Adam Cohen

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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. Knowing Customer Behaviors What internal group knows more about your customer’s behaviors and acts?

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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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