Sprout Social

JUNE 23, 2021

Imagine my dismay when I launched my advertising career and learned that literally everything , from photography and package design to campaign headlines and website fonts, had to be discussed, debated, tested, revised and tested again before it ever reached the outside world. No need for research, testing or iteration—let’s just do this!

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Sprout Social

MARCH 26, 2019

You’ve heard the talk about social media listening but now you want to know how to put it to use. To review what social media listening is and how it’s different from monitoring, check out our thorough listening guide here. Advantages of social media listening. Create a brand analysis.

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Likeable

JULY 29, 2020

Today we’re going to break it down at the most fundamental level, explore what it means for social media, and talk about how your brand can use it to improve performance. . Marketing is expensive, so before throwing your whole budget behind a campaign, you want it to be as effective as possible. What is A/B Testing? .

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Pixlee

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It takes more than just searching through stock photo libraries to find images of underrepresented groups. Instead, try these five tactics to make your next marketing campaign more diverse with inclusive content. Social media takeovers give brands a chance to show their personality. Work With Diverse Influencers.

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Sprout Social

MAY 18, 2021

For years, people pitted “traditional” and social media against one another. Some harbor the misconception that as social budgets increase, traditional media budgets have to decrease to balance the books. But the conversation shouldn’t be about social media vs. traditional media.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Furthermore, market research helps identify untapped opportunities, understand consumer needs, and tailor marketing campaigns for maximum impact. Focus on understanding their needs, preferences, and perceptions related to your products or services. Identify recurring themes or issues that may indicate gaps in your current approach.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 5, 2023

By utilizing this data, you can develop campaigns that will yield the highest results and ensure that your time and resources are used efficiently and effectively. Understanding how to qualify leads is integral to running successful B2B marketing campaigns. Campaign Performance. Engagement and Retention.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 1, 2023

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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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 9, 2023

Utilizing insights to develop targeted campaigns. Depending on the nature of your business, these may include market research reports, surveys, focus groups, or social media listening. You can also use search analytics, demographic data, and traditional media data to gain insight into your target customers.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2021

For 55% of consumers , that experience starts on social media. With the power of social media, marketing teams are now also the eyes, ears and heart of an organization. As we look to the future of marketing, it will be contingent on our ability to understand, leverage and, in many ways, start with social.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

AI automation powers AI marketing , which marketers, like you, can use to pivot your campaigns seamlessly based on real-time market indicators, empower your customer service teams and grow holistically. Take for example, Sprout’s AI-driven Social Media Listening solution.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have. People are the fuel behind social media, which is really just tools and tactics. Do they use social platforms and if so, how often and why?

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Social listening tools are some of the most important for any social media marketer to master. Back in the day, marketers had to dedicate substantial budgets to consumer and competitor research through surveys, focus groups, and market testing. Why do marketers need social listening tools?

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 5, 2013

These behaviors have redefined the way marketers now plan for online shoppers—causing a tremendous shift away from the way they used to plan their campaigns. Having a good product and a solid awareness campaign is no longer enough; now there’s a more informed and discerning customer base to cater to. Brand Credibility.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 28, 2023

Bonus: Download a free guide to learn how to use social media listening to boost sales and conversions today. What is dark social? Dark social is sharing content or mentioning brands on private social media channels, including through direct messaging, email, private groups, and more.

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Social Media Network Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Social Media lends itself to Customer Relation Management. Infact Social Media enables CRM to increase the brand and customer connect, get interactive and be more receptive. Unlike a strong corporate website, businesses should tap the boundless, less structured and uncontrolled world of social media.

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 26, 2018

Smart companies will use the insights they get from customers in a number of ways; from fixing holes in marketing campaigns to informing product messaging and even developing and co-creating new products. Make Use Of Social Media For Listening As Well As Marketing. Use Online Market Research. Send Out Email Surveys Or Polls.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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. Audience discovery is the use of social data to segment those who talk about your brand into their affinities. Is Sentiment Making Brands Stupid?

