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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

Every few seconds this morning, TweetDeck brings another comment on today's announcement that Salesforce.com is buying Radian6. The announcement's not exactly a surprise—Radian6 was the obvious acquisition target in social media analysis (SMA), and their platform had supported Salesforce integration since mid-2009.

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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

The truth is that there are at least 25 viable metrics you can use to evaluate the success of your social media efforts. Here are the 6 critically undervalued social media success metrics. and then applies some fancy algorithmic voo doo to arrive at a unified metric. Daily Story Feedback. Search Volume.

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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. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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The State of Social Media Marketing – Summary of Annual Survey Report (Part 2)

Mindjumpers

In a previous blog post , Jonas made a summary of a report called “The State of Social Media Marketing” from January 2012 in which he outlined the key points and conclusions drawn from the report. Marketers are still cobbling together paid and free tools to monitor and make sense of the social conversations. Investment.

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The New Marketing Hacker

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There is a massive and missed opportunity happening in the marketing industry. adults) who are left cleaning up the operational mess brought on by a lack of metrics and operational scalability. adults) who are left cleaning up the operational mess brought on by a lack of metrics and operational scalability. The truth hurts.

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A Day I’ll Always Remember

Convince & Convert

As the subtitle indicates, the book presents 7 shifts that businesses need to make to capitalize on the speed and fluidity of an era when every customer is a potential reporter and every employee is a potential marketer. The many ways you can measure social media, and how to select and utilize the most appropriate metrics for your company.

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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

In 2006, Radian6 was founded by Chris Newton (@ cdnewt ) and Chris Ramsey (@ chrisramsey ) Back then monitoring and listening were a novel concept, but they knew that social wasn’t a fluke. Consider this post in Gigaom, 3 accurate metrics for ROI on social media campaigns.

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