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Top Tips for Becoming a Better Social Business

At the surface, business managers seem completely at ease with this question; however, while cool and confident on the outside, on the inside, they’re biting their nails and pacing the floor wondering what it takes to become a social business. Just to make things clear, being a social business does not necessarily mean having social media accounts. This may be a terrifying thought for the approximate 64 percent of B2B companies who currently use social media – no one likes to know that what they’re doing may not be enough.

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Still Think Content Marketing is Just a Phase? Read This

If you do a quick Web scan or ask a random handful of people, you’ll receive multiple conflicting answers as to whether content marketing – an integrated marketing strategy involving creating and sharing relevant, customized and insightful copy – is all that it’s cracked up to be. As if existing statistics (such as the fact that 91 percent of B2B marketers currently leverage content marketing strategies and 66 percent of brands say that branded content marketing has become “very important”) weren’t enough, a brand new infographic brings us a slew of statistics that are hot out of the oven. All of them point to the fact that content marketing is a must-have for any business’ customer engagement strategy.

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Key Takeaways from Latest B2B Content Marketing Survey Results

B2BBusiness-to-business (B2B) buyer behavior has fundamentally changed and, as a result, the concept of content marketing has gone mainstream. This has led B2B marketers to do either one of two things: fist pump like a champ or pull their hair out while battling intense anxiety. Regardless of which side you’re on, the fact remains that content marketing is a force to be reckoned with – and more specifically, capitalized on.

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Is Your Brand Undergoing a Big Change? Take a Page from Shake Shack

Let me start with this. If you haven’t been to Shake Shack, do yourself a favor and try it out. The menu even has options for your four-legged friend; what’s not to love? A favorite of many was Shake Shack’s crinkle-cut fries. But recently, the fries have been replaced with their fresh-cut counterpart.

Since Shake Shack came onto the scene back in 2004, it has been serving crinkle-cut fries to accompany the many burger and hotdog options. Recently, restaurant goers said that the chain could “do better,” which inspired Shake Shack to try out a new take on its traditional fries. In efforts to move away from frozen options and towards more wholesome products, Shake Shack made the decision to sell exclusively fresh-cut fries at its 20 U.S. locations.

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Why Every Brand Needs Instagram: As Told by a Newly Addicted Instagrammer

instagram picAs you read this, your competitors are Instagramming. They’re carefully filtering photos, sharing videos that are unique to their brand and garnering “likes” for the custom-tailored content they’re delivering to an audience of over 100 million users. For those of you who have aptly adapted to this online photo- and video-sharing/social networking service, you deserve a hearty pat on the back. However, for those of you who still linger outside of the Instagram universe, you’re unfortunately charging toward a very rude awakening. Continue reading “Why Every Brand Needs Instagram: As Told by a Newly Addicted Instagrammer”

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Companies Creating Holidays to Boost Content Marketing Strategy

Back To School SaturdayI’m one of those people who treat magazines like a lengthy novel. When I check my mailbox for my monthly subscription, I spend hours glazing the pages looking for the latest fashion tips and life advice.  Whether it’s Vanity Fair, Glamour or stealing a quick peek at the latest issue of Cosmopolitan, I love a good magazine.

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What Content Marketers Can Learn from Pope Francis’ Twitter Account

Move over Barack Obama – there’s a new sheriff in the Twittersphere.

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The leader of the free world has been overthrown by the Vatican’s newly elected Pope Francis, who now stands as the world’s most influential leader on Twitter. The President of the United States still ranks among the top of influential world leaders, though, currently boasting over 34 million Twitter followers (and who can forget when he obliterated Twitter statistics with his iconic “Four more years” tweet during the 2012 U.S. election?)

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Giving Certain Parts of Your Business a Social Media Voice

When it comes to your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, your gut reaction is to create several corporate accounts. So for example, if you are Dunkin Donuts your Twitter handle is @DunkinDonuts; if you are Walmart, your business Facebook page is simply Walmart. But have you ever thought about whether you can brand integral parts of your company—like your flagship offerings, company mascot or brand caricature?

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Three Reasons You Should Jumpstart Your Holiday Content Marketing Campaign in July

julyI know, I know…the last thing you want to hear during the peak of summer is the word “Christmas.” For those of us who experience a traditional summer season (between the months of June to September), we have been spending our days in a hot haze of sand, sun and tanning. However, for content marketers, this could be prime time for getting customers to begin thinking about the most wonderful – and expensive – time of the year.

While your target audience is currently bikini clad and relaxing poolside, there are several ways your brand can begin boosting its holiday spirit with content marketing. Let’s take a look at three reasons why you should get into the content marketing holiday spirit right now.

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