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

Harp Interactive

Social media marketing companies like other marketing agencies need to back their claims with statistics and provide metrics to prove effectiveness. PostRank : A content analyzer and provides great feedback on Tweets, Digg, Stumble and Freindfeed. The client wants to know if their social media campaign is working!

Analytics 350
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Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO

Kikolani

The most popular topic at #SMAZ was the measurement of social media influence and the elusive ROI – Return on Investment. Most natural links generally are linked to your website or company name. Social Media ROI. Measuring Social Media Influence. Best links are from trusted sites with proper anchor text.

ROI 114
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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

PostRank Analytics solves this problem. Free if you connect with their “influencers” outreach program, or $15/month if you do not, PostRank provides a useful, detailed blogging scoreboard, especially if you connect it with your Google Analytics account. By no means perfect, but much more illustrative than follower counts.

Metrics 159
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5 metrics to track on Twitter

Akamai Marketing

PostRank will help balance out the information from Google Analytics, including RSS feed tracking and conversation on Twitter surrounding a particular link. Comments and Shares on Website/Blog : Track the topic and the number of shares and discussion around the topic.

Metrics 229
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Measurement… Supplemented

Waxing UnLyrical

Did the question of “ROI&# ever come up when you were discussing the strategy with the client? ROI is the #1 question and CRT/tanaka was very particular about setting the right expectations from social media [during this ] year-1 engagement. decision on what to measure will be unique to each company. Read All About It!

Postrank 151
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Get PR Measurement Off The Island

Waxing UnLyrical

Students are not taught about new practices, since proprietary tools and techniques often remain with hidden with the agencies and companies that create them. We’ll pick up where we left off last week, discussing social media ROI. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

Class 134
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Socialnomics Book Review | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

Most people with a pulse can tell you that Facebook and Twitter are all the rage, but Socialnomics drives it home with detailed examples from organizations that have embraced social media and found huge success (Obama’s campaign detailed in Chapter 4), to companies that have missed the boat (see Hasbro’s Scrabble incident in Chapter 7).

Review 209