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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

And annual surveys reveal little about what current events or trending topics are most relevant among consumers right now. Social media is much cheaper than surveys or focus groups, which can cost thousands of dollars depending on the size and complexity of your research panel. It was delicious and pretty idiot proof.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

Google+, Pinterest and Yelp also have made strides since the last year's survey from Constant Contact. As always, all of the links above are available on Delicious ; and this week, I've added my This Week in Social Media Magazine on Flipboard. Commentary It's not always easy to get your brand loved on some sites like Reddit.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

A realtime social search engine that pulls current and recent results for any term from Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg and Delicious. sweepstakes, contests and surveys) and publish them to multiple social networks and their own website. Share this on Reddit. Social and Alternative Search Engines. Other Cool Web Tools.

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How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And for a bonus : SEOmoz is conducting a search engine marketing survey. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! . * Disclosure: This guest post was written by Evan Britton, founder of Sency. Answers Yahoo!