{"id":31985,"date":"2018-01-05T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/?p=31985\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:52:45","slug":"will-not-happen-marketing-year-anti-trends-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/will-not-happen-marketing-year-anti-trends-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"What will NOT happen in marketing this year? Anti-trends 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hello 2018! What a year it\u2019s going to be! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>While everyone\u2019s trying to predict what will happen this year, Sotrender is doing the opposite! Like in previous years (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/social-media-anti-trends-2016\/\">2016<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/anti-trends-2017-will-not-happen-social-media\/\">2017<\/a><\/span>), we\u2019ve asked marketing specialists and social media influencers a simple question: <em>What will NOT happen in marketing in the upcoming year?.<\/em>\u00a0The results, as usual, make for an insightful read! <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Here are the anti-trends for 2018!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/iana.png\" alt=\"ian anderson gray, anti-trends 2018, sotrender\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/iana.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/iana-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/iana-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ian Anderson Gray<\/span>, Confident Live Marketing Coach |<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iagdotme\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter will not die in 2018 &#8211; it will evolve. There have been many soothsayers foreseeing the demise of Twitter. It was supposed to happen this year, or perhaps this year. Twitter has been in trouble for a few years and they&#8217;ve made many bad decisions. The platform is not dying, however, it&#8217;s evolving. Scratch under the surface of automation tools and bots, you&#8217;ve still got thriving communities of businesses and individuals having real conversations. I think Twitter is not going away and they&#8217;re not dying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32047 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lilach-b.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, lilach bullock\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lilach-b.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lilach-b-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lilach-b-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lilach Bullock<\/span>, Lead Conversion Expert, Speaker, Content Marketing and Social Media Specialist,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilachbullock.com\/\">www.lilachbullock.com<\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lilachbullock\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2018 is not the year to sit on your laurels and rely on what worked the year before. It might be all the recent changes and new features that we&#8217;ve seen happening to some of the major social networks. Or it could be that customer expectations are changing. One thing is for sure, though: social media marketing in 2018 requires in-depth strategizing and continuous optimisation. The best tool you have is your analytics: check them often and use them to understand what works and what doesn&#8217;t, so that you can optimize your campaigns as you go along.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32023 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-file.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, sandra clayton\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-file.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-file-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-file-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sandra Clayton<\/span>, Social Media, Online Marketing Expert, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversionminded.com\">Conversion Minded<\/a> |<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SandraJClayton\">Twitter,<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sandraclayton\/\">LinkedIn,\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/convert.ConversionMinded\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>2018 is not the year for\u2026 fluffy KPI\u2019s like engagement, awareness, and traffic. It\u2019s the year to measure social media success in dollars and cents instead of likes, shares, and comments. We can&#8217;t keep social media in a silo or on the sidelines, and we can forget about sharing content for content\u2019s sake. We need to attach sales goals to everything we share on social media so that we know where to invest our time and what types of content drive our bottom line. With buyable pins, Facebook collection ads, and now shoppable posts on Instagram, 2018 presents new opportunities to connect the dots between social media campaigns and direct revenue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32041 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/edytak.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, edyta kowal\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/edytak.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/edytak-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/edytak-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Edyta Kowal<\/span>,\u00a0Content Manager &amp; Editor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prowly.com\">Prowly<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contentespresso.pl\">Content Espresso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, another news stories on how \u201cFacebook is fighting engagement bait\u201d circulated around the internet. May I just remind you that first references to this subject were already made a few years back. Facebook was supposed to punish Pages for flagrantly asking for likes, comments, or shares, limit their reach and demote such posts. Is this project going to finally reach the \u2018final cut\u2019 stage? I don\u2019t think so. But I\u2019m pretty sure that other attempts to draw attention to our social media content\u2014such as using memes and GIFs\u2014\u00a0will decline in value. The reason for this is simple: excess. Also, traditional influencer marketing will no longer work as it has before. Micro-influencers will promote your product much better than A-list celebrities with enormous follower counts. And they\u2019ll do it for a reasonable price and more reliably.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the video content marketing trend has been booming in social media lately. 64% of marketers agree that video will soon dominate their content marketing strategies. However\u2014despite all the forecasts repeated year after year\u20142018 will not be the year of video content in social media. The majority of brands are just starting to load up on budgets for this purpose, expand their competence within teams and, at most, play with small video forms on Instagram, Snapchat, or Facebook and try their hand at live streaming. All in all, including video content in the sales process and live streaming are definitely the two paths to follow.<\/p>\n<p><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-17aa57f4-5c32-46e4-a7e9-d94ffcd56c10\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-17aa57f4-5c32-46e4-a7e9-d94ffcd56c10\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-17aa57f4-5c32-46e4-a7e9-d94ffcd56c10\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]>\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/3842881\/17aa57f4-5c32-46e4-a7e9-d94ffcd56c10\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-17aa57f4-5c32-46e4-a7e9-d94ffcd56c10\" class=\"hs-cta-img aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/3842881\/17aa57f4-5c32-46e4-a7e9-d94ffcd56c10.png\" alt=\"Start analyzing your Facebook profiles with Sotrender!\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32035 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bartoszm.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, bartosz majewski\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bartoszm.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bartoszm-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bartoszm-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bartosz Majewski<\/span>, CEO, Casbeg,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/majewskibartosz\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2018 is not the year to\u2026 know what you are actually talking about. This is a 100% year to get loud, double your content marketing and understand content distribution hacks instead of really knowing your craft (who cares if you&#8217;re a specialist or not?). Whatever it is, write about it. You will make a killing being a management expert who never actually hired anyone or a business coach who never actually run a business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32037 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catthym.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, cathy mcphilips\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catthym.