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4 Ways E-commerce Can Drive Conversions From Green Initiatives

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Many marketers may not realize that catering specifically to this type of consumer can actually increase conversion rates, while maintaining your image as a green-friendly organization. On the flip side, retailers can easily highlight products on category pages to effectively call-out environmentally sound products. Personalization.

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In bull or bear markets, social media intelligence makes all the difference

Sprout Social

As organizations and technologies have become more sophisticated, we’ve been able to tap into the kinds of insights that wouldn’t have even been imaginable 15 years ago. You probably collect survey data from your customers, monitor product reviews and conduct focus groups. Every company should strive to be driven by data.

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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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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. Social media may still be new – and perhaps some approaches will be new to even the biggest organizations. More about this blog here.

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Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media

Adam Cohen

If your organization is large, chances are the percentage of customer-facing people is smaller. The approach was always one-sided, and the feedback loop could be carefully and slowly measured with focus groups and research. How many people at your company are trained, equipped and empowered to talk to customers?

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This Overlooked Marketing Strategy Can Help You Succeed in 2019

Pixlee

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. Maximize User-Generated Content. Empower Influencers.

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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

The research which their focus group discussions revealed was that Indian customers are not price sensitive, they are value sensitive. I write about Social Media and how it is being used as a conversational channel by individuals and organizations. layer and the nature of challenges being faced by organizations for its adoption.

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