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Intermediate
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Talk

In increasingly competitive markets businesses need to act faster with better information. Traditional market research is good if you have the time and money but often fails to get the the real issues. Online customer communities allow brands to join the social conversation and get to what really matters for customers and prospects. It’s direct feedback, often warts and all. What better way to put customers at the heart of your business than to engage with them in honest and open discussion?

Questions Answered:
How to create a successful online customer community for your business?
Why having a community could become your greatest business asset?
How to engage the community to give you the best possible feedback and real market insight?
How to get a community to help you design better products, create more engaging communications and develop more satisfying services?

Speaker Bio: Matt is a joint partner of The Opinion Company. He has helped many of the UK's leading brands get closer to their customers. Matt loves championing the consumer, driving better business decisions and pushing boundaries. He is jolly good at creating better products, smarter communications and more satisfying services. Matt's track record includes Director level roles at TNS, GfK and Synovate. Matt often wonders why businesses skimp and save on marketing intelligence.
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Expert
Format:
Talk

Digital marketing used to push boundaries when it came to interaction, redefining and innovating was a daily occurrence. It was a race to the top, a cold war of creativity with agencies battling each other for the next big thing. Today’s focus on analytics and screens means interaction and engagement is losing out to reach, and slowly transforming digital into just another way to broadcast a 30-second spot.

So what happened and how do we change it?

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WHAT EVER YOU WANT TO ASK…

Speaker Bio: co-founded MediaMonks way back in the magical “noughties” wasting my late teens & early twenties wrestling the beast that is Flash (shout out to my slash notation brothers & sisters). After hiring people that actually knew how to code, I parlayed my hard earned “go-to-and” skills in to Project Management, which involved going up to people and telling them what to do or asking them nicely. Depending on the request. Currently I am head of operations, which means I project-manage the projec
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