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Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media

Adam Cohen

The approach was always one-sided, and the feedback loop could be carefully and slowly measured with focus groups and research. The retailer already tried the leap – they started with the prototypical Facebook page, a couple of Twitter accounts, some user generated content contests. Share this on Facebook.

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity SMM

Now, social media tools like Facebook and LinkedIn make it easy and (usually) non-awkward. I was recently friended on Facebook by a guy I went to high school with. Sure, surveys and focus groups still have their place, but you can learn a lot from what they’re saying in social media circles. Share this on Facebook.

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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

Marketers no longer have to rely on expensive, contrived focus groups; social media provides a vastly larger, richer, more real-world source of information. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn groups, community sites (e.g. Share this on Facebook. Share it on StumbleUpon. Provide customer support. Tweet This!

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Monitoring Your Company’s Brand Online with MutualMind

Bill Hartzer

Some people think they can just send out a couple of surveys , or do a few focus groups , and gather all the information they need about the public’s opinion about their products. You can set up an alert schedule that lets you know when your keywords are being used to find your web page across the web (even on Facebook).

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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. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) How People Respond to Your Online Content March 8, 2010.1:39 39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. of tweets, tweet type, conversation type.

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How To Promote Your Content Through Social Ads Effectively

Kikolani

Average Organic Reach On Facebook Pages. But your main focus has to be your website. Not someone else’s website: like Facebook, Twitter or Google+.). You can launch your ad campaigns on: Facebook: Using Facebook’s two advertising tools, Ads Manager or Facebook Power Editor (much more powerful).

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