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Make Each Dollar Count: How to Maximize Marketing Budget in 2024

Oktopost

They’re expected to make every marketing dollar count and deliver maximum impact on a limited budget. To maximize marketing impact on a limited budget, CMOs need to adopt a strategic approach that analyzes past results, identifies gaps, and enables data-driven decisions on where to allocate resources.

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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 Five: The night that YouTube went dark

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news includes the YouTube outage, a religious stance on women and social media, Coke’s misstep in New Zealand, Snapchat’s new original programming and Google’s shopping insights. It’s news to keep marketing and communications professionals ahead of the curve. — SS.

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Words and Pictures – the Batman and Robin of Content Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. They’ve recently started offering improv focus groups to get a more real reaction to what people are thinking. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing? Second City knows this.

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Business Intelligence Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Interactive Marketing Internet Search SEO Strategy User Generated Content. These behaviors have redefined the way marketers now plan for online shoppers—causing a tremendous shift away from the way they used to plan their campaigns.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

But analytics expert Steve Lamar recently conducted an experiment to see what Google Analytics classifies as dark social. website.com/facebook-messenger” for Facebook Messenger) to track where referrals came from, even if Google Analytics couldn’t tell. Your direct traffic in Google Analytics is a good estimate. dark social.

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Listen Don’t Ask

Mindjumpers

Traditionally market research has been built on claimed data. This could be surveys, interviews or focus groups. more likely to ask Google if their son is a genius than their daughter, and inversely 2x more likely to ask if their daughter is overweight than their son.