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World. Data. Analytics. Popuri.us :: quickly check your site's Google PageRank, Ale. Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel. The R Project for Statistical Computing. Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure and Monitor Social Media S. If you want to be able to track the success of a social media campaign (and for that matter any online marketing campaign) you have to benchmark and measure against something.

If you want to start a social media campaign tomorrow then you need to make sure you have the tools and metrics to measure, today. You can’t just use a tool that gives you a snapshot of your overall social media presence, you need something with numbers that you can compare and benchmark against. This is what corporations and executives are looking for. Keep in mind that there plenty of other things to measure that don’t have a specific quantifiable number, however the focus of this post is just on quantifiable metrics and the tools to measure those metrics. First thing’s first, outline all of your goals and expectations and make sure you understand them.

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