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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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How to supercharge your marketing strategy with AI automation

Sprout Social

How AI automation benefits businesses AI automation enables companies to automate workflows and get actionable insights through AI tasks like sentiment analysis so they can make tangible changes to drive growth. It also reduces cumbersome, time-consuming tasks such as feedback data analysis by automating them using machine learning.

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Make Each Dollar Count: How to Maximize Marketing Budget in 2024

Oktopost

Unfortunately, this trend is forecasted to continue as we move into 2024. Focus on understanding their needs, preferences, and perceptions related to your products or services. Competitor Analysis : Evaluate competitors to identify areas where they excel or fall short. This type of analysis is not limited to advertising alone.

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What’s your social listening strategy?

Janet Fouts

However, the trend in marketing is focused on big data, filtered and sifted, often to get the results that validate our company and products rather than to divine what the customer wants. when presented with only product highlights and specifications, analysis and data. Analysis paralysis. over product B. Listening mindfully.

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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

While focus groups are helpful to reference at the start of new product or campaign development, they’re less useful for gathering customer feedback once said post-launch. And annual surveys reveal little about what current events or trending topics are most relevant among consumers right now. Comprehensive. With over 3.6

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CEOs: If you’re not asking for a social media scorecard, you need to be

Sprout Social

Executives need contextualized social media metrics like sentiment analysis, customer satisfaction and competitor benchmarks to make informed decisions. With this impactful data on-hand, businesses can improve brand reputation, predict trends, differentiate from competitors and carve out a market niche.

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The ultimate social media listening guide for marketers

Sprout Social

Immediate research : Analyzing current social media listening data provides you with immediate research that does not need to run through focus groups or other in-person structured analyses. More affordable : Coordinating focus groups and hiring marketing research agencies can be pricey. Create a brand analysis.