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Burger King, Steak-umm And Next-Level Social Media Marketing

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Brands have flocked to social media in an attempt to meet their consumers where they are and display a different side of themselves. Social media can be a terrific place to build bonds with one’s customers and show off a clever, avant-garde sense of humor – if a brand is good at it. In their defense.

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Forget Twitter And Instagram, Big Brands Are Moving To TikTok

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But as of this week, the phrase is getting a modern, digital upgrade thanks to combined efforts of Burger King and Chinese-based short-video social media site TikTok. In other words, TikTok is where the young and hip now go to see and be seen — which means brands and artists are slowly but surely moving there as well.

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How Social Media Made Retail Marketing More Inclusive

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Generally speaking, it is hard to think of social media as something that is making the world a more inclusive place – given its occasional status as a toxic swamp of intolerance and cruelty. For the last few years, it has also been helping them find a voice and a safe space on social media. She’s loud and proud.

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How the New Experience Economy Is Reshaping Insurance (Part 5 of 5)

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Personalization must be genuine – inauthentic marketing attempts are met with scrutiny and amplified on social media with risk to brand reputation and customer loyalty. True personalization requires three main elements: Know Me – data that is enabled AI and ML continuously updates to provide analytics relevant to the customer.

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Controlling the Narrative: How Financial Services Institutions Can Stay Ahead of Reputational Risk

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Controlling the Narrative Perficient is providing banks and other firms a way to use modern communications and influencing methods to maintain control of their brand narrative. Uses social media and analytics to assess market sentiment and generate prescriptive insights on threats to brand reputation.

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Instagram Aims To Have Athletes, Teams Sell Products

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But they are also increasingly tapping into the social media platform to sell products as well, The Wall Street Journal reported. Serena Williams and her S by Serena fashion brand rolled out a new sequin jacket on Nov. The social media platform has been encouraging sports world experiments.

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Can Western QSR Brands – And Others – Gain More Power In China?

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Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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