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In bull or bear markets, social media intelligence makes all the difference

Sprout Social

Every company should strive to be driven by data. When I think about data, I inevitably think about social media. That might be because I spend my days working with our clients’ executives to capture the voice of their customer, but I think it’s because social media intelligence is the next data frontier. Cast a wider net.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy. In this article, we’re sharing every social media marketing template we’ve ever made. Facebook marketing strategy template Facebook is synonymous with social media.

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See innovation differently: How social media holds the key to true differentiation

Sprout Social

My romantic idea of innovation as something you could just recognize in your gut was out of sync with the tremendous amount of bet-hedging most brands needed to feel confident in a new product or marketing campaign. Kraft determined through traditional market research that they wanted to enter the grocery burger market.

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How to use social listening tools for business-wide success

Sprout Social

Social media is the world’s largest and most transparent focus group. Social listening lets you tap into that focus group, their conversations and the trends happening not just around your brand, but around your industry as a whole. Tools like Sprout Social save time by crawling listening data for you. What power!

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. Here are six reasons why social media skeptics have a point, and six reasons businesses must and will continue to embrace social media marketing anyway.

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Who’s Driving the Data Movement? Social Media Managers

Buffer Social

What if the most valuable data person on your team is your social media manager ? When you think of all the many data roles on a team, social media rarely bubbles to the top. Instead, you think of: Data scientists. Growth marketers. Every bit of social media data is behavioral data. Your data is REAL data.

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Social media: the ultimate skills cheat sheet

Sherrilynne Starkie

Surface content sources, compile lists, links, aggregate and package content, publish and distribute content. Surface content sources, compile lists, links, aggregate and package content, publish and distribute content. Conduct stakeholder/key informant interviews and focus groups, interpret survey and poll data, document reviews.

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