Hootsuite

MARCH 2, 2023

In today’s digital age, it’s crucial for marketers to take steps to protect their brand safety online. Social media does a great job of building brands and connecting businesses with their customers. But it also comes with the risk of associating a brand with content that can harm its reputation. What is brand safety?

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Let's say you've come to the difficult realization that quite frankly your brand -- if you can even call it that -- is all over the place. Or perhaps worse, you have a defined brand, but you're noticing that it just doesn't seem to mesh with who you really are and what you really do. What is Brand Strategy? Don't panic.

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Sprout Social

JULY 7, 2020

Throughout 2020, brands have been challenged to maintain their social media presence as audiences invest their attention into major social movements and changes to their way of life. Consistently, the message has been that audiences seek brands’ participation on social issues. Why do audiences look to brands on social issues?

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SMEI

JANUARY 24, 2023

While these tactics can be effective in the short term, they ultimately lead to decreased customer loyalty and a negative perception of the brand. In addition to lowering customer loyalty and creating negative brand perceptions, shame marketing also has the potential to cause serious psychological harm.

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Buffer Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Great speaker lineups: Think industry leaders and innovators across tech, branding, and the creator economy. Networking lounges and interactive sessions provide opportunities to meet brand partners and other creators. Niche workshops on platform-specific tactics like TikTok growth, Instagram Reels, and LinkedIn personal branding.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 22, 2017

Between their carefully curated photos, expertly targeted ads, and decisive adoption of Instagram Stories, fashion and beauty brands have become masters of consumer engagement on the visual content platform. And brands from any industry could learn a thing or two from these inspirational feeds. Source: Digiday. Source: L2.

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Sprout Social

JULY 12, 2022

In today’s fast-moving market, it’s more critical than ever for brands to be agile and resilient in the face of unfavorable public opinion. Your brand’s best bet is to get ahead of any future problems by proactively creating and testing a comprehensive crisis management plan that includes a robust guidance around communication.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

It’s 2017 and the dating scene is now digital. In this blog, I’ll cover tips for lead management to make sure your “first date” with a prospect isn’t your last. What has your brand done in the past that may have come off too strong? Alright, alright, alright. Would you “swipe right” for those messages? Image credit: BuzzFeed.

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SocialPilot

APRIL 23, 2025

Social media can either make or break your brands image. One viral post that’s all it takes to ignite a movement, catapult your brand to global fame, or destroy its years of reputation in the blink of an eye. It helps you build brand awareness, attract potential buyers, and feature in posts by top creators in your industry.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 17, 2022

Brand safety, that is. A recent study found that 75% of brands have been exposed to a brand safety incident within the past year. In this new world of social advertising, brand safety issues aren’t an “if”—they’re a “when”. In this new world of social advertising, brand safety issues aren’t an “if”—they’re a “when”.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 17, 2020

Two-thirds of consumers prefer to use messaging apps to connect with brands. . Consider these numbers: In 2017, there were 70 million businesses with a Facebook presence. Some brands are using Facebook Messenger to drive loyalty and sales. If you want to set your brand apart, this is a prime opportunity.

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Set Up

JULY 23, 2024

In 2017, Wendy's viral tweets changed the course and set the standard for social media marketers everywhere. With a consistent and infallible tone, sense of humor, timely and relevant commentary on pop culture, and community, Wendy’s paved the way for other Brands to find their unique spark on social media. How do you recover?

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Every brand, publication, and website needs a good style guide. Let’s look at why you need clearly defined social media brand guidelines, along with some great style guide examples for you to model. Why you need a social media style guide (aka brand guidelines). Some brands are super-cheeky on social media.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 3, 2022

You’re probably familiar with the Notes app apology that brands post on Instagram or Twitter. Social media managers and communication professionals must craft tactful corporate apologies—or else they risk facing even more backlash during a brand crisis. When you’re doing it on behalf of a brand, it can feel even more stressful.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This kind of AI is common with data analysts who need to manage risk and make data-driven decisions. For example, you could create a custom GPT to edit written content to reflect your brand voice. Enter your domain or landing page and click Import Brand to add brand elements.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 10, 2025

Despite only launching internationally in 2017, TikTok has grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms among young people in the UK, and TikTok marketing is the best way to market to them directly. If your brand wants to participate in a trend, time is of the essence.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Most of the impact was on branded terms, indirectly impacting the reduction in PPC branded spend. 10, 2017, it had a shockingly quiet impact. If you detect a bot, Mueller recommended serving a 5xx status code to manage the robot detection interstitial. And saw a 96% decline in mobile rankings for the homepage.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 14, 2024

This article explores how brands are leveraging video to stand out in a crowded market. Video: The secret weapon for brand differentiation and growth Video is a powerful medium because it leverages human-to-human connection. What I find most interesting about brand building with video is how long top-funnel engagement can last.

