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It is clear that even if they have not yet smelt the coffee, they smell the money, because the authors of the report do recognise a simple economic reality: "The potential returns from reputation management and research and insight will soon be greater within the social media than any other channel."
Amen to that. But reputation needs to be earned before it can be managed. Insight does not come when you are talking to people, but when you are listening to them. Marketers still need to do more research - and the only kind of research that works in the evolving world of social networks is live research - marketers need to be inside these social networks, learning, listening, and working out not how things work, but how people work. Sure, they might see the benefit in cozying up to 'super advocates', or paying 'people' to do that stuff for them, but they actually need to shut up for once, and listen to the conversation, otherwise they may find there will be fewer and fewer advocates out there.
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