Dave Fleet

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Why Share of Voice is a Useless PR Metric

Dave Fleet

What action can you take based on a SOV metric alone? And if SOV alone can’t guide a decision the way sentiment, or quality of coverage, or even volume of coverage can … then is it a metric we want to be using prominently? So that brings me back to the question, what information does share of voice provide that guides an action?

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Digital Communications Conversations Continue To Evolve

Dave Fleet

Brian Solis published a great post yesterday, touching on a couple of important topics at the heart of the evolution of social media-focused communications from shiny objects to a serious business tool: The continued focus of the metrics conversation on conversion as an endpoint. The definition of “influencers” from a client perspective.

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A Privacy-First Digital Marketing Landscape

Dave Fleet

We are also encouraging marketers to evolve their scorecards to include longer term tangible business outcomes and reputational metrics to measure how effective campaigns are in driving trust with consumers. Social media is not homogenous – and it’s not going away. And it’s time to stop applying myopic one-way mindsets to two-way channels.

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5 Steps to Thinking More Socially About Communications

Dave Fleet

This has three big implications: Self-identified audience – if people are talking about your company or brand, they’re doing the equivalent of raising their hand as people who care. One big challenge right now is that traditional marketers are seeking to apply traditional metrics to this new paradigm. The CPM metric would say yes.

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From One to a Million: Managing Social Media at Scale

Dave Fleet

This is not to say that those norms are completely incorrect, but that there is a practical reality for brands operating at scale – structure changes, processes change and the norms have to change. Brands need to grapple with structural decisions at a global scale: How much do you centralize vs decentralize control?

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Social Mediators 7 – Eqentia – Social Media Monitoring Tool For Enterprises

Dave Fleet

Eqentia’s text mining engine promises to deliver content to users in near realtime, providing them with an up to the minute picture of conversations and references to their brands and issues of interest. Still to come in Eqentia’s development – a comprehensive approach to social media metrics.

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9 Criteria For Selecting A Social Media Agency

Dave Fleet

That means considering objectives, stakeholders, your key audiences, other overarching strategic considerations and appropriate metrics alongside the tactical ideas. Good agencies are thinking outside the campaign box, and towards longer-term brand building, reputation building, issues management and relationship-building approaches.