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9 Tools for Better Market Research

BenchmarkONE

With the growing demand for personalization, it’s never been more important to leverage market research in your marketing efforts. But where do you start with your research process? The good news is that the harrowing process of conducting market research is about to get way easier for you. Types of Market Research.

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Is social media all the market research you need?

Biznology

Market research rocks! In the fast-paced world we live in, carefully constructed research that focuses on identifying customer underlying needs and enables segmentation has largely fallen out of favor. It is all about understanding customers and their wants, needs and values. Insights can come from online tools and communities.

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Market Research: The First Step to a Lead Generation Strategy; Interview with Carolyn Frith

NuSpark Consulting

Lost in all the buzz on social media and lead generation is the importance of market research as the seeds to a content marketing strategy. Below is an interview I recently conducted with our Research Strategist, Carolyn Frith. Paul: Why is it important to conduct market research before developing a content marketing strategy?

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Should You Put Budget Behind Brand Awareness in a Down Economy? We Think So.

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According to research from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, companies buy new computers every four years and consumers buy new vehicles once a decade. Stop focusing on your product’s features We don’t have to tell you that B2B marketers are a feature-focused group. Big purchases don’t happen overnight.

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3 Ways to Make Responsible Product Policy for a Diverse World

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

What you can do today: Invest in focus groups to start collecting in-depth feedback about your policy and its impact on local communities. Some might be entirely policy-based, while others require additional research, a change to the product or service, or in-depth guides.

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Does Your Brand Experience Align with Customers’ Voices? Elizabeth Arden Shows How

ERDM

Listening” has been the industry buzz word for years and is key to building relationships for both BtoB and BtoC businesses. The company uses this insight group to test copy, print ad concepts, promotional offerings, product claims, model photography, and branding and new product ideas. Elizabeth Arden Goes Inside to Get Insights.

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Growing Your Brand Is a Group Effort: Communities as Content Marketing

Content Standard

Deeper market research and more useful insights. According to Dino Fire, president of market research and analytics at the Data Decisions Group, it costs less in time, energy, and money to harvest the same benefits from a facilitated community group than from a traditional market-research focus group.