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Social Media Myths
 
 

5 Social Media Myths to Unlearn (and Dispel Across Your Team)

 
 
 
 

The more people use social, the more they think they understand the inner workings of social media marketing. This has resulted in a lot of social media myths that have gone unchecked. Some of them are harmless, but some can greatly impact how social media professionals work with their marketing peers.

To help, we used data from the Sprout Social Index™, Edition XVII: Accelerate to dispel five common social media myths.


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