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Q: What is social media listening software?

It is an application that (1) automatically collects various engagement and reach metrics for your accounts on multiple social media platforms and (2) gathers and analyzes mentions of specified keywords from across the social web. Data analysis is applied to social listening streams to filter and curate the data, allowing you to obtain actionable insights into your brand's presence and performance on social channels.

Q: What is the purpose of social media listening?

It helps firms monitor and analyzes social media conversations about their brand, product, service, and other topics of interest. It is used to measure brand health and the impact of marketing campaigns, monitor one's competitors and discover trending topics, keywords, and media that can be used to develop more engaging content and inform digital marketing strategies.

Q: What is digital listening?

Digital listening uses technology to automatically track and analyze the many conversations and interactions taking place on social channels. Social listening software employs scrapers to collect different metrics and mentions of specified keywords from social media platforms and other social sources and data analysis to find meaningful patterns and trends in social listening streams. It can be used to surface useful insights for brands around their campaigns, customers, industry, and competitors. Learn more

Q: What are the four types of benchmarking?

There is (1) internal benchmarking, which is used to examine and share best practices across an organization and is carried out by comparing specific business processes between or among different teams, departments, or divisions within a company; (2) competitive benchmarking, which is used to evaluate a firm's position within an industry and is used to compare processes or services between or among firms in the same industry; (3) functional benchmarking, which is used to compare the practices and performance results of similar business functions across industries to identify best-in-class processes or practices; and (4) generic benchmarking, which is used to compare and conceptualize similar business practices or processes between or among organizations in different industries and develop new standards. Learn more

Q: What are the benefits of competitive benchmarking?

Competitive benchmarking helps firms better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their practices or processes, identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, strengthen strategic planning and decision making, reduce spending, increase revenue, boost customer satisfaction, and gain a competitive advantage.

Q: What are the steps in competitive benchmarking?

You begin by defining the goal and scope of your benchmarking initiative and then identify competitors, which may be direct competitors, or similar sized firms in your industry, or market leaders. After defining an area of focus, you then decide on metrics or KPIs to measure and compare and gather the relevant data for measuring and tracking the KPIs you've chosen. Finally, you analyze the data or use a tool that will process the data for you, in order to obtain actionable insights that can be applied to processes in your own organization.

Q: How does social listening work?

Social listening is carried out by actively monitoring social media conversations, mainstream news sites, blogs, forums, and other user-generated content online. Software is used to capture mentions of an organization, the organization's competitors, and other topics of interest to an organization. Social listening may also involve gathering of other types of consumer data such as online behavior.

Q: What are social listening tools?

Social listening tools refers to software that is used to capture, monitor, and analyze online conversations about a company, a specific topic, a firm's competitors, and/or other relevant themes. More specifically, these tools collect mentions of specified keywords or phrases from social networks, posts and comments on blogs, forums, and other websites where user-generated content is made public.

Q: What are social listening platforms?

These platforms bring together social listening software with other related tools and services, which may include technology used for audience analysis, brand monitoring, crisis management, and trend detection. They enable you to track brand health, learn about your online audience, uncover customer frustrations, identify influencers, evaluate the impact of marketing campaigns, carry out competitor benchmarking, and detect emerging trends and crises.

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