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Measuring ROI in 2024
I thought I’d try an experiment this week. We’ve spent time internally building custom models for various purposes. I was curious how close to a polished post I could get by using a couple of them together. Here’s what I did:
We’ve built our Ideal Customer Profile model, which includes data around pain points and goals. I asked that model to give me a list of topics our ICP would want to read more about. After some iterating, the strongest topic measuring ROI. Great, now I know what content to put together.
Next, I took that topic and opened up KatieGPT. This is the custom model we’ve built a few months ago based on my knowledge and content. KatieGPT is my digital doppelganger. I asked KatieGPT to write a post about measuring ROI in 2024 using the 5P Framework.
My question to you is: how did the systems do? If I hadn’t told you that I didn’t write this, would you know? I’d love your feedback.
Here are the AI-written results:
Measuring ROI in 2024: A Practical Guide Using the 5P Framework
Introduction
As we navigate the complexities of marketing in 2024, understanding your return on investment (ROI) is crucial. With new tools, privacy regulations, and evolving consumer behaviors, the 5P framework—Purpose, People, Process, Platform, and Performance—provides a structured approach to effectively measure and optimize your ROI.
Purpose: Define Your Goals
Start with a clear understanding of what you aim to achieve. Your goals will guide which metrics to track and how to measure success. Consider:
Clearly defining these goals ensures everyone is on the same page and that the metrics you track are aligned with your business objectives.
People: Identify Key Stakeholders
Identify who needs to be involved in your ROI measurement process. Include team members from different departments to ensure comprehensive data collection and analysis. Collaboration is key:
Engaging all relevant stakeholders from the beginning ensures a holistic approach and that all perspectives are considered in the ROI measurement process.
Process: Establish Robust Tracking Systems
Implement processes that enable accurate data tracking across all marketing channels. This includes:
A well-established process ensures consistency and reliability in your data, which is critical for accurate ROI measurement.
Platform: Choose the Right Tools
Select platforms and tools that will help you gather, analyze, and visualize data effectively. Key considerations include:
Choosing the right tools ensures that you’ve got the necessary capabilities to track, analyze, and report on your marketing activities.
Performance: Measure and Optimize
Focus on performance metrics that align with your goals and provide actionable insights:
Conclusion
Using the 5P framework—Purpose, People, Process, Platform, and Performance—you can effectively measure and optimize your ROI in 2024. This structured approach ensures that all aspects of your marketing efforts are aligned, tracked, and analyzed, providing you with actionable insights to drive success.
What challenges have you faced in measuring ROI? Reply to this email to tell me or come join the conversation in our Free Slack Group, Analytics for Marketers.
- Katie Robbert, CEO
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In this week’s Data Diaries, let’s revisit Instagram metrics. This series will be coming to an end in the middle of this year as Meta retires the data collection software that provides it, Crowdtangle. But until then, let’s see how things look.
This week, we’ll examine how brands have been doing on Instagram:
What we see broadly as we look at the last 2 years of brand performance is a roller coaster ride of sorts. At the beginning of 2023, brands had an average engagement rate of 0.19%; today, that’s around 0.12% as engagement ebbs and flows over the last 17 months.
That’s… not great. For context, a 0.12% engagement rate means 12 out of every 10,000 followers engages with a brand’s content.
When we dig into the specific media types that generate engagement, we see something unusual beginning in mid-2023 and carrying into 2024:
What we see are more and more video spikes. Video still has the lowest median engagement rate of the three different formats, but it’s getting more volatile over time; the likelihood that videos will break out and see abnormally high engagements is getting more frequent.
This begs the important question: why?
In a recent post by Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Meta announced that they’re continuing to make changes to the algorithm. One of the key changes they’ve made over the last year is to make the algorithm more TikTok-like. What does that mean? It means that less emphasis is placed on the account and more emphasis is placed on the topic of the post.
That means that even a small account can see runaway success on a single piece of content if it has the correct signals indicating it will spread well and be engaging to the audience. It also means the algorithm is less dependent on account size and follower size.
That’s a double edged sword for marketers. On the one hand, it alleviates the pressure to accrue followers for sake of having bigger numbers. In today’s Instagram algorithm, that’s less of a boon than it used to be. On the other hand, it increases the pressure to generate hits, to make every piece of content a grand slam. It requires rethinking the general strategy of posting for the sake of posting or posting low value content just to have something there, and instead making something that will take off. That requires much more effort, focus, cost, and creativity.
As we see the rise of generative AI and the tsunami of low effort content increase, quality of content will continue to matter more and more if we want the AI algorithms that power social networks to boost our efforts.
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