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Committing To Becoming Knowledgable About Social Media ROI

Waxing UnLyrical

Social Media ROI is something I struggle with. I’m committing today to becoming a professional in the area of ROI. It does mean I’m going to read everything I can find on the topic, starting with Olivier’s book and every post he mentions ROI in on his blog. Work and stuff. He also blogs. .

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Social Media Measurement for Pragmatists

Waxing UnLyrical

I like studying results-based information from social media experts. But I’ve noticed a tendency among some to repeat behavior I saw early in my career in paid media: act as if tracking to the bottom line – especially where social media measurement is concerned – is pointless or impossible.

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The Guide To Social Media Marketing Automation

Webbiquity SMM

There are several reasons why marketers may want to partially automate their social media campaigns. First, success with social media marketing comes with frequency (plus quality). Depending on your campaign strategy and target audience, social media marketing could be a 24×7 job. First things first.

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What’s the ROI of Training Rides?

Waxing UnLyrical

ROI (a.k.a. In both cases, if our “busy entrepreneur” could show a causal relationship between Facebook activity and driving sales, reducing costs, or both, she’d be on the way to figuring out the partial ROI of her Facebook activities. In these instances, figuring out the precise ROI of social media becomes hard and highly inexact.

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Monday Roundup: Best Practices for Social Media Metrics

Waxing UnLyrical

How can you track your social media efforts to ensure that your strategy is up to par? This week’s roundup introduces you to some best practices for social media metrics. 5 Social Media Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Yesterday. From likes to leads: The new metrics for B2B social selling.

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Bring Balance to Your Social Media

Ari Herzog

Penelope Trunk once wrote about portraying yourself on social media : Each of us is multi-faceted. With a selection of media to choose from, we can express different parts of ourselves in different ways. And Flickr is good for expressing passion. It’s clear to me that blogging is best for expressing big ideas.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?