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71%
of data
marketers
would like to
add predictive
analytics
around lifetime
value to their
customer data
profile
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50%
of marketers use
or plan to use
customer lifetime
value as a
measurement of
brand’s
effectiveness on
social media
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41%
Of social media
marketers view
“Customer
lifetime value” as
“important”
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5 key questions we asked to
start figure out our social
lifetime value
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5 key questions we asked to
start figure out our social
lifetime value
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This would be where you start
tweeting with #smwa if you like
what I’m saying
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Lifetime value of a Facebook fan to
20 top global brands, April 2013
Source: Syncapse “Value of a Facebook Fan 2013”
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Lifetime value of the materials of the
human body
Source: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/april12011/
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Lifetime value of a fan in social media
2010 (via Vitrue)
Source: Vitrue via AdAge:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/value-fan-social-media-360-
102063
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Why the discrepancy?
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• Syncapse used purchase intent and history
to determine theirs
• Virtue used media impressions to determine
theirs
• Data genetics used, well, the raw materials
of the human body.
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…and social impressions
don’t matter unless they
result in UVs
… and we don’t really sell
anything product based in
this part of the biz
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We’ve got social referrals, so
it’s all good, right?
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(otherwise known as – The “social
referrals” are “whatever my analytics
tools tell me are social referrals”
defense)
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Social referrals roll up all this
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• Social brand communications (the “social
media” team)
• Social traffic coming from paid acquisition
(the “audience dev” team)
• Social traffic coming from product
integrations (the “product team”)
• Repeat visits generated through community
(the “community team”)
• “The everything else” (PR? Marketing?)
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So?
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• Each one of these has different people,
skillsets and optimization paths involved.
• For the most effective measure of lifetime
value, they should be tracked separately.
• Each one will likely result in widely different
acquistion costs and lifetime value.
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The battle for social souls (and attribution
issues there in)
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WHERE BRAND
SOCIAL VOICE
MATTERS
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Tumblr
• Google+
• Pinterest
• Social Media team
WHERE RAW
SOCIAL TRAFFIC
MATTERS
• StumbleUpon
• MyLikes
• Ad.ly
• ChaCha
• Digg
• Audience
Development team
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Struggles with brand communications and
performance
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• Real-time content > ephemeral nature
• Content optimization (here’s what we’ve got
vs here’s what you want)
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Struggles for social paid / influencer
acquisition
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• “Content fraud”
• (i.e. Tweets with Hey, look it’s Justin Bieber’s
new single… oh wait, it’s just a link to a jobs
listings page… MADE YOU CLICK!)
• Content is the only determining factor – you
are relying on it to hook the user
• Probably not ideal for extremely sensitive
brands
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A user journey
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Your
super
awesome
media
website
Social
media
stuff
Branded
social
comms
Paid social
acquisition
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Social referral buckets
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• Social traffic coming SPECIFICALLY from
social brand communications (the “social
media” team)
• Social traffic coming from paid acquisition
(the “audience dev” team)
• Social traffic coming from social integrations
on your websites (the “product team”)
• Repeat visits generated through community
(the “community team”)
• “The everything else” (PR? Marketing?)
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Think of all the ways you can share on site
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• Share buttons from posts
• From comments
• From parts of comments
• From forums
• Excerpts of posts
• Conversations
• Social contests / giveaways
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A user journey
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Your
super
awesome
media
website
Social
media
stuff
Branded
social
comms
Paid social
acquisition
Social
product
integration
On-site
social
activity
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Integration points for campaign tracking
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Content tools / CMS
Social products / solutions
Editorial workflow
Third-party publishing tools (Hootsuite, Sprout
Social)
Homegrown publishing tools
Manual copy and paste
Even most enterprise level Social Publishing Tools still
require you to integrate your social campaigns with your
site metrics.
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A user journey
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Your
super
awesome
media
website
Social
media
stuff
Branded
social
comms
Paid social
acquisition
Social
product
integration
On-site
social
activity
Things
that make
your
super
awesome
website
money
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A social media follower isn’t
unique to our sites until
they’ve taken an action to
make them trackable as one.
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(psst… This one is up to your analytics
package or social sign-in / membership
product)
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A lifetime – contribution value
of our social followers who
return on ANY channel within
a year
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Value – amount of value we
can realize from a site visit
(typically value per page of
our ads)
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Return rate
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Assuming a visitor acquired through a
social media channel are attribute to
“social”, we saw measurable return traffic
from these visitors for up to a year.
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The five questions on one-slide
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Question #1: Who’s tried this math before?
Question #2: What falls under “social media”?
Question #3: How does “on-site” activity factor
in?
Question #4: How can we tie all of our social
media together?
Question #5: How can we calculate lifetime
value?