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How to Build a Social Media Marketing Strategy [2024 Updated]

SocialPilot

Social media marketing has become an integral part of modern business strategy in the last decade. In 2022, social media ad spending hit the $230 billion mark and is expected to reach $300 billion in 2024. Social media marketing is thus a highly competitive domain. Where should you start?

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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

As marketers, it’s our job to know our target audience’s needs and preferences. It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight.

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7 statistics that prove the importance of social media marketing in business

Sprout Social

The Harris Poll, on behalf of Sprout Social, surveyed more than 1,000 US consumers and 250 business executives to better understand how they use social media, the importance of social media marketing, social’s impact on organizations and how its influence will change in the coming years.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy. In this article, we’re sharing every social media marketing template we’ve ever made. When you’re already spread thin, every minute counts.

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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. Such insights will help you identify new areas in marketing where you can focus your budget or refine existing ones.

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What’s next? 8 career paths for social media managers

Sprout Social

Social media managers wear many hats, filling necessary and strategic roles ranging from marketing specialist to customer care provider. Fortunately, working in social media builds a broad range of transferable skills. Community management. Marketing generalist. Marketing generalist.

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32 social media training resources and courses every marketer needs

Sprout Social

We’ve gathered 32 of the best social media training resources and courses to help keep your growing team up-to-speed and yourself up-to-date. Org-wide social media marketing training. It’s all too easy for social media to become siloed from the rest of your business, or even the rest of your marketing team.