From Social Media Benchmarks to ROI: How to Begin with the End on Mind

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Everybody wants to know - what's the social media ROI? Some claim there isn't a way to measure social media ROI. And others have redefined social media ROI to mean anything but return on investment. This presentation shows you how set up tracking, how to choose measurements based on the objectives you set and how to do the hardest thing of all - talk to your bosses about the fact that social media marketing just like any marketing is always a cost. Presented at Content Jam, Chicago, 2014.

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FROM BENCHMARKS TO MEASUREMENT

All You Need to Start with the End in Mind

Mana Ionescu, Lightspan Digital

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WHAT’S A BENCHMARK?

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WHY BENCHMARK

1. Measure Quality 2. Set Goals

You can’t benchmark without doing

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WHAT’S THIS R.O.I THING?

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REASONS WHY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ROI

#1 - TO IMPRESS A BOSS

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MORE REASONS WHY

#2 Because it makes you look smart

!& !

#3 May get you out of stinky situations

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AND OTHER ROIS

Return on: ● Influence ● Engagement or...

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*From Urban Dictionary

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WHAT’S R.O.I?ROI =

(Gain from Investment - Cost of Investment) divided by

Cost of Investment

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IT MAY SEEM IMPOSSIBLE

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YOU CAN GET AND MEASURE RESULTS

BUT ...

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STEP 1: REPEAT AFTER ME

!THERE IS NO FREE MARKETING

Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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STEP 2. DEFINE THE R = RETURN

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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What to Look For by Channel & Objective Email Marketing: Data Points What it Tells U

Open Rate = Opens / Delivered Sender recognition and quality subject lin

Click Through Rate = Clicks / Open Opportunities to click (links

Conversion rate = Buys / Delivere How well your integrated marketing does - your messages have been cohesive and compellin

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WHAT TO LOOK FOR BY CHANNEL & OBJECTIVE

Data Point What it Tells Us

Page Likes 80% of page likes come from existing fans

ReachGood calls to action

Reader interest Opportunities to click (links)

Engagement How well your integrated marketing does - your messages have been cohesive and compelling

Facebook

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Data Points What it Means

Traffic to the website

Unqualified Leads

Goal Conversion You got some Action!

Per Session Value Your bang for the buck

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TWITTER DATA POINTS

Data Point What it Tells Us

Followers nothing

Impressionsif above average, your content is inviting shares, or your content was published at a peak hour, or both.

Engagement Rate

Your content was designed to drive action

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Data Point What it Tells Us

Visits your tweets make readers want to read more

Conversion rate

your website does a good job at moving the twitter visitors to

contact you

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YOUR NEW MANTRA

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LOOK FOR CHANGE

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BUILD A DASHBOARD

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NOW

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1. How to get the most with the least effort 2. When and where it’s important to invest more 3. Which type of marketing you want to do really well on

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START WITH...From 0 to 500

From 1,000 to 2,000 From x to 10% above x

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WORK BACK FROM THE GOAL!

If you want 100K fans on Facebook, be prepared to invest $100K !

But first... ask “why” 5 times

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TEST AND LEARN

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