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How the Facebook News Feed Works: Changes Marketers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner

How the Facebook News Feed Works: Changes Marketers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Are you struggling to remain visible in Facebook’s news feed?

Wondering how Facebook decides what to show in the news feed?

In this article you’ll discover how the Facebook news feed algorithm works, what’s been updated, and how marketers can respond to create more visibility on Facebook....

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Kristi Hines offers tips to help you make better use of Facebook's News Feed.

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Facebook To Collect Brand-Sponsored Content Data | Ryan Skinner

Facebook To Collect Brand-Sponsored Content Data | Ryan Skinner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

An announcement late last week by the Facebook media team may have been overlooked by many marketers, but it has intriguing ramifications.


Facebook announced that it would effectively allow any organization with a verified page to publish brand-sponsored content without asking Facebook for explicit permission first, provided that content was tagged to the brand. They said:


"Today we're updating our branded content policy to enable verified Pages to share branded content on Facebook. Along with changes to our branded content policy and ads policy, we're offering a new tool that makes it easy for publishers and influencers to tag a marketer when they publish branded content. Publishers and influencers must use this tag for all branded content shared on Facebook."


What does it mean?...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Ryan Skinner at Forrester looks at the BIG implications of Facebook's new "branded content policy" and what it means for me content producers, blockers and PR Pros. Did I mention BIG? Recommended reading. 9/10

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17 Tips for Successful Facebook Contests : Social Media Examiner

17 Tips for Successful Facebook Contests : Social Media Examiner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Are you planning a Facebook contest?

Want to make sure it’s a success?

An easy-to-follow checklist of tips and best practices will help you launch Facebook contests your audience will love.

In this article I’ll share 17 tips to make your Facebook contest a success....

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Practical tips to help you get the most from your Facebook contest from Jim Belosic.

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90% of Facebook's daily active users access it via mobile

90% of Facebook's daily active users access it via mobile | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Facebook just released financial results for Q4 of 2015, and one number starts out in particular: 934 million mobile daily active users (DAUs).

Sure, 0.9 billion might not sound quite as impressive as the 1.04 billion total daily users, but we already knew the company had passed the billion milestone in early November.

There were 894 million mobile DAUs at the time, which means the company has added 40 million more mobile users per day since November, and it will very likely cross 1 billion mobile DAUs sometime this year.

Meanwhile, the company is also slowly encroaching on the 2 billion monthly active users (MAUs) mark – three were 1.59 billion MAUs in December, or 14 percent more than the same time in 2014. Of those, 1.44 came from mobile, an increase of 21 percent, once again showing the quicker growth in the mobile sector....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Love it or hate it, Facebook is a social media and marketing juggernaut and 90% of users access it by mobile.

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6 Ways to Maximize Facebook Marketing Strategies

6 Ways to Maximize Facebook Marketing Strategies | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

As the worlds largest social media network, Facebook is a competitive and crowded landscape for a social marketers to navigate. Facebook does not like businesses promoting too much content on their branded pages for free, and they have updated their algorithm to penalize brands with you is what Facebook considers to be manipulative tactics.


Facebook is too big for brands to ignore but it is no longer the easy, free ride it once was. Here are six ways to get the most out of your Facebook marketing strategies. ...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Fast Facebook tips.

Marco Favero's curator insight, December 7, 2015 9:45 AM

aggiungere la vostra comprensione ...

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Top 10 Facebook Marketing Tips When You Have NO Budget

Top 10 Facebook Marketing Tips When You Have NO Budget | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
As a small business owner, CHEAP is great, but FREE is always best! This post will walk you through 10 free Facebook marketing tips and how to use them in your business.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Great blog post at Kim Garst Boom Social with 10 valuable Facebook marketing tips.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight, September 13, 2015 2:42 AM

Helpful blog post at Kim Garst Boom Social with 10 valuable Facebook marketing tips.

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Your ultimate cheat sheet to Facebook design - The Creative Edge

Your ultimate cheat sheet to Facebook design - The Creative Edge | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
With the roll-out of our new Facebook contest category and the growing importance of social media design overall, we thought it was about time to focus on the different elements that make up Facebook design.In this article, we’ll break down the different elements of Facebook to ensure that you’re creating a well-branded and clickable web presence for your client....
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Very useful Facebook design tips. Recommended reading. 9/10
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7 Free Facebook Tools Marketers Should Consider

7 Free Facebook Tools Marketers Should Consider | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Are you looking for ways to enhance your Facebook marketing? Do you want to capture the attention of more prospects and customers? The right Facebook tools can make the job easier by saving you time and optimizing your Facebook marketing efforts.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

Really useful Facebook tools in this post from Social Media Examiner.