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catthym-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/catthym-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Cathy McPhillips<\/span>, VP of Marketing, Content Marketing Institute |<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmcphillips\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/cathymcphillips\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marketers will stop being afraid of the term \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d as it relates to their marketing strategies. They\u2019ll realize the value, efficiency and effectiveness in collaboration with their IT counterparts. Because of this targeted, personalized communications will be better than ever \u2013 and marketers will finally, once and for all, stop the \u201cspray and pray\u201d way of marketing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32033 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/agatam.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, agata mlodawska\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/agatam.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/agatam-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/agatam-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Agata M\u0142odawska<\/span>, Marketing Manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divante.co\">Divante<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Machine-generated content won&#8217;t be the majority, but&#8230; We can see a shift in the market &#8211; more people are now on messenger apps than social media. That&#8217;s why chatbots became so popular. <a href=\"https:\/\/go.divante.co\/ecommerce-trends-2018\/\">eCommerce Trends Report 2018<\/a>\u00a0by Divante says that Conversational Commerce is one of Top 5 Investments in 2018. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/11\/bots-that-can-talk-will-help-us-get-more-value-from-analytics\">Gartner,<\/a>\u00a020% of business content could be machine-generated by 2018 &#8211; that&#8217;s not the majority, but the trend is growing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/danp.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, dan purvis\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/danp.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/danp-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/danp-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dan Purvis<\/span>, Director, Comms Axis |<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danpurvis\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/purvisdan\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2018 is not the year for macro influencer marketing. Sure, big names and self-glorified gurus and influencers may well amplify your reach to stratospheric levels, but are they really reaching the right audience for your brand? 2017 will be the last year that macro influencers can charge a premium for mediocre business results. \u00a0Step forward micro-influencers &#8211; niche, hyper-engaged and all about results for brands of all sizes.<\/p>\n<p>2018 is not the year for business ROI from Twitter\u2026if you keep doing what you\u2019ve always been doing. Twitter is saturated and has been for a while. \u00a0For the average brand, being heard is harder than ever, sparking engagement is tougher than tough, and driving the right traffic requires small miracles. \u00a0Will 2017 be the last year of Twitter being free-to-play? \u00a0We\u2019ll see. But for Twitter to deliver business value beyond vanity metrics, then you need to tweet smarter, engage more proactively, and spam content out via schedulers far less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2018 is not the year for click-bait headlines and competitions. We\u2019ve had enough of this, right? The average person on social media can\u2019t be bought so cheaply and easily anymore. \u00a0Put some effort in when trying to get more fans, clickthroughs and engagements!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32051 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/magdau.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, magdalena urbaniak\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/magdau.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/magdau-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/magdau-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Magdalena Urbaniak<\/span>, Global Communications Manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brand24.com\">Brand24<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contentespresso.pl\">Content Espresso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is one trend that will be maintained by (less but still) many companies. What I&#8217;m thinking of is ignoring queries, comments, and opinions on brands in social media. People share it all: good and bad feelings, thoughts through many platforms waiting and expecting help, advice or solution. That&#8217;s nothing else than looking for a good customer service that might easily lead to sales. Huge opportunity, what&#8217;s more &#8211; easy to implement, will be probably wasted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32049 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lukaszz.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, lukasz zelezny\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lukaszz.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lukaszz-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lukaszz-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lukasz Zelezny,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/seo.london\">SEO<\/a>, Social Media Speaker |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukaszzelezny\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget about non-responsive websites. You may ask&#8230; so 2018 will be yet another mobile year? Yes that is correct. This time however Google may want to push harder for responsive design. You hard mobile-first index? And this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>And also forget about HTTP:\/\/ &#8211; Using non-ssl website is pass\u00e9. So if you plan to go into startup business, blogging or anything else that involve new website remember to buy SSL cerificate. And if you already have a website, switch asap to SSL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32045 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/janzajac.png\" alt=\"anti-trends 2018, sotrender, jan zajac\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/janzajac.png 784w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/janzajac-475x179.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/janzajac-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jan Zaj\u0105c<\/span>, CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sotrender.com\">Sotrender<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2018 will not be the year of organic reach, especially on Facebook, but also on other social media channels. It will be much harder to efficiently reach your target audience without paying for and setting up ads. Which is nothing new. Many of us already experience significantly worse organic reach when it comes to our Facebook activities. Some of us probably already have various methods of improving organic reach, but let\u2019s face the truth. It\u2019ll only get worse. And soon, there might not even be a thing such as organic reach.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s also worth mentioning is the change in the Facebook newsfeed. It\u2019s now only in the testing phase in few countries, so it\u2019s not currently such a big deal for everyone. But we should be aware of it. This change is strongly affecting brands\u2019 organic reach, as non-promoted posts from brands are removed from the main newsfeed (the newsfeed was generally reorganised).<\/p>\n<p>So what does it all mean? It means that marketers have to prepare themselves, their budgets, and their marketing strategies. 2018 will be the year of coming up with new ideas, solutions, and tools. We might even have to change the social media channels we run or the agencies and people running our current ones.<\/p>\n<p>2018 will definitely be a year to be flexible and ready for change. What works for you now (e.g. clickbait or posting funny memes) might not work very soon. And one of the reasons is that Facebook is trying to get rid of a few selected behaviours. Cooperating with influencers, taking advantage of groups, events or stories? We all have to face the problem and test various solutions to be ready for what is coming.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing experts have a lot in mind when it comes to anti-trends for 2018. In few months, we\u2019ll see if their predictions were right or not \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Does anything else come to your mind? Anything you think won\u2019t happen in marketing in 2018? Let us know below!<\/p>\n<p><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]>\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/3842881\/2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" class=\"hs-cta-img aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/3842881\/2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323.png\" alt=\"Analyze your social media efforts with Sotrender!\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello 2018! What a year it\u2019s going to be! 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