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Are You Measuring What's Important?

Social Media Marketing

We often talk about social media ROI being measured differently. Photo credit: raneko (Flickr). These are different behaviors and we should be applying new and different measurement standards, right? One of my favorite demonstrations of this is K.D. Paine's legendary acronymn HITS = How Idiots Track Success.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I see more and more people complain about not being able to measure social media ROI and I wonder what they may be doing wrong. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Reply Kwame May 20, 2010 at 5:02 pm Couldn’t have said it any better Beth. David, Spot-on opinion. Reply Jay B.

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Understanding Social Media ROI Cycle

Mindjumpers

Tweet On our blog, we have several times written about how to calculate ROI of your social media campaigns. In this post, we will look at ROI on social media with a different perspective, starting from the launch stage of a brand till it becomes matured in the industry. Similar Posts: How to Measure Your Social Media ROI [Infographic].

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The Future of PR is Precision – Less Gut, More Data

Waxing UnLyrical

When companies attempt to measure media ROI, they tend to focus heavily on typical marketing/sales metrics like an increase in sales, web traffic and ultimately lead conversion. Customer sentiment. Image by GotCredit via Flickr, CC BY 2.0. There is often a dotted line from PR results to these metrics. PR Technology Lags Behind.

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10 Words And Phrases Social Media Pros Should Help Their Clients Understand

SocMed Sean

” 3) ROI – There’s a lot of concern with business executives as to whether there is any Return on Investment in social media. Changes that lower overhead or introduce new products and services automatically drive ROI. Photo courtesy of EirikSo on Flickr. Social can do both. 8 ) Trolls – Trolls are tough.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Measurement and ROI Measurement Strategies for 5 Social Media Goals (PR Communications): John Cass talks about the various goals you might get through social media and the various ways to measure these goals. Are We Too Worried with Finding the ROI of Social Media? Measuring Social Media ROI: Does Size Matter?

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

Convince & Convert

More and more I'm seeing sentiments like: 'Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies.&# What I found most interesting is the continued shift in the perception of the Apple brand. It use to be that Apple was the scrappy underdog and white knight to Microsoft's evil empire.