Measuring the Effectiveness of Internet & Social Media Marketing

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One of the best parts of internet marketing is how measurable your efforts are. Unlike TV, radio or print you can see exactly how many people interacted with your brand online, what they did, what they bought, where they came from and more. This workshop explores the key features of Google Analytics as a free tool to measure the effectiveness of your internet and social media marketing plan. Topics to be covered include initial set-up, individual reports generation, establishing campaign metric goals, and analyzing reports.

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Measuring the Effectiveness of

Internet & Social Media Marketing

Amanda O’Brien

Hall Internet Marketing

Social Media Breakfast Maine

Internet Marketing is the most measurable marketing around

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Tie your social media goals into your business goals!

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What are you

participating in

social media for?

• Short term sales

• Engage existing customers

• Complement promotional campaigns

• Encourage word of mouth

• Brand awareness

• Increase searchability

• Spread news and information about your business

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“You've got to be very

careful if you don't

know where you're

going, because you

might not get there.”

You don’t have

to do all of this!

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Let’s Measure!

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Whatever you spend time on,

Make sure you get more from it

Search Engine Optimization

Measuring SEO

Keyword rankings

Google Analytics

Site traffic

New and repeat visitors

Referring traffic

Time on site

Bounce rate

Website conversions

Measuring SEO

Keyword rankings

Log OUT of Google

Tools:

SEM Rush

SEOmoz

SpyFu

Measuring SEO

Site traffic

New and repeat visitors

Referring traffic

Time on site

Bounce rate

Measuring SEO

Website conversions

Measuring SEO

Setting up goals and defining funnels

Name of goal – email signup, contact form filled out, purchase

Define funnel – Home page to Products to About Us to Contact Us

Value - $$

Type of goal - URL Destination, Time on Site, or Pages/Visit

Goal Value When visitors become customers

10% Contact Calls = Lead

Cost per sale = $500

Goal = $50

Email Marketing

Measuring Email Marketing

ESPs tracking

Opens

Clicks

Shares

New signups

Inbound traffic

Redeemed coupons

Blogging

Measuring Blogging

Site traffic

Subscribers

Popular posts

Comments on the blog

Inbound links

Search rankings

Sales

Time spent

Measuring Blogging

Inbound links

Trackback

Traffic sources

Open Site Explorer http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Google Alerts

Social Media

Things you can measure

• Traffic data

• Fan/follower data

• Interaction data

• Content performance

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Where is the ROI?

( + ) x

ROI is Easy Return on Investment

Ratio of value received to the actual cost over a base period of time

Resources x Rate

Return = ROI

Time spent (track it)

Talent & Technology

Rate

Money in the bank

So what is the problem? High bounce rates| Low conversion rates | Low pages per visit | Fear

Tippy top of the sales funnel – Discovery – Powdered Sugar

Bottom of the barrel of the sales funnel – Retention - Dough

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Let’s Measure!

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Fan/Follower Data

Traffic Data

Interaction data

Content Performance

URL Builder Google URL Builder: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578

Social Value

Create Custom Reports

Multi-channel funnels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4yHOKE5j8

Social Interaction Analytics

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSocial.html

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-track-tweets-facebook-likes-and-more-with-google-analytics/

Social Interaction Analytics

We still cool?

One Example CruiseSource and

Royal Caribbean

Social Media contest:

Objective

Data points

• Blog post views/shares

• New fans

• Views/interactions

• Mentions

• Search rankings

Summary

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Quickest Summary Ever

If you are going to put the effort in you should:

• Have a plan

• Measure if it works with key business metrics (not social media metrics)

• Keep what works, ditch what doesn’t

Thank You

Amanda O’Brien

amanda@hallme.com

@amanda_pants

www.hallme.com/blog/

www.socialmediabreakfastmaine.com

Amandapants.com

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