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10 Content Marketing Goals Worth Pursuing

10 Content Marketing Goals Worth Pursuing | SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about! | Scoop.it

Content is the new buzzword, but content alone has no magical powers. It won't transform your business or get you where you need to go ... until you add one thing... Which? It's what you'll find in this excellent post with ten goals to follow! [note Martin Gysler]


Ever wonder why content marketing works so well for some businesses … and doesn’t seem to do anything at all for others?


Curious about why some content that seems great doesn’t do anything to build the business?


“Content is king” has been an online cliché for years now, but it’s not true. It’s never been true.


Content all by itself — even terrific content — is just content.


It may be entertaining. It may be educational. It may contain the secret to world peace and fresh, minty breath, all rolled into one.


But it has no magical powers. It won’t transform your business or get you where you need to go, until you add one thing …


Content marketing is a meaningless exercise without business goals.


Read more: http://www.copyblogger.com/content-marketing-goals/

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Influence: What Are Tools Like Klout Really Measuring?

Influence: What Are Tools Like Klout Really Measuring? | SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about! | Scoop.it

A very interesting comparison of several measurement tools and what they really measure. [note mg]


For marketers, PR professionals and customer service teams, personal influence measurement tools can save time and help facilitate business decisions. Tools such as Klout, PeerIndex, Kred and TweetLevel are being used by brands to rank the relative importance of customers and prospects, prioritize customer service responses, and identify groups of influencers to target with perks and product sampling promotions.


But what are these personal influence measurement tools really measuring? Are they really an effective way to understand which of your customers are more influential?


It is easy to understand influence as a concept; if you can get other people to do something, you have influence. But it’s not at all easy to define how you would measure influence. As Nathan Gilliatt has pointed out, there is no such thing as a “unit of influence” – an observable, measurable event that reflects influence.


Read more: http://therealtimereport.com/2012/04/03/influence-what-are-tools-like-klout-really-measuring/

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