Janet Fouts

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What’s your social listening strategy?

Janet Fouts

However, the trend in marketing is focused on big data, filtered and sifted, often to get the results that validate our company and products rather than to divine what the customer wants. Scraping the web, surveys, competitive research, all give us loads of data, but is it the right data, and how do we parse that data for the truth?

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Social Media Listening – It’s About Emotions

Janet Fouts

But much of the research we do when marketing products and services is focused on big data, filtered and sifted, often to get the results we are looking for rather than to divine what the customer wants. Data from research tools like these are particularly flawed. We think we’ve got the best possible answer to the problem.

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CEOs-Roll Up Your Social Media Sleeves

Janet Fouts

There’s also data to support this assertion. Brandfog , a marketing consultancy, published a survey of employees that found engaged CEOs both add value to a brand’s visibility and galvanize the work force: The survey found that social engaged CEOs are either very effective or somewhat effective at: Raising a brand’s profile (87.5%).

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Just get us the Millennials! #Marketing #Fail

Janet Fouts

This data is based on surveys, but in my experience working with millennials they are a diverse group and generalizations don’t always fit. Mobile is the #1 platform of choice and apps like Amazon, Groupon and Shop Kick are top hits. They’re social.

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Quitting or not, here’s what you can do to be safer with your personal info on #Facebook

Janet Fouts

Then, Cambridge Analytica sold that data to various entities, including the GOP and the Trump campaign. The data is out there already, and in my case, part of my business and the business of my clients still relies on Facebook for at least some of their marketing. Um… DUH). Personally, I think that’s a bit extreme.