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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Convincing businesses to use Twitter: the ROI, best practices and case studies perspective

Despite the interesting profile of the Twitter user (more about that profile in the related posts below this one), many companies still have to find the way to Twitter.

It varies from country to country, but let’s face it, most successful examples in terms of Twitter and marketing come from the U.S.

If you know good Twitter cases from other countries, please share them with me, I’ll explain why later.

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