Social Media Tips & Tricks

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Contentcuratie is een zeer waardevol onderdeel van je marketingstrategie. Het is een manier om waarde te bieden aan jouw volgers en tegelijkertijd je branchekennis te benadrukken. Leer hoe je de kracht van contentcuratie kunt benutten met deze uitgebreide handleiding.

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Hoe vind je goede hashtags om te gebruiken en hoeveel hashtags je op verschillende sociale mediaplatforms kunt gebruiken.

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Adviesbureaus zijn bedrijven die zijn gebouwd op vertrouwen, sterke relaties met klanten en hun expertise. B2B-bedrijven maken met succes gebruik van sociale media om de aandacht van hun prospects te trekken en leads te koesteren. Hier is hoe.

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Here's a countdown of the 9 worst mistakes to be making on Linkedin Company Pages right now.

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Leer je originele content opnieuw te gebruiken voor meer bereik en bespaar tegelijkertijd tijd op je sociale media.

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Here's how to strengthen your connection with your network on LinkedIn

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What are the essential elements of a good Linkedin post? Let's take a look at what it means to post the right way on LinkedIn.

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Are you preparing to hire? Are your customers present on LinkedIn? Do you want to build your business brand and employer brand?

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The answer may not surprise you.

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„Wees een mens.” We zien deze zin de hele tijd rondslingeren alsof de betekenis ervan duidelijk is. Dat is het duidelijk niet. Bedrijven verschuilen zich nog steeds achter grote woorden en robottaal. Het duwt hun publiek alleen maar verder van hen weg. Laten we dus eens kijken wat het betekent om „mens te zijn”, vooral op sociale media.

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TL; DR Uw mate van succes op sociale media wordt afgeleid van uw doelstellingen als bedrijf. Laten we wat dieper ingaan op wat dat betekent.

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Waarom Google Trends een geweldige tool is om je marketinginspanningen op sociale media als B2B-serviceprovider te versterken. En hoe je er het maximale uit kunt halen.

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Luckily for all of us business owners, Belgian has a number of sales experts who focus on turning selling into a divine form of art.

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3 lessons that every small business and startup can learn

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Here is the list of most influential Belgian entrepreneurs and business owners on Instagram. Oh, one last thing, to check out their account and start following them, just click on the handle and you're golden.

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This list is an homage to a group of inspirational and thriving Female business leaders who are setting a great example for others.

How to use RSS for your social media

We recently added the option to work with RSS feeds to spice up your social media content. And although RSS has been around for over 20 years, it's still pretty unknown. However, it holds a lot of power to make your social media feed better. So we thought it made sense to tell you a bit more.

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Onlangs heeft Google de krachten gebundeld met het Antwerpse bedrijf, een mooie bevestiging. Benieuwd hoe een Belgische speler de Amerikaanse zoekmachinegigant wist te overtuigen en wat dat precies betekent voor de toekomst van Willow, hadden we een verhelderend gesprek met oprichters Ludwig Dumont en Steven van Kerkhoven.

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Today marks the end of my week with the Contento crew in the United States.

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With the end of the year very near, we thought it made sense to compile a list of the influential Belgian entrepreneurs on the professional social network LinkedIn.

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Google invests an unmentioned amount in the young Antwerp agency Willow to ensure that Google's products are also accessible to SMEs for efficient digital marketing.

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Het Antwerpse Willow schreef een algoritme dat het bloggen en posten automatiseert.

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Where do you keep getting the inspiration to post regularly? And how do you create posts that do well? Willow added a knowledge section: Willow Academy.

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"When you have written your headline, you have spent 80 cents out of your dollar". Let's master the art of caption writing to get the most out of those 80 cents.

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Your employees are your greatest assets. Put your employees in the spotlight and build a strong Employer Brand.

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Nowadays storytelling is an essential part of good social media marketing strategies. Discover eight easy-to-use storytelling frameworks to use immediately.

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You can now schedule and publish Instagram carousel posts directly from Willow. In this blog post, you'll find examples and templates to get started.

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In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the benefits of personal branding and the 5 steps you can take to start building your personal brand as a CEO. 

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Zoals in veel sectoren zijn sociale media steeds belangrijker geworden voor onroerend goed. Het is echter moeilijk om boeiende inhoud te vinden. Dit artikel biedt inspiratie en ideeën over de best presterende content voor vastgoed.

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It must come as no surprise that having a strong personal brand as a consultant is essential. But where to start? In this blog, we explain step by step how you can use social media to build your personal brand.

