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AI is not always the answer
Read more: AI is not always the answerEvery week, I’m reading more and more articles about AI. When I think every side has been covered, another angle pops up. To say AI is hot for every industry right now is more than an understatement. In social media, people are trying to use it to take the place of the social media manager…
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Why an organization should not do personality-first social media
Read more: Why an organization should not do personality-first social mediaI see it every day. An organization doesn’t know what to do for social media. They probably see how successful all those influencers are with a personality-first social media strategy. So they hire someone who is either an influencer or a wanna-be influencer and they get all the personality. Maybe some vanity metrics are soaring.…
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When going niche is good
Read more: When going niche is goodThere is this idea that going big is always the right call. Get the biggest influencers. Go for the biggest numbers. That’s what social media is all about, right? Wrong. In a lot of cases, going niche is your best call. That can be mind boggling to so many that are looking to hire me.…
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Moving customers through the marketing funnel using social media
Read more: Moving customers through the marketing funnel using social mediaThe marketing funnel seems to have been thrown away lately in favor of spraying content everywhere and praying that it works. I have theories about why some of these fundamentals are going away, but that could be a blog post of its own. The fact is that marketing fundamentals still work on social media. And…
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Do You Need to Be on Every Social Media Network?
Read more: Do You Need to Be on Every Social Media Network?Marketing teams are getting leaner and stretched further with demands. And yet, they continue to try to be on every single social media network and do ALL THE THINGS. That’s a great recipe for disaster and burn out. But what do you do when the expectation is that you are on every social media network…
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A Social Media Network Played With Us. Now What?
Read more: A Social Media Network Played With Us. Now What?We were warned for months that this was going to happen, and we all kinda knew in the back of our head that it couldn’t possibly happen. But then TikTok was just gone. A social media network that was once thought to big to make go away had done the impossible. And then it reappeared,…
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Talking at Fans Versus Talking with Fans
Read more: Talking at Fans Versus Talking with FansFans are your greatest asset. They’ve chosen to follow you? That’s amazing. Whether they want to be passive or active fans, the choice to become a fan is a huge honor. And yet I see so many pages not treating it as an honor and instead, treating their fans as people they can use. It’s…
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What I Learned From Going Viral on Threads
Read more: What I Learned From Going Viral on ThreadsLast week I was harassed by a guy at the gym. Because I have trouble recalling details after events like that, I made the decision to film my story and post it to Instagram. And then it seemed right to also write it out to cement the details, so I posted it on Threads. The…
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Think Small on Social Media
Read more: Think Small on Social MediaWe are so programmed to constantly think of going bigger that it’s not surprising that we think that way on social media. Chase after bigger influencers, get bigger engagement and more. Makes sense, right? But what if I told you that in most cases it’s better to think small when it comes to social media?…
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How to Build Social Media Relationships
Read more: How to Build Social Media RelationshipsOne of the best social media tactics is to build relationships with people who will do your marketing for you. That would be the dream, right? Having someone else do your job? Ah, if only it were as simple as having someone else do your job. It’s actually loads more difficult than that. You can’t…
