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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

Buzz Marketing for Technology

While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. So how are websites replicating—and advancing—the traditional focus group? We look at four ways that your website can replace focus groups: 1.

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What is Market Research?

Idaconcpts

Market research supports marketing in creating a deeper understanding of the marketplace, competitive environment, organization’s image and competencies, and customer needs and wants. The main types of qualitative research are focus groups (e.g. Busy, time-pressed high-level executives prefer this approach to focus groups.

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CEOs: If you’re not asking for a social media scorecard, you need to be

Sprout Social

Social is a 24/7 focus group where you can find unfiltered feedback about how your brand and products are perceived. Track competitor performance Today, new competition emerges faster than ever, brands are up against legacy companies and D2C players alike, and you must compete for attention with companies far beyond your industry.

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Why is the Customer Experience so Hard to Deliver On?

Direct Marketing Observations

It’s 2015 and companies left and right keep talking about their new mandate of delivering on a quality customer experience. You might want to say this out loud: “Companies just now, are starting to actually care and do something about me, the customer.” You can write 1000 words diatribes praising or bashing a company.

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[INTERVIEW] How TV producers are bridging the gap between social data, risk, and creativity (and how you can too)

Audiense

I’ve been working with the entertainment company Anonymous Content (Mr. But I don’t always know what they’re really like or how to portray them accurately, and a focus group wouldn’t necessarily give me a broad, accurate picture. How does social data analysis differ from conducting focus groups with those audiences?

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An Introduction to Social Media for Business

Sprout Social

Many small- and medium-sized companies see growth in brand awareness, site traffic, shares and customer engagement when there’s a plan in place. Social media allows smaller companies to compete against some of the larger businesses to reach more customers. 78% of companies now say they have dedicated social media teams.

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How To Promote Your Content Through Social Ads Effectively

Kikolani

Besides that, and more importantly, you need to own a Facebook page, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn company page and a Pinterest business page in order for you to advertise on those social platforms. You don’t want to go overboard on this, but you also need to have enough budget available to compete against other players.

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