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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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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Ah social media. As social media platforms have changed over the years (RIP, Vine), so too have the pros and cons of social media. Not so long ago, brands and executives were still wondering whether they should be on social media at all. Why social media is good. It’s corn. ??

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

Though business use of social media is rapidly increasing, many executives remain skeptical of its value. The bottom line is that while social media marketing definitely provides benefits (such as a higher conversion rate for organic search traffic ), it’s not generally effective as a direct promotion tool.

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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. Do they care what kind of car they drive?

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

Sprout Social

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. At Sprout Social, marketing is not just about supporting sales teams, it’s about empowering sales.

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The Emotion found in Social Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Most people who write on social media outlets don’t do so just for the sake of doing it. 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. That is exactly why Social Media is so special, so different.

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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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