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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. It’s this level of insight that can spur improvements to product offerings, social media, in-store efforts, other offline experiences and overall marketing efforts.

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Our Hamilton public engagement campaign turns PR disaster

Sherrilynne Starkie

The Ottawa-based public engagement consulting firm behind the disastrous ‘Our Voice, Our Hamilton’ campaign certainly learned a lot about high emotion, conflict and controversy within a few hours of its launch. On Monday, Day One of the $376,000 campaign, Dialogue Partners tweeted, “What is ‘ HSR ’?” Photo: tourismhamilton.com.

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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. What is social media market research? Social media market research is also: Affordable. With over 3.6

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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. It’s corn. ??

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Maximize Marketing ROI with the Most Important Advertising Metrics in B2B Marketing

Koka Sexton

By utilizing this data, you can develop campaigns that will yield the highest results and ensure that your time and resources are used efficiently and effectively. These include cost-per-lead, lead to opportunity conversion rate, and customer lifetime value. Campaign Performance.

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The ultimate social media listening guide for marketers

Sprout Social

You’ve heard the talk about social media listening but now you want to know how to put it to use. To review what social media listening is and how it’s different from monitoring, check out our thorough listening guide here. Advantages of social media listening. Create a brand analysis.

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

Sprout Social

Imagine my dismay when I launched my advertising career and learned that literally everything , from photography and package design to campaign headlines and website fonts, had to be discussed, debated, tested, revised and tested again before it ever reached the outside world. No need for research, testing or iteration—let’s just do this!