Sprout Social

MARCH 1, 2023

Everyone—from marketers to social media users—loves creators. According to a Q1 2023 Sprout pulse survey, over two-thirds (79%) of marketers plan to spend up to 50% of their total social budget on content creators. Another 39% of marketers work with creators on a monthly basis. your potential customers) can come in handy.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

However, the trend in marketing is focused on big data, filtered and sifted, often to get the results that validate our company and products rather than to divine what the customer wants. Then we complain that consumers appear to say one thing in that research and do another. We did the research, so why aren’t they buying?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

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. What do people think about a certain topic or trend? But what about using Twitter for your business? And rightly so.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 23, 2021

No need for research, testing or iteration—let’s just do this! My romantic idea of innovation as something you could just recognize in your gut was out of sync with the tremendous amount of bet-hedging most brands needed to feel confident in a new product or marketing campaign. Get more out of research .

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 26, 2018

Smart companies will use the insights they get from customers in a number of ways; from fixing holes in marketing campaigns to informing product messaging and even developing and co-creating new products. To keep up with evolving market trends, make sure you take note of these foolproof tips. Use Online Market Research.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 17, 2021

Do you have burning market research questions? Need insight into an emerging trend? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, we have good news for you: You don’t need to schedule a focus group to get answers. But are marketers buying in? . Looking to prove a long-held belief about your audience?

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 23, 2018

Traditionally market research has been built on claimed data. This could be surveys, interviews or focus groups. These research methods- although can and have uncovered fascinating insights- are expensive, time-consuming and questionable in their accuracy.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 30, 2021

The agency reviewed a month’s worth of data and looked at which days trend with the highest volume of messages referring to leg day. Using this data, the manufacturer created a go-to-market strategy and messaging that capitalized on its product’s financial upside. The company viewed social media as a massive, unorganized focus group.

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Pixlee

APRIL 2, 2019

Crafting a marketing strategy that is both flexible enough to allow for agile shifts within the organization, while retaining rigidity that the whole team can align with isn’t an easy task. Your community should be the core focus of your marketing strategy in the year ahead. Ride the Wave of Emerging Trends.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For marketers it naturally raises several more questions: What do they say when I’m not in the room? The answers to these questions reach beyond brand and even marketing. Before the proliferation of social media, brands sought these insights through a variety of different tactics: surveys, focus-groups, shop-alongs.

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Socialmedia.biz

APRIL 17, 2019

It’s a marketing tool, instantly giving off a first impression. Go a step beyond and conduct some research. If you’ve established a target demographic, get a focus group to get some feedback on different colors or packaging ideas. Packaging as a marketing tool. It’s a huge part of your brand identity.

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Pam Moore

APRIL 6, 2019

The new always on, always connected, digital and social world provides amazing opportunities for smart digital brand marketers and business leaders to develop, test, and launch marketing programs, campaigns, products and services to market in far less time than days past. test visual marketing campaigns before launch?

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Pam Moore

JULY 26, 2017

Running your business, as well the marketing and content strategies that support your goals also require a framework and architecture. I know what you are thinking… “Pam this is just mumbo jumbo marketing talk… I don't need a content architecture like you do, as you are a geek and you love these things.”

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Sprout Social

MAY 18, 2021

Used together, the two strategies can empower marketers to create relevant content that engages their audience no matter which channel they find themselves on. Our research reveals 58% of business leaders anticipate social will be their primary communications channel by 2024. The influence of social extends beyond marketing.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 26, 2023

Ask any marketer what they wish their superpower was, and they would tell you: “To read minds.” To know exactly what people want is a marketer’s dream. That’s why marketers regularly conduct market research, investigating industry trends, gathering feedback, and surveying focus groups to try and glean whatever information they can.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Social media is the world’s largest and most transparent focus group. Social listening lets you tap into that focus group, their conversations and the trends happening not just around your brand, but around your industry as a whole. Is sentiment trending up or down? What power! Are users running into bugs?

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Hootsuite

JUNE 28, 2023

Source: Hootsuite’s Digital Trends report 2. Source: Morning Consult Great news for social media marketers, but what if your target audience isn’t Gen Z? People join private Facebook Groups or forums to meet and talk with other like-minded people. What about in 2023? A lot of that talk centers around advice. What are dark posts?

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Keyhole.co

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The best way to get to know your audience is with thorough research. Why not run a focus group and talk to followers directly? Research the latest trends, and get to know the kinds of content that your audience responds to. Jumping on the latest trend can appear opportunistic.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 7, 2022

Commissioning a five-figure biannual brand perception survey—and spending multiple months on data collection and analysis—means the research you conduct will always be stale. LinkedIn Brand Lift Surveys help marketers measure several brand awareness metrics as they run ads on the platform. Survey questions can vary based on your goals.

