Duke-CMO-Survey-Measuring-Biz-Impact-Social-Mktg-Spend-Aug2013Marketers’ struggles measuring social’s ROI are well-documented. But here’s another sobering view from the top: according to the latest CMO Survey [pdf] released by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, just 15% of CMOs in the US can confidently say they have quantitatively proven the impact of social media on their business. By contrast, 49% haven’t been able to show the impact yet, and the remaining 36% have a good qualitative – but not quantitative – sense of the impact.

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