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Brands: It’s not enough to be liked

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Imagine a company that has upscale retail locations around the United States receiving tens of thousands of customer visits. 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. What’s the point of the storefront?

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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. Wouldn’t you want to leverage that insight to avoid a misdirection in using social media? More about this blog here.

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

Buzz Marketing for Technology

According to a Bazaarvoice study, 80% of online reviews on a given retail site are written by the top 20% of the site’s most committed and loyal customers. Try adding a YouTube channel to your social media arsenal. 4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on.

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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

The research which their focus group discussions revealed was that Indian customers are not price sensitive, they are value sensitive. & every month, subscribers are kept abreast with the latest offers through monthly catalogue. There website called [link] is full of such great offers.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Here’s a crazy one: An online hardware goods retailer that accidentally left their snow shovel AdWords (paid search) campaign running in spring months. Yes, many use things like focus groups, gut instinct (entrepreneurs are notorious for this!), to create confidence that often overlooks the obvious.