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The tried and true marketing and product development standard is doing consumer insight surveys. The primary benefits are being able to focus on specific information and target questions to specific audiences. A way to use that customer feedback as consumer insight is treating it as a continuation of market testing a product.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Voice of the customer is a market research term for the process of collecting, analyzing and implementing customer feedback data. Social listening is the process of analyzing the conversations and trends happening around not just your brand, but also your industry as a whole.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The “It’s Corn” viral trend became a cultural touchstone for friends and strangers alike. Social gives you the opportunity to get insightful feedback on your product or service all while building a community that can further amplify your digital marketing without having to spend large advertising budgets.”. Social media can bring joy.

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2013

Youtility is marketing upside down. Instead of marketing that’s needed by companies, Youtility is marketing that’s wanted by customers. Google Trends. Google Trends enables you to compare search volume patterns across location and time frame, and provides related search terms and comparative volume for them.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The answer lies in marketing diversity. 70% of millennials choose to buy from brands that exhibit diversity in their marketing campaigns. Dive in, and I’ll show you the incredible benefits of diversity marketing and insights into unlocking the vast treasures of a multicultural market. What Is Marketing Diversity?

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We’ve been hearing for a while that lengthy retainers are being replaced with shorter, project work , and it’s no surprise that COVID-19 has thrown this trend into overdrive. Project work empowers agencies to focus on what they do well, ensuring they deliver great work which goes a long way to build trust with clients. .

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Diva Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

This is the second part of my interview series with Joel Rubins on , Chief Research Officer at ARF, Advertising Research Foundation. The ARF mission is to improve the practice of advertising, marketing and media research in pursuit of more effective marketing and advertising communications.

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Pam Moore

JULY 11, 2018

It takes hard work, research, knowledge of people, tools, design, best practices and more. Good marketers know how to do these things with their eyes closed. What markets do you serve? Align your social media and marketing efforts to your goals. Know where and how you are positioned in the market. Don't do it!

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 20, 2021

Knowing your audience is a lesson from effective marketing 101. Businesses can better market and sell their product or service when they have a clear understanding of customers’ pain points, business needs, goals, constraints and concerns. This is why B2B market research is critical. Refine their offerings.

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Pam Moore

APRIL 1, 2020

It takes hard work, research, knowledge of people, tools, design, best practices and more. Good marketers know how to do these things with their eyes closed. What markets do you serve? Align your social media and marketing efforts to your goals. Know where and how you are positioned in the market. Don't do it!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 9, 2015

The early adopters of social listening and analytics, who first saw its value, were all communications specialists and early pioneers in digital marketing. In a global market, we analyze 187 languages, filter conversations 50 ways, and access historical data which we categorize and curate. Along with speed comes integration.

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Pam Moore

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Or maybe you are trying to stomp those random acts of marketing, yet you just haven't cracked that conversion nut? Unfortunately many marketers confuse social buzz with social bucks. Unfortunately many marketers confuse social buzz with social bucks. Free Content Marketing Training Webinar – Here is What you will learn: .

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 27, 2015

Depending on the influencer, she or he may be on the leading edge of what is happening in your market or industry. Research Your Market, in Realtime. Don’t get me wrong, I still believe there is a place for focus groups. Get more content like this, plus the very BEST marketing education, totally free.

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be it Web Technologies, technology related trends, Mobiles, Hacking, Blogging, Vlogs, Social Media etc. Sounds a great proposition, especially when recession is on upward swing & markets are hitting rock bottom. that interests the people. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

The keynote presentation by Greg Chapman , President of Sitewire covered ways to measure social media influence across multiple channels using some advertising research methods that helped measure how catalog advertising affected customer purchasing. 2010 SEO Trends. Social Media Strategy. The food was improved.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 2, 2019

Which is exactly why today we’re covering 5 data-backed social media trends you need to know to make 2019 your best year yet with social media marketing. 5 data-backed social media trends you need to know for 2019. Trend 1: In-the-moment content will win out over highly-produced content. Let’s dive in!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 18, 2012

One, “research” was released by “news organizations” Associated Press and I think it was CNBC if I recall correctly, that purported to show that 46 percent of Americans believe that Facebook is a fad. Jay : I mean it’s a focus group of one at that point, is it not?

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Audiense

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In an age when industries can seemingly pivot on a dime, keeping one eye on digital marketing trends to avoid getting caught out is a no brainer. Lucy Clarke , marketing director, Social Chain. From: Business from the buzz: Social Chain looks beyond trending ). As a researcher, I care about behaviours.

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