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5 Content Types That Can Help Your Business Go Viral

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When used to talk about things that are published online, the word viral refers to content that people consume and are then compelled to share with others. For a business, the benefits of publishing viral content include increased awareness about their brand, more visitors to their website and improved search engine rankings as a result of more people linking to their site. Although there’s no way to guarantee that a specific piece of content will go viral, there are best practices you can follow to maximize your chances of success. So without further ado, here are five viral marketing tips you’ll want to keep in mind: 1. Inspirational Stories about Real People Humans are hardwired to respond to stories. And given how moved we all are by emotion, it’s easy to understand why human interest stories are such a powerful recipe for viral content. What’s great about this specific kind of viral content is it can help create a very positive association with your brand. 2. Quizzes
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How the Right Social Media Marketing Dashboard Can Help Your Business Grow

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At Send Social Media, we are very passionate about social media. But that passion isn’t just because we think social media is fun. Instead, it comes from the firsthand experience we have of seeing just how much social media can transform businesses. Whether you’re in a B2C or B2B space, social media makes it easier and more cost-effective than ever before to connect with highly targeted prospects. Although social media can work extremely well for just about any type of business, that doesn’t mean this form of marketing is always intuitive. Plenty of businesses dive into social media with big expectations, only to be disappointed by the lack of traction they end up seeing. Whether you’re currently in that position or you’ve been hesitant to even get started with social media, we want to explain why the right social media marketing dashboard can help bring all the necessary pieces of a successful strategy together: Eliminate Guesswork One of the most common reasons business
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Monitor and Engage Your Social Media Reviews from Send Social Media

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  Social media has developed at a very rapid pace. It was less than a decade ago when most social media activity was limited to people under the age of 25. Since then, platforms like Facebook have grown into global drivers where people from all walks of life go on a daily basis. As social media has become more ingrained into people’s daily routines, the companies behind these platforms continue to roll out new features to ensure they’re not left behind like previous front runners such as MySpace. One area where Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest have all focused a lot of effort is on appealing to businesses. Since almost all social media revenue comes from advertising, these platforms know that they need businesses to care about them. By providing features and tools that appeal directly to businesses, the platforms are able to accomplish those goals. An Important Feature of Facebook Business Pages Even though they started out as an online network exclusively
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Solve These 4 Marketing Challenges with Social Media Automation

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Although social media usage and influence only continues to increase, plenty of businesses still struggle to stay on top of their social channels. Even after a business clears the initial challenges that often come up when getting started with social, it’s common to feel overwhelmed by how much there is to do. If you want your business to take advantage of everything social media has to offer but worry that you simply don’t have the resources to do so, we want to share four different ways social media automation can help you out: Efficiently Handling a Large Number of Responses As you build more momentum for your business through social media, the number of people who interact with your profiles will increase. While this is a good problem to have, it’s still a problem. The last thing you want to do is make potential customers feel ignored or miss a very important message. Since trying to manually go through a large number of responses across multiple platforms can take a lot of
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Instagram Management and Like Automation Now Available in the Send Social Media Dashboard

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Every month, half a billion people get on Instagram. Because Instagram is a huge platform that will only continue to grow in 2017 and beyond, Send Social Media is very excited to announce that our Dashboard now supports Instagram. By talking to businesses, marketers and agencies about the type of help they need with their Instagram marketing, we were able to build an excellent set of management and automation features. Since this addition to our platform presents an exciting new opportunity for social media marketing, we want to highlight the best Instagram features that are now available: Inbox The Inbox of our Dashboard brings all your Instagram activity into one convenient location. This makes it super easy to engage with people who are interested in your content. From this single view, you can easily see activity on all of your posts and then expand conversations, repost content or reply to comments. Advanced features available with a single click include translating,
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How Agencies Can Best Help with Social Media in 2017

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Most agencies that offer online marketing services to clients understand the importance of social media. Because social media has become such a significant component of most people’s daily online routine, an online marketing strategy is going to be incomplete without a social media component. While social media can be a powerful way to reach a target audience, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. As all the major platforms continue to grow in size and change how they allow businesses to connect with users, it’s important for agencies to keep up with the latest strategies and tactics that actually work. Since this is a topic we’re very interested in and have a lot of hands-on knowledge about, we want to take a look at some of the areas where agencies can best help their clients with social media in 2017: Increasing Organic Reach There was a time when any business that put in the minimum amount of effort with social media could build quite an impressive following and then reap the benefi
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What are Some Social Media Challenges Businesses Face?

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Each month, hundreds of millions of people across the United States and billions more around the globe log into at least one of the major social media platforms. Because so many people have integrated social media into their regular routine, these platforms have turned into very powerful marketing platforms for businesses. But that doesn’t mean social media marketing is easy. Businesses of all sizes encounter a variety of challenges when they attempt to market through social media. To help your business avoid or solve these challenges, we want to highlight four right now: 1. Creating a Real Connection Now that social media has become table stakes for online marketing, it’s not enough for businesses to simply be on these platforms. Instead, they have to give their target audience a compelling reason to connect. One solution to this challenge is to prioritize responding to everyone who comments or reaches out through social media. If you’re worried about not being able to k
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