2. • Passion Drives Profession
• Amateur Social Media Scientist
• Product Builder
• HootSuite Product Expert
Introduction – Who is this guy?
3. Choose Your Own Adventure:
Social Media Stories
• Pakistan‟s First Social Media Company
• Chief Technology Officer, NASA
• Expert Legal Witness – Facebook Fired
5. The Plan
OVERVIEW BEGINNER TO EXPERT FUNNELS FOR $$$
• Direct vs. Indirect
• Savings vs. Revenue
• Social Media Reality
• Attributes
• Techniques
• Measurement
• Tracking Purchase
• Case Study
6. -Social Media Examiner, 2013 Social Media
Marketing Industry Report
Only 26% of marketers surveyed in
2013 agreed that they are able to
accurately measure the results of
their social activities.
7. • Trouble identifying social ROI tracking tools
• Trouble tracking data
• Lack of social analytics expertise
• Integration of systems and tracking
• Understanding what needs to be measured and
how to measure it:
• Brand Awareness: The value of a subscriber, the
value of a follower, the value of a click
• Lead Generation: Conversion rates of clicks to
sales, Average revenue per sale
Top Challenges with proving Social
Media ROI in 2013
- Social Media Examiner, 2013 Social Media Marketing Industry Report
8. • Social Media is a communications channel
not an activity or campaign
• Social Media activities need to tie to
business objectives and KPIs
• Is your website ready to receive and
convert visitors?
• Tracking systems must be setup
Let‟s get real
9. Overview
1. Target 2. Interact 3. Sell
$ $ $
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10. What „R‟ does social media provide?
Direct
Indirect
Note: No real science was used in the creation of this infographic.
11. • Indirect revenue
• Brand awareness
• Brand Sentiment
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Product intelligence
• Competitive opportunities
• More more more…
What is the indirect ROI?
13. - Harvard Business Review
“It costs less than $1 per interaction
[on social media], whereas
telephone care is typically at least $6
per call. Even e-mail care costs
$2.50 to $5 per interaction.”
15. The Value of Data
5% -
Numbers
20% -
Analysis
75% -
Actionable
Insights
Beginner
Expert
Note: No real science was used in the creation of this infographic.
16. EXPERT
BEGINNER
What should we do? Report
Communicate
Note: No real science was used in the creation of this infographic.
17. • Strategy
• Non-existent
• Gives up quickly
• Communication
• Broadcast - Wonders why it‟s not working
• Doesn‟t engage with audience
• Measurement
• Posts to social without short links
• May suffer from Analysis Paralysis
Beginner
18. Intermediate
• Strategy
• Not integrated w/business objectives
• Keeps trying the same things
• Communication
• Posts are not always self-promotional
• Reactive - Responds to the audience
• Measurement
• Shorten links to save characters
• Tracks fans and followers obsessively
19. Advanced
• Strategy
• Integrated with business objectives
• Experiments and tries new things consistently
• Communication
• Part of an integrated content strategy
• Proactively reaches out to relevant parties
• Leverages advertising to support social
• Measurement
• Uses tracking codes for last click attribution
• Tracks the majority of social metrics
20. Expert
• Strategy
• Tied directly to strategic business objectives
• Constantly tests measureable new ideas
• Communication
• Fully integrated with other channel media
• Uses paid social to drive business objectives
• Proactively reaches out to relevant parties
• Measurement
• Uses CRM, Marketing Automation and powerful Web
Analytics tools for capture and nurture
• Uses advanced techniques beyond last click
attribution
25. Email: $ Value of a Subscriber
50 EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS
OPEN RATE
ACTIONS
(CLICK THROUGHS / VISITS)
$100 in
DONATIONS
26. Value of a Subscriber
50 Subscribers
$100 in Donations
$2 / Subscriber
=
Note: This is an example on an email campaign.
This can be done for multiple emails or over a specific time period.
27. Social: $ Value of a Follower
100,000 FOLLOWERS
5,000 REACHED
500 CLICKS
$1000 in
SALES
28. Value of a Follower
100,000 Followers
$1000 in Sales
$0.01 /
Follower=
Note: This is an example on a single post.
This can be done for multiple posts or over a specific time period.
29. Value of a Click
500 Clicks
$1000 in Sales
$2 / Click
=
Note: This is an example on a single post.
This can be done for multiple posts or over a specific time period.
30. Social Funnel Metrics
BASE = FANS, FOLLOWERS
REACH = AUDIENCE REACHED
ENGAGEMENT = CLICKS, LIKES
CONVERSION=
XYZ
33. Campaign Objectives Social A/B Testing Campaign Results
• Track each sales
transaction back to a
single social message
thereby measuring
direct ROI on a per-
post basis.
• Implementing
HootSuite to track
end-to-end ROI while
A/B testing different
social messaging
• Exceeded revenue goals
by 67%
• Exceeded room rate
reservation goal by 47%
• Increased Twitter
followers from 45, 164 to
47,760 in 30 days
• Drove $903 in revenue
over 30 days with one
post
Case Study - The $900 Facebook Post
37. • Communicate first measure second
• Setup multiple conversion opportunities
• Create more soft conversion opportunities
• ROI is a challenging thing to measure for
communications mediums
• It can be done but you must have goals
• Not all ROI is directly associated with $
• Attribution is key
In Conclusion… It can be done.
With all of the metrics available, why cansocial media ROI be so hard for marketers to determine?
With all of the metrics available, why cansocial media ROI be so hard for marketers to determine?
HootSuite has a powerful integration with Google Analytics…. The primary goal of the project was to show that businesses can track each sales transaction (or room booking in this case) back to a single social message, thereby measuring direct ROI of a social campaign. MediaLeaders needed to discover the best formula for social messaging. They partnered with HootSuite to ensure they were equipped with the necessary tracking tools including our integration with Google Analytics.
After testing multiple social messages, the team at MediaLeaders determined that this message would be the most effective. Here’s what the post looked like once it was published to the Palms Hotel’s Fb Page. The MediaLeaders team tested messaging by engaging with their audience, collaborating with the Palms on a daily basis to manage their social networks and track results end-to-end. They determined messaging by monitoring keywords like “Vegas Trip” and “Vegas Accommodation” along with brand and industry related mentions. They tested different messaging and monitored the results of those messages to determine that shorter messages—alongside rich media like a video or photographs—resulted in a great number of hotel reservations.
Using HootSuite and Google Analytics, the MediaLeaders not only tracked metrics such as increase in follower growth and engagement, but also measured the dollar value of each social message by showing the path of conversion. In the end, a simple Facebook message along with an image of the Vegas hotel generated $903 in revenue.Overall, the entire month-long social campaign:Exceeded their revenue goals by $2,029 (67%), earning a total of $5,029.19 Exceeded their room rate reservation goal by 7 transactions (47%), total of 22 transactionsIncreased Twitter followers from 45,164 to 47,760 followers (2596 total) in 30 daysIncreased follower engagement across all social channels (between impressions, likes, shares and RTs)