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Four Effective Ways Brands can Create Digital Communities in 2020

Pixlee

Digital brand communities were popular before 2020, but they’re gaining a more informal and authentic edge in 2020. This is why creating a digital community around your brand is now an essential approach in maintaining and growing your online presence, generating more leads, and growing your revenue. The key here is consistency.

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

Hootsuite

The results, first published on SparkToro, are pretty surprising. In an era when you can watch 700 review videos for a product on YouTube, we still turn to people we consider experts — friends, family, or niche communities — for purchasing advice. Hold tight: I cover what UTMs are and how to create them later.) #1 What are dark posts?

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How Glossier Hacked its Way to a Billion Dollar Valuation

Pixlee

Glossier has built their entire model on succeeding through community-driven product development. As detailed in the Glossier Playbook , Glossier kept a laser focus on their community at their core for growth. Community Building. million Instagram followers (which is just one facet of their engaged community).

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said. Popularity: 17% [ ?

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Drive authentic connection at scale with a sophisticated listening solution

Sprout Social

Before the proliferation of social media, brands sought these insights through a variety of different tactics: surveys, focus-groups, shop-alongs. But social—unlike most communication channels— offers an equally, if not more effective solution. They provide insights that can inform an entire business strategy.

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Customer Advocacy Marketing: What Is it and How Does it Work?

Oktopost

This can be anything from resharing the content that you’ve published, to giving a full testimonial about their phenomenal experience with your brand, products, or services. Build Communities Through Advocacy Marketing: Advocacy marketing implies that the content created by your organization needs to be gripping and original.