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

Content Standard

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. Addressability.

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Back in the day—uh, about 10 short years ago—marketers knew more about their products than their consumers did, and had the luxury of acting as the gatekeepers of brand information. On the go, customers search for store locations, compare prices and features, and call family and friends to get opinions.

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B2B market research – 10 unique features

Savanta

The findings garnered from desk research can help to frame a good qualitative interview and a thorough focus group can help provide relevant answer options for a quantitative survey. Focus groups are rarer in qualitative B2B studies. This means that focus groups are often simply not a realistic option in B2B studies.

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What Your Traditional Marketing Education Didn't Teach You About Marketing Today

Hubspot

Marketers were taught to be focused as gatekeepers to what truly happened inside a business, and journalists relied on them. Conducting ongoing polls in social media channels to facilitate lovable feedback in real time versus waiting to facilitate focus groups or customer interviews. New School: Got a Story?