How To Measure Social Media ROI

Tweet Brian Solis has an excellent post this morning on measuring ROI in Social Media.  One of my biggest takeaways is the survey he cites is that 84% of marketers don't measure Social Media Return on Investment. He suggests that you tie social media initiatives to specific outcomes: – Sales – Registrations – Referrals – […]

More on Website Success and Return on Investment

We built a website a few years ago for a firm that sells an online service. “How many of these do you want to sell?” I asked. “50,000” was our customer’s reply. I explained that with a conversion rate of anywhere from less than 1% to, possibly 3-5% that he was going to have to generate significant traffic to his site to meet his goals.
He decided to focus primarily on cold calling!
“Good luck with that.”