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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

Wouldn’t you want to leverage that insight to avoid a misdirection in using social media? Tried and True Methods to Solicit Customer Feedback Industries are changing rapidly, and the need to conduct focus groups, surveys and gather feedback is too. The CMO will also want to know the data. 3. “We’ve got data!

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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.

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Facebook for Marketing Research: Political Polls #auspol

Laurel Papworth

I read an article on Wendy Harmer’s Hoopla Polls Fake Story by @gabriellechan that got me thinking about Nielsen polls, sentiment analysis and focus groups. And how totally outdated, outmoded and antique they seem compared to Big Data of social media. Behavioural Statistics is THE job of the future and of Big Data.

Research 107
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Quora Marketing Guide 101: How to Promote Your Brand on Quora the Right Way

Webbiquity SMM

Quora is, of course, a social question-and-answer website launched in 2010. It’s a part search engine and part social networking site that can help you build a dedicated and loyal online following. It hosts millions of questions, thousands of active communities (similar to mini forums), and has a highly engaged audience.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? So, I peeked at YouTube.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Ask your customers directly.