Dave Fleet

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Return On Influence Can Return From Whence It Came

Dave Fleet

It goes like this: (Gain from investment – cost of investment) / cost of investment. Sometimes it’s lowered costs. Figure out what it cost to draft/approve/publish it (time is money) and how much revenue it generated (assuming it was sales-focused). ROI is ROI, not Return on Imaginary Numbers.

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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Many people seemed to share the sentiment of my friend Jeremy Wright, who tweeted : FB has a fundamental responsibility to not disrupt their platform the week before Xmas. I don’t blame him – companies are sinking big money into Facebook nowadays. However, you don’t own them.

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Why Share of Voice is a Useless PR Metric

Dave Fleet

But the real strategic advantage comes in that the cost of the ad space is a known quantity. 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? What action can you take based on a SOV metric alone?

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