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14 Social Listening Tools for Effortless Brand Monitoring

Hootsuite

Back in the day, marketers had to dedicate substantial budgets to consumer and competitor research through surveys, focus groups, and market testing. Hootsuite Advanced Analytics allows you to analyze your competitors’ audience and content strategy on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter). Pricing available on request.

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

Knowing Customer Behaviors What internal group knows more about your customer’s behaviors and acts? The web analytics team knows about what customers do with your own web assets, not about what customers do – in the real world and in online social channels where you don’t own the assets.

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Home is where your brand is: A blueprint to build and maintain your brand

Sprout Social

If you’re anything like we were, you might not have the time or budget for traditional qualitative research with focus groups. When we launched in 2010, our audience of decision makers were primarily mid-career social media professionals. For us, it was our sales and success teams.

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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

Twitter is a living focus group. Just like with Web analytics software (where the data differential between Webtrends, Omniture, Google Analytics and the rest can be large), there is no objective “truth” in social media listening. Sentiment may even out in short order.

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6 Potentially Wildly Inaccurate Observations about Tostitos and Social Sentiment

Convince & Convert

Twitter is a living focus group. Just like with Web analytics software (where the data differential between Webtrends, Omniture, Google Analytics and the rest can be large), there is no objective “truth” in social media listening. Sentiment may even out in short order.

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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

Any acquisitions or product announcements by IBM, Oracle, and SAP should be completely expected, but pay attention to the emerging distinctions between social media analytics and social media monitoring (see #2). Social business software companies Jive and Lithium have picked up their own listening platforms.

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