Dave Fleet

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Social media has gone from focusing on earned conversation, to paid reach and a narrowing gap between social media marketing and traditional advertising – “less social, more media” as I’ve written previously. This week was a useful reminder that the reality within the marketing industry does not mirror the reality of the average person.

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5 Steps to Thinking More Socially About Communications

Dave Fleet

Tweet Like it or not, “digital” is becoming a part of more and more marketers’ jobs. The implications of this are broader than just tacking-on another channel to an existing marketing plan – developing digital approaches require a shift in mind-set from traditional channels, whether they’re owned, earned or paid.

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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Because many companies have campaigns in market over the run-up to the holidays, and any change in layout or functionality runs the risk of breaking or severely hindering the effectiveness of those promotions. Because this is one of the busiest times of year for many brands.

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Five way to improve your social media measurement

Dave Fleet

It can sometimes be hard to accomplish this – especially from the agency side – as you often need to work with many business functions to determine this (sales, IT, marketing etc). Or the sentiment of coverage? The more you can push in this direction, though, the better off you’ll be. Set measurable objectives.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Social media has gone from focusing on earned conversation, to paid reach and a narrowing gap between social media marketing and traditional advertising – “less social, more media” as I’ve written previously. This week was a useful reminder that the reality within the marketing industry does not mirror the reality of the average person.

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Why Share of Voice is a Useless PR Metric

Dave Fleet

In marketing – where all is a funnel down from eyeballs to wallets and the space and time is finite – SOV provides insight into whether your message is drowned by the competition’s. Knowing what your competitor’s SOV in a market is, let’s you know what kind of resources they are pushing forth.

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Digital Communications Conversations Continue To Evolve

Dave Fleet

As Chris Brogan put in a well-timed post on social media metrics today, “The social media metric that I think does matter and that is difficult to fully qualify is sentiment : the positive or negative mentions of a brand, product, service, whatever.&#