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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

Buzz Marketing for Technology

While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. It’s this level of insight that can spur improvements to product offerings, social media, in-store efforts, other offline experiences and overall marketing efforts.

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To see marketing differently, we need to turn the spotlight on social

Sprout Social

The marketing department used to be the mouth of an organization—developing content and communicating messages to support sales. I think back to when I started in the field and my role was all about creating one-sheets, building presentation decks, planning events and helping to support advertising and awareness goals.

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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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Understanding the audience that watched the Champions League Final

Audiense

We were following the event closely on social media using the Audiense Insights platform to gain an understanding of the audience following the game. The audience also over indexes in events and gaming. In events, they’re not surprisingly fond of sporting events, with 67.5% of the world’s population.

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The Emotion found in Social Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And recall is imperfect because it asks a person to offer information on a past event outside of the context and situation in which he or she experienced it. Focus Groups – are skewed in three ways: small sample sizes, self-selection population, and the dreaded “decibel rule’ – the loudest person in the room wins.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Now, social media has gone from a “nice to have” to a “must-have” for businesses, as it has become a core place for audiences to connect, get updates on current events and capture moments. And connecting with your audience goes further than making sales—it builds community, which can save you advertising bucks in the future.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.