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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Activity: Most web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, can be used to track the number of visits, traffic quality (e.g.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Popular with agencies as well as corporate users, Radian6 offers a rich set of tools for social media monitoring, responding, tracking, benchmarking and analytics. Vocus provides a rich set of tools for traditional and social media monitoring, media outreach and news distribution. Share this on Technorati. Tweet This!

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Can the financial return on expenditures for social media business activities– in marketing, PR, customer support, HR, product development or other areas — be accurately measured? Chris Bennett lays out the list of metrics he uses to analyze, track and “prove ROI’ from social media marketing.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

The truth is, many marketing professionals do not know what this software can do, much less what specific companies’ versions can do. This is especially true of the marketing management guys like Buddy, Involver, Vitrue, Wildfire, et al who all hope to be end-to-end solutions. Further, every company has analytics at some level.

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How Arena Stage Uses Initiators to Grow its Audience

Waxing UnLyrical

If you’re embarking on a marketing campaign that includes spreading awareness (and which marketing campaign doesn’t), you might want to take a page out of Arena Stage ‘s playbook and look for “initiators&# instead of “influencers.&#. They use Vocus to monitor “buzz.&# Is that smart, or what?

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

The answer may come from the email marketing field. Many of these were other B2B marketers, but others were social media experts, journalists, PR professionals, or just plain fascinating personalities. This list will be posted on Cheryl Burgess’ Blue Focus Marketing Blog. What is it? Jennifer Aaker. Allison Mooney. allimooney.

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Five Newsworthy Stories for Your Next Press Release

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Frank Strong of Vocus. Take a look at your analytics and determine which posts earned the most unique visitors and then write a press release about it. To promote his business, he does what good marketers all do well: he’s active on social media, publishes a blog, and contributes content elsewhere.