Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Other than signing book deals, the favorite sport of the social media punditry these days seems to be bashing Klout. The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. Instead, they object to the very notion and existence of Klout.

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Laurel Papworth

JUNE 17, 2012

Klout is the social media measurement tool that measures influence – how many followers, how much interaction and the style of interaction that a person has in their personal or business social network. E.g. Klout updates an influencers score but you see it on Salesforce or in a Reuters newspaper article.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

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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Jeff Esposito

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Last week a good friend posed a question in a social group about a company not getting back to her after tweeting to them about a duplicate charge. While I felt her pain, I went on a rant of my own about social CRM and the expectations that we have. My Klout or Kred score does not matter. Image: loop_oh.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2011

You need to focus on how to “be&# social as a company, and worry less about how to “do&# social. This is because social touches do not occur in isolation. I’ve seen a LOT of teeth gnashing lately about online influence , and Klout , and the paucity of clicks that most social updates generate.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

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.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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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