Social Listening: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about the double-edged sword of social media listening and response. Should We Reconsider the Facts About Social Listening? “Listen” is the dogma of social media. Every social media consultant since the dawn of Friendster has a slide (or 23) about listening […]
4 Ways to Thump Your Competition with Better Facebook Analysis

Managing a Facebook page is a major part of many companies’ marketing and communication programs, but the data we use to measure the effectiveness of those efforts is sorely lacking. Facebook consistently changes what’s measured and how, adding complexity and incongruence to an already squirrely data scenario. For example, People Talking About This is the […]
Why Insourcing is the Next Social Media and Content Marketing Trend

Social media and content marketing are in the middle of an arms race. Channel and opportunity proliferation combined with surging boardroom interest have created a pervasive atmosphere of “more is better.” The veracity of that outlook is debatable, and I typically counsel corporate clients to do less, but to be notably good at whatever social […]