Entries by Mark Toney

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The Six Most Important Social Media Engagement Metrics

Social Media Engagement is measured in many different ways. In the end, the goal of Social Engagement Metrics is to show strengths and weaknesses within your social marketing campaigns. How well your social media efforts perform in these six areas of engagement will determine if you are generating the right ROI from your businesses social […]

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Marketers Not Jumping on the Snapchat Bandwagon Yet

A little more than three months after its blockbuster IPO, it has gotten relatively quiet around Snapchat. Even after reporting less than stellar first-quarter earnings last month, the company’s stock price never dropped below the IPO price of $17. There remains a bit of skepticism regarding its long-term outlook, though, and not everyone is convinced […]

What Are The Most Important Social Metrics For Twitter?

I hear the debate all the time when looking at social metrics. Of course, I’m referring to the Twitter debate. Is Twitter still a good social platform for business? Should we consider Twitter to be a marketing tool, or is it just for people who have a lot of time on their hands and have a need […]

Is Your Brand Misbehaving on Social Media?

The rise of social media has presented brands with a new, more direct way of communicating with their customers. Instead of planning ad campaigns months in advance, brands can now react to trending topics in real-time, weigh in on current events and just be in touch with the world. Unfortunately, social media advertising done poorly […]

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Everything You Should Know About Bounce Rate

Bounce Rate is one of the most misunderstood metrics in web analytics.  Let’s demystify it for you. A bounce is a single-page session on your website. OK, here is the very technical explanation: In web analytics, a bounce is calculated specifically as a session that triggers only a single request to the Analytics server, such as […]

Social Media Spending- ROI Impact Disconnect

  Social media spending is expected to climb to a 20.9 percent share of marketing budgets in the next five years. This share was only 5.6 percent in 2009. What is striking, however, is that only 3.4 percent of marketing leaders report that social media contributes very highly to firm performance; 40 percent report a […]

New Study: Social Media Engagement is Overlooked

According to new commissioned research conducted by media industry leader Scott Moore on behalf of Share Rocket, marketers must understand, measure, and harness the metric of media engagement to drive ad effectiveness with today’s digital-savvy consumer. The research, “Consumer Engagement: The Important and Often Overlooked Role of  Social Media Engagement” showcases insights and findings on […]

Luce Media | Fractional CMO, Marketing Strategy, and AI Insights

Welcome to Lucé Media.  We are glad you stopped by.

Most of the marketing content you find online is written for people who want to get busy. This blog is written for CEOs and business owners who want to get it right.

At Luce Media, we work with founder-led and CEO-led companies that are tired of random acts of marketing. Our clients range from companies doing $5 million to $50 million in revenue. What they have in common is this: they need marketing to be owned, governed, and accountable to the bottom line.

That is what we write about here.

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