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Everyone is always searching for the key to blowing up on social media. Users and companies want short cuts, quick wins, tips & tricks, etc. Well what if we told you there was a way to do it? One sure fire way to boost your engagement and impressions. The answer is short-form videos. They are the key to your marketing strategy.

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The pandemic had an incredible impact on the human resources function. HR reinvented and transformed to solidify its digital role. By keeping current on the digital HR trends for 2022, you will be able to leverage these solutions to add value to your business.

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In this blog post, we look at how your SMB can overcome some of the most common challenges in the world of social media in 2022.

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If you weren’t born and raised in the internet era, digital marketing can feel overwhelming. Traditional marketing isn’t dead, and digital marketing doesn’t have to be difficult. Let’s explore the sweet spot between both worlds.

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‘Doing it right' on LinkedIn has many perks. From growing awareness around your company to people actually buying your product or service - throughout the whole sales funnel there are infinite opportunities for entrepreneurs. And it doesn’t have to be a struggle, nor cost a lot of time.

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Here are the best things we picked up from the various enlightening panel discussions that took place all throughout the two-day festival.

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Elke digital native heeft wel al gehoord van social media platformen zoals Buffer of Hootsuite.

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Did you know that over 70 million small businesses around the world are using Facebook to somehow increase awareness for their brand? Or that nearly 50% of small and medium-sized businesses that use social media have been able to hire more people due to increased demand for their product?

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Dit is wat u op sociale media moet plaatsen om voort te bouwen op uw merk, leads te genereren en uw werkgeversmerk te vestigen.

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To a layman, the work of a lawyer is little else than a mystery. As is with expertise-driven businesses, it is difficult to explain the complexities of just what a legal or tax consultancy does.

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Follow best practices from these thought leaders in the HR industry to create your own personal brand and expand your social media reach.

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Social media marketing is een geweldige bron van kwalitatieve leads, maar consultants brengen niet genoeg tijd online door. Dit is waarom ze personal branding serieuzer zouden moeten nemen.

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Social media channels that resemble a job board like Monster or CareerBuilder, are not the way to go. Only a fraction of your following, let's say 1%, is looking for a new opportunity. So, how to connect with the other 99% and gain visibility in their network?

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Have you been working as a marketeer for a few decades? Were you born in a time when the worldwide web didn’t even exist yet, let alone social media? Then you might find it very difficult to stay on top of social media, with so many aspects that seem to be continuously changing. But no worries, we are here to help you out!

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A busy office manager can hardly find the time to manage social media accounts on top of their day-to-day job. Here are some tips to save as much time as possible.

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Ondernemers verdienen het om in het zonnetje gezet te worden. Op de agenda van vandaag staan niet Bill Gates of Elon Musk, maar veelbelovende startende bedrijven uit België die zich met hun slimme oplossingen richten op KMO's en bedrijven.

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Everyone wants their social media posts to perform well. After all, you spend your precious time on them. Knowing how the algorithm works can help ensure that your LinkedIn content gets noticed and you grow your LinkedIn page organically.

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Als je al tot je knieën bezig bent met ontwerpen, kanalen en analyses van sociale media en het loopt uit de hand, dan ben je hier aan het juiste adres. Geen druk, maar een social media plan kan je inspanningen op social media maken of breken. Dit is waarom

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Wat is de beste manier waarop een klein bedrijf dit kan besteden om er het meeste uit te halen? We hebben deze vraag gesteld aan de experts: Seth Godin, Rand Fishkin en Louis Grenier.

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Het gebruik van sociale media voor het genereren van leads kan soms frustrerend zijn, maar als u uw energie concentreert op bepaalde kanalen, experimenteert en uw sterke punten in uw voordeel gebruikt, kan dit een altijdgroene bron van hoogwaardige leads voor uw bedrijf worden.

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Organizations that seek to hire new employees are now facing new challenges; candidates are researching their employers a lot more thoroughly to weigh their options, and the exchange of value has never been more apparent.

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Onderschriften schrijven is meer een wetenschap dan een kunst. Je bent er nu misschien slecht in, maar het is niets dat je niet kunt leren. Om een veelgebruikt cliché te gebruiken: het is net als leren fietsen.

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I've tried to add as many less known channels as I could think of so you can take advantage of them as a B2B marketer or business-owner.

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Linkedin is growing in popularity among B2B services and thought-leaders. This is why it's difficult to make sure your content still gets attention among a barrage of other posts. Here's how you can increase your chances of getting your content noticed.

