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Apps and Services you Should Consider Ditching in 2022 | Digital Trends

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The new year can be a great time to rethink our relationship with technology. Nearly 50% of Americans spend 5-6 hours on their smartphone daily, so if you’re planning to improve your life, doing an “app cleanse” can be a good place to start.

Ask yourself: Is your smartphone filled with apps you never use? Is social media becoming a time-suck? Are some apps making you feel bad about yourself and your life? Then maybe it’s time to say goodbye.

Remember, you’re not alone in this. Here are the most common apps people are leaving behind before 2022 gets underway.

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5 Tips for Allocating Your Digital Marketing Budget | AllBusiness.com

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It’s no secret that digital marketing is essential to the success of any modern business. By the end of 2023, it’s expected that about 66.8% of all ad spend will be on digital platforms, with the majority spent on search and display advertising.

But for businesses that want to earn new customers online at a reasonable cost-per-acquisition, it can be difficult to determine how to allocate a digital marketing budget wisely. Between pay-per-click ads, SEO, native advertising, content marketing, and social media, there are so many options for brands to reach their target audience.

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14 Tips to Launch a New Product on Social Media | AllBusiness.com

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Launching a new product on social media can be a great way to go to market, but that’s only if you design an effective social media campaign. From creating content to scheduling, building awareness of your new product on social media requires a lot of careful planning and consideration.

To help get you started, 14 members of Young Entrepreneur Council offer their best tips for successfully launching a new product on social media.

What’s one tip you’d offer a first-time entrepreneur for designing an effective social media campaign around a new product? Why?

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Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand | BBC News

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Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand.

The company said it would better “encompass” what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like virtual reality (VR).

The change does not apply to its individual platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, only the parent company that owns them.

The move follows a series of negative stories about Facebook, based on documents leaked by an ex-employee.

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How to Improve Your Online Bios: 6 Tips | The Startup Magazine

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Your website and social media bios could use a facelift. These blurbs are among the first results most people see when searching your name online. They’re unlikely to include negative information unless you have a self-destructive streak, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work as hard as possible to make your online bio as attractive as possible.

Your career and reputation could depend on it.

Improving your online bios and “about” pages won’t take hours upon hours of your time. Once you know what you need to say and how to say it, the process should go quickly. To get started, follow these six proven tips.

Get to the Point in the First Two Sentences

Short and sweet: that’s the online bio mantra. Get to the point in the first two sentences: name, current title, location, specialty. Anything else can wait until the second paragraph and beyond, including the happy but less-important details about your family, early life, and education.

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Dealing With Controversial Topics on Social Media | AllBusiness.com

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Social media has given every individual a public voice, and people are eager to share their opinions on the latest hot-button issues. But as a business, it’s important to remain neutral on controversial topics to avoid risking your reputation and losing customers. With your employees actively posting on social media, however, the lines can be blurred on the matter of sharing views that may not necessarily reflect those of the company. To help business owners handle this situation tactfully and professionally, we asked 13 members of Young Entrepreneur Council the following question:

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How to Manage (and Monitor) Your Reputation on Social Media | Entrepreneur

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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube; it’s tough to do business these days without having at least a fledgling presence on these and other social media sites. Although the purest definition of social media is “a technology platform that connects people,” it can also be a valuable advertising platform that gives a company a way to directly engage its fans on a wide scale.

Social media from a marketing and PR perspective should be used to hold a conversation with the public, and brands should be leveraging their experts to engage, pursue and control that conversation. This is how the most successful brands engage, listen and interact with their customers across a variety of platforms. The unsuccessful ones forget this, which makes them appear stale or distant at times — and sometimes even the source of anger as “greedy corporate giants,” because mismanaged social media is the perfect recipe for a bad reputation

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Marketing tools you may not have thought of | The Startup Magazine

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Forget those traditional marketing methods – in today’s digital world, it makes sense to create a strong digital marketing strategy to give your startup company a boost from day one. Your strategy needs to incorporate SEO, social media, keywords, Google Analytics and strong, shareable content.

If you get this right, then you’ll be in the strongest position possible to help your company grow and your client base increase. So, what other marketing tools might be of interest to a company like yours? Read on to discover some marketing tools that you may not have thought of.

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Incorporating Tik Tok Into Your Marketing Strategy? | Getentrepreneurial.com

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So, it’s 2020 and you finally figured out using Facebook to market is a great plan. You may have even added Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. But, as is standard in the world of Social Media there is a new platform to understand. Enter TikTok.

What the Heck is TikTok?

TikTok is currently the fastest growing Social Media platform of the 2010’s.

TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance. It is used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos. (Wikipedia) The minimum age for a user is 13 years old. Users can sign up using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or an email account.

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How to Connect With Your Audience on Social Media | business.com

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Here are some ways brands can build stronger connections online.

Social media has become an important part of every modern business’s marketing strategy. But coming up with relevant, interesting content to post is only half the battle. The other part is engaging with your followers to keep them coming back for more.

To help you with this task, we polled the members of the Young Entrepreneur Council to find out what brands need to remember when reaching out or engaging with their audience on social media. The YEC is an invite-only organization that is comprised of young entrepreneurs that represent nearly every industry, generate billions of dollars in revenue each year and have created tens of thousands of jobs.

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