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Create a Social Media Calendar and Keep Your Posts in Order

Social media marketing can feel unpredictable and overwhelming, but, like most marketing, it just requires data, strategy and forethought to be effective. Creating a social media calendar is a great first step that will motivate you to plan posts and your boosted content strategy each month, so you’re not left frantically scrambling for daily content…

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Facebook Marketing Help from Oneupweb

Oneupweb will answer your Facebook marketing question, for free, on Facebook.com/oneupweb….

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On Which Social Media Platforms do Hashtags Work?

Hashtag research is a lot like keyword research. Hashtags in social media marketing are extremely important, but there are some platforms where you’ll see better results than others. Social media is all about connecting and creating conversation, and one of the best ways to join these conversations is with hashtags. We’ll go through the top…

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How to Choose a Social Media Management Tool

Social media is about more than sharing vacation photos, watching cat videos and cringing at distant family members’ political posts. For businesses, these social platforms are valuable tools to build brand awareness, boost sales, engage with current and potential customers, and much more. While these tools are easily accessible, separately managing Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn,…

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How to Make the Most of Myspace: Beyond the Minute

In today’s marketplace, you can’t afford to leave any stone unturned when it comes to promoting yourself and networking on social media. Myspace, the king of social media, is still (and will always be) the best way to gain recognition, interact with a dedicated community of followers, and show the world your intrinsic cool. Why…

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Monday Marketing Minute: Google My Business Verify, Update and Tag

Every Monday, marketing experts from Oneupweb take a minute to talk about industry tips and tricks, new and noteworthy trends, and more. This week we sit down with Freddy Hunt and Gillian Cobb to talk about how to get the most out of Google My Business for your company. Check out the full transcript with the video below and…

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2018 Marketing Predictions: Social Media

Oneupweb content marketer Gillian Cobb shares what she thinks 2018 will look like for social media:
– Businesses will put a greater emphasis on differentiating the content they post on each of their social media channels.
– LinkedIn will be playing an even larger role in B2B marketing in the coming months.
– Storytelling will continue to grow and develop with new forms of content easily available to marketers. …

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Google’s “Micro-Moments” Are All Local

The dominance of the smartphone and the increased connectedness of today’s users have given rise to a pretty dramatic shift in the way people shop, work, play, and live. For companies, this means a necessary evolution in the way they devise marketing strategies, particularly in the digital space. How does this shift play out? How…

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2017: The Year of the Video

There were a lot of trends that were here and gone again in 2016, but one that is here to stay through 2017 and beyond is video. Last year as an agency we shot, edited and produced more videos than we have in our company history. Pretty incredible! Some of these videos were for our…

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5 Tips for Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Social Strategy

“I don’t know why our social strategy isn’t working.  I setup Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube!” More often than not, whenever I talk to clients during the discovery process and the conversation gets to Social, I get the aforementioned as a response to what’s not working for them. I think…

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The 10,000 Character Question: Will it save Twitter?

Twitter plans on making big changes in the coming months–will it open the platform up for 10,000-character Tweets (versus the current 140-characters)? Twitter is in trouble—but how many people care? (Kurt Russell can’t be the only one who doesn’t “get” Twitter…) The micro-blogging platform has had its fair share of issues—perhaps more than any other…

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Move over Google, Pinterest is Coming in Hot

While we all know Google is the world’s largest search engine, we need to remember there are other ways people are searching the Internet, including social search engines like Pinterest. Pinterest–the visual discovery social channel we all love–has evolved far beyond its humble scrap-booking and recipe-sharing origins. With massive growth resulting in an ever-growing uber…

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