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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

Buzz Marketing for Technology

While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. So how are websites replicating—and advancing—the traditional focus group? We look at four ways that your website can replace focus groups: 1.

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Can Ottawa’s NBL franchise recover from a branding disaster?

Sherrilynne Starkie

“We didn’t want to fall into the trap of having a great name and then focus group it to death to the point where you go, ‘Ah, it doesn’t work, let’s go with something safe.’ ”. So says Ken Evraire , the Ottawa branding consultant for Bytown Sports, according to an Ottawa Citizen story last week. It’s a tomahawk dunk.

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

Sprout Social

Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. You have to build a structure around that room so that your customer, prospect or industry feels at home with your brand—even if they never use your product. Lay the foundation: Brand positioning. Build the walls: Integrate brand into your product story.

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Why it’s time to break up with your biannual brand survey

Sprout Social

Maybe you think you’re in a happy relationship with your current brand survey routine. Twice a year, you go on the brand health reporting equivalent of an excellent date. Plus, social insights can give you everything you got from your brand survey and more. What is a brand survey? But what about the rest of the year?

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

Sprout Social

Digital content creators are reshaping brand strategy for the better. What brands can accomplish with co-creation Creators have platforms because they understand their audience. Tapping into that knowledge source can be invaluable for brands. Forge a new kind of focus group Creators’ communities are living focus groups.

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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. Social media is much cheaper than surveys or focus groups, which can cost thousands of dollars depending on the size and complexity of your research panel.

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