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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

While focus groups are helpful to reference at the start of new product or campaign development, they’re less useful for gathering customer feedback once said post-launch. To stay on top of the latest trends and maintain a more accurate pulse on your audience, you need to incorporate social media market research into your strategy.

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The best brand marketing we’ve seen on social media in the last 5 years

Sprout Social

Thanks to social media, the goals of brand marketers are within reach. Having a social presence is a top priority. Nearly one in two businesses consider social media their primary channel for external communication while 58% anticipate it becoming their primary channel in the future. What is brand marketing?

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6 Savvy Tips for Social Media Monitoring

Harp Interactive

In the world of social media marketing, we often hear of the importance of monitoring as the first actionable item. Although social media monitoring has numerous benefits to a businesses, both large and small, it may be unclear as to how to use monitoring. Free Social Media Monitoring Tools.

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How to Use Content Pillars for Your Social Media Strategy

Later

Have you ever struggled to create a social media post? On the days when you’re feeling uninspired, having content pillars to reference can be a huge help! . Using content pillars for social media is a great way to stay organized, be consistent, and create high-quality content your audience will love. .

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25 brands every social media manager should follow on social

Unmetric

Social media is a whole new ball game for brands. And yet, there are some brands out there that are impressively strong at social. What secret social sauce do they use? Denny’s is yet another fast food chain that’s great at social. What is it with fast food chains and being good at social? Merriam-Webster.

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How Ford Uses Social Media [VIDEO]

Social Media Marketing

At the risk of giving away too much of what we do (not really - everything we do in social media is in the public, so you just need to pay attention or search around to find out), I'd like to share with you a little bit about Ford Motor Company's approach to social media. Tags: Ford Video social media.

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5 tools that make life easier

Josh S Peters

Though instead of a crack pipe or heroin spoon I use Evernote, Xobni, WiseStamp, Delicious, and Bitly. Another nice bonus is that you can just copy and paste the social icons from your WiseStamp signature into your Outlook signature and they don’t loose any functionality. If it does them you need to get familiar with Delicious.

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