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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. Knowing Customer Behaviors What internal group knows more about your customer’s behaviors and acts? More about this blog here.

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Paying Homage to the Social Technographics Ladder

Ignite Social Media

In early 2008, the team released a tool that allowed anyone to input ages, genders and/or countries of a particular target audience and get a sense of how many people fit into each rung on the ladder. In the midst of all that, the neatness of that ladder helped the industry climb to a better place. .

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Navigating the Higher Ed Enrollment Cliff: How Social Media Managers Can Position Their Institutions for Success

Social Media Strategies Summit

To understand why , you must rewind the 2007 – 2008 financial crisis. Take a look at how student numbers are expected to rise or fall across different demographic groups: In other words, the enrollment cliff will lead to a very different student body than the one we’re used to today. First, we need to consider cultural factors.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

May 19, 2008. Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. Swing by [chrisbrogan.com] for more posts in the series, and if you have topic ideas, feel free to share them, as this is a group project, and your opinion matters. Comment by Hjörtur Smárason on May 19, 2008 @ 7:13 am.

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3 Great Weekly Social Media Podcasts

Firebelly

In fact, when researching podcasts for this article, it was tough to find quality podcasts that have an episode more recent than 2008. I’ve personally given podcasts another shot and I’ve found there’s a lot of quality ones relevant to the social media industry. But this has allowed more professionals to emerge.

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Collaborating and Investing in Green Innovations | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

For example, the transportation industry is continually looking into new travel routes and alternative forms of fuel that will enable to not only reduce cost but also reduce their carbon footprint. Two main groups have formed over the past couple years: Eco-Patent Commons and Green Xchange. United States License.

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2010 Review: SocialFish clients and work

SocialFish

Infocomm International –We worked with the team at Infocomm, a trade association serving the professional AV communications industry worldwide. We also had the pleasure of presenting at Infocomm100, an annual gathering of audiovisual industry thought leaders designed to assess and chart the course of the future of the industry.

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