Developing KPIs for Social Media Campaigns

13 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Developing KPIs for Social Media Campaigns

One thing people are always asking is, “How do I measure social media?” Realistically, there are a hundred things you can measure. But it’s important to measure things that matter. And before you can measure things that matter, you need to establish goals and targets to ensure that any KPIs you choose help you gauge [...]

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Blogworld 2010 Notes: Social Media & ROI

16 October 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Blogworld 2010 Notes: Social Media & ROI

I’m having a blast out here in Las Vegas for Blogworld 2010. It’s been great meeting new friends, seeing old friends, watching world records get broken (largest cup of coffee), and being around a ton of smart folks. One of the sessions I attended yesterday was titled, “Social Media & ROI.” Obviously this is a [...]

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Community Measurement – ROI

23 February 2010 ~ 13 Comments

Community Measurement – ROI

This is part 9 of a 9 part series on what to measure and how to determine the ROI of your community website. This is the final piece of this series. We last left off on some other things to measure that might not fall into any one category or just hadn’t been covered here [...]

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The Future of Online Measurement – Interviews at Social Fresh Tampa

10 February 2010 ~ 5 Comments

The Future of Online Measurement – Interviews at Social Fresh Tampa

On Monday I attended Social Fresh in Tampa. Social Fresh events take place in various markets across the country and focus on bringing together smart marketers to talk about the business of social media. I had a great time at the event and took some notes, which you can see here. Social media is clearly [...]

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Community Measurement – Other Ideas

21 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Community Measurement – Other Ideas

This is Part 8 of a 9-part series on what to measure and how to determine ROI of your community website. It’s been a while but we still have two more pieces to cover as part of this series on community measurement and ROI. We last left off before the holidays, talking about measurement of [...]

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Community Measurement: Sales Info

08 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Community Measurement: Sales Info

This is Part 6 of a 9-part series on what to measure and how to determine ROI of your community website. Previously on this community measurement series, I discussed some things to analyze that will help you determine how influential your community website is and how trusted/valuable pople think it is. The topics we previously [...]

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Community Measurement – Influence

03 December 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Community Measurement – Influence

This is Part 5 of a 9-part series on what to measure and how to determine ROI of your community website. In the last article about community measurement, I covered member info – some items and metrics that you should be following to learn more about your members. Today, I want to talk about a [...]

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Community Measurement – Member Info

17 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Community Measurement – Member Info

This is Part 4 of a 9-part series on what to measure and how to determine ROI of your community website. The last piece of community measurement I covered was the category of content and activity. Today, I want to write about some items and metrics that you should measure to learn more about your [...]

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Community Measurement – Content and Activity

03 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Community Measurement – Content and Activity

This is Part 3 of a 9-part series on what to measure and how to determine ROI of your community website. In case you missed them you can see part 1 here and part 2 here. Last week, I covered some overall statistics to measure to use as part of the overall picture to see [...]

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Community Measurement – Overall Statistics

29 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Community Measurement – Overall Statistics

This is Part 2 of a 9-part series on what to measure and how to determine ROI of your community website. As I mentioned last week, I’ll be going through some of the things companies who have their own community websites should be measuring so they can eventually determine the ROI of their community. I’m [...]

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