Compensation is an important topic at any company. At a company like Buffer, where our salaries have been transparent since 2013, compensation is a transparent internal discussion where the whole Buffer team can share thoughts and feedback. A lot has changed in our salary formula over the past few years. ...
Read More »2021 Pay Analysis: How We’ve Lowered Our Gender Pay Gap From…
Buffer has been built on the belief that transparency builds trust, holds us accountable, and can push our industry forward. Our salaries have been transparent since 2013, and for the fifth year in a row, we’re sharing our transparent pay analysis. In this report, we share the difference between what ...
Read More »Inside Our Engineering Mentorship Program and How It Helps O…
Our Engineering team is the largest team at Buffer. It has a lot of moving pieces and is composed of several smaller teams. As with any large team, we’re keen to make sure no one individual lacks guidance or an opportunity to grow. In this post, I’ll share a little ...
Read More »How a Candle Company Uses Social Media to Drive a Better Cus…
The best marketers today are building loyal fans by engaging with their audience in the comments and in messages. By approaching every conversation with genuine interest, they are leveraging social media to drive a remarkable and unforgettable customer experience that has fans coming back over and over again. But how ...
Read More »Hack-Week: Embedding Our Values and Causes in Our Product…
Towards the end of 2020, the Buffer engineering team held a two-day hack event where the team explored ideas that aligned with both our personal and company values. Whilst we strive to bring our personal and company values into the things that we build, sometimes it’s good to take a ...
Read More »4-Day Work Weeks: Results From 2020 and Our Plan for 2021…
In March and April of 2020, work and life as we knew it was changing. I surveyed our team members (all 84 of whom are spread out across the globe) to understand the best way to help them cope with so many things shifting at once. I especially wanted to ...
Read More »Shareholder Update: Q4, 2020 — 2020 Results and What's…
Note: This is the quarterly update sent to Buffer shareholders, with a bit of added information for context. We share these updates transparently as a part of our default to transparency value. See all of our revenue on our public revenue dashboard and see all of our reports and updates ...
Read More »Introducing a Better Way to Engage With Your Instagram Audie…
What if I told you engaging with your customers on Instagram can double or triple your revenue? That’s exactly what happened to Southern Elegance Candle Co. as its founder and CEO D’Shawn Russell told us: “Our social media makes us a lot of money… We went from doing maybe $20,000-30,000 ...
Read More »Selling on Social 101: How Blume Markets and Sells to a Gen …
As the buying power of Gen Z grows, marketers at businesses of all sizes are searching for novel ways to connect with this audience and build lasting customer relationships. It’ll come as no surprise that social media platforms are of the best ways to connect with this generation — which ...
Read More »Crafting a Support Network as a Founder and CEO…
This post was originally published on Joel.is. Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me. This was the year that I started working with Mandy, my second Executive Assistant. Caryn, who I worked with in that capacity for around a year and a half, ...
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