Social media is the Internet: how online marketers must measure social media metricssocial media for marketing

Lisa Buyer, president of the Buyer Group, interviews Mel Carson, Microsoft Advertising Community Manager, Microsoft Advertising on the subject of social media and the marketing mix at SES London, 2011. According to Mel, social media is the Internet. Mel says this is because the Internet is inherently social. Whether it's through search, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, or any other social media platform, the Internet is inherently social. Mel says marketers should always consider a social veneer across all of their marketing and digital campaigns, because there is a social element inherent in any devise used, whether it is via mobile, TV, Web, including games,

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