How Social Proof Translates into Buying Decisions

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how and why marketing buyers make decisions. It’s probably an oversimplification to say “because of Facebook or Twitter,” but I think that’s an increasingly critical issue—social proof. I was reminded yet again of how things have changed by a spirited discussion kicked off around a Mark Cuban blog [...]

Social Measurement from Demand to Revenue

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Let’s say you put together an amazing event and promote it via pay per click, your website, Facebook and Twitter. Post-event, you check your reporting and discover that you got 300 leads through the event. Pretty cool, but wouldn’t you like to know how many of those leads came from a social source?

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Hey Marketer, Where’s Your Social Bait?

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Perhaps you’ve read the 360i research indicating that people spend 5 percent of their time online searching and the other 95 percent at their destination. No problem, you think, my company website is loaded with fabulous content and eye-catching visuals. But when your customer or prospect performs a search, the first three results that pop [...]