Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 23, 2010

Can the financial return on expenditures for social media business activities– in marketing, PR, customer support, HR, product development or other areas — be accurately measured? For example, if John Doe clicks through to your website from a tweet and buys something, that’s easy to measure.

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ROI Social Media Vocus Metrics 193

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have. For example I get: Social Media reports, Blog data reports, Website data reports, Campaign data reports, Launch result reports, Traditional Media reports, Lead reports and of course Budget reports to name just a few.

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Data Vocus Radian6 B2B 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have. For example I get: Social Media reports, Blog data reports, Website data reports, Campaign data reports, Launch result reports, Traditional Media reports, Lead reports and of course Budget reports to name just a few.

Data 100

Data Vocus Radian6 StumbleUpon 100

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 23, 2011

The best also monitor message boards and forums, easy to overlook but critical particularly for niche b2b products and services. For example, a discussion of the latest developments in aerospace composites is probably more likely to happen on a niche engineering forum than on Facebook. Frequency of alerts. Support and training.

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Tools Social Media Sysomos Vocus 193

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

I actually think a lot of these questions often come from the client side (Q 3 is a great example of this) – and where equipped, PR firms (or whoever is providing advice) should help with their understanding / education by using the questions you've suggested. Its great to see this conversation so relevant active!

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Questions Social Media Consultant Education 160

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Even though the actual numbers show that over 25% of the whole population is supposedly actively using Facebook, you don't have ANY local support, the list of most popular local pages is completely flooded with spam/scam pages (no matter how often we have reported them). Not speaking of the fact that the rules, inner structure etc.

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