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Why it’s time to break up with your biannual brand survey

Sprout Social

Maybe you think you’re in a happy relationship with your current brand survey routine. 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. What is a brand survey? But what about the rest of the year?

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How to supercharge your marketing strategy with AI automation

Sprout Social

Step 1: Data collection Data is collected from different sources such as social networks, customer forums, news articles and survey responses. Here’s a brief look at what happens behind the scenes in an AI automation process and how data engineers build a model.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

Welcome to dark social. Don’t worry, dark social isn’t the same as the notorious “dark web” trying to lure you into evil. Dark social is the oldest social network in action: private, untraceable human-to-human communication. What are dark social strategies?

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15 Simple Ways to Research Your Target Customer for FREE [podcast + worksheets]

Pam Moore

My agency, Marketing Nutz helps businesses of all sizes research their audience, prioritize their market segments and buyer personas for incredible results with digital, content and social media marketing. Tips to conduct focus groups on little or not budget. Importance of social listening to learn about your customer.

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity SMM

Social media makes it easy to connect with new people who share your interests…anywhere on earth. Before social networks (and even more so before email became widespread), it was difficult to make and maintain acquaintances with professional peers or people with similar interests in other parts of the country, much less the world.

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Increase your ROI: Let the data do the work

Audiense

Historically, market research has been based on the use of traditional methods that required large investments of time and money to carry out surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc. Today, we have one of the most powerful data sources at our fingertips: social data.

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Social Media News: Twitter Insiders & Facebook 360

Sprout Social

This week, two major social networks launched some exciting new features. That’s why we’ve decided to just jump right in and explain what they mean for social media managers. Introducing Twitter Insiders. On Twitter, your resource squad just got bigger. Gemma Proctor Research Manager at Twitter UK @gemmaproc.