social influence marketing

Thanks to the Altime­ter Group and Web Ana­lyt­ics Demys­ti­fied, we now have a frame­work for decid­ing how to mea­sure progress with social media mar­ket­ing — a draft model that’s worth talk­ing about. The frame­work has many mer­its, but also lim­i­ta­tions, espe­cially for start-ups or enti­ties in the early phase of their life cycle, before there’s much con­ver­sa­tion about them online.

Revised on June 4, 2010

Social media experts like Shiv Singh rec­om­mend that you des­ig­nate one or more peo­ple to serve as your organization’s social media voice.

The chal­lenge with this rec­om­men­da­tion is that such peo­ple are in short sup­ply and high demand. If you’re lucky enough to employ peo­ple with authen­tic SIM voices, you’re vul­ner­a­ble to poach­ing if you can’t moti­vate them to stay with your organization.

Revised on December 17, 2009

Today I received one of the best-ever com­ments on a blog post­ing; how­ever, the per­son who responded to my post took the time to track down my address and then sent me a very thought­ful mes­sage via email. Given the trou­ble he took to com­mu­ni­cate in this man­ner, I sur­mise that he did not want […]

Razor­fish has pub­lished the results of a sur­vey and analy­sis they did jointly with TNS Cym­fony. In their report enti­tled Flu­ent, they explored the links between brand affin­ity, pur­chase deci­sions, and the impact of peo­ple and social net­works at dif­fer­ent stages of the con­sumer buy­ing cycle. This post describes the types of social influ­encers, and looks at the impli­ca­tions of Razorfish’s pro­posed social media met­ric for B2B marketers.