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What is the best way to tack results with social media marketing?

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Question by Robert: What is the best way to tack results with social media marketing?
How does a business owner track their results? Are there tools or software that can show true return on investment numbers to meashure their social media? Example: Google Analytics is one great tool to identify online traffic by impeding a code within your website or blog. What other tools are on the market?

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Answer by Steve
I use Google Analytics as a baseline approach. It gives you a lot of information. The other one I like is Quantcast.com. It gives me all sorts of weird information, such as 9% of my visitors are African American. How they arrive at that number I have no idea.

A better answer to your question is here though:

http://mashable.com/2009/04/19/social-media-analytics/

The basic answer is to Optimize your existing analytics software using plugins or built in tools.

Give your answer to this question below!
The Future of Internet Marketing and Social Media

Social media sites have revolutionized the way online businesses market themselves and their products or services. Tapping into a community which often is predisposed to your particular brand, product or service has led to increased visibility and sales. The viral nature of some social media sites, like YouTube has also increased brand awareness. As we move forward, the tools and techniques we utilize for our social media campaigns will continue to change. The future of internet marketing and social media is bright.

Perhaps the biggest change for social media marketing will be incorporating social media directly onto business websites. Allowing members to post videos, comments, pictures and more will become more commonplace. Other popular social media tools such as sharing will continue to become a large factor when developing websites and media campaigns. We are likely to see ‘memberships’ on business websites. Much like popular social media sites such as FaceBook and Twitter, businesses may be making the leap towards fully incorporating social media directly on their sites.

Businesses will continue to utilize the popular social media sites as a part of their advertising campaigns. In fact, they are likely to begin to designate more time, effort and even funds towards developing strong social media campaigns. For example, many

2 Responses to “What is the best way to tack results with social media marketing?”

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    July 26, 2010 at 9:21 pm

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    • Isaac Marcum says:

    July 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    Here is a fun trick:

    Posting on social networking site, post on forums, blogs, and so on it can be hard to understand how many people have actually seen the site. There is no way to gage how it’s been seen.

    One way to fix this is by linking on the site to an image on your website server. by adding that image every time someone views the page it will show up on your analytics. You can even see which page.

    Adding this technique to Google Analytics will help to really see the results.