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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

Measuring social media success and ROI for your business isn’t as challenging as you may think, and there are different ways to measure success to see how this is impacting your business. Community Growth & Sustainability. Community Growth & Sustainability. Here are the top ones: 1. Engagement, Shares, Comments.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care? It might frustrate you to know that LOTS of people are lurkers.

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Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics

Pam Moore

They may like to also talk with the people who work for the brand, use the brand's products or services or are simply part of the community surrounding the brand. They have an audience, fan base, community and customers who enjoy communicating on platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram with and about the brand.

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Diva Marketing Talks Boomers Step Into Social Media With Des Walsh, Barbara Rozgonyi & Carlos Hernandez

Diva Marketing Blog

Des is co-author of LinkedIn for Recruiting, now in its second edition and an e-book for small businesses, 7 Step Business Blog, recently translated into Mandarin Chinese. He is an Associate of China-based company CultureFish Media, which assists companies promoting their business online in China.

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

Convince & Convert

My clients are not small businesses so I can't speak to engagement there although I can see it as effective, but from the celebrity side and the consumer brand side, sometimes no to little engagement can work. link] [link] Kirsten Khire #7 – lurkers or inactive accts? Lots of lurkers. Lots of lurkers.

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16 Ways to Promote Your “Boring” Brand or Product on Social Media

Hootsuite

Bonus: repurposing user-generated content is always a nice way to reward loyal fans with a little piece of the spotlight, and offers social proof that might just encourage on-the-fence lurkers to make a purchase. Newsletter distribution platform MailChimp has a podcast that spotlights small business owners. Hold a Q&A.

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Kevin Barenblat presentes a taxonomy of social media failure types, including “canned responders,&# spammers, lurkers and serial re-tweeters. Michiel Gaasterland shares his collected list of 500+ case studies, from small businesses to global brands around the globe. You need help from the power users in that community.