how to measure the success of your social media campaigns
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My presentation on measuring social media campaigns from Be Wizard 2012TRANSCRIPT
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Hannah SmithDistilledhannah.smith@distilled.netwww..distilled.netwww.seo-chicks.com
http://twitter.com/#!/hannah_bo_banna
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What do you want your Social Media Campaign to do?
• Get people talking about you – Brand awareness / engagement / PR
• Shift consumer opinion– Reposition your brand
• Consumer research• Manage your reputation online• Customer Service
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Reactive vs Proactive Campaigns
Reactive Campaigns: • Manage your reputation online• Customer Service
Proactive Campaigns:• Get people talking about you • Shift consumer opinion• Consumer research
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Reactive Campaigns
• Think PR / Customer Service • Put processes in place to listen and respond.
People are probably already talking about you online ignorance might be bliss, but it could be bad for business.
http://socialmediatoday.com/sgehman/344400/4-toolstechniques-help-you-monitor-your-brand
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Measuring Reactive Campaigns
• What might a PR disaster cost you?– Might be better not to find out!
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Measuring Reactive Campaigns
• What is the ROI of customer service?– Hard to quantify
• Consider using Customer Service metrics instead– Time to resolution– Frequency of escalation– Is it quicker (and therefore cheaper) to resolve a
complaint via social media than traditional channels?
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Wait! What about Sales?
• Sales / Conversions are symptomatic of a good proactive social media campaign
• But you may struggle if you’re only ‘selling’ via social media
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Because you need the community to amplify your messages…
They decide whether or not to allow your message to spread.
You no longer have control – this is not about buying reach, it’s about earning it.
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Want to do a Proactive Campaign?
• Get people talking about you • Shift consumer opinion• Consumer research
You’ll need a content strategy…
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What Should you Measure?
Gauge your audience’s reaction to different types of content…
Do more of what’s worked well & look to either improve or remove the stuff that hasn’t worked.
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Good things to Measure
• Conversation• Amplification• Applause• Economic Value
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/best-social-media-metrics-conversation-amplification-applause-economic-value/
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Amplification
• On Twitter:– Amplification = # of Retweets Per Tweet
• On Facebook, Google Plus:– Amplification = # of Shares Per Post
• On a blog, YouTube:– Amplification = # of Share Clicks Per Post (or
Video)
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Applause
• On Twitter:– Applause Rate = # of Favorite Clicks Per Post
• On Facebook:– Applause Rate = # of Likes Per Post
• On Google Plus:– Applause Rate = # of +1s Per Post
• On a Blog, YouTube:– Applause Rate = # of +1s and Likes Per Post (or
video)
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Remember…
• These metrics are often platform centric AND content centric– What works well on Twitter might not work on
Facebook• Figure out which content works best on each
platform
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Economic ValueThis is platform-centric - you’ll need to compare channels e.g. Twitter versus Facebook to see which are sending...
• Sales• Enquiries• Sign up to newsletters / offers• RSS subscribers• Take free trial• Download a coupon
When calculating ROI incorporate both initial and lifetime value.
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Multi-Channel FunnelsLast click attribution doesn’t tell the whole story…
http://www.distilled.net/blog/web-analytics/google-analytics-multi-channel-funnel-tips-from-my-searchfest-presentation/
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Fans / Followers etcYou should still track followers / fans BUT…
“Companies over-value followership and under-value participation. Yes, you can go out and buy 1000 followers. But if they all ignore you from that point on, they’re worthless.”
Ian Lurie: www.portent.com @portent
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Visits
• Traffic is great but most sites are unable to monetise traffic alone
• By all means measure this – but it probably won’t be a core metric for you
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Key Takeaways
• Proactive– Measure via
• Conversations, Amplifications, Applause & Economic Value• Evaluate different types of content & the platforms
• Reactive– ROI is tricky here.
• Consider using Customer Service metrics e.g. time to resolution, frequency of escalation, cost of service etc.
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Hannah SmithDistilledhannah.smith@distilled.netwww..distilled.netwww.seo-chicks.com
http://twitter.com/#!/hannah_bo_banna
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Useful Tools
• Facebook Insights– http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/creative/in
sights/page-insights-guide.pdf• Wildfire
– http://monitor.wildfireapp.com/• Simply Measured
– http://simplymeasured.com/
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Useful Tools
• Social Mention– http://www.socialmention.com/
• Topsy- http://topsy.com/
• Crowdbooster- http://crowdbooster.com/
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Further ReadingProactive• http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/best-social-media-metrics-conversation-a
mplification-applause-economic-value/• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media
Reactive• http://socialmediatoday.com/sgehman/344400/4-toolstechniques-help-yo
u-monitor-your-brand• http://www.salesforce.com/uk/socialsuccess/social-media/expert-intervie
w-brad-cleveland-social-customer-support.jsp
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Image credits• Leaping straight in - http://www.flickr.com/photos/billward/5756463308/sizes/z/in/photostream/• Social Media - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kexino/6336663225/sizes/z/in/photostream/• Proactive - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/4435490471/sizes/z/in/photostream/• Cheerleaders - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/4764667152/sizes/z/in/set-72157623544311963/