Adam Cohen

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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. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media

Adam Cohen

How many people at your company are trained, equipped and empowered to talk to customers? How many customers does your company have? No doubt the numbers stack up in a heavy ratio against people inside the company that are trained to engage them. The third is a consumer goods company. How about potential customers?

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Update Your Segmentation Model With Social Data Before It’s Too Late

Adam Cohen

This past week Pew Research released their 2014 Social Media Update. We’ve passed the point where social media is a revolution, and chances are most companies have some sort of social effort underway. Maybe I’m just stating the obvious, and maybe companies have already started efforts to figure this out.

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Update Your Segmentation Model With Social Data Before It’s Too Late

Adam Cohen

This past week Pew Research released their 2014 Social Media Update. We’ve passed the point where social media is a revolution, and chances are most companies have some sort of social effort underway. Maybe I’m just stating the obvious, and maybe companies have already started efforts to figure this out.

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Social Media Does Not Exist

Adam Cohen

MarketingSherpa recently published a study of companies that are integrating social media tactics with offline and online marketing tactics. When companies start to realize these synergies, they will be able to achieve a lot more than focusing on pure social media tactics alone. Frankly, well put. Photo credit: niemster via Flickr.

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The Digital Five Tool Player

Adam Cohen

As the convergence of different marketing tactics takes root in agencies, vendors and marketing departments of companies of all sizes, I’ve started to think about what it takes to ultimately be a “ five tool player &# in the digital space. It’s more than just market research , it’s the practical application of it.

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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

I’m honored to be included among company like this, and from participating in prior sessions I’m looking forward to hearing from some passionate folks. If I name dropped them all, it would actually like correlate to a good portion of my RSS feeds , and the weekly chat is a way to interact and answer some questions real-time.