Posts by Mari Smith
An Epic Guide to Facebook Messenger Marketing, Content Marketing in 2018 & More: The Social Scoop 11/15/17
Facebook recently relaunched its standalone Events app as a new app called Facebook Local… and I must say, I really LOVE it! There is huge potential with this newly revised events app. Think Yelp & Foursquare + Meetup + Eventbrite?! Hmm! In fact, WIRED says, “Facebook Local might be the only Facebook app you need.” Wow, bold statement! 🙂 Facebook…
Read More10 Important Marketing Lessons, New Features for Facebook Groups & More: The Social Scoop 11/8/17
NEW from Facebook this week: You’ll soon be able to add a Messenger live Customer Chat plugin to your website! Facebook says this was one of their most highly requested features. It has HUGE potential for high-tech and high-touch customer support through Messenger, which has 1.2 billion monthly users and growing. And, keep in mind, close to 90% of…
Read MoreFacebook News Feed Tests: The Impact on Organic Reach, What Marketers Need To Know
Organic reach on Facebook is so 2012. This is unfortunate, but true. Facebook has long been a ‘pay-to-play’ platform for those businesses serious about optimizing all that the platform offers. Organic reach has been steadily declining from well over 100% on some pages (back pre-2012), to an average of 1-6% starting in 2014. Any business…
Read MoreFacebook Lets Brands Read People’s Posts, Podcast Interview Tips & More: The Social Scoop 10/30/17
Since Facebook’s recent roll out of the new discovery-focused Explore Feed, we’ve seen a big flurry of confusion. What happened is Facebook also tested removing ALL business page posts from the main News Feed and placing into this new Explore Feed. As a result, Page owners in some of the six test countries experienced a large…
Read MoreFind Music for Your Videos, Draft the Perfect Email & More: The Social Scoop 10/19/17
A few Facebook updates of note this week: Facebook is testing news subscriptions support in Instant Articles Facebook officially rolls out its new discovery-focused Explore feed (the one with the rocket icon) on both desktop and mobile. More on TechCrunch. The Explore feed comprises posts only from Pages, and from what I see on my own tab, mostly Pages I’ve…
Read MoreWhy Facebook’s Latest Algorithm Change Impacts Marketers, Customer Experiences & More: The Social Scoop 10/15/17
As mentioned in the last issue of The Social Scoop, Facebook continues to put massive emphasis on videos in the News Feed, including Live streaming video and video ads. Here are two great articles on this topic from my friends at AgoraPulse and AdEspresso: 5 Ways to Use Facebook Video Ads to Land New Customers…
Read MoreFabulous Facebook Marketing Ideas, Borrowing Images Online & More: The Social Scoop 10/5/17
Are you ready to create 6-15 seconds video ads? Facebook continues to ramp up the video ad break offerings with the new Watch digital streaming television platform taking root (US only for now), and the good news is that creators can share in the revenue (55%). Check this out: the average video ad view on…
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