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31 Actionable Social Media Marketing Tips Based On Research
No longer marketing’s shiny new object, social media has become an indispensable tool to achieve key business goals since prospects and customers spend at least one out of five online minutes using these platforms. This makes social media too big to ignore. Here are nine social media business benefits with thirty-one actionable marketing tips to get your social media marketing on track to succeed. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
5 Small Business Mobile Marketing Tips [Research]
Location, location, location, the real estate cliché, has additional meaning in terms of devices, computers, smartphones and tablets. Like place, one of the 4Ps of marketing, your business’s findability influences the prospects and buyers you can reach.
When it comes to small business, your target audience must be able to find you regardless of the device(s) they use. You must think mobile and local! Here are five mobile research insights (with 11 charts) and five actionable marketing tips. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
How to Fill Your Editorial Calendar Without Breaking the Bank
Content marketing is an on-going process not a one-time campaign. It requires a continual stream of new information in a variety of forms presented across different platforms to fulfill your business’s goals and customers’ needs. The key to cost effective content creation is to develop similar content at the same time regardless of weight since each new piece of content must be re-imagined, not just reposted.
To fill your content marketing editorial calendar without breaking the bank, plan your content creation to ensure all associated content is developed concurrently to maximize resource use and eliminate planning and overhead. Here’s a chart with 21 types of content and 7 actionable marketing tips. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
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25 Smartphone and Tablet Research Charts
Mobile marketing is at the top of every marketer’s to-do list but the challenge is that most of them don’t really understand how their target audience uses smartphones and tablets. At the heart of the problem is the fact that mobile marketing sounds new and expensive despite the fact that most of them own one or more of these devices.
When it comes to mobile marketing, most consumers are way ahead of marketers in their use of their smartphones and tablets. They’ve developed a variety of habits to deal with the on-going avalanche of content. To get your marketing on track, here are twenty-five research charts explained in plain English. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
How To Build Your Brand On Pinterest [Research]
Participants use Pinterest‘s visual eye candy differently than other social media platforms. For marketers looking to use it to build their brand and support the purchase process, understanding this point is key to attracting and engaging your audience on Pinterest. Research and charts including 5 Actionable Marketing Insights. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
How to Position Your SMB for Success In 5 Easy Steps
Inbound marketing entails helping potential customers and influencers find your company by building your audience and attracting their attention in the words of Marketo CMO Jon Miller. Inbound marketing gets its power from the combination of social media, blogging, content marketing, email and search optimization. Small businesses are the biggest users of inbound marketing. Here are five reasons small businesses love inbound marketing and how to make the most of inbound marketing by positioning your firm with these five steps. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog.
Tags: Chart, Hubspot, Inbound Marketing, Jon Miller, Marketo, Research, small business, SMB
Is Your Content Marketing Worth Its Weight In Gold?
How Weighty Is Your Content Marketing? [Chart] Not all content marketing is created equal; it varies based on weight, both in terms of its mass and seriousness of thought. Intuitively, this makes sense since each form of information fulfills different … Continue reading
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Proof that Social Media Drives Sales! [Research]
Social media drives sales. This isn’t a finger in the air, “I think social media contributes to our business,” concept that’s difficult to quantify. Sales and customers are metrics you can readily track. Social media generates 14% of all leads and 13% of all customers and customers translate to sales, according to Hubspot’s 2013 State of Inbound Marketing whitepaper. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Social Media: Where We Spend Our Time
If you’re looking for your customers, you’ll find them on social media because that’s where they spend the largest portion of their time online.
As daunting as the challenges of effective social media marketing can be with the multitude of different platforms, many-to-many communication, and general aversion to promotional-speak, marketers must be there to catch prospects by fitting into their lifestyle. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Chart, Experian Marketing Services, Research
Is Facebook Still Cool (and Why Should Marketers Care)
At the core of Facebook’s target audience, Gen Z, tweens and teens born after 1995, are mobile mavericks who use social media to connect and communicate with each other. While overall social media usage is declining slightly in the US, this behavior is more acute among Facebook participants especially teens. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Chart, Facebook, Gen Z, Pew Internet, Piper Jaffray, Research
How to Improve Small Business Social Media Performance
While social media appears to be ideally made for budget conscious marketing small business, the reality is that social media can be a resource hog. This explains why social media strategy topped over half of small businesses’ list of marketing challenges according to Constant Contact’s Small Business Pulse Research from December 2012. With research, charts and 5 tactics. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Blog, Chart, Constant Content, Facebook, LinkedIn, Research, small business, Twitter
2013 Social Media Trends and Your Business
Social media is becoming a pervasive activity among Americans across a variety of platforms and demographic segments. As a marketer, the evolving social media landscape provides new opportunities that require reassessing your current social media strategy.
Here are seven research findings to help guide your 2013 social media strategy going forward based on data from Edison Research and Arbitron in their Infinite Dial 2013 research.
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