Akamai Marketing

article thumbnail

What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. If you aren’t sure where to start, there is a great tool on Forrester Research designed by the Groundswell (affliate link) folks that helps define your audience and how they typically interact. Lurkers turn the tables a bit on marketers.

Lurker 203
article thumbnail

Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. I particularly appreciated the process of the FLIRT model.

Review 142
article thumbnail

5 things to measure in social media ROI

Akamai Marketing

We’ve been talk A LOT about social media analytics, metrics and measurement here on this blog. In my model I based the use of Word of Mouth off of McKinsey Research valuation of Word of Mouth (WOM) value which looks at Relevance, Trust and Quantity.

ROI 161