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4 Benefits of Twitter for business

Sprout Social

Twitter is one of the top platforms to keep up with the latest trends and conversations. You may already be using Twitter on a daily basis to follow your favorite brands and take part in trending conversations. But what about using Twitter for your business? But what about using Twitter for your business?

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Can Ottawa’s NBL franchise recover from a branding disaster?

Sherrilynne Starkie

“We didn’t want to fall into the trap of having a great name and then focus group it to death to the point where you go, ‘Ah, it doesn’t work, let’s go with something safe.’ ”. Twitter and Facebook immediately exploded with accusations of racism because of the tomahawk’s place in Native American culture.

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How Manwich Could Use Twitter Without Even Being On It

Waxing UnLyrical

He said, “It was practical, funny, informative and useful. Well, recently Gini Dietrich invited Lindsay Bell to dinner via The Twitter. I mean, they chose “Manwich” for their Twitter handle. You don’t need to create a focus group; you have one already. Funny+useful=awesome.” You should.

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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. 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.

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How to Make Social Advocacy Part of Your Employees’ Daily Routine

Convince & Convert

What if there was a way for you to use this downtime to inform others and increase brand awareness? Before you introduce a formal or informal program, you need to answer the frequently asked question, “What’s in it for me?” What’s most important initially is that your employees are reading the information you’re posting.

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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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Social Media News: Twitter Insiders & Facebook 360

Sprout Social

Introducing Twitter Insiders. On Twitter, your resource squad just got bigger. This week the company introduced Twitter Insiders, a group of 12,000 Twitter users that will participate in research studies, help test creative ideas, provide honest input with the goal of making consumer and market research more timely and accessible.