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Influencer Marketing Tools for Brands: Which Platforms to Buy and Which to Skip
Whenever I speak on influencer marketing, one question comes back more than any other: which tool should I buy? Marketers want a single name. A shortcut. The one platform that finds creators, runs the campaign, pays everyone, and proves...
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Twitter Trends: How to Find, Read, and Actually Use What’s Trending on X
Open the Explore tab on X right now and you’ll see a list of trending topics that has very little to do with your business. Politics. A sports score. A celebrity nobody in your industry has heard of. That’s...
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TikTok Analytics: How Creators and Marketers Should Read Their Data in 2026
You posted a video. It got 4,200 views. Is that good?Nobody can answer that question for you, and TikTok itself will not answer it either. The app hands you a wall of numbers and walks away. Views, likes, watch...
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How to Publish an Article on LinkedIn: A Step-by-Step Guide for 2026
You have expertise worth sharing, and LinkedIn hands you a publishing platform to share it with, no website, no hosting, no separate blog to launch. The hard part is not the writing. It is knowing exactly where to click,...
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The Best Time to Post on Bluesky in 2026, According to 3 Million Posts
Bluesky is one of the few social media platforms that still boasts a chronological ‘Following’ feed, where posts from folks you follow appear from newest to oldest. It’s even the default feed you’ll see when you open the app...
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How an Independent Agency Manages 23 Social Media Profiles With Buffer
Jeff Simmons is a single dad, a self-professed social media addict in recovery (he quit scrolling Instagram and Facebook for personal use on January 1), and he runs a boutique digital marketing agency out of Portland, Oregon, called Audio...
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How to Sell on TikTok Shop: A Marketer’s Guide to the $15 Billion Opportunity
A few months ago I went down a rabbit hole trying to open a TikTok Shop for my own books. I write about digital marketing, I host a podcast about it, and I watched author after author ride the...
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How to Schedule LinkedIn Posts in 2026 (2 Easy Methods + Tips)
I try to post consistently on LinkedIn, but I confess that it’s not always top of my list when deadlines are looming, my toddler’s kept me up at night, and I simply can’t justify yet another cup of coffee...
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X (Twitter) Banner Size in 2026: Dimensions, Safe Zones, and What Actually Gets Seen
You came here for a number, so let me give it to you before anything else. The X (Twitter) banner size is 1500 x 500 pixels. That is the header image running across the top of your profile, and...
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Japan protests against Putin visit to disputed Kuril islands
Japan said it "strongly protests" Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to a disputed island chain.Russian state media reported on...