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Martech

JUNE 23, 2022

Xanterra Travel Company owns an extremely unique and diverse collection of travel and hospitality brands that all share a common mission — to provide travelers with unforgettable experiences. Xanterra manages concessions at many well-known national parks and destinations including Glacier National Park, The Grand Canyon, and Mount Rushmore.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 7, 2018

However in 2017, the platform announced the Pinterest Taste Graph. The Taste Graph offers a whopping 5,000 categories within the Pinterest Ads manager. Switching your personal profile out for a Business account gives your brand image more credibility. Just like Google, it relies on keywords to give context to your brand.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The user-influenced platform , which embraces discussion and community engagement, rather than content creation or branding is vastly different from other networks -- like Facebook or Instagram -- where brands naturally find their niche. But, in the past few years, Reddit's made attempts to gain more attention from brands.

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Buffer Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

  As content creation continues to blossom into a viable, lucrative career path, so too do the networks of support that can help you level up — whether you’re an influencer, personal brand builder , or just looking to get your work out into the world.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it’s important for Indigenous people (and, frankly, for non-Indigenous people) to see businesses and brands honour those who lost their lives through the 165-year program of assimilation. What role should brands play on social media on September 30? View this post on Instagram.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Influencers have a special way of connecting with their audiences, and when they showcase your brand, you expand your reach to a larger audience. Influencers that share our brand values are partnered with us, and together we develop giveaway campaigns or offer special discount codes to their audience. Solicit brand partnerships.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And once you do, you’ll be able to create a smart Instagram marketing strategy that will create leads, sales, and an audience devoted to your brand. A decade later, the site has grown into a social media powerhouse with the world’s top brands leveraging the account to create engagement, build an audience, and increase sales.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Nostalgia aside, this troll is one social media managers of all ages should avoid. They’re the ones who goof around with brands, poke fun at celebs and make jokes that don’t really hurt anyone. These trolls can still be a nuisance for brand managers, but they could also provide a lot of fun social engagement.

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Competition is fierce out there for brands and creators. This stat—straight from YouTube itself—implies that brands should spend more time getting to know their audience and what they care about, and spend less money trying to dazzle them with lowest-common-denominator tactics (like celebrity guest stars). YouTube usage statistics.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 6, 2018

Paolo Mottola, managing editor at REI Co-op and the 2017 Content Marketer of the Year, has demonstrated again and again how content can drive more than interest and engagement – it can drive action. If you #OptOutside , you probably already believe REI’s brand promise that a “life outdoors is a life well lived.” Click To Tweet.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 28, 2019

It’s difficult enough to keep up with the Kardashians these days, let alone the cool things brands are doing on social media. To stay relevant on social media in 2019 and beyond, brands need to be as purposeful as they are adaptable. Netflix’s social presence first made a splash on Twitter thanks to its strong ( if odd ) brand voice.

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Litmus

AUGUST 24, 2021

Jaina Mistry, our Senior Manager of Email Marketing at Litmus, presented this preview text trick in an #EmailHacks session at Litmus Live back in 2017. Here’s how some of them look like in Gmail: How other brands are using this hack. …but hopefully, we’ll continue to see the use of the preview text hack climb.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Developing a consistent brand starts with creating a brand style guide. These branding rule books help graphic designers, marketers, web developers, community managers, and even product packaging departments all stay on the same page, and present a unified vision of the brand to the public.

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The CMO Survey

AUGUST 28, 2019

of marketing leaders are unlikely to use their brands to take a stance on politically-charged issues, this percentage is trending down from the 82.6% On the negative side, 2 out of 3 marketing leaders state that they tend to focus on “managing the present” rather than “preparing for the future.” This compares to a 6.3% Although 73.5%

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Twitter paused the application program in 2017. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 9, 2017. Being active on Twitter is one of the most important ways to increase interest in the content your brand shares. And Wendy’s followers can count on the brand to share those tweets at least once a day.

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Sprout Social

JULY 26, 2022

Finding the right content creator for your brand is kind of like dating. Use this information to vet content creators and build lasting relationships with people that enhance and expand your brand. Where to find the right content creators for your brand. What content creators want from brand partnerships.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Social media is a popular sales channel for B2C brands, but it can be just as effective for B2B lead generation. Make sure your company profile is complete and robust, so users who are unfamiliar with the brand can quickly understand who you are and the unique value you offer. Still cold calling in 2017? Do: Convert to HTTPS.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Just 50% of D&B survey respondents expressed confidence in the quality of their data—down from 75% in 2017. That person should work with a team, including members with roles such as software developer , program manager, project leader, data steward, and data analyst. And only 11% expressed extreme confidence in 2018.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 15, 2017

Most of us know that social media is an essential part of a brand’s marketing strategy. And yet, managing it continues to be a source of frustration for many. When you’re composing text for Facebook, it’s important to keep these data in mind -- especially if that’s who your brand is targeting. May 9, 2017. 3) LinkedIn.

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