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Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

One of my goals for 2010 is to attend some events / seminars / conventions pertaining to blogging and social media, and today was a great start as I attended the Social Media Arizona event in Tempe. Social Media 101. Measuring Social Media Influence. Social Media Strategy.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 7, 2023

70% of millennials choose to buy from brands that exhibit diversity in their marketing campaigns. Wider Audience Reach When you integrate diversity into marketing campaigns, you cast a wider net over this vast sea of potential customers. If you’re speaking to only one group, you’re excluding countless others.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 12, 2010

ROI in social media is a luxury. The larger the brand, the more likely they are to use social media without concerning themselves with its dollar ROI, when goodwill for them, is priceless. For the most part, all they have is social media – so ROI is a matter of hope rather than measurable statistics.

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agora pulse

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If you’ve been working with social media for awhile now chances are you’ve come across the term social listening. You might have ever been asked by a client or boss to compile a social listening report or set up some conversation monitoring. Why brands use social listening.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Somewhere on social media, somebody is talking about a feature they wish your product offered. But you’ll never know what they’re saying – unless you employ social listening as part of your social media strategy. The importance of social listening for B2B marketing. Granular sentiment analysis.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Through social media, your newsletter or focus groups, ask what problems are at the top of your customers’ minds right now. Identify a campaign or theme. Is there a topical trend that you’re seeing or can you create a marketing campaign around some ideas? Here are just a few.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 2, 2014

It’s important to do the appropriate research, either with focus groups and surveys or by hiring an outside agency. This consistency and alignment of brand perception and experience is what lends it a reputation for being a credible, socially minded enterprise. We think we want to be X, so we know we need to change Y.”

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It helps you discover which TV shows people are watching, which social media challenges they’re trying and more. In fact, according to Joe Rice, who leads Twitter’s EMEA Data & Enterprise Solutions, “Twitter is the world’s largest focus group because at its core, Twitter is a consumer insights engine.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tune into conversations on social media early and often to understand what your customers are looking forward to, what they want to see from your brand, which markers of fall they enjoy and other insights to back your strategy. With social, the world’s largest and most open focus group, brands can see innovation differently.

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Audiense

JUNE 13, 2017

We were following the event closely on social media using the Audiense Insights platform to gain an understanding of the audience following the game. A few years ago, companies spent months researching their target audiences (with market surveys, focus groups, etc).

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Sprout Social

JULY 28, 2021

If you’re anything like we were, you might not have the time or budget for traditional qualitative research with focus groups. When we launched in 2010, our audience of decision makers were primarily mid-career social media professionals. Add the landscaping: Launch a brand campaign.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Project work empowers agencies to focus on what they do well, ensuring they deliver great work which goes a long way to build trust with clients. . In marketing, when one campaign finishes, the next begins. Sprout research that examined social media activity from November 1-23 in 2019 compared to 2020 revealed a staggering 1301.7%

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Using social insights and data points are the best ways to gain understanding about any and all parts of a campaign. Social data can be used to discover a brand’s voice, perform market and audience research, and determine how effective a future campaign will be. Forget Focus Groups. Are sales dropping?

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2010

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Journal post focused mostly on small businesses, and they will certainly be hardest hit by the push towards ads because of three factors: Lack of resources to create effective ads and optimize them for clicks so you ads convert to the goals you’ve set for your campaign. A virtual focus group for product development?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. Consistency and Leverage I didn’t start out looking to slam the Timberwolves’ social media program. Yep, that’ll get fans in the seats. Your Web site.

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Socialized

JANUARY 21, 2010

Domino’s Pizza’s new Pizza Turnaround campaign set off a wave of discussions in the social media world. Some of the quotes in the video include “Domino’s pizza crust is to me like cardboard,&# a sentiment expressed in a focus group but echoed by Domino’s executives.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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