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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

Wouldn’t you want to leverage that insight to avoid a misdirection in using social media? Tried and True Methods to Solicit Customer Feedback Industries are changing rapidly, and the need to conduct focus groups, surveys and gather feedback is too. 3. “We’ve got data!

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Monitoring Your Company’s Brand Online with MutualMind

Bill Hartzer

Some people think they can just send out a couple of surveys , or do a few focus groups , and gather all the information they need about the public’s opinion about their products. MutualMind does a great job of gathering statistics from several social media sources.

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[INTERVIEW] How TV producers are bridging the gap between social data, risk, and creativity (and how you can too)

Audiense

Decision makers will want to minimise this risk by consulting reliable statistics, research, and advice as early in the process as possible. But I don’t always know what they’re really like or how to portray them accurately, and a focus group wouldn’t necessarily give me a broad, accurate picture.

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Facebook for Marketing Research: Political Polls #auspol

Laurel Papworth

I read an article on Wendy Harmer’s Hoopla Polls Fake Story by @gabriellechan that got me thinking about Nielsen polls, sentiment analysis and focus groups. And how totally outdated, outmoded and antique they seem compared to Big Data of social media. Behavioural Statistics is THE job of the future and of Big Data.

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An Introduction to Social Media for Business

Sprout Social

Just in case you’re not completely sold on social–or have to convince higher-ups it’s worth it–here are some statistics that make it more than evident that social media is the way to go: 63% of millennials say they stay updated on brands through social networks. The New Players in Social Media.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I think the same is true for the bevy of social tools. Social networking has hit a tipping point, but the channels will continue to ebb and flow. I’m not convinced there is a lot of evidence in BUSINESS communities that people come to those communities for social networking (like Facebook / MySpace).

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Quora Marketing Guide 101: How to Promote Your Brand on Quora the Right Way

Webbiquity SMM

Quora is, of course, a social question-and-answer website launched in 2010. It’s a part search engine and part social networking site that can help you build a dedicated and loyal online following. This is much more effective than trying to guess what people want, and far less expensive than running focus groups.

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