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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. What is social listening?

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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. Certainly, major missteps are avoided with such a measured approach—but so are opportunities to create significant connections.

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15 Simple Ways to Research Your Target Customer for FREE [podcast + worksheets]

Pam Moore

We do this through a combination of methods that may include online research, surveys, social media network insights, focus groups, interviews and the list goes on. And even the time needed for many of these methods is not too much and definitely worth the investment. Tips to conduct focus groups on little or not budget.

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The Social Listening Playbook for Super Eager Marketers

agora pulse

Why brands use social listening. You can learn a lot from listening in on the conversations happening around your brand. Think of social media like one giant focus group. Agorapulse offers the flexibility to monitor your own brand, as well as others, in a bespoke feed from Twitter. What should you be listening for?

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The Basics of A/B Testing on Social Media

Likeable

Today we’re going to break it down at the most fundamental level, explore what it means for social media, and talk about how your brand can use it to improve performance. . With traditional marketing, one might conduct a focus group or study, where researchers show audience members ads and ask for their opinion/sentiment.

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How Transparent is Too Transparent?

Socialized

Some of the quotes in the video include “Domino’s pizza crust is to me like cardboard,&# a sentiment expressed in a focus group but echoed by Domino’s executives. “Doesn’t feel like there’s much love in Domino’s Pizza,&# says another focus group participant.

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Words and Pictures – the Batman and Robin of Content Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

He needs help solving the brand challenge – er crime. There’s always more than the male perspective to consider and some brands still overlook that. Conflict is something many brands find hard to grasp because they don’t want to be associated with negativity. But lately, he’s come to realize words alone are not enough.

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