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Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Social Media Measurement News Roundup

March 10th, 2010 · Comments

This week brought with it some exciting news and stories in the area of social media measurement and, since I didn’t write any of them, I thought I would do my part to highlight some favorites.  I’m not going to trust myself to say that I’ll do this every week, I probably won’t.
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Tags: Industry News · Research · Social Media · Strategy

Facebook ‘Impressions’ Lend Little Insight

February 10th, 2010 · Comments

Any marketer who has directly measured or quantified the performance of a Facebook page or application knows full well how primitive and unreliable the Facebook Insights dashboard is.  Fan count, page views, and interaction rates serve as the key metrics which, to Facebook’s argument, does provide ‘insight’ into a page, but offers limited access below [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Marketing · Research · Social Media

Word of Mouth and Social Media Marketing… “Tipping Point”, or “Jumping the Shark”?

November 18th, 2008 · Comments

(note: This post isn’t meant to be a critique of the recent WOMMA Summit but rather my general observations about the evolution of the WOM industry as a whole.)
I recently returned from WOMMA’s Word of Mouth Marketing Summit in Las Vegas. It was a fun (yet sleepless!) few days and it’s always great running into/reconnecting [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Marketing · Social Media

Correlating Word of Mouth Conversations With Net Promoter Score

October 31st, 2008 · Comments

Here at Affinitive we strive to find and improve upon metrics for measuring offline conversations about our clients’ brands and products.  Online is easier to quantify with the tracking technologies available, but offline has always been a complex process and often difficult to measure accurately.
One of our current methodologies involves a survey distributed to a [...]

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Tags: Research