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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

Brian Solis has a terrific series starting this week on the changing marketing, advertising and communications, where he adds a 5th P: People. Tried and True Methods to Solicit Customer Feedback Industries are changing rapidly, and the need to conduct focus groups, surveys and gather feedback is too.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on May 18, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Beth Hrusch.

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Especially in a highly subjective arena like advertising, tastes vary widely. Twitter is a living focus group. Provided they were listening (and I very much suspect they were), Frito-Lay garnered hundreds of near-instantaneous points of feedback about their new advertising. Lessons Learned From a Talking Bag. Hell, 12.7%

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Ford's Got a Reason to Fiesta

Social Media Marketing

But lost in a lot of that was the fact that the pool of 100+ drivers acted as something of a focus group for six months. So here we have the making for consumer generated media as the cornerstone for some of our early advertising for the 2011 Fiesta: Now What? The numbers were great. And really good content too.

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Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO

Kikolani

One of my goals for 2010 is to attend some events / seminars / conventions pertaining to blogging and social media, and today was a great start as I attended the Social Media Arizona event in Tempe. Focus Groups – apply reverse monetization by using social media to get client feedback instead of focus groups to lower research costs.

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Especially in a highly subjective arena like advertising, tastes vary widely. Twitter is a living focus group. Provided they were listening (and I very much suspect they were), Frito-Lay garnered hundreds of near-instantaneous points of feedback about their new advertising. Lessons Learned From a Talking Bag. Hell, 12.7%

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How To Measure Your Social Media Efforts

Social Media Network Marketing

Saturday, August 14, 2010 How To Measure Your Social Media Efforts Social Media efforts like any other marketing effort requires that it be measured, monitored and be accountable. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Posted by Pervara Kapadia at Saturday, August 14, 2010 6comments: social media marketing said.