Dave Fleet

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Compete.com Doesn’t Compete

Dave Fleet

For years I’ve suffered in (relative) silence, while we’ve continued to use a tool that doesn’t seem to reflect any form of reality, yet no-one seems to say anything about it. Let’s compare a few stats between Compete and Google Analytics, and see how things look. Google Analytics: 14,972. Case in point.

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Digging-in to the new Radian6 Dashboard Improvements

Dave Fleet

Our team uses Radian6 for many clients, and I’ve used the tool for several years now, so I thought I’d take some time to dig into the updates and distill the key improvements for you. Google Analytics integration. Google Analytics – adding Google Analytics to the suite of integrations that Radian6 enables.

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Compete Responds To Criticism

Dave Fleet

My primary concern was that, after seeing nearly a 90% variance between their numbers and those from Google Analytics on my own site, I couldn’t trust that their numbers for other sites would be correct. when comparing the traffic numbers for local analytics (google, omniture, etc) to the numbers on Compete.com.

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

Sysomos Audience is an addition to the Heartbeat monitoring and engagement tool. At first glance it seems similar to Google Analytics in nature – in fact, I previously under the incorrect impression it simply connected social media traffic to web analytics. Tags: measurement monitoring social media tools Sysomos.

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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

Sysomos offers three core services: Sysomos MAP – a web-based, enterprise-level social media monitoring tool. Audience – a sales- and marketing-focused tool to help measure ROI and optimize marketing and community engagement. Strong analytics.

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Book Review: The Social Customer

Dave Fleet

The vendor-focused nature of much of the book means that it will be out-of-date before long – especially as it provides a point-in-time assessment of the market readiness of tools and use-case implementations. Introduction to operational factors, including analytics, work flows, legal and ethical considerations.

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Reflections on the changing digital agency environment

Dave Fleet

This was the period when the current platforms all launched, and it felt like there was a new social media tool or network emerging every week. The first five years – 2006-2010 – were catalysed by constant change.

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