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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. The C-suite expects justification for every dollar spent, including investments in social media marketing. Influence: a.k.a.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Alterian SM2 Freemium. Alterian SM2. The fee-based version of SM2 does everything the freemium version does plus providing unlimited searches and results, filters, boolean search strings and alerts. Share this on LinkedIn. Budget: $0 (I have no budget, I need something free!). Social Media Monitoring. Post on Google Buzz.

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Social Media Success Starts with Listening

Webbiquity SMM

The grandmotherly maxim, “The good Lord gave you two ears but only one mouth for a reason&# applies to social interactions in general, but is nowhere more critical than in social media marketing. Join the same LinkedIn groups. Thoughtfully and non-promotionally comment on your influencers’ blogs and/or LinkedIn discussions.

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3 Reasons To Dig Deeper In Social Listening

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. But many marketers are too quick to create a Twitter or Facebook account and proclaim “Mission Accomplished.&# She also blogs at [link]. Influencer identification. .

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

The answer may come from the email marketing field. Many of these were other B2B marketers, but others were social media experts, journalists, PR professionals, or just plain fascinating personalities. This list will be posted on Cheryl Burgess’ Blue Focus Marketing Blog. What is it? Jennifer Aaker. Allison Mooney. allimooney.

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213 Days as an Insider

Koka Sexton

The Social Selling LinkedIn group is over 400 members and many great conversations have been going on around social media and sales. I’ve been using a social monitoring tool called Alterian SM2. It makes it better that the Marketing team is full of rockstars too. It’s like the BMW of social monitoring. Good times.

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. Brian Carroll talks with MECLABS Director of Research Sergio Balegno about the disconnect between social media activity and results in the B2B environment, and concludes that “marketers are expecting way too much too soon.&#