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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have. Brian Solis has a terrific series starting this week on the changing marketing, advertising and communications, where he adds a 5th P: People. Will there be future demand for products?

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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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14 Social Listening Tools for Effortless Brand Monitoring

Hootsuite

Social listening tools are some of the most important for any social media marketer to master. Back in the day, marketers had to dedicate substantial budgets to consumer and competitor research through surveys, focus groups, and market testing. Why do marketers need social listening tools?

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

Quotes from the Money Life article Iffort’s report states that usage of Twitter will penetrate more organisations, and more firms and customers will start using this social networking tool.Conversations between users and brands which are managed by humans with an emotional quotient will continue to boost Indian marketing efforts.

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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. What we needed to do now was make sure the other core tenets of our brand came through in how we marketed our product. For us, it was our sales and success teams.

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How Your Brand Can Win Over Online Customers One Skeptic at a Time

Convince & Convert

It’s important to do the appropriate research, either with focus groups and surveys or by hiring an outside agency. Knowing how your customers perceive you gives you a benchmark to measure progress and helps you know how to proceed with marketing to improve your brand perception.

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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. Since the Fiesta won't be delivered until the spring of 2010, there are still a few months to go to continue the online buzz. The numbers were great. But how will that happen now that the program is over?