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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Six years ago, we were talking about the growth of blogging and MySpace. Surveys show only 18% of companies say they saw meaningful return on investment from their social media activities while the other 72% report modest, no return or inability to measure the return on their investment in social media.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. I see more and more people complain about not being able to measure social media ROI and I wonder what they may be doing wrong. It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. David, Spot-on opinion. Answers Yahoo!

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Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The study culminates a great deal of analysis including a survey of more than 1000 e-mail managers (mostly IT managers and executives, and records and document management specialists). A recent CIO survey found that only 18% of organizations have deployed blogs, and only 13% have deployed wikis. Intranet (Finding ROI) White Paper.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. But back to MySpace.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline. About a year ago, I wrote a guest post here titled “ Use Online Listening for Competitive Research.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Can those results be tied back directly to sales, and therefore ROI? Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated. It’s about humanization.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

link] Kristi Hines I think that is probably the best way to get into the minds of the people your advertising is targeting, as opposed to the 1 – 10 rating surveys or expecting your demographic to come to a corporate website to voice their real opinions. Setting the bar very high for agencies indeed.