Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your Marketing Investment
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your Marketing Investment

Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your Marketing Investment
i know the meaning of it, but how it helps us in web marketing strategies . .
Social Networking is just another way of spreading the word about your website, you can setup a page for your business, the more places your business / website is seen with links to your website the better it is for allowing people and search engines to find your website, services and products.

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Do you know what social media marketing is and to go about making money with social media?
First of all before you can make money at something you need to know what it is. Once you are educated on the subject then you can start to make money.
So what is social media marketing?
Social media marketing is promoting and trying to sell your product on social networking sites. For example a couple of different social networking sites would be facebook, Twitter, and You Tube, just to name a few.
Some other forms of social media are blogging and forums. With blogging you can write about your products and reach thousands of people. I would suggest this blogging blueprint for making money if you want to get serious about it.
On forums you can have links to your website abd tell others about your products. You can also talk to people and create relationships with them by answering their questions on your products. You can find forums relating to the theme of your business at Big-Boards which is the largest message board and forum site on the web today.
So how do you use social media to make money?
By having links to your website on many different kinds of social media websites then you can potentially increase traffic to your website resulting in many more customers which will result in many more sales.
If you are doing this for internet business reasons it can lead to you making money.
With so many different forms of marketing on the Internet, making money with social media is an easy and fast way to get in front of potential customers. There is no reason you could not start a new blog and be getting 500 visitors a day in less than 2 months if you work at it.
To find out more about making money with social media you need to further your research and decide which social media sites are best for you and the customers that you are trying to reach.
You can find many websites online that offer excellent training on social media including ebooks, and blogs specificially about it.
To make money with social media you have to work hard at it all of the time, just like any other form of internet marketing. If you are willing to do this you can start and run any business you want online and use socail media to promote it.
Jeff Schuman
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/how-to-use-social-media-to-make-make-money-645932.html
Basically the social media marketing is marketing by using social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis or other media for marketing, sales, public relations and customer service. Current popular ones are twitter, facebook, youtube, linkedin and blogs.
In the context of Internet, social media refers to a collective group of web properties whose content is primarily published by users, not direct website employees. For example Yahoo! Answers content is primarely by users for users, or Youtube video content is published by users.
We at Rentate also use the social media marketing for vacant apartment advertising, rental advertisings or simple property sales advertisings. Even though Rentate is online property management system, landlords can publish their properties in twitter, facebook, myspace, oodle and some other classified ads.
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Im thinking about getting my double degree in Business Administration and in Communications….both bachelors. Or should I just eliminate the double and just go for the MBA. My goal is to become a Marketing Director of a social media Co.
Please Help!!!
MBA is better. Double majors don’t get you much in the job search. It just tends to make you look weird or they don’t notice it at all. The MBA will be a much more impressive thing to see on your resume.
So, what are your general thoughts on internet marketing using :
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Paid Search Marketing
• social media Promotion
• Banner Advertising
• Video-Based Messaging
• Podcasting
Also, is anyone familiar with a company called Optey out of Boston, MA? Please advise folks, thanks.
SEO gives you the best return on marketing investment in the long term as you’re getting free organic traffic.
Paid Search is the fastest traffic generation method online today and is very measurable.
Social media promotion works best for certain types of products and services that benefit from word-of-mouth or viral marketing promotions.
Banner advertising works well for brand exposure purposes.
Podcasting helps you to engage the audience.
My favorite? Paid search and banner ads in the short term, SEO in the long run.
Today there are several ways to get traffic to your website. social media traffic is one of them does traffic from stumbleupon, facebook, myspace, digg etc will help convert better for affiliate marketing.
Thanks
TJ
Social Media Traffic helps in terms of getting you more of an audience to make sales to.
The key with Social Media Traffic, is building trust and relationships. You have to be part of a cool, informative valuable conversation with the customer to get the sale.
Making more better conversions depends upon your sales process. To make better conversions, you should split test parts of your sales process and use the additional traffic from social media to assist you.
You may even want to consider making special offers specifically to the different social media sites. Example: "This is an exclusive offer only for Myspace Members."
Social Media Traffic give the affiliate marketer more choices and more opportunities.
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