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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. Get in early on trending topics. From memes to larger social trends, social listening platforms are like an advance alert system for what’s happening in the social sphere.

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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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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

Be it Web Technologies, technology related trends, Mobiles, Hacking, Blogging, Vlogs, Social Media etc. The research which their focus group discussions revealed was that Indian customers are not price sensitive, they are value sensitive. that interests the people.

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Where are my peanuts?

Idaconcpts

Today I wanted to point out the important trend that consumers expect that every service category has more and more in common. Take a look at this testimonial from a participant in a focus group on airlines: You know, I have a dry cleaner at the end of my street. Then take a look at the recent Virgin Mobile ads in August 2010.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

Convince & Convert

August 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet We built our own Frankenstein. link] Joseph Manna I saw that report last week; very cool of ExactTarget to compile all the trends in an easily-digestible format. Un rapport étonnant… [link] [link] Joris Bryon Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?