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About 1 in 3 Cos. Say They Have A Team Working Exclusively on Social | Ragan

About 1 in 3 Cos. Say They Have A Team Working Exclusively on Social | Ragan | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Social media duties are treated more as add-on job functions, and don’t often get a dedicated internal team, details a [download page] new Ragan/NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions survey. 65% of the survey respondents – the majority of whom hail from organizations that employ more than 100 people – said that social media tasks are assigned on top of current job responsibilities. 27% said they have an internal team that works exclusively on social media, while an additional 5% said they have both an internal department and use an outside agency or partner. Just 3% said they fully outsource all their social media efforts. That 3% figure reflects an apparent unwillingness to spend dollars – rather than time – on social media, a trend that was found by Reply! recently, in research examining SMB use of paid social media services.

The Ragan survey found that when it comes to tools used to measure social media, a 59% majority rely on free tools, while 35% use a combination of free and paid tools. Only 6% use only paid tools, the most popular of which are Hootsuite (31%), Radian6 (25%), and Vocus (17%). (Among free tools, Google Analytics and Google Alerts both easily lead all others.)...
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How to Use Social Media for Customer Research

How to Use Social Media for Customer Research | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Customer Research: Learn how to conduct research on social media to find out more about your customers.

 

With the right social media tools, you can learn what questions your customers have and which types of content they’re sharing.

 

This information will help you answer their questions, solve their problems and define your social media and content strategies.

 

In this post, you’ll learn how to quickly conduct research on social media and put it into action.

 

[Practical tips you can use on the most popular social media platforms -JD]

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture | Harvard Business Review

Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture | Harvard Business Review | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
A more nimble approach can help startups succeed.

 

Traditional marketing planning (TMP) activities have been a mainstay for the past four decades, but the theories behind them have limited relevance for new ventures facing extreme uncertainty. The old routine of analyzing existing markets, predicting an optimal outcome, and then designing marketing plans to capture that outcome is too slow and cumbersome for today's startups.

 

To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning. This strategy uses a different set of management processes focused on speedy action, learning through failure, and a premeditated approach to market experimentation that creates instant feedback. It can help new ventures be more successful, more informed, and more fully understood.

 

We saw firsthand how effectual marketing planning can be put to use when, earlier this year, we worked with a startup struggling with its marketing plan (or lack thereof)....

 

[What is hypercycle planning for 500 points? ~ Jeff]

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Digital Lifescapes | Can Anyone Stop the Online Video Juggernaut?

Digital Lifescapes | Can Anyone Stop the Online Video Juggernaut? | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

...comScore released data showing that more than 184 million U.S. Internet users watched 36.9 billion online content videos in July, while video advertising views totaled 9.6 billion.

 

Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in July with 157 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook.com with 53 million, Yahoo! Sites with 48.7 million, VEVO with 44.8 million and Microsoft Sites with 42.7 million.

 

Nearly 36.9 billion video content views occurred during the month, with Google Sites generating the highest number at 19.6 billion, followed by AOL, Inc. with 665 million. Google Sites had the highest average engagement among the top ten properties.

 

Americans viewed 9.6 billion video advertisements in July, with each of the top 4 video ad properties delivering more than 1-billion video ads. Google Sites ranked first with 1.5 billion ads, followed by Hulu with 1.2 billion, Adap.tv with 1.1 billion, SpotXchange Video Ad Marketplace with 1 billion and TubeMogul Video Ad Platform with 830 million....

 

[Unstoppable trend and powerful stats to back it up. Must-read for for marketing, PR pros, content producers. - JD]

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