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Co-creation: Why creators should be part of your product development team

Sprout Social

Obviously, creators won’t ever man your customer care lines, but their in-depth knowledge of their communities (a.k.a. After all, an unfiltered comment section on a creator video will give you far better insight into your consumer than any formal survey or focus group ever could. your potential customers) can come in handy.

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

Hootsuite

In an era when you can watch 700 review videos for a product on YouTube, we still turn to people we consider experts — friends, family, or niche communities — for purchasing advice. Social listening finds these valuable customer data opportunities to improve your messaging, and brand champions to approach for potential collaborations.

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Customer Advocacy Marketing: What Is it and How Does it Work?

Oktopost

Recall the experiences you’ve had with these companies and why they motivated you to tell others about them. An advocacy marketing strategy involves mobilizing and engaging a company’s customers, staff, and other partners to promote products and services. Advocacy programs are primarily marketing strategies.

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To see marketing differently, we need to turn the spotlight on social

Sprout Social

We hosted a digital event knowing our customers needed community and a network of support. When you have hundreds, thousands or millions of customers, one of the only ways to capture customer insights and actionable feedback at scale is through social—the largest real-time focus group. The keys to unlocking the power of social.

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How to define and share your core brand values effectively

Sprout Social

Leading to an ever-increasing emphasis on how corporations reflect these values when communicating with their audiences. With a documented brand strategy that incorporates a set of core values, companies are better positioned to engage with their audience on a regular basis as well as respond to unexpected events when they inevitably occur.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. This is a big complement. I wish that could be enough said.

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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. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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