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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The social sphere of students: college kids can reach 671 consumers

A few weeks ago, MediaPost wrote about a new “University of Media” study, conducted by Mindshare’s Business Planning group in partnership with Alloy Media + Marketing and Brainjuicer.

The study found that an average US college student has exactly 87 email contacts, 146 cell phone contacts, and 438 friends on social networks.

The study aimed at finding out the consumer behavior and media exposure among college students aged between 18 and 24.

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