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Real Examples of Social Media ROI

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Summary: some published examples of "hard" ROI from social media. As part of the preparation for next Tuesday’s Webinar with 1to1 Media and Neolane (register here ), I poked around for some concrete examples of ROI from social media. Here’s what I found.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Spredfast Offers Systematic Management for Social Media Campaigns

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Summary: Social Agency’s Spredfast helps marketers schedule social media campaigns the same way they schedule paid advertising. If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. How are people actually spending their time online?

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

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Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. What really impresses me is that Techrigy is a serious social media monitoring solution.

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List of Marketing and Branding Blogs

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Here is list of marketing and branding blogs, courtesy of Chris Brown at Branding and Marketing. This is part of project to increase traffic for less-well-known blogs in the area. I haven't looked at every blog on this list but did remove quite a few from the original that didn't seem relevant. Being Peter Kim Pow!