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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

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Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). JF : We’ve recently completed projects with Virgin America , Starbucks and CoverGirl where we emailed offers to customers based on their influence and Klout score within a particular topic. Customer service?

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

On ClickZ, Heidi Cohen reports that even at this stage, only one in three companies are even trying to measure social media ROI, because doing that is hard, though she also outlines five other social media metrics that matter. Speaking at an event? Social media is a great way to make more in-real-life contacts.

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

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Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

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Certainly, it’s not a comprehensive influence formula like Klout , or other Twitter-influence arbiters ( interesting study this week from Sysomos ), but it’s easy to calculate, and I think it makes sense. So, I’ve started to look at followers per tweet as a metric that focuses on the efficiency of time spent.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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I like the at-a-glance usefulness of this one that shows the people that have tweeted about your company, organized by Klout score (See my post about Klout and online influence mining here). Surprised to see my name is in that Klout chart! RT @dobronski: RT @jaybaer Social Listening and Analysis. No problem.

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Wow Online Influencers With An In-Person Experience

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A recent event produced by my agency with client CoverGirl®, bears this out. I recently got chose as an influencer by Klout ( [link] ) and Virgin Airlines to take a free round-trip flight. link] 40deuce Taking it from the online to offline is always great to make the whole “influencer&# thing more real.