Marketing Science » social amplification http://mktsci.com/blog Real-Time Industry Trends, Competitive Analyses, Customer Insights Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:01:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The ROI of Social Media is ZERO http://mktsci.com/blog/2009/04/the-roi-of-social-media-is-zero/ http://mktsci.com/blog/2009/04/the-roi-of-social-media-is-zero/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:03 +0000 Augustine Fou http://go-digital.net/blog/?p=307 ]]> What is the ROI (define) for social media? It’s zero. That’s because there’s no such thing as “social media.”

People’s conversations are not media; they can’t be purchased as such by advertisers. In other words, people don’t talk whenever advertisers want them to and they won’t say whatever advertisers tell them to — so it isn’t “media” like TV, print, and radio.

If you treat people’s conversations as media, you’d be doing it wrong. Social marketing done right means asking for and respecting people’s conversations and giving them a public place to talk so others can hear. If the advertiser’s product is already great, much of the conversation will be positive. But even if it isn’t the advertiser will have the benefit of free “product research” because people will give them ideas for improvement. 

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Untargetables are hard to reach. Unreachables are not reachable by traditional advertising media or channels. 

read more about the ROI of social media on ClickZ … http://www.clickz.com/3633341

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