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Best Practices for 2017 Social Media Buying

Ignite Social Media

We are officially in 2017 and you may have some looming questions as to how best utilize your social media buys for the remainder of the year. Here are some quick tips and reminders to keep in mind for your 2017 social media buying. Buy while the going is good! Good luck out there and happy buying. Invest in Instagram.

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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. Websites, however, can now provide this level of data in real time. So how are websites replicating—and advancing—the traditional focus group? What do they like?

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5 ways to create better buyer personas with social media data

Sprout Social

In this guide, we’ll show you how to better understand your target audience by creating buyer personas built on social media data. Most brands develop many personas to stand in for the various people who participate in the buying cycle for their particular product or service. How to create a buyer persona using data from social media.

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Do you know what makes your prospects buy?

Audiense

Through our partnership with IBM Watson, there are two main groups of intelligence that we have made available to our clients: purchase influence factors and consumption behaviour. Based on publicly available data about the makeup of the audiences on these social networks, the channels frequented by this audience don’t surprise us.

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TechTarget’s VP Sales on Why Intent Data has Become a Dirty Word

Oktopost

Rich is a B2B intent data extraordinaire and SaaS sales VP with 13 years of experience across a number of sales and leadership functions within TechTarget. Intent data is a good thing, so why does Rich Stone, VP of Sales West of TechTarget classify it as a dirty word? Catch all episodes here. Meet Rich Stone. Episode Summary.

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What day is leg day? And 8 other questions answered with listening data

Sprout Social

To tap into Facebook data, the network requires that you include specific pages, so the agency selected several fitness outlets like Women’s and Men’s Health and people like Mark Wahlberg, who is known for his intense workout routine. The company viewed social media as a massive, unorganized focus group.

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How to Approach Meta Ads Targeting Now

Jon Loomer

We experimented with grouping interests in one ad set and lookalikes in another. Mainly women between 25 and 34 are buying? If you wanted to go after a group of people who knew who you were and were likely to convert, there were several places to start. Cold Targeting. Or we’d layer interests on top of lookalikes.

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