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10 New Facebook Features for 2016

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The Facebook ecosystem (which includes Instagram and WhatsApp ) offer unprecedented social utility, and Facebook is expanding its native services substantially in 2016. The changes to Facebook in 2016 are new to Facebook, but aren’t new to the social landscape. Facebook Live Video (for all). Take PR to the next level.

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How to Pitch Social Influencers

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It ’ s 2016 (Almost) and thankfully you don ’ t have to convince your boss that social media is a good idea. Get Cision’s free white paper now! VapeJoose , leveraging large communities on Facebook and Instagram, went from $0 to over $1 million in less than a year. You now have a different, more exciting challenge.

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The New Marketing Mandate for the Advocacy Era

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In fact, according to Edelman’s 2016 EARNED BRAND study , 86% of surveyed consumers rely on peer sources for learning about brands and 71% rely on peer sources for buying decisions. Multichannel promotion is a given for any communications strategy; however, many brands are missing the right channel mix.

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3 Brands Successfully Running Random Acts of Kindness Campaigns

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Read the free Brand Journalism white paper today! Panera Bread has an initiative called Panera Cares which is a special 501(c)(3) nonprofit community caf é that operates on a pay-what-you-can model. The challenge I have for you in 2016 is don ’ t wait until next holiday season to create RAK campaigns.

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Where and How B2B Marketing Generates Leads it Likes [Study]

Sword and the Script

Yes, content marketing can produce leads, but it’s an effect of growing an engaged community and subscribers over time. According to the survey, the top five content types are as follows: White papers: 52%. Just producing more white papers or blog posts may not be the right answer. Blog post: 44%. Webinars: 32%.

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Marketing Spend: What Would You Do with an Extra $5 Million? [UML]

Sword and the Script

Some people don’t even like football, but watch the game for the community – and the commercials. Second, aim to nurture rather than make a hard sell; in B2B marketing that means pitching quality content, like reports, white papers and webinars. That’s all fine and well, but what were the results? And later. “64%

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The Psychology of More in Content Marketing and Social Media [UML]

Sword and the Script

We will have a Twittersphere of bots talking to bots and thanking each other for being top engaged members of the community this week. Perhaps there’s a better way to nurture or otherwise engage the chap who registered to downloaded a white paper than three ( and often more) touches by sales within 24 hours. j4V1meSZ4B.