Jim Sterne: social media KPIs are dependent on the individual organization and its goals

Jim Sterne Earlier this year I interviewed Jim Sterne, a few weeks before the SES conference in London, where Jim was a keynote speaker (you can read the interview here). The purpose was that I would attend the event, but unfortunately I couldn’t make it.

However, I closely followed the event online and saw an interview with Jim by Byron Gordon on YouTube (you can watch it below). In the interview Jim announced that he was writing a new book, on measuring the business value of social media marketing. Good news, for me anyway. So I thought it was time for a new interview and asked Jim to give a sneak preview of his book. 

He was kind enough to send me much more than a sneak preview. However, let me start with the answers Jim gave to the questions I asked him, before sharing some takeaways from Jim’s book that will be published by John Wiley & Sons.

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Interview (part 1 of 2): Click Consult on social media optimization

Last week I wrote a few times about the impact of social media marketing on SEM and posted about some search engine marketing companies that were sharing their opinions regarding social media and search.

One of them was UK-based Click Consult (read the post here), that offers SEM services but also other Internet marketing services.

I decided to interview them about what is called ‘social media optimization’ (SMO). 

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