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MAY 10, 2011

More recently, numerous writers including Olivier Blanchard , Neil Glassman and Mark Schaefer have tried to make the case that social media ROI is real, can be measured, and must be measured. It can influence your prospects to buy from you, but doesn’t normally lead straight to a purchase. What should they promote?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Events & ROI The Swix team understands that to understand social media’s true impact, you must track over a lengthy period, while simultaneously accounting for external factors that could skew results disproportionately. You’ll be able to easier understand how these events drive social success using Swix. Trade show.

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JUNE 17, 2010

As I’m writing this, my Followers per Tweet (FPT) is 2.46 (21,395 follower, 8,687 tweets sent – note that some Twitter weirdness has been massively reducing number of tweets sent reported in some cases). Gary Vaynerchuk has a FPT of 39.26. The notable points are many; among the key takeaways are these: 1.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

FB-Fans anzubieten [link] [link] Brian Donnelly Cool way to aggregate your social feed/noise. RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] [link] Media Maison RT @B_Donnelly @jaybaer Cool way to aggregate your social feed/noise. This, I'll try. Kanälen per Mail zu erhalten o.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

&# And that’s the premise behind Flowtown , one of the most exciting new social media tools I’ve seen in months. A Social Anthropologist, Hidden In Your Keyboard Flowtown enables you to enter any email address, and the system instantly reports back where and how that address is connected on the social Web.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Which is closer to buying, a consumer searching for “flat panel TV&# or a consumer searching for “26 inch 720p flat panel TV.&# ? More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse?

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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. Yes, Nutshell can send you the daily digest of all your social activity.

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MAY 25, 2010

The Digital Ecosystem There are four key planks to successfully offering online marketing services within your existing agency: Search Marketing Email Marketing Social Media Analytics and Reporting Agencies can deliver real value to clients in each of these areas, and developing competencies is viable and achievable.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Didn't make it any more fun to send the reporting around, though. link] Jan_B Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? link] by @jaybaer match tactics to goals albrocious Any social media strategy must have a monitoring element. The ones that have Facebook Pages report that most of their fans have never donated.

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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. That’s a good starter list for Mass Influencers. Among influentials?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. You need to determine why your company should be social, for whom your efforts are intended and where your audience is in the buying cycle, and how you’ll measure success. The statistical similarity shocks me.

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JULY 28, 2010

.&# Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Internal search reports.

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APRIL 1, 2010

In the age of the real-time Web, when every customer is a potential reporter, and there’s no place for brands to hide, you cannot rely on sloganeering. I take three lessons away from this examination: First, if your ad agency is going to come up with a nifty new concept, you have to support it throughout your digital world.

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APRIL 6, 2010

(This is especially important now that Google and Bing are incorporating social content into real-time search results). I recommend using a mixture of your Top 25 phrases and some that are highly relevant to your business, but perhaps aren’t sending as much traffic as you’d like at present.

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JUNE 3, 2010

link] Patrick Garmoe I'm not an attorney either, but from what I little I learned from covering courts four years as a reporter taught me, was that you never actually say you're sorry, because then you're actually admitting guilt. That's why even most monetary settlements don't include an actual apology.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. You often are buying in part because of the service and personnel of the company in question. For whom is it more important to have a humanizing social media presence?

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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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APRIL 15, 2010

photo by AMagill ) More from Convince and Convert The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Why You Should Use a Content Rationale Report Why D.I.S. I think we’re just scratching the surface of what content marketing can and will become in terms of its importance to corporate marketers. What do you think?

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MAY 26, 2010

Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. In doing so miss the boat how social media performs to build lasting brand relationships rather than “hits&# for the media recap report. What do you think? 6 RT @JPeters1221 Good stuff.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? What content lessons do you take away from these results?

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The disheartening truth is that there is very little “standardized&# reporting available if you’re going to do social listening and analysis at the highest level. RowFeeder – Raw and Ready That’s what I like so much about the new RowFeeder social data gathering system.

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JULY 22, 2010

While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully. Lion Brand Yarn found that their customer outreach strategy drove impressive e-commerce results – those who visited the company’s blog were 41% more likely to buy at the Web site.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How frequently will you need to create reports or check the filters? Also, the ability to tag sources and posts for later reporting or creating listening streams is often important to consider. Also, the ability to tag sources and posts for later reporting or creating listening streams is often important to consider.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They have an ongoing “Techie Haiku” contest in which fans can win $50 (one of my favorites: “TPS reports./Didn’t You could actually take it further and use different feeds for different audience segments, based on why they buy your product, which would be GREAT! The opportunity social networking provides in incredible.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

And in the end you can’t help but humanize the whole process of brand building if you buy into this as the right pathway for business growth. It also enable you to inspire employees, attract partners and get people to love you… and, hello, BUY from you. What a change in the dynamic. As always really enjoyed your post.

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JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. If you send email routinely, you need to integrate email and social immediately.

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MARCH 18, 2010

A recent Chadwick Martin Bailey and iMOderate study was reported with a sub-head “Social friends and followers feel more inclined to purchase from the brands they are fans of.&# But there are many still making promises about the “unicorn&# that will in the end only create disappointment. That's just not happening.

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JULY 8, 2010

A few of my favorite reports of email’s death that were greatly exaggerated: July 2004. In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. October 2007.

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APRIL 8, 2010

I've heard others claim that they keyboard and USB adapters allow it to be laptop-like, but to me what buy a device when you're just going to attach a bunch of things to it that makes it more like a laptop? We bought two for our design office, and I can see many buying it for the family, where several people would want to use it.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A good combination of experts may make for a great ebook, report, etc. Just some thoughts on an ebooks potential value. link] Carl Thress Very true. Ideally, once they jump in, they will learn the nuances, adjust their sails, and give it a legitimate chance to work for them. 3sixteenweb It’s important not to fear failure.

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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. Further, there have been some reports of issues with accuracy in the geo-location feature) Twitter lists, while useful for categorizing people to follow, haven’t really taken off either.

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JUNE 8, 2010

But while companies are rightly trying to get their heads around the concept that every customer is now a secret shopper and a potential reporter, not enough attention is being paid to the positive ramifications of real-time business. here suggest to you if you want to buy genuine nike shox shoes you can buy from nike shoes Web site!

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JULY 13, 2010

Threatens Your Personal Brand as a Leader: At the end of the day, clients and prospects want to buy your counsel — not your special departments’ and certainly not your junior staff’s. Maybe once a month everyone can report one new thing they learned about using online media… Cheers! Stop delegating and start absorbing.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook reports that consumers are 3 times more likely to connect their Facebook accounts on an e-commerce site, than will create a new account on those sites. Despite their size you would have to think that a Google, Apple or Microsoft could still buy them without blinking. Each day the web becomes more social.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook reports that consumers are 3 times more likely to connect their Facebook accounts on an e-commerce site, than will create a new account on those sites. Despite their size you would have to think that a Google, Apple or Microsoft could still buy them without blinking. Each day the web becomes more social.

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