3. 1. Why Measure Social Media?
2. The Challenge of Measurement
3. 5 Steps to Measurement Success
4. Monitoring vs Measurement
For the purposes of today:
Social Media Monitoring is the process of observing
social media data in order to gain insight from, or
respond to, conversations about a specific topic.
Social Media Measurement is the act of recording and
analysing the results of social media activities with the
goal of evaluating performance.
17. 5 Steps to Successful Social
Media Measurement
18. 1) Separate out your goals
Awareness
Measured by brand
recognition, recall
Relationship
Measured by
closeness to
customers, NPS, advoc
acy
Financial
benefit
ROI or reduced
expenditure
19. ROI is the easy part
Are you making more money than you are spending
on social media?
Income
Cash revenue + direct cost savings
Expenditure
Your time + direct expenditure + resources
Ask the right question:
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What’s the ROI of [activity x] in Q1 of 2013?
20. Month All Traffic Social Media % Sales
Oct-11 673918 220 0.03% 1
Nov-11 637519 127 0.02% 3
Dec-11 654046 182 0.03% 0
Jan-12 696009 4482 0.64% 16
Feb-12 642625 9214 1.43% 41
Mar-12 807200 7433 0.92% 43
% website traffic and sales referred by
social media
21. Referral traffic value (ROI)
Month All Traffic Social Media % PPC value*
Oct-11 673918 220 0.03% £440
Nov-11 637519 127 0.02% £254
Dec-11 654046 182 0.03% £364
Jan-12 696009 4482 0.64% £8,964
Feb-12 642625 9214 1.43% £18,428
Mar-12 807200 7433 0.92% £14,866
*Based on Google Adwords typical cost per click for selected keywords.
22.
23. 2) Create your own Measurement
Framework for each goal
ROI (£)
Direct sales + cost savings
Twitter Facebook
Indirect
sales
All social
channels
26. 3) Get a good measurement tool
Tool Focus Cost
Social Bakers Facebook, YouTube and
Twitter analysis with
extensive reporting.
$100 for 3 accounts
Twitsprout Facebook and Twitter
analysis, highlights top
times for engagment
$100 per month
PageLever Facebook analysis, of
multiple pages, including
alerts (for certain
actions).
$99 per month for up to 5 pages
Twittercounter # of fans, fan growth,
interactions, competitive
analysis
Free. Small fee for reports
SocialDon Analyses pages, fans,
interactions, influencers,
Free
27. 4) Pick the metrics that work for you
1. Fan reach - The number of fans of your
Page who have seen any given post.
2. Organic reach - Organic reach includes
everything except viral views.
3. Engagement - The number of people
who clicked anywhere in your post.
4. People taking about this - People who
have Liked, shared, commented on
your content.
5. Clicks - Including Link Clicks, Video
Plays, Photo Views.
6. Negative Feedback - Hiding, unlinking
or reporting content as spam.
28. 1. # of followers / follower growth
2. Reach - qualified in some way!
3. Engagement – i.e.
replies, mentions, RTs
4. Clicks – on URLs in Tweets
5. Hourly/daily stats – useful for
scheduling
29. 1. Contacts – Collectively for your
staff
2. Followers – Company pages
3. Page views / unique visitors
4. Engagement – Likes, shares,
comments
5. Group Members – if you own
the group
6. Group Posts – if you are building
closer relationships
32. Luke Brynley-Jones
Founder & CEO
luke@oursocialtimes.com
+44 (0)845 463 1435
@lbrynleyjones
www.oursocialtimes.com
Thank you!
Social Media Agency
Audits
Strategy
Marketing
Campaigns
Management
Monitoring
Measurement
Notes de l'éditeur
Monitoring = for Research or EngagementMeasurement = for Evaluation
The key to social media success is measurement.
The sheer number of social networks…WhatsApp in January processed 18 billion messages a day. SnapChat users sent more than 60 million photos each day.Path is adding 1 million new users per week.
Vanity statistics# of fans, followers, friends, contactsThere is SOME value – but the value is in what you do with them.
Difficult to quantify:Reach – how many people saw it, paid attention, what impact did it have?Influence – how much do people listen to this person? What impact do they have? Is it just reach? Klout / Kred / PeerindexSentiment – 50% accurate, but useful for spotting crises and for customer service
How to measure “engagement”Facebook already does this using EdgeRank - .e. Share / Comment / Like / ClickTo do this properly – you need to measure it per fan/follower (e.g. Social CRM)A general figure can be indicative.
Facebook announced a few months back that they has made a mistake in the
In strict measurement terms – if you cannot make a direct causal relationship, you don’t have a workable model.Using awareness metrics to deliver ROI won’t work.Using relationship metrics to deliver Awareness won’work
Awareness – always a by product of activity. But is it enough to justify your time?
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