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Committing To Becoming Knowledgable About Social Media ROI

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Social Media ROI is something I struggle with. I’m committing today to becoming a professional in the area of ROI. It does mean I’m going to read everything I can find on the topic, starting with Olivier’s book and every post he mentions ROI in on his blog. I was not pleased about this, but you know.

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What’s the ROI of Training Rides?

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ROI (a.k.a. In both cases, if our “busy entrepreneur” could show a causal relationship between Facebook activity and driving sales, reducing costs, or both, she’d be on the way to figuring out the partial ROI of her Facebook activities. In these instances, figuring out the precise ROI of social media becomes hard and highly inexact.

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Social Media Measurement for Pragmatists

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Now, I suspect some of you may say something like, “Robert, calculating ROI in these cases isn’t always so easy.” The difference between being in the dark on the ROI of customer acquisition sources and illuminating a sizable chunk could be substantial in bottom line terms. And the math was fairly easy. ” I agree.

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15 Metrics You Should Measure in Content Marketing

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Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. This is one of the more tangible metrics for measuring ROI, as it directly relates to generating sales leads.

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Stop Chasing the Glittery Disco Ball of Influencers: Consider Micro Influencers

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Engagement numbers are great, but marketers need to move toward finding a way to measure actual ROI. We all have access to the tools and technology for better measurement of influencer marketing ROI. I couldn’t write a post for Shonali Burke and Waxing Unlyrical without talking about how you measure the disco dancing success.

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Bad PR Measurement Gets a Smackdown

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whether ROI can be anything other than a quantitative term. [Ed: CommAMMO Q2: ROI is a financial term. On Q2 – ROI (his self-proclaimed bête noire) @AlanChumley carried the water, and @Gnosisarts sloshed it around some, while others tossed in their cups too: CommAMMO Q2: ROI is a financial term. Good grief!].

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Happy 4th Birthday, #measurePR: The Queen of Metrics Returns!

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I asked Katie how PR and SM pros should approach “ROI”: @PChamero @shonali #measurepr nothing wrong with ROI measurement for PR, but most people don’t do it accurately, so cost benefit is better #measurepr. measurepr.

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