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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly. Still, much of what happens in social media is highly measurable, and these metrics can lead to an least indirect evaluation of the value of different media, activities, topics and tactics. Influence: a.k.a.

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

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As social media monitoring and integration with CRM systems improves, marketers will have the metrics and analytical tools to more accurately assess the value of various social media efforts and continually improve them. Social Media Metrics and ROI. 6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics by Convince & Convert.

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Web Presence Optimization Software Review: gShift Labs

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Radian6 , Alterian SM2 ), or inbound marketing suites (e.g., From a pure competitive research standpoint, gShift isn’t quite as robust as a tool like SEMRush (which provides AdWords keywords and click costs in addition to complete target organic keywords), but it does offer significant integrated functionality nonetheless.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well. Like you say, it depends on what your metrics and goals are. Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well.

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

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Metrics and reporting. Global monitoring capability adds cost and complexity to a tool, so don’t buy it if you don’t need it, but for multinational businesses, this is essential functionality. What kind of reporting capabilities does the tool provide? Geographic/language coverage. Integration with other applications.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

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And then there are monitoring tools like Alterian's SM2 that are out of most people's price ranges. But at the end of the day, it’s a time and cost expense that is meant to generate business. Once we can start to get those metrics for clients, the conversation will be much easier to have. They don’t care.

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

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4 Social Media Mining Metrics by iMedia Connection. On the same theme as Daniel’s post above, Nichole Kelly her shares her four key social media metrics and shows how these fit within the sales conversion funnel. A quick list of eight leading monitoring tools, from Alterian and Radian6 to UberVU and Sysomos.