Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 31, 2010

Opinionated social networking users become a virtual focus group, praising or complaining about a company's offerings, and coming up with suggestions for improvements or new products or brands. At little cost or effort, a business now potentially can reach far more customers or prospects.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. If you’re still figuring out your marketing plan for 2010, consider the following 10 reasons why a social media strategy may be well worth the effort. It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 28, 2008

Lewis has found similar problems in focus groups he?s 2008 American Psychological Association. polled 1,000 business managers around the globe about their perceptions of technology-generated information. More than 60 percent said the information surfeit has made them stressed and tense. Cover Page for this Issue. © PsycNET.

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Diva Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Also, let me say that focus groups have their own problems when a strong personality becomes the group leader, which often happens. Joel Rubinson : We have formed a Research Transformation Super-Council of the top leaders in our industry which started on July 15, 2008 with a small group of industry leaders.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

On a few occasions, they also have served as focus groups providing us with valuable feedback on a number of topics. At the time of the request there was no formal name associated with this group or program; we were merely asked to forward an invitation to an event on behalf of Royal Caribbean.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Invite people from your email list to an informal focus group on the phone. Many people recommended Rescue Time to help them discover where their online time went. Action: write down three tasks you can batch process. Know your best hours to work. Lunch time?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

June 27, 2008. Berkeley’s Mellon-funded program, renewed after its initial grant for several years, is now in a hiatus phase in which the university is working with external evaluation consultants to conduct focus groups and interviews with participants. stevenb , at 4:10 pm EDT on June 17, 2008. FOR JOB SEEKERS.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 27, 2010

Questions like these can provide you with infinitely more useful information about your customers than demographics, psychographics, or focus groups. He is the author of Cult Branding Workbook (2008), co-author of The Power of Cult Branding (2002), and Why We Talk: The Truth Behind Word-of-Mouth (2007).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Ask your customers directly.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Kevin says that earlier this evening, he hosted a focus group at Digg to beta test some new features to be rolled out in the future. The concern of the users, however, is that not many regular Digg users visit the Upcoming section of Digg. This was not addressed in the chat.) ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 23, 2010

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Before crowdsourcing there were focus groups, which never really worked too well. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

link] (via @jaybaer @jeffhurt) Morgan Stewart I was the primary researcher at ExactTarget and sat in on all the focus groups. In interviews and focus groups we were talking about “brands&# and when they gave examples, it was clear they were thinking about big B2C brands. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 16, 2010

Yes, many use things like focus groups, gut instinct (entrepreneurs are notorious for this!), August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. to create confidence that often overlooks the obvious. Example: A science supply store that wasn't reading its own product review page.

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