Posts tagged with 'social data'

Social data is the honey badger of personalisation

Image of a honey badger - social data is the 'honey badger' of personalisation

It’s digital marketers’ ultimate prize: consumers fill up the internet with their ideas, preferences and interests. (This is the big, big data, people!)

Turn that into real-time offers on your website, and jackpot! Angels sing. All the web’s kittens dance. And you’re badder than honey badger overnight.

A whole host of technologies have emerged to make this happen. Marketers have no problem finding solutions to personalise their websites.

The core challenge remains: what’s the best way to do personalisation?

Word-of-mouth: focus on the steak, not the sizzle

Is social media, and the data it produces, overvalued? As companies continue to struggle the ROI from their social initiatives, some are starting to suggest that social's impact might have been overestimated.

But social media proponents say not so fast: social media is the digital channel for word-of-mouth, and although word-of-mouth has historically been hard to quantify, its importance is rarely questioned. Which raises an interesting question: instead of talking about social media, should we be talking about word-of-mouth?