Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of using social media can be tricky. The inability to measure its impact can be a huge barrier for companies wishing to employ social media. And for those who do use social media in their business, it’s difficult to see how well, or indeed, how badly, a campaign is going. Read more – ‘Quantitative Social Media Monitoring Tools (Tracking and Analytics)’.
Do you want to get serious about using Twitter to market your services? Do you need to measure how much impact a topic has on Twitter? Or are you just just curious about your Twitter “performance” or perhaps someone elses? Well, here’s the good news: there are lots of analytics tools you can use to measure topics, followers, retweets and more. Some of them even provide you with free useful tools and widgets to integrate into your website or blog. Read more – ‘Twitter Monitoring and Analytics Tools’.
Social media is relationship and conversation media. At its core is the art of building relationships with others, human-to-human. However, you can’t be everywhere conversing with everyone at the same time. You need to pick your battles. Where you "hang out" digitally, just like any outreach and marketing program, should be driven by where your constituency hangs out. Read more – ‘Steps to a Strong Brand’.
Google Analytics describes itself as an “enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.” However, to really leverage the power of Analytics you need to set up profiles and filters to segment your data and create more meaningful reports. You’ll then be more prepared to write better-targeted adverts, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. Read more – ‘Segment your Google Analytics with Profiles and Filters’.
Google’s AdWords product helps connect you with potential customers in the right place, and at precisely the right time by placing relevant adverts on the right-hand-side of Google’s search results pages (SERPs) or through their content network, via AdSense. Read more – ‘13 Google AdWords Tips and Tricks’.
Since the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) was released at the end of February, we now have a stable platform on which to build desktop applications with our existing web skills. A number of people have already started and the Adobe AIR Marketplace is filling with AIR applications by the day.
So what is the big deal? Read more – ‘Great Adobe AIR Applications to Check Out’.
