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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

Buzz Marketing for Technology

While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. It’s this level of insight that can spur improvements to product offerings, social media, in-store efforts, other offline experiences and overall marketing efforts.

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14 Social Listening Tools for Effortless Brand Monitoring

Hootsuite

Social listening tools are some of the most important for any social media marketer to master. Simply because of the vast amount of data they provide about your brand, your audience, and your competitors in real time. Social listening is the practice of using social tools to monitor what people are saying about your brand online.

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How to supercharge your marketing strategy with AI automation

Sprout Social

In the business world, AI automation equips companies to create impactful product and marketing strategies and enhance operations to increase productivity. AI automation has revolutionized how brands approach their business and marketing strategies.

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Can Ottawa’s NBL franchise recover from a branding disaster?

Sherrilynne Starkie

“We didn’t want to fall into the trap of having a great name and then focus group it to death to the point where you go, ‘Ah, it doesn’t work, let’s go with something safe.’ ”. So says Ken Evraire , the Ottawa branding consultant for Bytown Sports, according to an Ottawa Citizen story last week. It’s a tomahawk dunk.

Sports 281
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Home is where your brand is: A blueprint to build and maintain your brand

Sprout Social

Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. You have to build a structure around that room so that your customer, prospect or industry feels at home with your brand—even if they never use your product. Lay the foundation: Brand positioning. Build the walls: Integrate brand into your product story.

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Maximize Marketing ROI with the Most Important Advertising Metrics in B2B Marketing

Koka Sexton

Are you a business marketer looking to maximize your efforts? By understanding these metrics and analyzing them accurately, you can better determine which marketing efforts are working and which need to be improved. It is important to be aware of the metrics that are key to understanding and improving your marketing initiatives.

Metrics 140
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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

As marketers, it’s our job to know our target audience’s needs and preferences. It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight.

Research 144