Research Explores Financial Value of Social Media Fans

For anyone who has ever wondered about the monetary value of having numerous Facebook fans and Twitter followers, some encouraging findings have been released.
Over 50% of Facebook fans and 67% of Twitter followers said that they are more likely to make a purchase from at least a few brands that they follow.  This statistic is [...]

Lessons from the AMA’s Measuring Social Media Impact Webinar

Social media creates both solutions and new challenges for measuring online influence.  Marketers are eager to leverage social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, but they are not always knowledgeable about how to measure the influence such efforts actually have on their brand.
Facebook and Twitter have numerical metrics, such as numbers for followers and [...]