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The Social Influence Surge—Are You Prepared?

Harp Interactive

The New Rules of Social Engagement. With social media now mainstream, we’re experiencing a surge of consumer influence from “social shopping”, consumer reviews and online word-of mouth-marketing. Below is a presentation on the power of social shopping and word of mouth marketing.

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89% of CMOs Say Social Data Has Influenced Their Decisions

The Realtime Report

A recent study of 100 CMOs by Bazaarvoice reveals that nearly half of CMOs have used social data to make predictions or forecasts. The survey asked members of the CMO Club (a forum for top marketing executives) how they value social data, as reported by MIT Sloan Management Review.

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Word of mouth marketing: how to drive conversations and sales at the same time

Sprout Social

Companies with plenty of positive buzz and frequent social mentions grow rapidly in the age of social media. Here are the most common types of word of mouth marketing that consumers encounter in the wild: Social shout-outs. Either on-site, social media, Google or third-party review aggregators. Review sites?

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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? Among social media pundits, the debate rages on. Among social media pundits, the debate rages on.

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Selling on Instagram: Everything you need to know

Sprout Social

Platforms such as Bazaarvoice , Pixlee and Dash Husdon each represent all-in-one social selling tools for brands interested in turning their Instagram accounts into storefronts. A bonus of using these types of Instagram social selling tools includes advanced analytics and user-generated content curation. Influencer marketing.

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Rocket Content – Your B2B Secret Weapon

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post by Ian Greenleigh , the Social Media Manager at Bazaarvoice – the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications. The business decision makers (BDMs) that have the purchasing authority for our products and services tend not to be involved very heavily—if at all—in social media.

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Social Pros 8 – Ian Greenleigh of Bazaarvoice

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 8 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Ian Greenleigh , the Manager of Content and Social Strategy for Bazaarvoice. Read on for insights from Ian,, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: an UNstat!).