Advertisement
 
 

Are Too Many Metrics Blurring Your View of Your Customer?

January 17, 2013
The importance of establishing connections between individuals and brands—and measuring their impact—is growing. As brand messages are being influenced more and more by social conversations and the insights garnered by users, businesses are often formulating advocacy metrics to justify their user engagement programs. Maybe we're thinking about this all wrong. Some components of online marketing shouldn't be measured just because we have vaguely similar numbers that can be manipulated and formulated into a value based on some mystical proprietary algorithm. This does nothing more than make us feel good about the work that we're doing and goes without providing any...

 

More Suggested Content:

Ben Ardito
Show Me the ROI, Part 1: Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Email
January 29, 2010 From All About Email
The day that social media reaches near-ubiquitous adoption is fast approaching, and the pace will only quicken as brands move beyond experimenting with social media and begin to focus on business value. Of course, how marketers should measure that value remains a mystery.
 
Liz Elting
What Social Media Can and Can't Do for a Global Marketing Campaign
July 21, 2011 From eM+C Daily
Online retailers have embraced social media for domestic marketing campaigns, often succeeding in reaching their strategic goals through the use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs. E-tailers have found that social media can help them engage consumers, broadcast promotions and boost profits, all with a relatively low investment.
 

SPONSORED CONTENT

MORE ON ONLINE MARKETING >>

FROM THE BOOKSTORE

Topics in the Marketing Manifesto include: The future of marketingMarketing and sales standardsPermission-based marketingPreparing, predicting and performing campaignsIntegrating marketing into corporate governance and marketing leadership Marketing Manifesto

Topics in the Marketing Manifesto include:
The future of marketingMarketing and sales standardsPermission-based marketingPreparing, predicting and performing campaignsIntegrating marketing into corporate governance and marketing leadership...

ORDER NOW

In Managing the New Customer Relationship: Strategies to Engage the Social Customer and Build Lasting Value, you'll get chapters focusing on: Managing the New Customer—and the New Customer RelationshipPlanning Relationships with Existing CustomersOne-Through-One: Engaging Social CustomersB2B RelationshipsCustomer AnalyticsAnd more! Managing the New Customer Relationship: Strategies to Engage the Social Customer and Build Lasting Value

In Managing the New Customer Relationship: Strategies to Engage the Social Customer and Build Lasting Value, you'll get chapters focusing on:
Managing the New Customer—and the New Customer RelationshipPlanning Relationships with Existing CustomersOne-Through-One: Engaging Social CustomersB2B RelationshipsCustomer AnalyticsAnd more!...

ORDER NOW

 

SPONSORED CONTENT

MORE ON SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA >>

FROM THE BOOKSTORE

Topics in the Marketing Manifesto include: The future of marketingMarketing and sales standardsPermission-based marketingPreparing, predicting and performing campaignsIntegrating marketing into corporate governance and marketing leadership Marketing Manifesto

Topics in the Marketing Manifesto include:
The future of marketingMarketing and sales standardsPermission-based marketingPreparing, predicting and performing campaignsIntegrating marketing into corporate governance and marketing leadership...

ORDER NOW

In Managing the New Customer Relationship: Strategies to Engage the Social Customer and Build Lasting Value, you'll get chapters focusing on: Managing the New Customer—and the New Customer RelationshipPlanning Relationships with Existing CustomersOne-Through-One: Engaging Social CustomersB2B RelationshipsCustomer AnalyticsAnd more! Managing the New Customer Relationship: Strategies to Engage the Social Customer and Build Lasting Value

In Managing the New Customer Relationship: Strategies to Engage the Social Customer and Build Lasting Value, you'll get chapters focusing on:
Managing the New Customer—and the New Customer RelationshipPlanning Relationships with Existing CustomersOne-Through-One: Engaging Social CustomersB2B RelationshipsCustomer AnalyticsAnd more!...

ORDER NOW

 

COMMENTS

Click here to leave a comment...
Comment *
Most Recent Comments: