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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. It’s this level of insight that can spur improvements to product offerings, social media, in-store efforts, other offline experiences and overall marketing efforts.

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

Sprout Social

But if you aren’t factoring in meaningful social media data, you will miss crucial insights. There is a massive amount of social media data available today, and businesses are eager to tap into it. Social is a 24/7 focus group where you can find unfiltered feedback about how your brand and products are perceived.

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Let’s Get Real… Does Your Content Convert?

Pam Moore

It's time to get real about the real return on the investment you make in content marketing. Is the money and time you are investing in content marketing helping you achieve your business goals? Is the time you invest researching your audience, learning the social networks and pounding out mounds of content fruitful?

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Why is the Customer Experience so Hard to Deliver On?

Direct Marketing Observations

I’ll tell you what happened and it’s really pretty simple; and most of you will slough it off as yet another social media justification post, but it’s true. What happened is social media happened. Social gave the customer a voice they never had. Customers should not have to compete with a brand.

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

Convince & Convert

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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An Introduction to Social Media for Business

Sprout Social

Despite the growing popularity, social media for business is still put on the back burner for a lot of organizations. However, social media can benefit businesses of any size. Social Media for Business by the Numbers. Being successful with social media for business comes down to creativity and engagement.

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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 helped them to build strategies for marketing shows before they aired, engaging with the audience while they aired, and measuring the response afterwards. 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.

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