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CEOs: If you’re not asking for a social media scorecard, you need to be

Sprout Social

Almost nine in 10 business leaders expect to use social data more to inform their decision making in the next three years, and 95% agree they must rely more heavily on social data to inform business decisions outside marketing. There is a massive amount of social media data available today, and businesses are eager to tap into it.

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In bull or bear markets, social media intelligence makes all the difference

Sprout Social

Every company should strive to be driven by data. Social media intelligence is the result of pulling these disparate points together into something measurable, whether you’re looking at volume, sentiment, content or demographics. You probably collect survey data from your customers, monitor product reviews and conduct focus groups.

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What’s your social listening strategy?

Janet Fouts

However, the trend in marketing is focused on big data, filtered and sifted, often to get the results that validate our company and products rather than to divine what the customer wants. Gathering information this way is slower, and requires a level of engagement that most brands eschew because it takes a lot of resources to do it well.

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Social Business Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside-In

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In traditional research, companies elicit feedback through periodic surveys and then enhance their findings through focus groups. Surveys are episodic and offer inauthentic information since the questions themselves alter the answers given, creating a distance between reality and what is articulated.

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The ultimate social media listening guide for marketers

Sprout Social

In it, we’ll review how you can use social media listening for your company or organization, as well as proving its value to the C-suite. These advantages span the entire company, from product development to customer service. More affordable : Coordinating focus groups and hiring marketing research agencies can be pricey.

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How to use social listening tools for business-wide success

Sprout Social

Social media is the world’s largest and most transparent focus group. Social listening lets you tap into that focus group, their conversations and the trends happening not just around your brand, but around your industry as a whole. Want more information first? Is sentiment trending up or down? What power!

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

Sprout Social

This information can help you determine the perceived threat of a crisis, making it foundational to your response strategy. If you’re only conducting biannual brand perception surveys, you could be missing meaningful shifts in audience sentiment. Think of it as a real-time focus group that provides honest, unfiltered feedback.

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