Can we finally conclude that social media marketing is not a hype?

As you know, earlier this week eMarketer.com released a report that leaves no room for doubt: social media marketing and email marketing are no competitors but “friends”.

Many have claimed that with the increasing adoption of social media by people, email marketing would go through rough times, to say the least.

But as I wrote in previous posts, this is nonsense, spread by people that focus on marketing and communication channels, rather than on what really matters.

I am not the only one that has been shouting that social media and other marketing channels work together very well. Several ESPs, for instance, knew that the integration between email and social media was coming (read this excellent post for instance).

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How to measure your social media marketing efforts

We have been posting a lot about the measurement and ROI of social media marketing lately.

Here is a post by contributor Ambal Balakrishnan’s ClickDocuments blog that looks at the topic from a practical perspective.

Is your time spent on social media networks worth your investment? When using social tools for marketing purposes, you need to provide metrics that will justify your efforts. But how can you measure discussions, tweets, engagement and relationships?

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