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How to learn social media marketing: 33 resources for beginners

Hubspot Marketing

Social media marketing is a lot of work. Whether youre a marketer, a content creator, or a business owner, understanding social media involves a range of skills that require you to always be learning. To hone these skills, Ive put together a comprehensive list of social media marketing resources.

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Top 6 Social Media Marketing Challenges in 2024, According to 1,500+ Marketers [+ How to Face Them]

Hubspot Marketing

I’m not sure which social platform is winning the algorithmic gymnastics competition this year. Either way, it seems like all of our favorite channels are actively competing for gold, which presents quite the range of social media marketing challenges for us. Top 6 Social Media Marketing Challenges in 2024 1.

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How Privy’s former CMO learned to love low-budget, scrappy marketing

Hubspot Marketing

Early in my career, I read and devoured everything about social media marketing, digital marketing, and online marketing. The reporters would say, “Wow, this is a really good comment on this article. Hey, let’s feature this person in the next article.”

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Banking on Social: How to Build a Social Media Budget & Spend Smarter in 2025

Hubspot Marketing

As a content pro (and former social media manager), Ive got you covered. Lets talk about what a good social media marketing budget looks like, who should be involved, and how you can data-charge your approach. Table of Contents What is a social media budget? to marketing on average.

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I Used AI to Create a Marketing Plan 2 Ways — Here’s How You Can Too

Hubspot Marketing

Creating a Marketing Plan with a Chatbot A few months back, HubSpot’s Kieran Flanagan and CMO Kipp Bodnar used ChatGPT to create a marketing plan for the Marketing Against the Grain podcast. I used this as my jumping-off point.

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How to set a smart social media budget (and get it approved)

Hootsuite

Average social media budget in 2024 General marketing budget Let’s start by looking at the average marketing budget as a whole. Gartner’s 2024 CMO Spend Survey found that marketing budgets as a whole fell 15% this year to 8.4% 3 tools for social media budgeting 1. for B2B brands, 7.9%

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6 things to look for in a B2B influencer

Martech

That’s a statistic from a recent survey by LinkedIn and it echoes what Demandbase CMO Kelly Hopping recently told us : “They’re going to trust hearing from that guy, versus the Demandbase brand.” Almost 90% of B2B buyers prefer content from trusted B2B influencers over sales messages from B2B brands.

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