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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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It's a Subscription Model Market, Facebook's Pivot to Professionals, X Targets Streaming: Monday Social Media News Roundup

Buffer Social

Meta's Subscription Model WSJ unveils Meta’s ad-free subscription pricing, impacting ad visibility on Instagram and Facebook – this may affect ad engagement rates. Underwhelming AI Shopping Campaigns Adweek shares marketers’ disappointment with Meta’s AI-fueled shopping campaigns. Facebook 1.

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How to Test Content Marketing and Digital Campaigns with Social Media

Pam Moore

The new always on, always connected, digital and social world provides amazing opportunities for smart digital brand marketers and business leaders to develop, test, and launch marketing programs, campaigns, products and services to market in far less time than days past. pre-test campaign themes before launch to best optimize for success?

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Is Brand Engagement Over on Facebook?

Janet Fouts

The news about Facebook lately has been pretty grim. Journal post focused mostly on small businesses, and they will certainly be hardest hit by the push towards ads because of three factors: Lack of resources to create effective ads and optimize them for clicks so you ads convert to the goals you’ve set for your campaign.

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Make Each Dollar Count: How to Maximize Marketing Budget in 2024

Oktopost

Furthermore, market research helps identify untapped opportunities, understand consumer needs, and tailor marketing campaigns for maximum impact. Focus on understanding their needs, preferences, and perceptions related to your products or services. Did your SEO program lead to a surge in web traffic?

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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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Brands: It’s not enough to be liked

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Facebook fan pages are much the same thing. The fan page becomes a focus group that can be mined for consumer insights, which can feed back to content creation, stage gate development and campaign tracking. When you understand your audience, you can tailor the message and campaign to generate more fan attention.

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