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#measurePR Recap: Chatting with Heidi Sullivan

Waxing UnLyrical

We then moved on to one of Heidi’s favorite topics, obtaining a budget for PR that is comparable to marketing by diminishing the stigma of PR being a cost center : A3: Objective setting is key: what will you measure? Change in reputation? Know beforehand & avoid vanity metrics #measurepr.

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Can the financial return on expenditures for social media business activities– in marketing, PR, customer support, HR, product development or other areas — be accurately measured? Chris Bennett lays out the list of metrics he uses to analyze, track and “prove ROI’ from social media marketing.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? In my local area, most PR firms are still firmly entrenched in the old paradigm of marketing. How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client?

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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