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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

As marketers, it’s our job to know our target audience’s needs and preferences. It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight.

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Top 10 Influencer Marketing Campaigns

Social Media Strategies Summit

Influencer marketing has always been one of the most effective strategies for reaching new audiences. Coca-Cola Targets Can Thieves When Coca-Cola ’s marketing partners searched for a way to promote Coke Zero Sugar, they discovered that 40% of people admit to taking someone else’s food or drink.

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Social Media Marketing Goals and How To Achieve Them — Five Tips

Webbiquity SMM

Goal-setting is the foundation of any successful social media (or any other type of) marketing campaign. Having clarity on marketing goals is an important first step, but creating a realistic plan for achieving them is essential. These are among the key questions for marketers to ask when determining how best to reach their goals.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

These are usually the same people who say something like, “We don’t sell anything online” when I ask them about their internet marketing strategy. Can you come up with a better Inbound Marketing Haiku ?). ” isn’t going to happen without a comprehensive and coordinated internet marketing strategy.

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Do Brand Characters Help or Hurt Visual Content Marketing on Facebook?

Convince & Convert

Marketers and advertisers have relied for decades on brand characters like Tony the Tiger and Mr. Clean to build brand trust and awareness through print, TV and packaging. Today, brand marketers use these same characters in visual content on Facebook in an effort to engage their target audience. Unloved Brand Characters on Facebook.

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YouTube At A Crossroads: Social Media Network or Streaming Service?

Ignite Social Media

As our teams dove into Q4 research at the beginning of the year, we notice that our data partner, GWI (formerly known as GlobalWebIndex), recently moved YouTube out of the ‘social media network’ category and into the ‘streaming service’ category. Creator-Centric Platform. YouTube Premium. At only $11.99

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The ‘Creative Desert’: Brainstorming Social Content Ideas During Slow Days

Social Media Strategies Summit

Marketers spend up to 20 hours a month on content ideation. First off, our panel considered just why content ideation plays such a vital role in the life of a social media marketer. Rachel Karten echoes Mitchell’s sentiment that for social media marketers, brainstorming isn’t only about coming up with off-the-cuff post ideas.

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