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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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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?

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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. Social media strategy templates Social media calendar templates Social media post templates Social media reporting templates Social media management templates What is a social media template?

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Is Brand Engagement Over on Facebook?

Janet Fouts

Even brands with deep pockets are feeling the pinch. Ogilvy reported earlier this year that pages with over 500,000 likes are seeing engagement rates plummet to just 2% and that rate is falling by.5% on the brands we manage. But when you read numerous reports of click-farm fraud you might want to think again. The Wall St.

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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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How to supercharge your marketing strategy with AI automation

Sprout Social

AI automation has revolutionized how brands approach their business and marketing strategies. The tool enables you to analyze social listening data—up to 50,000+ messages a second and up to 600M+ messages a day— so you can automatically sift through billions of data points and get key brand insights within seconds.

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