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How to Launch a Product Without a Press Release

Brandpoint

Details of your product may be better included in an FAQ page where people who are closer to the purchase stage might browse for more information. Consult your product development team to see if they conducted product testing focus groups. How will it solve one of the user’s challenges? How-to content.

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

Convince & Convert

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer. Have them document EVERY question they receive.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

But I wasn’t the only person doing this, and by no means was I doing it any more than anybody else in the community. There were 20-30 of us posting regularly to make the community great and countless others lurking through the threads.

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

Convince & Convert

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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

Convince & Convert

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Before crowdsourcing there were focus groups, which never really worked too well. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.

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

Convince & Convert

Awareness, recall, positive sentiment, “engagement&# and buzz aren’t enough to overcome this mercenary reality. Buzzing or creating awareness we think generate incremental sales is worthless. Yes, many use things like focus groups, gut instinct (entrepreneurs are notorious for this!),

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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

Convince & Convert

link] (via @jaybaer @jeffhurt) Morgan Stewart I was the primary researcher at ExactTarget and sat in on all the focus groups. In interviews and focus groups we were talking about “brands&# and when they gave examples, it was clear they were thinking about big B2C brands.

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