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The 4 Marketing Metrics Mandates

Convince & Convert

Tweet There are four mandates that companies are adopting when they are examining and analyzing the success of their online marketing and social media programs. For a very long time, measuring marketing was a needle in a haystack approach, whereby we all agreed to lie to each other about data and extrapolations of it.

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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

Klout is an online influence gauge that combines several data points (followers, retweets, clicks on links, etc.) The data used to calculate Klout continues to change (they added Facebook information recently), but I have found it to be the most reliable influence tracking metric. PostRank Analytics solves this problem.

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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure! Social Media Analytics

Harp Interactive

They want to understand how social media marketing will meet their goals before they commit to a budget allocation for a “mythical campaign&#. Social media marketing companies like other marketing agencies need to back their claims with statistics and provide metrics to prove effectiveness. Facebook Wall Interaction.

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5 metrics to track on Twitter

Akamai Marketing

Except, he has very little influence over that fan base. Now, you might desire a list like his and it certainly has brand potential, but you could generate more influence with a much smaller number of followers. However, this only highlights the need to find and engage both influencers and brand advocates.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of November 2010 [experimental]

SocialFish

or higher out of 10 by my beloved PostRank plugin. I’m going to test whether this selection can be automated to some extent (thereby creating an example of how YOU can save time should you want to use PostRank rankings for your own association curating!). The Problem with Influence (Danny Brown).

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

It was something to the effect of “Would/should companies do this with big bloggers in their spaces?&# Alas, the issue is even stickier for bloggers than it is for companies. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. One my faves is #pr20chat run by Heather Whaling and Justin Goldsborough. Simple, right?

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Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO

Kikolani

Measuring Social Media Influence. The most popular topic at #SMAZ was the measurement of social media influence and the elusive ROI – Return on Investment. Watch the PSA to understand how storytelling can create a stronger influence on social media. Most natural links generally are linked to your website or company name.

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