How can I monitor my social media campaign’s performance?
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When it comes to evaluating social media campaign performance, there are countless metrics that you can consider. But the key to monitoring your campaign's success ultimately depends on your goals, and it's crucial to be clear upfront about what you actually hope to achieve.
There are many tools available to help with measuring the impact of social media campaigns, including Facebook Insights, Twitter Analytics and Hootsuite. Ideally, make use of one that integrates with all your social channels in order to streamline monitoring and analysis. Here are a few key indicators to focus on, depending on your goals.
Track engagement and reach
If your goal is to increase brand awareness or create a buzz for a new product or service, make sure you track your engagement rate. It shows you how many users interact with your content, whether liking, commenting, sharing or saving it.?
Similarly, tracking reach is a must if you’re looking to drive traffic to your website or sales page. Reach is the amount of people who see your content: a post that has been shared by your followers may be seen by many more people than one that was promoted just by your company itself.
Monitor conversion
Arguably the most important metric to monitor is conversion, which is the percentage of social media users who perform a desired action after encountering your content. For example, if you're seeking to drive online sales, you'll want to measure the number of people who visit your site from your social media channels versus those who actually make a purchase.
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Consider your response rate
If your goal is to foster an engaged community or build customer loyalty, you need to respond to your community's input in a timely manner. Observe how responsive you are to your followers’ feedback, and the speed and quality of your replies to questions, comments, and feedback.?
Analyze your content
Go in-depth to analyze the content itself. Are there patterns in which types of posts are receiving the most engagement? Which topics ignites more conversation or interest than others? Qualitative analysis is crucial to adjusting your campaign's messaging or tactics.
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This article was edited by LinkedIn News Editor Anamaria Silic and was curated leveraging the help of AI technology.
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1 年Measurement is so important to any marketing campaign. I like to build my measurement to match the funnel, where the results I get from each one can help inform the next part of the funnel. So if I'm doing top of funnel on social I want to see brand lift or lift in consideration. Then middle funnel I want to see high CTRs, VTRs, etc. with low CPMs. Then at the bottom of the funnel I want to see conversions/sales/leads otherwise I need to adjust my funnel somewhere higher up to make sure the most qualified consumers are getting to the end of the journey
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1 年I like to look at brand awareness metrics and overall lift in sales.
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1 年Unless the goal is to get likes, comments, saves, and shares then tracking those things is a waste of time when it comes to determining success of content. At the end of the day, content engagement is rarely the goal and lurkers account for around 90% of social media users (lurkers are valuable). Instead, you want to focus on what your goal is and then what metrics you use to determine if you're successfully reaching that goal. And you want to make sure that you're getting the attention of the right people, not just everyone. Most people on social media are focused on achieiving 3 things: Brand awareness (personal and/or business) Visibility Getting clients (get the job) For some of these, of course increased engagement shows you are achieving your goal, assuming it's coming from your ideal client and people connected to that person. The most important thing for tracking metrics is always going to come back to your goal and what you're trying to achieve. Anything else is just a distraction.
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1 年I like to focus my campaign performance on Engagement because to me it shows that people actually read the post or whatever and committed to action. We all browse and see a lot of content on a daily basis but interacting with that piece of content takes time and sometimes thought.