Blog - Page 14
A collection of 2,468 blog posts
The start of a new year is a great time to reassess your marketing strategy. Here's how these 4 small business owners are doing marketing differently in 2023.
Launching a new feature is an exciting time at Buffer. It's the culmination of days, weeks and sometimes even months of the work that goes into building something new. There's lots of excitement and a lot to celebrate. It's also a significant time for our Support team. A product launch can generate a lot of conversations with our customers. We want to be ready to handle that ticket volume, quickly answer any questions about any nuance of the new feature, and effectively channel feedback to the p
Behind every incredible creator is an army of tools — and even people — to support every stage of content creation. In this article, we’ll walk you through some of these tools and how they can support your content creation journey.
You may have heard the news that ContentCal is shutting down. While it's always sad to see a valued tool go, the good news is that there's another great option out there for managing your social media: Buffer. In this blog post, we'll give you the lowdown on why you should give Buffer a try and how it can help take your social media game to the next level. So grab a cup of coffee and let's chat about all the features that Buffer has to offer. What’s happening ContentCal is shutting down c
We’ve outlined a calendar of all of the official (and slightly less official) holidays in 2023 to serve as a blueprint for your content, plus fun social media post ideas to jumpstart your brainstorm.
If there’s one thing we love to check on at the end and beginning of any year, it’s the trends. Who got what right — or wrong? What did no one see coming? It’s all fascinating to witness. Perhaps antithetical to my love for trend-watching, the biggest lesson I’ve learned from predictions is that no one can tell the future. We can only make observations based on data and the cultural landscape and cross our fingers. Keeping that in mind, we — along with experts — outline what we’ve noticed peop
Learn the best practices to take when creating a new social media account for your brand in this edition of #AskBuffer.
In our first installment of 'How I Grew My Small Business,' we take a deep dive into how Janet Hoang turned a high school art project into a successful lifestyle brand.
At Buffer, we regularly share cultural spotlights to connect our global team and help us understand one another at a deeper level. Sophie, our Growth Marketing Manager, presents a deep dive into life as a digital nomad.
LinkedIn is a common marketing platform for small businesses, but Nate Shalev was surprised to find that they found even more success when they were vulnerable in their posts. Here is their strategy for success today.
No longer a far-fetched idea out of a 90s movie, AI has the potential to support content creators at every stage of the creative process. In this article, we will explore six ways in which AI already supports content creation and which tools are leading the charge.
Want to know what kinds of content should you be posting to LinkedIn? What’s the best time of day to post it? How many hashtags should you be using? And how does all of this impact LinkedIn’s algorithm?
Every year since 2016 we've closed Buffer for a week at the end of the year. It’s like a reset, except across the whole company.
Mitra analyzes the top-performing social media posts of 2022 across platforms and why they did well.
Even with no content creation background, Michelle Dear managed to grow two TikTok accounts with huge followings for her business in just a matter of months. Learn exactly how she did it along with plenty of tips and tricks for succeeding on TikTok—without it taking all of your time.
We've rounded up several products that would make the perfect gifts this holiday season. Even better, they're all from small businesses you can feel good about supporting.
With the buzz around TikTok’s value as a source of knowledge for its audience, businesses and creators need to pay attention to TikTok SEO which helps you get your videos to the top of TikTok’s search results. Here’s how to get started with optimizing your TikTok content for search.
We recently launched a new feature at Buffer, called Ideas. With Ideas, you can store all your best ideas, tweak them until they’re ready, and drop them straight into your Buffer queue. Now that Ideas has launched in our web and mobile apps, we have some time to share some learnings from the development of this feature. In this blog post, we’ll dive into how we added support for URL highlighting to the Ideas Composer on Android, using Jetpack Compose. We started adopting Jetpack Compose into ou
In this #AskBuffer, we cover why consistency is the key to growing your Twitter account.
Scaling a business during a time of scarcity is challenging, but Gloria Chou figured out how to turn crisis into an opportunity for growth. Here are the mindset shifts that helped her pivot and grow after losing all of her client work.
We explore predictions about the future of personal branding through the expert opinions of Social Proof interviewees and my own thoughts based on general market trends.
Thread scheduling is the newest addition to Buffer’s suite of organic marketing tools for Twitter. You can now draft unlimited-length threads with Buffer, preview how’ll they look, save them for later, and schedule them for the optimal time.
Here's a quick rundown of Twitter's latest features and how small businesses and content creators can leverage them to grow their Twitter communities.
At Buffer, we regularly share cultural spotlights to connect our global team and help us understand one another at a deeper level. Ben, one of our customer advocates, presents a deep dive into Thailand.
