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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

You wouldn’t buy a new machine tool or enterprise software application without an ROI analysis, so why should social media be any different? determining which topics generate the highest traffic and comment activity on a company blog, what time of day is most productive for tweeting, etc.). Is social media ROI measurable?

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Jenara is an Asia-based filmmaker, organic farmer, and freelance journalist for Fast Company magazine and CNNGo, as well as a Harvard and Berkeley grad. Ellen writes for Fast Company magazine and helps run the 30 Second MBA site. Jenara Nerenberg. Ellen McGirt. Elise Segar. Judy Grundstrom. JudyGrundstrom. and never boring. Wendy Marx.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. And pretty soon they won't be saying “Geez, I wish I could follow more companies on Facebook.&# What do you think?

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases

Adam Sherk

Feel free to hit me up offline if you are interested — fstrong-at-vocus-dot-com. Bruce – It seems like when a company doesn’t quite know how to describe their product/service, they go with “solution.&# It’s tough because part of our company name is ‘Innovative.’ I enjoyed your comments.