You can’t measure ROI that’s produced by social media programs. That’s a giant myth. You can. To quote Stephen Quinn, CMO, Walmart, “I’m always baffled when I hear people say, ‘It’s really hard to prove the ROI.’ We have ROI that’s really strong. And, it’s transforming our organization.” So how does a company achieve astonishing […]
Seventy people volunteered to work for free for 6 months to help me launch my company. Here’s why, and how we keep that enthusiasm alive in our culture 17 years later.
It’s a myth that you can’t measure return on investment that’s produced by social media programs. You can. To quote Stephen Quinn, the chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart, “I’m always baffled when I hear people say, ‘It’s really hard to prove the ROI.’ We have ROI that’s really strong. And it’s transforming our organization.” So […]
We’re often asked how we help the world’s biggest brands maximize the results of social. Their daunting task can involve managing hundreds of social pages with hundreds of thousands of comments in dozens of languages. (Actually, LiveWorld supports up to 70 country-language combinations, to be exact.) Here is a quick list of the kinds of […]
Most of the Fortune 500 CMOs understand the benefits of social media—more brand awareness for the marketing buck, customer service improvements, heightened customer loyalty, and growth in sales, to name a few. As marketing expert Jeff Hayzlett said to me when I interviewed him recently, “CMOs know social media is the right thing to do. […]
At some point, every social media director has to sit down and show their boss that their social strategy is “working.” When that moment comes, they typically turn to an engagement metric—say, the ratio of average total of likes, comments and shares on posts to the total number of fans. This isn’t a bad metric. […]
