Digital Marketing Files: Are Marketers Forgetting to Talk Today?

Klurig Analytics was interview by Dom Nicastro for a great article in CMS Wire whether marketers are remembering that it is not about social media and social media analytics.  Marketers still need to interact face to face, over the phone, live with customers.  On the other hand, you also need to monitor your social media … Continue reading Digital Marketing Files: Are Marketers Forgetting to Talk Today?

Phases of Social Media Analytics

Social media analytics techniques are constantly advancing.  Looking back, we are going through different phases of social media analytics.  Based on this concept, we have passed through the first and second phase of social media analytics and we are now entering the third phase.  This post gives you a high-level picture of the three phases … Continue reading Phases of Social Media Analytics

Social Media Analytics

Social media analytics is constantly changing and currently it seems that we are moving into phase two. Phase one of social medi analytics was mostly about number of followers, fans, posts and tweets. The idea was that if you have a large number of fans, then you were doing well. That makes sense and often … Continue reading Social Media Analytics

Social Media ROI – three types of Social Media Return

A few days ago, while discussing the Social Media ROI with a client, I realized that we were talking about two different things. It got me thinking – there are many different ways of defining the Social Media ROI. Some definitions have already been made Social Media Part 4 and Social Media Part 5. In … Continue reading Social Media ROI – three types of Social Media Return

Social Media ROI – Part 3

From Social Media ROI – Part 1 and Social Media ROI – Part 2, we saw different ways of calculating the Social Media ROI.  In the third part, I am introducing a down-loadable Excel spread sheet (link at the bottom of this post) for calculating the Social Media ROI.  The spread sheet is based on … Continue reading Social Media ROI – Part 3

Social Search

Social Search is a concept that keeps popping up but there does not seem to be a common understanding of what exactly it is. This post will attempt to lay out a definition and then follow up why social search is useful as an online/offline complement to non-social searches like offline library searches or online … Continue reading Social Search

Consumer Predictive Behaviors

In the summer of 2008, I created a slide deck about consumer predictive behavior for our online news and social network site. As an internal deck, it is not beautified but it helped channel our thinking. Nevertheless, the deck tells a good story about consumer predictive behaviors and I would like to share it with … Continue reading Consumer Predictive Behaviors

Social Media ROI – Part 1

There is an ongoing discussion whether Return on Investment (ROI) should be used on Social Media. One camp argues that the primary reason ROI should not be part of Social Media is because the development of Social Media is so recent that the key performance indicators (KPI) used to calculate the ROI have not yet … Continue reading Social Media ROI – Part 1