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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

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. What is social media market research? Social media market research is also: Affordable.

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How to Use Google My Business to Get More Customers

Hootsuite

Folks don’t Google, “delicious street tacos in Toronto” to read a blog about tacos… they do so because they’re hungry and want to hand over their hard-earned money to whoever has delicious street tacos in Toronto. BrightLocal a local marketing firm based in London conducted a few surveys that had some impressive takeaways.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. 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 is my favorite one to use for this.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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. Google Think is a constant source of rich insights and research. 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.

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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. Social media gives businesses on small budgets the ability to find out what people are saying about them (and others) in their industry, without paying large sums on market research. Research the best strategies for you and the plan accordingly.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals

Kikolani

18 Ways to Create Unique Content From Survey Results – Market surveys can be a rich source of unique, original content. What follows will be real examples of the content that can be created and a summary of 18 different types of content that can be generated from survey results. Blogging / Content. Business / Career.

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