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

Sprout Social

The sharp, brand-defining edges of inspired ideas are often worn down in focus groups as innovation teams strive for mass relatability at the expense of deeper relevance with their desired audience. Certainly, major missteps are avoided with such a measured approach—but so are opportunities to create significant connections.

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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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How to collect and mine your social media data for growth

Sprout Social

Virtually all business leaders believe social media data and insights have a profound impact on top business priorities, according to The 2023 State of Social Media report. But raw data points without context don’t tell the full story. What is social media data? How does analyzing social media data work?

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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. Regardless, teams with social media managers are sitting on a goldmine of data and information.

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How to make your brand customer-centric [+ Examples]

Sprout Social

In practice, this means actively gathering intel on your customer through surveys or social listening, analyzing that data and proactively giving your customer what they want, or what they don’t yet know they want. This is where social data comes into play. Listening data will tell you faster than any survey can.

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Research Methods 'Beyond Google' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Berkeley’s Mellon-funded program, renewed after its initial grant for several years, is now in a hiatus phase in which the university is working with external evaluation consultants to conduct focus groups and interviews with participants. How do you go about finding the research/articles/data you need?

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