There comes a time in your social media adventure where you have to measure your work. That can be quite a task. Let me share what little I've learned about the topic!
9. Social Media Objectives
• Research and Learning
• Building Relationships
• Improving Reputation
• Content Generation
• Issues Awareness
• Driving Traffic
• Actions Taken
• Raising Funds/Sales
11. The Trick to Tracking
• Pick metrics to measure ahead of time
• Evaluate overtime
• Identify anomalies
• Tell a story with your data
• Track metrics that matter
19. Compare Social and Web Metrics
Web Traffic Reach People talking about
You
Likes
Visitors Frequency Mentions # of Likes
Top Content Referrers Viral Reach Popular Content
Donations Visitors Check-ins Engaged Users
Actions Views Stories from posts # of Comments
29. Use Web Analytics To:
• Know your referring traffic from social
• Top content (site sections/overall)
• See earned social traffic
• Identify influential websites
• See timing and content trends
• Compare web and social audiences
34. Ways to Measure Your Objective
• Research and Learning – develop monitoring
dashboard
• Build Relationships/Issues Awareness – increase fans or
#number of followers
• Improve Reputation – survey results
• Content Generation – number of passionate bloggers
• Driving Traffic – increase time on site, pageviews
• Actions Taken - # of comments, tweets, etc
• Fundraising – number of dollars directly and indirectly
36. Things to Remember
• We learned flexibility with social media and
free tools
• Remember your overall goals
• Pay attention to trends and compare data
• Look for message quality in mentions
• Use analytics to give you behavior
information