TY - BOOK AU - Holloman,Christer TI - The social media MBA guide to ROI: how to measure and improve your return on investment SN - 9781119208310 AV - HM851 U1 - 659.14/4 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom PB - John Wiley and Sons Ltd KW - Social media KW - Management KW - Rate of return KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - E-Commerce KW - Internet Marketing KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Strategy -- Measure ROI by Platform. Facebook -- Twitter -- YouTube -- LinkedIn -- Google+ -- Pinterest -- Blogs --Tools. Choosing a supplier -- Popular measuring platforms -- Case Studies. O₂ -Customer service -- Sabre Hospitality Solutions- business development -- Makino- sales -- giffgaff- customer retention -- BRAVEday Insurance- communication -- Beats by Dr. Dre- viral campaign -- Safeguarding ROI N2 - "The first book to explain how you can measure social media ROI across multiple departments, for internal/external social media based activities, as well as for new business models (product/services). This book provides help in establishing a thorough social media plan, examining your goals, audience and channel strategy, before examining tools and techniques to measure social media metrics and key performance indicators. This book debunks the myth that ROI, web metrics and social media measuring is a 'black art', and makes it easy to understand and use, enabling the reader to create bespoke ROI metrics and improve the return on activity. Practical, straightforward and informed by the key principles which the author has explored in his Social Media MBA, this transformative look at ROI will inspire a move away from 'Likes', 'Followers' and 'mentions' and towards pounds, euros and dollars"-- UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119208310 ER -