Blogging, Web 2.0 and social media must be examined very differently when it comes to returning on investment. A blog account and domain are usually less than $50 a year, plus your staff time. I bring 5000 new eyes to your business, is it worth it? If you get 5 new clients, is it worth it? If even a few customers are helped as a result - the cost is cheap! Katie Paine is an expert on blog ROI. And she was quoted in Paul Gillins The New Influencers. She is a veteran public relations executive and has spent the last fifteen years researching, writing and speaking on the topic of measuring the value of public relations and social media investments. She believes nearly everything online is measurable; it’s just a matter of choosing what to measure. We always say, and she agrees, blogging and social media marketing is a competitive necessity and can be a competitive advantage. If you are not out there building new networks and webs, chances are your competitor already is. If he is not, great! You get the first-mover advantage. If he is, you can catch up. Paine has said for her own business, she likes to monitor click-throughs from her blog to her website. We also monitor very closely performance on Google key search terms and the traffic those bring in. Good search performance is money in the bank. If you can “own” your keywords, that’s a huge ROI, that isn’t quickly translated to dollars, but will, eventually. It’s all about search. We say it time and time again. Can you be “found” easily online? Are you coming up in keyword searches? Search is the best thing that ever happened to small businesses. Many companies can not afford costly pay-per-click campaigns around certain keywords. However, through blogging and Web 2.0 strategies you can come up in the same searches and reach an international audience for much less.
We had a client recently spend $5000 with us. Within 90 days he had traffic, owned 4 of 6 keywords on Page One Google, AND he got a new client for $4000! THAT'S HUGE ROI! That DOES NOT usually happen. We usually caution clients to view their investment and ROI over a one year period. It takes time to plant all the seeds and watch them grow. But the return is that people have so many new channels to find you and your services - besides just 1 static website. Remember, it's all about SEARCH! Can you be found?
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