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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Can social media costs be justified on the P&L, so that as belts get ever tighter in this stagnant economy, these projects and tasks can be spared the budget axe? You wouldn’t buy a new machine tool or enterprise software application without an ROI analysis, so why should social media be any different? They get it.

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Forrester: Email and search drive online sales, not social

Dave Fleet

What about long-lead sales (as I said in response to last year’s version of this same report, last-click analysis is very flawed - and much social traffic via apps often displays in web analytics as direct traffic, for that matter)? What about cost avoidance? What about customer retention, loyalty and advocacy?

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

Eric : This stat of the week came by way of Ian Greenleigh of Bazaarvoice , who basically emailed Jay saying, “Hey, check out this data. Eric : You guys are the Biggie and Tupac of market analysis. Eric : I do, I do. I would like to maybe shed some light into the inner workings here at Social Pros. Jay : Uh-oh.

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

A lot of people have bought Facebook ads on a cost-per-click basis so now they’re saying, “You know what? Week after that, Ian Greenleigh from Bazaarvoice is going to be our guest so we’ve got all kinds of amazing things coming up on Social Pros and we thank you for your support. Eric: Yeah.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

LeadLife is designed to increase qualified leads while shortening sales cycles and decreasing the cost of sales. Erin is the Chief Marketing Officer for Bazaarvoice , a brand engagement and social data integration platform, in Austin, Texas. Lisa also recently authored a guest post here on web analytics and lead scoring. erinclaire.

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