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Top 10 Facebook Campaigns of 2014

Top 10 Facebook Campaigns of 2014 | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The amount of people marketing directly to consumers on social media has gone up exponentially over the past year, and rightfully so. Over 1.3 billion people log into Facebook alone every month, according to Facebook’s last earnings call. That’s a whopping 14% of the earth’s population – so why not market to them on social?


Below, I have put together a list of the top 10 campaigns launched in 2014 with the help of some designers and other analysts according to specifically picked categories to best benefit you....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Facebook can add huge impact to your marketing results when it's done right. Great lessons.

Simon Turkin's curator insight, December 7, 2014 2:38 PM

This article is extremely insightful on how to successfully run a social media marketing campaign. This takes ten highly successful ideas that worked out extremely well. The idea to model your campaign off of someone else's previous success is not a bad one. Innovation is key however, so when reading these articles I try to think of additional things I could add to these existing ideas. If 14% of the world is on Facebook think about how many people are on Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, and thats just to name a few platforms. Social media marketing is the new wave more people in my age group use social media to get their updates then the television. 

Vincent Tang's curator insight, December 7, 2014 7:41 PM

Un top 10 des campagnes de Communication les plus efficaces sur Facebook.

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Research: Facebook Drives Sales, Impacts Your Bottom Line

Research: Facebook Drives Sales, Impacts Your Bottom Line | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

I have to admit that the inspiration for this post came from something one of my clients reported their Facebook rep told them --- that Facebook is not a platform for driving sales.  It's all about buying impressions for your brand but it's not a place where users want to engage with brand or consume their content so it shouldn't be considered as a sales driver.


My reaction was along the lines of: Wait…WHAT?  Is that how they're selling ads these days?  And people are actually buying them?


Shouldn't the ultimate goal of any marketing campaign be to drive the business's bottom line -- otherwise, why invest a dime?  Sure, tracking direct, measureable sales from social channels is much more difficult than from other digital platforms like banner ads that drive to an e-commerce site or emails that include a unique and trackable coupon code that consumers have access to when they're in the checkout line. But if Facebook doesn't ultimately impact your business's bottom line, why are brands still investing on the platform?...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Not a faceplant after all when it comes to social marketing.

Marco Favero's curator insight, November 4, 2014 10:38 AM

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Momentum Factor's curator insight, November 4, 2014 11:16 AM

If you think Facebook is simply about customer service, rather than a driver of sales, have a look at these numbers! 

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Twitter vs Facebook: The Social Media Debate

Twitter vs Facebook: The Social Media Debate | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

An impressive 93% of marketers use social media within their business, and rightly so. With so much potential to build your brand and develop a large following of prospects, it makes me wonder how the other 7% are attracting business.


If you are in the 93% then I’m sure you have a focused strategy for both Twitter and Facebook — after all, these are the two social giants. But which one is more successful for business growth? Does it depend on the type of business you own? Take a look at the stats to compare…..


The gap between how many people use Facebook compared to Twitter is quite surprising, but does this mean you should spend more focus on Facebook? Well that would really depend on who your audience is. If you focus on just one site ahead of the other, you could be missing out on some serious marketing potential....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

The smart social marketer will use both Facebook and Twitter, targeting each appropriately.

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How Facebook's Instagram integration could rock the industry | Inside Facebook

How Facebook's Instagram integration could rock the industry | Inside Facebook | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

According to John McDermott at Digiday, Instagram is conducting a test (yes, for now it’s just a test) with Mercedes-Benz that allows them to target Facebook users who previously saw one of its Instagram ads. While this development is eye-opening in and of itself, as it gives hints into Facebook plans on returning their $1B investment, it also shows Facebook’s commitment to transforming how advertising not only can coexist with social media, but thrive and break into new levels of adoption.


What stands out the most to me is how inherent behavioral characteristics seen on both Facebook and Instagram are being aligned with their natural fit in the conversion funnel. As noted by McDermott, Instagram’s product naturally promotes behavior more conducive to the top of the funnel, where brand awareness comes into play. If Instagram is committed to preserving the user experience that allowed them to break 200 million users, it behooves them to preserve this characteristic of their product and not to “forcefully” incorporate more direct-response elements like call-to-action buttons, etc....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Marketing alert: Digital marketers are used to assimilating platform updates and advancements into their ad campaigns, but there could be a sea change on the horizon.

John H Drew Jr.'s curator insight, August 14, 2014 2:56 PM

Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook, but the services will increase their ties to each other. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures.

 

Last year, documents for a standalone Facebook mobile photo sharing app were attained by TechCrunch. Now it seems Facebook would rather buy Instagram which comes with a built-in community of photographers and photo lovers, while simultaneously squashing a threat to its dominance in photo sharing.

