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Showing posts with label social media return on investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media return on investment. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Dell and twitter - they aren't doing it for the money...

Why is it perpetually reported that because Dell makes money from Twitter everyone else can?

Dell is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. As a proportion of revenue - their Twitter income is farting in a thunderstorm. If you took that ratio and applied it to a "normal" - sub £100m business - it wouldn't be worth getting out of bed for - certainly wouldn't provide any sort of return on capital.

Twitter is the best PR tool Dell ever had - but that's all it is....