Social Media Is About Engagement With A Purpose

Have you ever wanted to know which of your links are driving more traffic? Seeing referral traffic from Facebook is great, but which wall post drove the traffic? Do visitors who come from Twitter tend to spend more time on the site than visitors coming from a banner campaign?

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Social Media Is NOT About Engagement http:// bundlepost.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/soc ial-media-is-not-about-engagement/ ... via @ fondalo // Heresy? What say you, @ kanter ?

A few days ago, my colleague Suzanne Walsh, shared a tweet with me that pointed to a blog post titled, "Social Media Is Not About Engagement?" from Bundlepost (a social media productivity tool). I recently heard this same idea from colleague Carie Lewis during our Measurement Worksh

"The world's greatest love letter is useless if it doesn't achieve the desired effect - get the date or marry the person," Donald K. Wright, Harold Burson Professor and Chair in Public REaltions for Boston Uniersity quoted in PR WeekJune 2011. Maybe I've been watching too many Sex In the City reruns, but I adore this quote.

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How many views make a YouTube video a success? How about 1.5 million? That's how many views a video our organization, DoSomething.org, posted in 2011 got. It featured some well-known YouTube celebrities, who asked young people to donate their used sports equipment to youth in need.

Source: Every referral to a web site has an origin, or source. Possible sources include: "google" (the name of a search engine), "facebook.com" (the name of a referring site), "spring_newsletter" (t

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So you've got your marketing all set. You have paid search ads going, your pages are well optimized and generating good natural search, your Facebook ads are working, and you're getting lots of traffic. (I know, this probably is a fantasy situation, but let's go with it.)