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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. To stay on top of the latest trends and maintain a more accurate pulse on your audience, you need to incorporate social media market research into your strategy.

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

Sprout Social

When I think about data, I inevitably think about social media. That might be because I spend my days working with our clients’ executives to capture the voice of their customer, but I think it’s because social media intelligence is the next data frontier. billion people are on social. Think about it: 4.62

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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. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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Co-creation: Why creators should be part of your product development team

Sprout Social

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. Enter creator Christina Najarr, better known as Tinx on social media.

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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. Social media provides opportunities for two-way and multi-way conversation, which requires discipline, research, scale and transparency. Why do you think companies struggle with social media?

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Brands: It’s not enough to be liked

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Imagine a company that has upscale retail locations around the United States receiving tens of thousands of customer visits. The fan page becomes a focus group that can be mined for consumer insights, which can feed back to content creation, stage gate development and campaign tracking. What’s the point of the storefront?

Brands 275
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How to use voice of customer data to improve your customer relationships

Sprout Social

This is a common collection method for online retailers. Customer behavior analyses get added to social media personas , product feedback reviews become incorporated into new products and customer service quality checks smooth out friction in the service process. Social listening & social media.

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