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What’s the ROI of Training Rides?

Waxing UnLyrical

ROI (a.k.a. Most busy entrepreneurs are prone to asking, “Are my community building efforts on Facebook driving sales?” They might also ask slightly less obvious questions like, “Have I met new suppliers who reduce my costs, via this Facebook community I am building?”. Image: kondrag via Flickr, CC 2.0. Also reasonable.

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The Guide To Social Media Marketing Automation

Webbiquity SMM

In addition, a significant portion of social media marketing is engaging with your community. In addition to the content itself, each platform has its own unique features that help maximize ROI. All of this requires constant human input. Automation, in this case, merely refers to the execution of the campaign. Post-automation.

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Weekly Roundup: Overcoming Obstacles with Measurement

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Manitoba Coupon Maven via Flickr, CC 2.0. 5 Measurements for PR ROI. Why: I hear nails on a chalkboard every time “ROI” and “PR” are used together, because most of the time the context is completely off. Why PR and Marketing Must Work Together to Measure Success. Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Monday Roundup: PR Measurement Classics

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Auntie P via Flickr, CC 2.0. The ROI of Social Media: A Retrospective. Why: “The problem with trying to determine ROI for social media is you are trying to put numeric quantities around human interactions and conversations, which are not quantifiable.” It will be incredible, so I hope you’ll join.

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Map to Business Strategy: Geoff Livingston on #measurePR

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Image: moonty via Flickr, CC 2.0. Some excerpts: On Q1 (how PR measurement has/hasn’t changed in recent times): @ shonali More than anything PR has been forced to show tangible demand, leads and ROI. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™.

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Bad PR Measurement Gets a Smackdown

Waxing UnLyrical

whether ROI can be anything other than a quantitative term. [Ed: CommAMMO Q2: ROI is a financial term. CommAMMO There surely are good reasons to build a FB community, even if only marketing-related. alanchumley ROI easy a pie if you’ve set meas’ objectives and chosen the right metrics methods. Good grief!].

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Monday Roundup: Best Practices for Social Media Metrics

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: “There’s a difference between knowing what social media metrics to track and knowing which metrics are not meaningful when measuring social media ROI,” says Taylor Nelson in this Business 2 Community post that shows you how to differentiate “between the metrics that are vanity and useful.”

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