Why 2,000 Facebook Likes Won’t Save Your Job!

“I wish we didn’t have to spend 10 hours creating a report every month to show [advertisers] that what we’re doing is worthwhile.” Victoria Harres, PR Newswire

Does that sound like your job? I know it sounded like plenty of roles I had within major companies!

But as a Social media marketer, we believe in the power [...]

Is It Time To Reconsider Sentiment Scoring?

In a recent blog post called The Problem with Automated Sentiment Analysis from Fresh Networks, a social media agency, they evaluated a few sentiment tools and their results are quite similar to what we’ve found in a number of our own experiments:

-       About 80% of posts are neither positive nor negative.

-       Sentiment tools “accuracy” of [...]

How much is that Facebook Fan worth anyway?

Vitrue a social media marketing platform determined that the average value of a Facebook ‘fan’ is about $3.60 when it comes to a Media Equivalent Value (MEV) per year. This calculation is based on the brand posting to their Facebook Fan Page twice a day and that they have a million fans which equates to [...]

Is Lady Gaga and your Brand a good match?

Recently a client of Networked Insights approached us about exploring a celebrity endorsement and/or a product placement with the pop music star Lady Gaga. So we deployed our social data analysts to look at the Lady Gaga audience and our client’s audience to see if indeed there was a good fit for this brand. As [...]

Marketing needs to be more Adaptive!

Ok so this isn’t the newest concept you ever heard of – but hear me out – its time we really changed a few things in the marketing organization.

So its easy to see that today’s marketing teams are not that well equipped to handle “real time marketing” as David Meerman Scott defined it. We need [...]

Small Budget - Big Impact

So let me ask you a question – if you could get more mileage out of your existing car – would you do it? Of course you would! So if I could show you how to improve the “gas mileage of your existing marketing budget – would you do it? Same dollars just more effective. [...]

Use Social Media to set Smart Media strategies

Let’s make the assumption that you’ve successfully integrated your paid, owned and earned (POE) marketing efforts across the board. You’ve cut off a lot of fat and reduced the amount of money thrown in more directions than you can pay attention to. Now what?

First, recognize that there are too many potential consumer touch-point opportunities offered [...]

Consolidate and Coordinate your Media

Forrester has observed that advertising/PR agencies are battling each other for dominance in the digital media space. In reality, the agencies that are actively engaged in this battle are not the ones you want to represent you.

Instead, you want truly integrated agencies like the ones Kirk Cheyfitz alludes to in a recent Huffington Post article. [...]

The End of Traditional Marketing

Paid, owned and earned media. Those three words, often shortened to “POE,” have bounced around for years. And, like the contemplations of communication theorist Marshall McLuhan, they have taken on new meaning with the collision of traditional and digital marketing strategies.

In 2009 Forrester issued a report that outlined the world of interactive marketers in the [...]

Social Lift is the Ultimate Rate of Change

You have a killer piece of original content that starts rippling out from its source. The two things social lift analysis can tell you are how far and how fast those ripples move. If the content ripples 900 times, but that takes 10 years, you won’t see much benefit. If it ripples 900 times in [...]