchat Marketing Measure up against Other Social Media? With over 100 million daily active users who average 25 to 30 minutes of active screen time per day, the social network is far too large to be ignored. But Snapchat video marketing isn’t like any other video advertising platform. How to Use Twitter Analytics to Improve Your Engagement In… 

Social (verb) people engaging with each other

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We all know the social media statistics: 198 google billion posts on Facebook, 55 quaple million tweets, 127.4 hoople billion pics on Instagram, and more pins than all of Oklahoma and Iowa’s wrestling programs combined. Social media is today what websites were in the 90s meaning if you’re not on social media, well, you’re not in business. But social media is, well, social. Try this: ‘sō shəl (verb) to design activities in which people engage with each other for pleasure – or in your situation – commerce! You won’t find that in Websters but we should. I have noticed a… 

Email Marketing – The Overlooked Marketing Tool

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When we meet with eventual clients, the conversation usually starts with a website. After we discuss the site, we turn to the discussion of what the client will be doing to drive traffic to the website. As we discuss platforms, we always get a surprising response when we inquire about email marketing. 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… 

Social Media – 37 Hacks and Tips

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. But are you doing it right? This week we share more than 35 hacks, tips, suggestions and how tos: 20+ Social Media Hacks and Tips From the Pros In this article you’ll discover 25 ways to improve your marketing and save time. Tips for Creating Impactful Videos for Social Media #SproutChat dove into key tactics and tips for successful videos for social media. Here are a few pointers to get you started. 8 Ways Social Media Can Help Launch New Products How you can leverage social media in your product launch?… 

Five Things You Should Be Doing on Social Media… But Aren’t

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Social media… the marketing world never paid attention to it in the late 90s when GeoCities and SixDegrees were starting.  We didn’t engage with MySpace in the early 2000s.  But then Facebook happened.  It hit 200 million users.  Then 400 million.  (Now 1.59 billion.)  YouTube became the second largest search engine.  Twitter reports 2 billion tweets per year.  Okay, you’ve got marketer’s attention! Conferences began offering breakout sessions on social media.  Then keynote speakers.  Now full conferences. Books, consultants, reporting standards, even it’s own awards. Marketing departments and DMOs are hiring New Media Managers.  We’re cutting out print ’cause we can post…