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Social Media ROI vs. RONI

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Understandably, as businesses begin to invest more marketing/PR dollars into social media, there is great concern over the ROI of these activities. Tools like HubSpot do a great job of quantifying social media leads, but still have some last-click bias. RONI: reduced customer satisfaction, damage (possibly severe) to brand.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

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How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year. Use Facebook fan pages to help with SEO?

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 4

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With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. But what metrics are really most appropriate for social media measurement? Is your social media strategy built on a solid foundation, or is it more like a Hollywood movie set—a pretty facade with nothing behind it?

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

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Social media, and discussions of its value for PR and marketing, have become ubiquitous. But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable? What's the best tool for social media research and learning? How can you explain the value of social media to skeptics?

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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How should you measure the impact of social media? Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR.

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Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 2

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tags: PromotionWorld Rob Wood TopRank Online Marketing Blog Lee Odden Informal Learning Blog Jay Cross HubSpot Preshant Kaw B2B marketing MediaPost Aaron Goldman Search Insider Summit micro-conversions white paper downloads iMedia Connection J. Brooke Aker semantic search semantic advertising Wildfire Marketing Group Jeremy L.

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SEO Is Not Dead, Just Changing: What This Means

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SEO requires a mix of skills-coding, design, copywriting, link building, PR, social media optimization-that most organizations don't have in-house. There will also likely be more emphasis on search-driven conversions, though this is, strictly speaking, more of a website optimization than an SEO issue.

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