If you want consumer insights for your brand, you have traditionally relied on focus groups, surveys and other research studies. Those are typically time-consuming, difficult to gather and analyze, and expensive. Rand Fishkin sat out to solve for that problem.

Fishkin is known for founding MOZ. Now he's building an easier path to discovering insights about a given audience, including who influences them, without expensive research. He visited #DiggingDeeper this week to talk about SparkToro and what the future of consumer insights looks like.

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