 

At 27 million registered users on iOS alone, Instagram was increasingly positioning itself as a social network in its own right — not just a photo-sharing app. And it was clear that some users were doing more of the daily sharing actvities on Instagram rather than Facebook’s all-in-one mobile apps, which had to be cluttered with nearly every feature of the desktop site.

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26 Creative Ways Brands Use Facebook Status Updates |

26 Creative Ways Brands Use Facebook Status Updates | | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Follow the lead of top brands who use a variety of Facebook status updates to increase engagement, build email lists and showcase fan content.Does your business have aFacebook marketing plan?Do you need inspiration for Facebook updates that excite your fans?Do you treat each and every update as an opportunity for engagement?In this article we’ll take a look at 26 brands, an A-Z guide, that use Facebook status updates that combine visual content and brand messages to create buzz, excitement and interaction....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Impressive results, lessons and creativity in these leading brand content marketing efforts on Facebook.
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4 “What’s Working NOW” Facebook Post Ideas

4 “What’s Working NOW” Facebook Post Ideas | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
How is it going with getting your posts seen by your fans on Facebook these days?

Let me guess. You have great stuff that think your fans are going to love.

You post it and wait anxiously for all of the Reactions (used to be Likes), Comments and Shares you are bound to get (WOW! what a Facebook community-building genius your are!) and then…

…CRICKETS! and a big UUUGGGHHH, what happened, right?

Low Facebook Reach is NOT Your Fault

I will say it again…it’s NOT your fault. The truth is that Facebook has stacked the cards against you.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

Kim Garst offers four excellent Facebook post ideas.

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How to Use Facebook Canvas: What Marketers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner

How to Use Facebook Canvas: What Marketers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Have you heard of Facebook’s new mobile ad experience, Facebook Canvas?

Want to learn how to create Facebook Canvas ads?

Facebook Canvas lets marketers combine images, video, text, and call-to-action buttons in a single, fully immersive mobile ad experience.

In this article you’ll discover how to create a Facebook Canvas ad....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Practical tips for using Facebook Canvas for your social marketing.

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Opening Up Instant Articles to All Publishers

Opening Up Instant Articles to All Publishers | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

We’re excited to announce that on April 12th at Facebook’s F8 conference, we will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers—of any size, anywhere in the world. To date, we’ve been working with a few hundred publishers around the world to build an incredibly fast and immersive reading experience for people on Facebook. While we were getting feedback and making improvements to Instant Articles, in parallel we’ve been building the tools to open up Instant Articles more broadly.

We built Instant Articles to solve a specific problem—slow loading times on the mobile web created a problematic experience for people reading news on their phones. This is a problem that impacts publishers of all sizes, especially those with audiences where low connectivity is an issue. With that in mind, our goal from the beginning was to open up Instant Articles to all publishers and we’re excited to be able to do that in a way that makes it fast and easy for all publishers to reach their audiences on Facebook....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Smart move by Facebook and appealing to bloggers and publishers.

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Facebook Professional Services: How Your Local Business Can Rank : Social Media Examiner

Facebook Professional Services: How Your Local Business Can Rank : Social Media Examiner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Do you have a local business page on Facebook?

Want to reach more local customers?

Facebook recently launched Professional Services, a directory that helps consumers find the best local businesses and services to fit their needs.

In this article I’ll share how to use the Facebook Professional Services feature to boost visibility with local customers.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

uUseful Facebook SEO tips from Kristi Hines. Recommended reading for marketers. 9/10

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12 Secret Facebook Features Every Marketer Should Be Using | Post Planner

12 Secret Facebook Features Every Marketer Should Be Using | Post Planner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Using Facebook is easy enough -- most of the 1.49 billion monthly active users on the site would agree. But the social media platform is constantly being updated with new features and tools that make using the platform as a marketing and business tool easier and more effective. 

The problem is that these new features don't always make a splash in the press, so many of the improvements for users aren't well know. 

If you want to up your Facebook skills, check out this infographic from Post Planner. You'll learn how to track the activity of your competitors, use post attribution settings, and even save content for future use....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

12 really practical tips for better Facebook results.

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Facebook Analysis For April - Videos Dominate Engagement

Facebook Analysis For April - Videos Dominate Engagement | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

As a follow up to our Facebook reach study in March, we looked at the numbers for April. To say that video dominated is an understatement.

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Very interesting Facebook research for marketers.

Carol Bently's curator insight, May 25, 2015 2:36 AM

engagement of what?

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Supercharge your Facebook Page with these fantastic tips!

Supercharge your Facebook Page with these fantastic tips! | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Your brand has most likely spent a considerable amount of time and money building your Facebook presence. With all the changes that Facebook has made, it’s become more challenging to do well on Facebook but it’s not impossible to stay in front of this group.

Facebook fans are a loyal group that consistently like, comment, and share their favorite pages content. Don’t give up on this targeted group of people interested in your brand, instead power up your Facebook presence to maximize your social media marketing efforts....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Take a look at Peg Fitzpatrick's fab Facebook tips.

