Viralogy

“Social media” and “ROI” - it’s hard to find two bigger buzzwords among internet marketers over the past couple of years.* Yet the combination of the two of these fields create both a compelling, yet elusive industry. Literally dozens of social media analytics companies have popped up over the past few years. The plain fact is that measuring social media ROI is not (nor will it ever be) an exact science. But ROI is measurable. The important thing is to be wary of and avoid the frequent pitfalls that come about when measuring it.

There’s nothing more elusive than a first time visitor. Visitors entering your site through inbound links (either via Google/Bing, through advertising or marketing campaigns) are exactly why you pay your marketing team, optimize your website for search engines and why you are currently investing in that crazy little social media fad. Yet once you finally [...]

Advertisements. Whether you like them or hate them, they are one of the means by which website owners are generating revenue. While for some the revenue from advertisements are enough to be the average American’s paycheck, for others it is just a nice way to get rewarded for hard work. Either way, even before thinking [...]