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Social Media ROI
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15. Social Media ROI
In order to fully grasp the potential of social networks and the effect they can have on business,
you have to understand what social media ROI is. ROI stands for return on investment, and it is
a term often applied in marketing. With the development of social media marketing, this term
has found its way into this discipline as well. The reason why you need to measure ROI is
because this way you will be able to measure the success of your social media marketing. You
will also be able to evaluate the effort you invest in social media activity, so that you can
compare the benefits you get in terms of revenue and growth of your brand and business.
Even though it seems a bit difficult to measure the ROI of social media, this can be done if your
social media marketing is well organized and you have managed to implement measureable
metrics.
Define metrics
You should start by defining the metrics you want to track and follow. Having determined the
social networks you are going to use, you can now define the metrics you want to improve. This
improvement can be tracked and monitored only if you have already decided what you want to
accomplish. For example, maybe you want to increase the number of followers, or you want to
improve click-through rate, in order to drive more traffic to your website or blog. You could also
track reach, leads, conversion rate, etc. Determine the metrics and insert them into the table of
things to be monitored during your social media marketing strategy.
Set up goals
Goals are the inseparable parts of social media marketing. They also help with social media ROI,
as you will have an exact estimate on what you want to achieve with social media activity. This
way, you will be able to compare the results and analyze the performance, whether you were
not able to achieve goals or you have achieved more than you expected. When it comes to
setting up your goals, you should try to quantify the expectations, instead of using general
tendencies. For example, setting up a goal to increase the number of followers on Facebook,
has no real value when it comes to measuring the performance. This kind of goal is vague, as
increasing the number of followers is not an exact goal that you can measure and determine
whether it was achieved or not. That is why you need to quantify the objectives. Instead of
increasing the numbers, you could set up a goal such as increasing the number of followers on
Facebook and you want to get 1000 new followers during your social media marketing activity.
Once your activity is over, you can really tell if you have managed to achieve this goal or not.
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