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Topics Covered In This Episode
- Paid vs. Organic Strategies: Mercer and Jeff discuss the importance of balancing paid traffic and organic channels like LinkedIn and Facebook groups. They highlight the shift from organic to paid strategies, with Facebook being a prime example.
- LinkedIn's Professional Growth: The hosts praise LinkedIn for its focused conversations and engagement opportunities. The platform's growth is attributed to content engagement and organic posting, and note an increase in LinkedIn events and webinars.
- Comparing Social Platforms: LinkedIn is deemed more effective for professional networking and lead generation compared to Twitter and Instagram. They discuss LinkedIn's potential future shift to charging for visibility while currently rewarding creators for interaction.
- Primary Channel Strategy: While emphasizing the importance of choosing a primary social media platform, Jeff and Mercer discuss using LinkedIn as a testing ground and focusing efforts on one platform, like YouTube, before syndicating content across others using AI.
- Leveraging YouTube and Pinterest: They use the success of Mr. Beast on YouTube as an example of mastering one platform before expanding. Pinterest is noted for its unique user behavior and fewer trolls, though it may not suit all business models.
- Effective Social Media Marketing: Mercer and Jeff emphasize the importance of promoting business content on LinkedIn and other platforms. They advise varying social media content to avoid monotony and increase engagement, warn against the overuse of memes to prevent banner blindness, and suggest syndication through AI is suggested to enhance reach and volume.
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