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Calculate the ROI of Your Social Media Campaign

Here is an interesting article about calculating the Return On Investment of your Social Media Campaign.

First the bad news: If you’re going to calculate the ROI of your social media campaign, you’re going to have to know math. That may come as a disappointment to people who thought social media was only about accumulating Twitter followers or monitoring Facebook “Likes,” but it’s true. The future of social media is about math, metrics and monetization.

The problem is that most companies aren’t doing an effective job of measuring the value of their social media campaigns. In fact, a recent survey by Econsultancy found that 47% of the companies it surveyed said they were “not able to measure” their campaigns and that “the jury is still out” on the value gained from their social media investment.

If you’re one of the people who isn’t measuring your social media campaigns on an ROI basis, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Here are some tips, advice, and a little bit of simple math to get you on the right path to ROI success.

Via: Mashable

Dealer Impact Systems Adds Automatic Human Voice Over Capabilities

Dealer Impact Systems Adds Automatic Human Voice Over Capabilities

Dealer Impact Systems (DI), a leading provider of digital marketing and reach solutions, is once again raising the bar for automotive dealers seeking to elevate their online inventory presence across the Internet. The company today launched their AHVO or “Automatic Human Voice Over” application, the latest addition to the company’s comprehensive suite of video and digital reach products developed exclusively for auto dealers.

DI customers can add AHVO to their current digital marketing solution with a single phone call-no onsite or system upgrades are required. Once enabled, the AHVO application automatically pulls nightly inventory information from the dealer’s videos and generates vehicle-specific descriptive commentary from an existing bank of thousands of pre-recorded voice clips. The AHVO application then auto-creates a complete human voiceover clip for the video, including detailed vehicle information, as well as geographical and dealership information.  The human voice clips not only enhance customer experience, they also boost search engine results rankings.

Voice Clips Automatically Generated

“Even with recent improvements in text-to-speech technology, studies show that consumers recognize and prefer a real human voice to computer generated speech,” said Brian Cox, president and founder of Dealer Impact Systems. ” That’s why we took the time and resources necessary to ensure that our voice bank is extremely comprehensive.”

DI has long been committed to helping automotive dealerships promote their inventory listings across the digital landscape as quickly and seamlessly as possible. “AHVO significantly shortens the time it takes to get a vehicle that’s sitting on the lot into the dealership’s Internet marketing promotions in a powerful way,” said Cox.

DI customers can add the AHVO enhancement to their current digital marketing system for $150 per video license per month. There is no set up fee.