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The Multi-Channel Attribution Problem and How to Solve It. Measuring the effectiveness of an advertisement has always been a necessary evil in any marketing campaign.

The Multi-Channel Attribution Problem and How to Solve It

With the advent of social media and the rise in mobile usage, it is even harder to track user behavior. Businesses are essentially marketing blindly, unable to answer the question: Which advertising channel produces the highest ROI? The Current Marketing Challenge Imagine a maze of never-ending trails, misleading turns, and paths that lead to nowhere. This is how a consumer’s purchase journey looks like in our current digital age: A maze where the consumer bounces around on various sites, social platforms, and devices before he decides whether the brand or product is worth purchasing.

As the advertising landscape continues to grow and is split between online, offline, earned, and paid media, it is incredibly difficult to track the different touch points in a consumer’s purchase journey – and it’s not going to get any easier. The Change In Online Marketing Attribution. Social Media Strategy in 2017: How to Create an Extraordinary Strategy. Crafting an effective social media strategy to help you achieve your goals can be a real challenge.

Social Media Strategy in 2017: How to Create an Extraordinary Strategy

Like we mentioned earlier this week in a post about goal-setting strategies, coming up with social media goals for our marketing team here at Buffer has often been a bit haphazard for us. There are so many goals we could potentially focus on – like brand awareness, engagement, traffic, and signups, to name a few. 10 Social Media Mistakes We've Made (And How to Avoid Them) This might sound contradicting — and it’s scary for us to admit.

10 Social Media Mistakes We've Made (And How to Avoid Them)

But, despite building a product that helps people succeed on social media, we have committed a good number of social media mistakes ourselves. Mistakes that have cost us reach and engagement, maybe even fans and customers. Now that we have learned from many of those mistakes, I would love to share our top 10 and how you can avoid committing them yourself. Let’s get started… 5 Under-the-Radar Social Media Studies to Make You A Smarter Marketer. We are very grateful for all the research that has been done on social media.

5 Under-the-Radar Social Media Studies to Make You A Smarter Marketer

Social Media Analytics Tips: 7 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Data. Social Media Advertising: A Simple 3-Step Approach to Increasing Conversions and ROI. There’s so much to learn with social media advertising that it’s difficult to know exactly where to start.

Social Media Advertising: A Simple 3-Step Approach to Increasing Conversions and ROI

For example, audience targeting, budgeting, A/B testing, pixel tracking, writing, designing, and analyzing all need to be taken into account if you want to see positive ROI from social media advertising. Psychology of Social Media.

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Social Media Scheduling. Social Analytics. Webmarketing. Facebook Marketing. Instagram Marketing. Mobile Social Media Strategy. How to Create a Social Media Marketing Plan From Scratch. This post originally published on July 16, 2014.

How to Create a Social Media Marketing Plan From Scratch

We’ve updated it here with new research and stats and a cool new infographic. When I went rock climbing for the first time, I had no idea what I was doing. My friends and I were complete newbies about ropes and rappelling and every other bit of jargon and technique that goes with climbing. We saw others doing it spectacularly well. We were thrilled at the thought of reaching the top of the climbing wall; we had no idea how to get there. I’d imagine that a social media marketing strategy could feel the same way. If you’re starting from square one, it might feel equal parts thrilling and overwhelming. How To Create A Social Media Marketing Plan In 6 Steps. So now you need to create a social media marketing plan.

How To Create A Social Media Marketing Plan In 6 Steps

No easy task, right? Many of us struggle to iron out exactly what that is, let alone how to build one from scratch. How to Choose the Best Social Media Marketing Tool for Your Business. Paralysis by analysis.

How to Choose the Best Social Media Marketing Tool for Your Business

I’ve totally been there, so many times. Choosing a place to eat, choosing a new computer, or even choosing the best social media marketing tool. When it comes to picking a tool for your business, there are just so many great options out there, so many wonderful, time-saving features, it’s a tall task to know exactly what’s right for you. The tool you choose is often a key ingredient when it comes to hitting your social media marketing goals, because it can help you drive traffic and engagement, as well as measure how you’re doing.

Each tool has its strengths and there’s no single perfect tool for everyone. Your Go-To Social Media Checklist for Your Next Update. Before you hit the Publish button or send an update to the queue, what do you do? Quite often, I find myself publishing instinctively and sometimes failing to consider all the necessary questions and guidelines for what makes a wildly successful, viral—and valuable! —social media update. To do right by your audience, to deliver the utmost value and receive the maximum engagement, there are a handful of qualifications that every social media post should meet. From our experience and our research, 12 items stand out, making for a super slick checklist.

How'd They Do That? 7 Techniques of Successful Social Media Sharers. People are brilliant and amazing.

How'd They Do That? 7 Techniques of Successful Social Media Sharers

I’ll often run across an incredibly cool social media strategy or format or tool or link and think to myself, “Whoa, how’d they do that?” There are things like shortened custom URLs, evergreen queues, personalized recommendations, and more. And I’m so inspired by the cleverness and resourcefulness—not to mention the great value and utility—of these methods. So I’ve gone about trying to figure them all out. Check out my DIY tips below for putting together each of these strategies. 1. Notice the shortened URL in the above tweet from Moz?

They’re using a custom short URL: mz.cm. Cool! This can be a really great opportunity to extend some branding into the shortened links you share on social media. 15 New Social Media Templates to Save You Even More Time. Imagine having a quick and fast way to get up to speed with social media or to get your work done in less time (and with more confidence).

15 New Social Media Templates to Save You Even More Time

When I’m in a pinch or into something new, one of the first places I turn is toward a template. I’ve built a stash of headline formulas, social media updates, and more to help organize my mind when it comes to working fast and learning something new. Templates can be a lifesaver and a time-saver. I have my favorite go-to templates, and I was also able to dig up a huge number of others, created by some really amazing folks who are generous to help us all work smarter. I’ve collected them here below. 20 Best Social Media Monitoring Tools for Small and Medium Businesses. Ebook: 25 Actionable Social Media Strategies to Try Today. We’re incredibly grateful to have the chance to learn from others and experiment for ourselves with what works best on social media. And we’re so very happy to share our best strategies with you! To collect all these favorite tips in one place, we’ve compiled our top 25 social media strategies into a free ebook that you can download below. We’ve included strategies for Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and more—all of which you can implement today, in just a few minutes and just a few clicks.

Ebook : Social Media Strategies. 9 Maneras de crear contenido reciclando los artículos de tu blog. En la actualidad, los profesionales del marketing sienten la presión de tener que producir cada vez más contenido para mejorar su visibilidad; además, ese contenido debe ser fácil de leer, interesante y digno de compartir. No obstante, mantener un flujo de publicaciones en el blog constante y de buena calidad requiere mucho tiempo. La solución a este problema no es redactar con mayor frecuencia artículos de menor calidad, sino exactamente lo contrario: debes dedicar más tiempo a investigar y redactar contenido interesante y de la mejor calidad posible.

<< Descarga gratis el kit con los recursos para crear un blog para tu empresa >> La clave es optimizar tu tiempo después de publicar el contenido. Aprovecha al máximo todo el trabajo que hiciste reutilizando el contenido de tu blog de distintas maneras. Estas son algunas prácticas que puedes adoptar para readaptar tus artículos del blog y así captar una audiencia más comprometida. 1) Boletines informativos por correo electrónico.