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Social media has made brand identity and marketing really easy. It remains the best tool to reach out to, connect with and retain your customers. To make the most out of this channel, it is important to track the progress of social media marketing as a tool to reach and engage customers.

Social media is no longer a fresh-faced rookie on the marketing scene – a fun, easy and effective way to get your name out there – it’s now a primary business engine. We rely on it to generate leads, push sales, provide customer service and analyze complex data.

Globe Content Studio, as a division of a major news outlet that reaches 20 million Canadians a month, has worked with a broad array of advertisers across every industry. We’ve learned how they think about, execute and extract value from social platforms, which means we’ve seen a lot of what works …and what doesn’t.

Many brands both large or small, in fintech or flower arranging, online or IRL, tend to make the same social media missteps. Which isn’t surprising, especially in 2021. But here’s the biggest one – and how you can avoid it.

If you’ve drunk the content-marketing Kool-Aid, you might be feeling a bit perplexed right now. It’s a confusing time for content marketers: the social landscape is shifting ever more heavily to social ads. But organic posts seem to drive a different kind of result, one that is strictly focused on the quality of the content, […]

By Ben Kelly, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Niche (Niche) In the media-verse, there have traditionally been 3 media channels: Earned, Paid, and Owned. However, a new media channel has emerged in recent years, called Shared Media, and, while still a fresh and untapped frontier, it has the potential to rival the other media […]