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

Sprout Social

Executives need contextualized social media metrics like sentiment analysis, customer satisfaction and competitor benchmarks to make informed decisions. Social is a 24/7 focus group where you can find unfiltered feedback about how your brand and products are perceived. So how can you make sense of it all?

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How to master the 3 pillars of brand reputation management

Sprout Social

Social media is the world’s largest focus group. Use it to track dips and spikes in brand sentiment to better understand what’s happening and why. Insights from social can reveal the strength of a competing brand’s customer loyalty and weaknesses in their offerings. Listening data. Competitor data.

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How to Use Retail Bots for Sales and Customer Service

Hootsuite

It’s difficult for small businesses trying to compete with industry giants and their huge customer service teams. Monitor brand sentiment. Sentiment analysis consists of three categories: positive, negative, and neutral. Relieve your customer service team.

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Research Methods 'Beyond Google' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Buzz Marketing for Technology

It’s not necessarily an issue of laziness, perhaps, but one of exposure to a set of research practices and a mindset that encourages critical thinking about competing online sources. ” Still, she pointed out, “a lot of my students really [only] scratch the surface with the type of research they’re doing.”

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Social Listening: Best Practices For Growing Businesses

Keyhole.co

62% of customers say competent service reps play a huge role in a happy customer experience. Service reps can’t be competent if they aren’t fed the right information by relevant departments. A few things to track: Sentiment: How many mentions about your brand are favourable or otherwise. You need to track metrics that matter.

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