Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that I am a big proponent of measuring social media. Regardless of the measurement opportunities, we still hear the same questions over and over again, “what’s the ROI of a social media?” What is the ROI of silence?

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Akamai Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

You’re social media program should be no different. If you’re like most businesses, you’ll be spending more time on social media next year, so its time to start developing strategy for your social media. Is it possible to really measure social media and determine ROI?

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Akamai Marketing

JULY 28, 2011

Again, I’ll say that what you should measure depends on your strategy, what are you trying to accomplish with social media? Now, as I said in an earlier blog post, you should use several different metrics to dig deeper into your audience and see what’s really happening with the content your sharing.

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Akamai Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We’ve been talk A LOT about social media analytics, metrics and measurement here on this blog. As evidenced by this video created by the Unmarketing Team of Scott Stratton, which tickled the funny bone of lots of social media peeps last week: Social Media ROI by UnMarketing.

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Akamai Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

While using social media for business purposes has been around for the better part of 5 years now, we’re reaching a place where businesses are starting to ask “what should I be doing with social media?” Why Social Media? Every single time I meet a new client I ask “Why Social Media?”

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Akamai Marketing

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The conversations have centered around three schools of thought: 1) investors are getting ripped off 2) social advertisers are getting ripped off 3) businesses using social media are getting ripped off. In short: what’s the business value of social media considering the inactives? Here’s why.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 2, 2012

I’ve recently had some conversations with people who are feeling that because they didn’t get integrate social media right away, that they’ve already been left behind. These business are more nimble , and may better be able to take advantage of the “main street” nature of social media.

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