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How to Talk to Executives About Social: @Sandy_Carter Interview at #SXSW

This week at South by Southwest, Simon Pearce (@Simonpearcelive) talked to Sandy Carter of IBM (@sandy_carter) about how to communicate the benefits of Social Media within the enterprise. Sandy talked about ROI, overcoming the social media fear factor and how to talk to your colleagues effectively about social. 

Secret revealed: Why your digital analytics are going nowhere

Back in 2008 I was happily doing what analysts do: tagging sites, analyzing data and spending a whole lot of time complaining about the lack of buy-in, recommendations going nowhere and how miserable and...

Three Lies and One Truth About Social Media ROI

Over the past week, the Digerati has been all up in arms about a recent article in which a Coca-Cola executive publicly announced that social media has very little direct impact on short-term sales....

Marketing: Bigger, Better, Stronger, Faster with Big Data Analytics

I pity the marketing organization. It has to deal with a lot of change. First it was the pesky empowered consumer. Then it was understanding device proliferation and cross-media consumption. As if that wasn’t...

Measuring Marketing ROI Along the New Path-to-Purchase

The internet has reshaped the consumer’s path-to-purchase more than anything since Bulova aired the first television advertisement in 1941. Although online advertising has been around since Prodigy was promoting Sears’ products in the 1980s,...