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

Convince & Convert

Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). Influence mining is primarily being used in two corners of the social Web – for identifying and engaging with categorical or brand authorities; and for adding information to customer service interactions.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers.

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2011 Q1 Review: SocialFish clients and work

SocialFish

Financial Executives International –FEI has a fantastic LinkedIn group that we’ve been helping to make even better. We meet weekly, and spend several hours each week moderating the FEI LinkedIn group. We set new group rules, new requirements for joining the group, and new welcome and denial templates.

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Not Tracking Social Media ROI is Your Fault

Convince & Convert

Last week, Susan Etlinger from Altimeter Group published the Social Media ROI Cookbook. It contains significant quantities of solid thinking, and provides a useful framework of six primary ways to measure social media effectiveness. click here to view and download the Social Media ROI Cookbook on Slideshare).

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

While three-quarters of marketers consider measurement of social media impact important, 70% say that measuring those results is difficult. 79% of marketers measure website traffic from social media, and 68% track engagement metrics on social networks, but just 26% measure the relationship of social media activity to leads and sales.

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

Convince & Convert

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. The way to do this practically is to borrow a technique from social media and use tagging. and hope for a.02 through a new channel.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

This is a metric I devised to help me determine the efficiency of the time I spend on Twitter. There is no real benefit to having more Twitter followers per se, just a potentially bigger group of people with whom you can interact in pursuit of a more definable goal. Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%. Followers per tweet.

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