Video Ads in Social Media 2019

By Tracie Nall / September 5, 2019
Video creators helped put YouTube on the map, but social properties want a slice of that success, too. New moves...
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Four Best Practices For A Killer B2B Content Marketing Strategy

By Tracie Nall / August 26, 2019
What makes a successful business-to-business (B2B) content marketing strategy different from marketing directly to consumers? At its core, every content...
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WHAT YOUR BRAND NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE BURGEONING VIDEO-GAME STREAMING BATTLE

By Tracie Nall / August 13, 2019
In this week's Technically Speaking, Microsoft’s Mixer presents a challenge to Amazon’s Twitch—using a real-life ninja.
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11 Ways To Encourage Customers To Review And Recommend Your Company

By Tracie Nall / August 12, 2019
If you have happy customers and a good product, you might think that's enough to have an effective marketing campaign....
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To Kill All The Likes Or Long Live The Likes?

By Tracie Nall / August 6, 2019
How should you feel about those little hearts on Instagram? Would you like Instagram better without them? Instagram is currently...
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Beyond The Mommy Blog: Five Niche Parenting Markets And How To Reach Them

By Tracie Nall / July 30, 2019
The early 2000s brought about the beginning of the "mommy blogging" trend, a time when online conversation between new mothers...
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#SMTLive Recap: Discussing the Risks of Influencer Marketing

By Tracie Nall / July 18, 2019
The stats don't lie - 95% of consumers favor credible content from industry influencers over material from brands, while 82%...
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How To Drive User-Generated Content Through Influencer Marketing

By Tracie Nall / July 3, 2019
If there’s a topic that attracts nearly as much buzz as influencer marketing, it’s user-generated content (UGC). Wikipedia defines UGC...
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Agency Pros Offer 15 Tips To Help Businesses Create Engaging Videos

By Tracie Nall / June 25, 2019
According to a recent study by Hubspot, when it comes to getting information from and about the companies they’re interested...
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11 Ways For Businesses To Appropriately Promote Their Social And Political Values

By Tracie Nall / June 24, 2019
A study has shown that significantly more than half of consumers will patronize—or avoid—businesses that share their social and political...
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Disregard Speculation—Influencer Marketing Is Still a Necessity in Strategies

By Tracie Nall / June 4, 2019
Between Unilever’s call to action against influencer fraud, headline-grabbing PR disasters like the Fyre Festival and the recent college cheating...
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Five Big Content Marketing Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

By Tracie Nall / May 29, 2019
“Content marketing” is a buzzword-sounding term that unfortunately is being used interchangeably with influencer marketing, native advertising and audience-centric marketing....
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This Often-Overlooked Influencer Strategy Is Critical For Success

By Tracie Nall / April 22, 2019
Once a bleeding-edge tactic, influencer marketing is now widely accepted as an extremely effective method for spreading brand awareness, building...
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Five Influencer Marketing Missteps To Avoid In 2019

By Tracie Nall / March 27, 2019
There’s no shortage of cautionary tales when it comes to influencer marketing; speculation and myths run rampant throughout the industry....
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Influencer Marketing For Industry Associations: Five Tips For Success

By Tracie Nall / February 20, 2019
The business of influencer marketing is estimated to reach $10 billion by 2020, and more marketers than ever seem ready...
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