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

Sprout Social

After all, an unfiltered comment section on a creator video will give you far better insight into your consumer than any formal survey or focus group ever could. 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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Brands: It’s not enough to be liked

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Imagine a company that has upscale retail locations around the United States receiving tens of thousands of customer visits. 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. What’s the point of the storefront?

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. blog comments powered by Disqus Connect About Adam Adam is a partner at the digital agency Rosetta, leading the Social Media practice.

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Don’t be nervous about opening up your site to user comments and feedback, because honestly…most reviews are good reviews. According to a Bazaarvoice study, 80% of online reviews on a given retail site are written by the top 20% of the site’s most committed and loyal customers. Are You Making These Costly Holiday Mobile Mistakes?

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Social Media Idea Management: An intellectual capital hustle?

Diva Marketing Blog

No girlfriend, it's not a focus group. Maybe this is the social media version of a focus group but with less honesty and less transparency. Although based on the user group experience this has a stronger social media overlay. Or maybe it is. It's called IdeaXYZ or IdeaFireStorm or My(your brand) or ShareYourIdeas.

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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

Jump to Comments Image via Wikipedia It is that time of the year when some of the brightest minds gather to discuss about technology, business, startups and much more. The research which their focus group discussions revealed was that Indian customers are not price sensitive, they are value sensitive.

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