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70% of social marketers have brand awareness as their top priority but a lot of them fall short of it because they miss these key elements in their social media strategy. Use these strategies, let us know on our social channels how well they work for you!

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B2B social media marketing for service providers isn't something you fix with an influencer. But what is the solution? Discover five great examples here.

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Good lead generation requires a lot of experimentation. Here's what our experiments taught us.

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An easy guide to LinkedIn Ads for beginners

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Klinkt als een geweldige hack, toch? Krijgt elk bericht dat je deelt 100 of meer likes en reacties? Nou, zo werkt het niet altijd.

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Personal branding and social selling go hand in hand. Social selling is about using the power of your personal brand interact with your prospects on social media.

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Eddie Shleyner's Wisdom of the Crowd can teach us a thing or two about the power of a personal brand.

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Inform your content strategy on LinkedIn with these tips. We took a step back and looked at our LinkedIn content and advice from experts to see what we could improve.

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Vouched for by experts and used to build their audience

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Here's how to go from your bird's eye view social media plan to a social media post in the easiest way.

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Hear ye! Hear ye! Contento is now Willow. I don't know if you've been catching the hints we've been dropping from time to time on social media and email, but I'm thrilled to finally share this with everyone.

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If you don't exist on social media, or if you don't bring your A-game, you've lost a potential customer without even entering a conversation. If you don't exist there, existing customers might get frustrated and choose your competitor who has a social presence.

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Word of advice: If a social media agency/tool promises you rapid growth (grow your followers x times in a matter of days), ask a lot of questions and think long term. Will a tactic like using bots fuel your "growth" over the next 5 years?

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You're probably thinking to yourself, why this? Why now? Does the employer brand even matter? Is it worth investing your precious time and money into building a brand parallel to the main company brand?

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A step-by-step guide to building a solid foundation for your personal brand on social media without tricks or hacks.

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An easy step-by-step guide on signing up for GMB, and setting it up from scratch.

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You know how difficult it is finding a picture on Google without having to worry about copyright claims. That, and sometimes the picture we DO have is so lo-res that it is no good for use in a social media post or on the website.

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Instagram recently answered a few questions on their Instagram story about how the algorithm works. Let's break it down so you know how you can take advantage.

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There are bad ways of stealing content, and then there are good ways of 🚨 stealing 🚨 content. And here's why I think you too should be stealing content the good way.

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Recensies van leeftijdsgenoten of zelfs volslagen vreemden kunnen kopers veel meer beïnvloeden dan alles wat u over uzelf zegt. Hier is een eenvoudige manier om die beoordelingen te krijgen.

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The current recession is not a time when SMBs and start-ups should cut back on marketing. Actually, those companies that can afford to do so should make use of the opportunity to increase their Share of Voice and with that their Share of Market.

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We went and scoured our network for the crème de la crème of business coaches in the US.

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The visible outcome of this crisis for businesses has been shutdowns, bankruptcies, and layoffs. But a lot of other companies are in a state of indecision where they’ve halted hiring and buying processes as a direct result of markets coming to a halt.

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Consulting firms need to have a business development strategy in place that is not dependent on referrals. Here's what that can look like.

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Twitter is slightly different from your average social media platform, and it requires a slightly different approach from B2B brands.

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Facebook is one of the most used social media platforms with a total of 2.38 billion users as of 31st May 2019. Just to put that into perspective, the population of the world is 7.7 billion. So the chances that your potential customers are active on Facebook are enormous.

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There's a war in the Accountancy space. Small accountancy firms have it difficult when they want to attract new talent. The recruitment market is difficult to maneuver when the Big 4 do a snatch-and-grab of the creme de la creme of talent at the beginning of every year.

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AI has had an impact on businesses of all sorts in the past year and it's impact will only grow. Here's how you can leverage current AI tools for social media.

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There has never been a better time to jump on the Instagram business bandwagon.

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These trends outline a clear direction for Content Strategists in small and medium businesses to get the highest bang for the buck while offering better content to their Facebook fans and followers.

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Implement these simple tips to grow your Linkedin company page.

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A strong personal brand and leading with your expertise is the way forward.

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Video content is still getting amazing engagement rates.

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Online rekrutering is niet anders dan een echt netwerkevenement of een banenbeurs waar je naartoe gaat. Je stelt je kraam in, drukt je brochures af en legt uit waarom ze geïnteresseerd zouden moeten zijn om met je mee te doen, kleed je goed aan, zet wat weggeefacties klaar en wacht tot ze naar je toe komen.

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If tech becomes a handicap instead of support and augmentation to business goals, it is useless.