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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity SMM

And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising. Those are among the findings from a trio of this year’s best research reports, from WordPress VIP , Hootsuite , and Metricool. The average social media manager in the U.S. earns $78,475 per year. Thoughts on these studies?

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Five Reasons Why You Absolutely, Positively Need to do Online Brand Monitoring

Webbiquity SMM

And you’d certainly never talk about your brand or product at a business conference or networking event…while wearing noise-cancelling headphones. Why then do so many brands fail to do basic brand monitoring on social networks, and across the Internet more generally? Your fans are advocating for your brand.

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14 Social Listening Tools for Effortless Brand Monitoring

Hootsuite

Simply because of the vast amount of data they provide about your brand, your audience, and your competitors in real time. Back in the day, marketers had to dedicate substantial budgets to consumer and competitor research through surveys, focus groups, and market testing. It’s also an important form of competitor research.

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What is brand monitoring and why is it important?

Sprout Social

There are more ways than ever for your audience to talk about you, but luckily, it’s never been easier to track your brand mentions through online brand monitoring and have a comprehensive understanding of how people feel about your brand. What is brand monitoring? Brand monitoring vs. social monitoring.

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How B2B Tech Marketing on Twitter is Changing (Research)

Webbiquity SMM

Per recent research , though 77% of B2B marketers say they use Twitter to distribute content, Twitter use is down 8% since 2014. Less than a quarter of B2B software companies understand brand monitoring. Brand monitoring on Twitter is extremely simple: Log into Twitter. Watch for mentions of your brand.

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Brand Monitoring: Where Are They Now?

Net-Savvy Executive

The first report in the space was Peter Kim's Forrester Wave: Brand Monitoring (September 2006), which introduced us to seven companies: Biz360 Acquired by Attensity in 2010. evolve24 Acquired by Maritz Research in 2010. So, in the spirit of the filmmaker who's not sure how to end a movie, let's roll the "where are they now?"

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How to Use Social Listening to Retain More Customers

Webbiquity SMM

But with the steep rise in customer acquisition costs , and research showing it costs up to five times more to acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one, you can’t ignore the importance of customer retention. Social listening, and more broadly online brand monitoring, is essential. Guest post by Mehdi Hussen.

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