Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 21, 2011

If you’re new to social media marketing, you might feel like you’re a little late to the game. However, fear not, there are some who have actually been slogging through social media so long without any discernible results that they might as well have started yesterday. Or gasp, you can’t measure it and there’s no ROI!

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Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 16, 2010

Last week I wrote a post that got a tremendous amount of love from the folks over at social media today and rightly so, it was all the reasons why I love social media. 3) Your social media certification classes didn’t really take off like you thought. 14) Social media is dead anyways.

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Social Media Real Estate Foursquare Case Study 173

Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

If you are a marketer thinking about social media marketing then there is a good chance, if you have not done anything yet, that its because you just don’t have enough information yet. In this post I want to address those issues so that you can get started with social media marketing. Is it fear of social media?

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Social Media Conference Policies Social Networking 174

Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 30, 2010

Tags: social media.

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Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 21, 2013

It needs to be looked at for what it actually is – the top of the funnel component of a larger program to generate awareness AND behavior using social media and content marketing. They’re thinking that presence equates to value divided by attention will equal ROI. . But, it’s not magic beans.

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Wikipedia ROI Influencer Social Media 208

Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Thanks to the folks at MDG.

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Social Media Marketing ROI 221

Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Some will call this ROI and still others will simply break down these efforts as, “Here’s the money coming in, here’s the money going out and here are the expenses.”. Whether it is sales, leads, deals closed, online orders or prospects identified etc., companies can’t really keep the lights on without this type of quantifiable data.

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Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Look at a Starbucks , who became early on, the darlings of social media and engagement because of the fact they grew to a million Twitter followers rather quickly. It just happened, but tons of pundits/people and social media consultants were looking at that million follower mark as social nirvana. A massive push?

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Klout Facebook Metrics Engagement 206

Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

1) This post The hidden cost of social though a bit long by Mark Schaefer really deconstructs the conversation, give it a read. 2) It’s funny, but I was talking to someone the other day about the difference between communities and social media, and lo and behold I came across this article, Is social networking community building?

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