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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Conversion Optimization Online Testing Web Analytics Web Design. While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. They’re leveraging social media and loyalty data.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. 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. Download the template 2.

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14 Social Listening Tools for Effortless Brand Monitoring

Hootsuite

Social listening tools are some of the most important for any social media marketer to master. Simply because of the vast amount of data they provide about your brand, your audience, and your competitors in real time. Let’s start by clarifying exactly what we mean when we talk about social listening.

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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. To stay on top of the latest trends and maintain a more accurate pulse on your audience, you need to incorporate social media market research into your strategy.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Ah social media. As social media platforms have changed over the years (RIP, Vine), so too have the pros and cons of social media. Not so long ago, brands and executives were still wondering whether they should be on social media at all. Why social media is good.

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Social Media Listening – It’s About Emotions

Janet Fouts

For decades, brands have focused on selling the product on hand rather than identifying and filling the needs of the consumer first. Maybe we have loyalty to a specific brand because of a particular memory association. Listen to social. To my mind, studying social media is ever so much better than using focus group scenarios.

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

Sprout Social

When I was a college student considering a career in business, I loved the idea of innovation—it was the secret sauce that helped new brands to stand out and established brands to reassert their power. Lizz Kannenberg Senior Creative Director, Sprout Social. In short: Be scrappier, and see innovation differently.