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Co-creation: Why creators should be part of your product development team

Sprout Social

After all, an unfiltered comment section on a creator video will give you far better insight into your consumer than any formal survey or focus group ever could. For example, creator Emma Chamberlain launched her own coffee company in 2020, garnering a $7 million Series A round in the process.

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How to define and share your core brand values effectively

Sprout Social

With a documented brand strategy that incorporates a set of core values, companies are better positioned to engage with their audience on a regular basis as well as respond to unexpected events when they inevitably occur. Promote Open, Authentic Communication. Sprout’s values include: Care Deeply. Embrace Accountability.

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Social Business Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside-In

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Business Intelligence is all about wisdom – the wisdom to listen, to interpret, and to act authentically and from the outside-in, displaying fidelity to the expressed wants and needs of the billion-plus consumers who offer opinions online. Both have inherent limitations. In both cases, the information rendered is faulty.

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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. But what if I told you there was a way to both validate and refute innovative ideas without diluting what makes them unique and authentic?

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Five Ways to Make Your Next Marketing Campaign More Diverse

Pixlee

Diverse content has to actively avoid tokenism to be authentic. It takes more than just searching through stock photo libraries to find images of underrepresented groups. Focus on building relationships with influencers and don’t just reach out to them to check a box or give the impression of inclusivity.

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The Emotion found in Social Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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. It appears to us that companies that make million-dollar decisions on this kind of “static” data are doing themselves a disservice.

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Home is where your brand is: A blueprint to build and maintain your brand

Sprout Social

For a software company, that means when they’re not using your product. Like any structure, your brand “home” needs a strong foundation to build upon—one clear, easily understood phrase that anyone in your company can use to make sure the decisions they make or the work they execute is “on brand.” The honest answer was “not really.”.

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