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Link storm: Google Tag Manager, Facebook ROI, and the future of PR

Google Tag Manager: The biggest story of the week! Will tag management the Google-style disrupt that market or will it lead to a steady evolution? At least Google does what it’s best at: Offer a simple and userfriendly solution to reach out for a much bigger user base than the “traditional” vendors. Being a player on that market may become more exciting - and more dangerous…
http://analytics.blogspot.de/2012/10/google-tag-manager.html

Web Analytics Demystified’s Eric Peterson on the same topic:
http://blog.webanalyticsdemystified.com/weblog/2012/10/good-guy-google.html

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Mr. Kaushik thinks big: In his most current blog post he want to do nothing else than re-defining the ROI of Facebook marketing. “We (CxOs, Marketers, Analysts) don’t really understand what is unique about Facebook. Because we don’t understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. We can do much better.”
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/facebook-advertising-marketing-best-metrics-roi-business-value/

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The future of PR is participation in talks, not to hold monologues:
http://www.baekdal.com/insights/is-there-a-future-for-traditional-pr-/

Therefore you lose control of your message fast.
With Adobe Social at least you can regain some of it:
http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/digital-marketing/social-media/adobe-social-review/

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How much does SEO cost: An infograph on regional SEO markets (via Cool Infographics):
http://searchengineland.com/infographic-how-much-does-seo-cost-109152

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