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

Sprout Social

Food for thought: recent research from Bazaarvoice notes that recommendations from everyday social media users (36%) are the most meaningful to consumers, handily beating out influencers and even subject matter experts. Stepping up your response time and personalizing customer care can cement your positive reputation. 1000% recommend.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

Yet a Bazaarvoice/CMO Club study showed that only 15% of CMOs could point to a “significant return&# from Facebook marketing efforts, while 9% report no ROI and 35% basically had no idea. Make your content easy to share by including social sharing buttons on your blog posts.

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Peter Schram doesn’t come right out and say that social media ROI can’t be measured, but rather that organizations should “focus on five key areas where social media will create actual value&# that aren’t strictly about sales ROI, including corporate reputation, employee engagement and customer service.

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Media140 Sydney: Social Media Twitter & Journalism

Laurel Papworth

I think Newspapers run negative communities, because they get SO much wrong on Purpose, Values, Identities, Trust, Reputation, Leaders, Roles, Etiquette, Events, Rituals but the communities I am involved in rarely have more than a few snippy exchanges. BazaarVoice found overwhelmingly that reviews online are positive.

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Forrester: Email and search drive online sales, not social

Dave Fleet

More broadly, what about organizational reputation (where PR plays strongly too)? Social can help to drive that – whether through advocacy programs or through tools like Bazaarvoice. What about cost avoidance? What about driving people to sign up to receive information over time? Of course email matters.

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

Convince & Convert

The best sessions I saw this year were at Get Ready to Live , a one day “shadow conference&# put on by BazaarVoice , BlueClover , and Chris Brogan. But now, even the best content is beyond the official SXSW boundaries. I suspect we’ll start seeing much more of this parallel programming to meet the needs of advanced practitioners.