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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Lots of businesses think that the only thing interesting to their “fans&# are discounts or promotions. It might frustrate you to know that LOTS of people are lurkers. People who like results don’t like digital lurkers, because they can’t be tracked. I know I have a LOT of lurkers on my site.

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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

These word of mouth statements CANNOT be discounted. Many businesses have social media “lurkers” who are following along but d on’t always use social media to engage. My clients frequently have customers tell them “I love your posts on Facebook” or “I came here because I follow you on Twitter”.

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The Five Reasons Why Most Facebook Brand Pages Aren’t True Communities

Convince & Convert

In fact, the two most common reasons to like a brand are if you are a current customer or to receive discounts and/or freebies, according to a study by research firm, Chadwick Martin Bailey. Most of them are just casual observers or lurkers. This leads to a one-sided conversation led by the brand, or frankly no conversation at all.

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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

Waxing UnLyrical

The discount code SHONALI will get you 20% off. ’ Add to that the fact that the vast majority of content is consumed by people who can best be defined as ‘lurkers’ and people who never leave blog [comments]… measuring the efficacy of content by the number of comments received has never been effective.

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