Bet Cunillera's curator insight, April 21, 2015 4:22 PM

pàgina sobre com millorar la teva pàgina o el teu perfil de facebook amb simples tips. 

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10 Successful Facebook Marketing Examples

10 Successful Facebook Marketing Examples | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Is your Facebook engagement dropping?

Need some inspiration to pump up your Facebook marketing?

As the Facebook news feed continues to change, it’s important to figure out how to make the platform work for you.

In this article I’ll share Facebook pages from both large and small brands, and tips to incorporate their tactics into your Facebook marketing plan.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

Useful lessons from companies who are having success on Facebook despite recent changes to algorithms.

Autopilot Your Business's curator insight, December 29, 2014 7:51 AM

Great real world insights and case studies

Christian Michael's curator insight, January 10, 2015 9:48 AM

Facebook still have the highest form of traffic because it's the highest traffic source from all the social media on the internet.

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6 Great Examples of Facebook Quiz Marketing

6 Great Examples of Facebook Quiz Marketing | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Buzzfeed’s 100 content creators produce one to five quizzes every day and millions of people take them. Facebook quiz marketing works. Here are 6 examples.

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Useful tips from Jeff Bullas' blog.

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Anatomy of a Perfect Facebook Post to Maximize Reach & Clicks

Anatomy of a Perfect Facebook Post to Maximize Reach & Clicks | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

How great would it be know that the post you just published had the best chance of maximizing clicks, likes, and comments.


Facebook posts especially—given the dramatic dip in reach —can feel Luke a mystery. How do you create the perfect Facebook post? Does the perfect Facebook post even exist?


I went looking for answers and came across a heap of best practices and examples of what goes into a perfect Facebook post. Check out the results below, test out the tips and strategies on your own posts, and watch your Facebook stats climb....

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Kevan Lee shares five main ingredients in a perfect Facebook post that can help you get more reach, engagement, clicks, and comments.

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Brand Publishers Are Ditching Facebook in Favor of Microsites

Brand Publishers Are Ditching Facebook in Favor of Microsites | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Brand publishers are more aware that they’re really just renting social media space on Facebook and are moving resources away from the social network.
 

One agency said its clients are pulling away from Facebook in “dramatic numbers”—reallocating their resources to microsites and alternate social channels like LinkedIn—after the agency’s social media managers saw a “dramatic dip” in reach for their messaging over the last 16 months. They attributed this decline to Facebook’s EdgeRank algorithm, which curates the content users see in their News Feeds.


“Brands don’t own what happens on Facebook, and as organic reach has been absolutely eviscerated, they remain aware of that,” said Forrester analyst Nate Elliott, adding that marketers have been telling him that they no longer see Facebook as a viable marketing channel....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Facebook has a big credibility problem with marketers and advertisers. As long as it remains unpredictable and unreliable as a platform, advertisers will avoid it.

Alex Byalik's curator insight, September 28, 2014 1:55 AM

Facebook has become a vital social media tool for companies to interact with customers, raise brand awareness, and market their goods/services, however more companies are decreasing their social media investments in Facebook instead towards microsites and other alternative social channels. Companies are becoming more aware that "Likes" don't always guarantee that their messages effectively reach consumers. Companies blame the declining reach due to Facebook's EdgeRank algorithm, which organizes the way content is organized in a users news feed. The companies who are marketing their brand complain that they lack a level of control over their pages and the advertisements being sent out are leading to a lower return on their marketing investment in Facebook. This has led to a flight towards microsites or other smaller social media sites. Whether they are piggy backing on a site such as LinkedIn or created their own small site, these sites offer marketers more control over their content and have more options in page creation.  While most of these companies have no plans to fully abandon Facebook, they are still using the site to lure them to these microsites of theirs. According to the Jun Group, clicks that led people to brand-owned-and-operated sites doubled between 2012 and 2013 from 28 percent to 57 percent—while the segment of clicks that ended at Facebook dwindled from 31 percent to 10 percent.


I believe the change is good for marketers who are always striving to enhance their reach and investments. As Facebook becomes more aware of this exodus, then it will most likely adapt to these changes and allow for greater page customization and alter its content algorithm or else risk losing an important segment of its ad revenue. Even if marketers decide to return to Facebook, they now have a new channel to reach potential customers. The problem then moves onto users of social media sites who will be even more bombarded by advertisements no matter which site they go to. 

 
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Facebook Pages redesign: 4 things businesses will want to do | PR Daily

Facebook Pages redesign: 4 things businesses will want to do | PR Daily | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
As Facebook rolls out its newest version of Timeline to businesses, it wouldn’t hurt to make these changes to your page.
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Four very useful tips to update your Facebook business page.

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