Sherrilynne Starkie

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What every consultant should know about social media analytics

Sherrilynne Starkie

These are essential skills and talents, but to be a successful social media consultant you must add some ‘left-brain’ qualities. Effective social media analysis takes the right combination of hard skills and softer aptitudes. A good social media consultant will be au fait with: Google Analytics and Tag Manager.

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Five content marketing tricks of a great social media consultant

Sherrilynne Starkie

As in most professions, an experienced social media consultant knows certain tricks of the trade to content marketing work better, faster, easier. Reach, visits, shares, comments, likes, follower growth and cost per engagement are the evaluation metrics. There is no doubt that social media, when done right, is a time suck.

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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social media consultants are not masters of the dark arts. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. A lot of people think of social media as marketing, and it’s an important part.

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Top Five: Research shows that Facebook is successfully tackling fake news

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top 5 must-know social media news for the week includes stories about a new Messenger, Soundcloud’s Instagram integration, YouTube’s changed engagement metrics, the fight against fake news and Snapchat’s power with youth demographics. Facebook launches Messenger 4. — SS.

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Does your brand take bloggers seriously?

Sherrilynne Starkie

However brands are spending 57% of their social budgets on Facebook and only six per cent on blogs. This disconnect is a result of a lack of uniform metrics used to measure the success of influencer marketing campaigns. Brands tend to use reach metrics which often are no measure of influence.

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Free white paper: key trends of 2013

Sherrilynne Starkie

In it, we take a look back at the important new trends, metrics and benchmarks that will inform digital communications strategies into the New Year. Click here to download your copy now to get the hard numbers behind the eight key trends of 2013: Powering events through social media. Social media for health.

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New report resurrects AVE measurement for influencer campaigns

Sherrilynne Starkie

That’s why I was surprised to see the concept resurrected in a recent report from InfluencerDB , an influencer marketing software company, which uses Earned Media Value (EMV), the cash value of attention a brand gets on social media. So where’s the influence? Getting meaningful influencer campaign measurement.