Sheri Klein


Sheri Klein As a Research Director, Sheri Klein is responsible for advising the planning and research process for the Ad Council’s public service campaigns. She is also responsible for evaluating campaign effectiveness and conducing cross-campaign analyses for the organization. A sociologist in training (and at heart), Sheri has been involved in social research for over 10 years and plans to chronicle research trends and best practices within the social marketing world.

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The Power of Suggestion

A few years ago a friend told me that whenever there is silence in a room, 50% of the people in that room are thinking about Abraham Lincoln. While the validity of this fact has yet to be proven, it has absolutely changed my life. Now, regardless of whether or not I want to, I [...]

Key Drivers of Website Traffic

In the past, I have taken a pretty hard stance on the idea that norms and averages across social advertising campaigns should not be used when trying to establish goals and measures of success.   The chart below, which illustrates website visitor data for 43 Ad Council campaigns, supports this notion.  It is clear that there [...]

Unfair to Compare: Considerations for Setting Goals and Evaluating Social Marketing Campaigns

 

Creating goals and evaluating the success of our social marketing campaigns tends to elicit the same types of questions:

What can we expect from this campaign?
How do these results measure up to other campaigns?

While these types of questions help provide context (in setting expectations and evaluating whether or not a campaign did well), they force us [...]