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JUNE 17, 2010

This is a metric I devised to help me determine the efficiency of the time I spend on Twitter. But, the number of followers you’ve accumulated is a metric that everyone looks at (admit it), and it’s at least a decent barometer of how well you’ve cultivated Twitter. Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. Or, you could just use Swix, the super slick new social media scoreboard that just works.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

There is of course relentless chatter about social media ROI and success metrics. Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious. This is in stark contrast to the top-down approach of almost all Enterprise 1.0 IT projects. In short, collaboration and adoption need to go up and down, not just side to side. Great question.

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Visually SM

JULY 27, 2020

This way, you can connect the points of conversations that happen online to real business. Still, its strength lies in the inbox-like interface it uses to help you manage conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Everypost has a to-the-point interface that makes social workflows so simple.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

(photo by Nieve44 ) More from Convince and Convert The Conflicting Faces of Social Media The Wisdom of Social Media X-Rays The Future of Email Marketing – Think Holistically, Send Individually Convince and Convert Recommends The Metrics of Social Media (Danny Brown) The HEART of Social Media (Danny Brown) The True Meaning of Social Media (Danny Brown) (..)

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Sound off in the comments, and maybe we’ll put together another post with great examples.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

Which pattern matches your social media success metrics? Ready, Fire, Aim There are two schools of thought regarding social media effectiveness tracking. Success metrics are established from day one, with a shared understanding among all team members of how score will be kept. We pick our baby names before the fact.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Conversation a Myth?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. Sore spot with us PR types.) Sore spot with us PR types.)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. I recommend picking three solid metrics to track. Then this is the blog post for you.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Is Social Conversation a Myth? Thanks for bringing that into the conversation.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Companies are starting to think of Facebook as a natural piece of the conversion funnel, not just as a free-standing silo. Make sure you’re tying together your email program and your social media program. Now for more coffee.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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APRIL 15, 2010

And guess what? The very blog that you’re reading came out #1. Thank you to everyone who reads Convince & Convert.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

link] Angela Connor I don't know that these are necessarily the wrong questions, if they provoke additional conversations and they ultimately move to bigger ideas and begin to think more broadly about integration. Its great to see this conversation so relevant active! Thanks for the kind words. Means a lot to me. Thanks, Jay!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Coming from a communications background, content calendaring (and then on the flip side, tracking metrics back to that content and program calendar) is something I've encountered a lot. Thanks for the Radian6 mention.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. Many social media software packages (great ebook analysis of them here) can provide highly detailed reports on the impact of social media programs.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

As mentioned in my post about blog success metrics , if you cover a very wide topical area, subscriptions are less likely). If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Like you say, it depends on what your metrics and goals are. Like you say, it depends on what your metrics and goals are. Social Media Monitoring Tools – How to Pick The Right One [link] #Tools #SocialMedia [link] martin s. Historical data seemed more robust as well. link] Danny Brown Great write-up, Katie. link] martin s.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Conversation Driver Analysis – Examination of words, phrases, themes Location Analysis – Where conversations about you are occurring in the “real&# world People Analysis – Who’s talking about you? link] [link] Suzanne Nasco #metrics for SM class!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

More from Convince and Convert Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Will you do that for me please?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

While the willingness to invest indicates that businesses recognize the potential to develop deeper connections with their consumers in the social sphere, many are still uncertain as to how to best join the conversation. Yael, what are your thoughts on this – how do you think it'll be measured in the long run?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I’d love to see an ebook on “social media conversations and realities&#. Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Would You Try It With a Fox? link] jaybaer Really good idea Brian.

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JUNE 11, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Please Help Me Support Make-A-Wish Foundation Would You Try It With a Fox?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Second, the social media tools and destinations will inevitably change, but considering 83% of online Americans are active in social media, and there are 425 million people with Facebook accounts, I think we’re past the lava lamp stage. In either event, your job in this circumstance is to create conversation.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. The only people who seem to take up the feed now are those tweeps making conversations– almost like a Twitter party without branding it as such. I love Twitter.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Key features: Content Creation & Management: Schedule up to 350 posts and campaigns with a content calendar that spans all your social media networks. Conversation Management: Get messages from all your social media networks in a Smart Inbox and reply from one platform. Who is this for?

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 2, 2017

Sample review: “GinzaMetrics aims to help marketers use marketing intelligence that’s designed to get you found with thousands of marketing strategies, search terms, content creations, and daily metrics to improve brand visibility. 31: The 11 Best Social Media Campaign Builders and Ad Monitoring Tools. #32: ” — MarketingLand.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

In my world, marketing and customer service go hand in hand – the moving industry gets a pretty bad rap, so a lot of my social media outreach is directed around advice and customer service issues. Your post definitely made me think and this is a passion point for me, so thanks for that.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It’s not about how many are following you as a brand because there are so many other sources of value by having a presence in social media. If nothing else, you’re part of the conversation. Was their any distinction in B2C and B2B brands? Was their any distinction in B2C and B2B brands?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Virality & Search Topsy One part virality tool, one part tracking mechanism, one part social listening post, Topsy is becoming one of new favorites. I’ve moved from Tweetmeme to Topsy on my embedded tweeting, due to improved metrics, and Topsy’s competitive intelligence capabilities are impressive.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

This has enormous implications for social segmentation, content creation, tonality, and appropriate success metrics. They have motivations that are specific, particular and important.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

It will also enable companies to move faster, and with more messaging consistency in the event of a social media-fueled crisis. Metrics Integration Due to its online nature, social media is inherently measurable. The area of “metrics integration&# is especially interesting. Probably none. But maybe a model to watch.

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