Social Media Listening a necessary evil for 2010
Marketing is growing by leap and bounds. Looking into marketplace I see 50,000 Internet Marketing Freelancers and Companies trying to create a listening that they are the messiah of Online Marketing. Seemingly we have all but figured out Internet Marketing. But I don’t find a single dot.com, Ad Agency, Ad Network, or Freelancer who can guarantee me ROI [Return on Investment] forehand. Human mind and emotions is too complex for greatest of the scientists of our times to be captured in a magical equation.
SEO, zillions of Experts have their theory on Optimizing content on Google. Adwords experts claim to have figured of innovative ways to figure our Google Adwords Gaps and Quality Score. We know Rich Media Banners get better click through rates. Facebook application Marketing which came up in late 2008 is already a figured out technology. And when I talk to Social Media listening I am not talking about Facebook and Orkut, Youtube, MySpace Advertising. (more…)