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

Sprout Social

But as social media’s influence moves from marketing departments to other business functions, it might be time to think about creators in the same light. Obviously, creators won’t ever man your customer care lines, but their in-depth knowledge of their communities (a.k.a. your potential customers) can come in handy.

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Can Ottawa’s NBL franchise recover from a branding disaster?

Sherrilynne Starkie

“We didn’t want to fall into the trap of having a great name and then focus group it to death to the point where you go, ‘Ah, it doesn’t work, let’s go with something safe.’ ”. Sports team names are at the very core of any team’s personality and the culture of their community of supporters, not to mention their marketing brand.

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Five Ways to Make Your Next Marketing Campaign More Diverse

Pixlee

Work With Diverse Influencers. One of the best ways to generate authentic UGC is through influencer marketing For marketers who want to collect and share more diverse content, pursuing relationships with influencers who represent and engage with a wide range of communities, backgrounds, and voices is a great place to start.

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14 Social Listening Tools for Effortless Brand Monitoring

Hootsuite

Back in the day, marketers had to dedicate substantial budgets to consumer and competitor research through surveys, focus groups, and market testing. Or just keep an eye on the conversation to understand the social communities where people talk about your brand. Mentionlytics also identifies the top influencers in your niche.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

Source: GWI When it comes to social selling, 43% of Gen Z ranks influencer recommendations as highly relevant to their decision-making process, whereas only 18% of Gen X and 9% of Boomers say the same. Create your own dark social community Brand-run private communities take time and effort to manage but when done right, can provide huge ROI.

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Increase your ROI: Let the data do the work

Audiense

However, there are a few qualitative factors that could influence ROI: human resources, time invested, intangible benefits, etc. Historically, market research has been based on the use of traditional methods that required large investments of time and money to carry out surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc. Market Research.

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To see marketing differently, we need to turn the spotlight on social

Sprout Social

But as digital transformation takes hold, more marketing leaders will find their departments responsible for not just new customer acquisition, but also influencing retention and growth, customer service and product development. We hosted a digital event knowing our customers needed community and a network of support.

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