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Practical thinking for people trying to understand their audiences and grow. What's worked, what hasn't, and what to do about it.

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Beyond the brand mention: the audience conversations you’re missing

To your audience, your brand is probably the least interesting thing about them. So why do most organisations study their audience only through what people say about the brand? Here’s how to listen past your own mentions to the world your audience actually lives in — and why relevance is built there.

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YOUR INSIGHT IS LYING TO YOU, BUT tRIANGULATION CAN FIX IT

Every research method lies to you — in a predictable direction. Social listening over-indexes the loud, surveys the people who’ll trade time for a dollar, focus groups the confident. There is no unbiased method. Here’s how to choose the right one for the question and triangulate so the biases cancel out.

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Are you making your donors feel good?

So many charities feel guilty about fundraising. As a result, they overlook the primal philanthropy that lives in all of us and fail to give donors the tools they crave to feel good.

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