53 killer tips to boost your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn ads

Mastering Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn ads can be the key to bringing a massive amount of new leads at low costs. While Google Adwords focus is search driven traffic, advertising on social networks opens a new world of opportunities – new audiences, new ways to reach prospects and amazing segmentation options. The goal of this guide is providing easy to implement hacks which can help you reduce your current advertising costs by 80%.

General

Starting with some basics before diving into more advanced tips:

1. Don’t compete against yourself, make sure not to run campaigns for the same audience at the same time

Basic but not trivial at all. When you run multiple campaigns in parallel that target the same audience you’re actually competing against yourself, causing the bid to be higher. You obviously don’t want to run only one campaign at a time as the best way to improve your campaigns is to have as many tests as possible.…

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The Dark Science Of Naming Your Post : Based On Studying 100 Blogs

Which posts get the most shares? With which title should you pitch your startup to bloggers?

Here’s what I learned from reviewing posts from over 100 blogs, after sorting them from the most shared ones to the least.

I’m in an interesting position these days, I lead the marketing at Takipi and the rest of the team are all developers. Of course, they help with marketing. As you can imagine, having a marketing team made of developers leads to unusual content and methods. It’s absolutely amazing to view marketing from a different perspective and to use code as a marketing tool.
When we started planning our content marketing strategy we looked into different blogs to see which content works best. Now here comes the magic – we used a script (thanks, @erans and Dor Levi) to analyze blogs and sorted all the posts from the most read ones to the ones least shared.…

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