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Who are you listening to?
Understand who is appearing in
your listening streams with
color-coded Twitter streams
Green = Customer
Orange = Lead
Grey = Possible Contact
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Publishing Best Practices:
2 Identify types of content that resonate with your audience:
A. Conversational
B. Educational content
C. Transactional
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Publishing Best Practices:
3 Format content to align with channels’ publishing requirements
A. Text
B. Images
C. Video
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Publishing Best Practices:
4 Identify channels that resonate with your
audience:
A. Identify influencers
B. Create listening streams
C. Analyze their social media activity
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Publishing Best Practices:
5 Align publishing activities with goals
A. Engagement with social posts
B. Referral traffic to our site
C. Conversions / Leads
D. Revenue / Customers
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Micro Conversions: Conversation Rate
# of
conversations or comments
per post
Credit: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/best-social-media-metrics-conversation-amplification-applause-economic-value/
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Micro Conversions: Amplification Rate
# of
retweets or shares
per post
Credit: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/best-social-media-metrics-conversation-amplification-applause-economic-value/
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Micro Conversions: Applause Rate
# of
clicks, likes, or +1’s
per post
Credit: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/best-social-media-metrics-conversation-amplification-applause-economic-value/
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Reporting: Lead Generation
• Small marketing team with limited resources
• Unclear metrics on effectiveness of social
• Lack of insight on content effectiveness
Results:
1 3.8x increase in traffic
2 5x increase in leads
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Reporting: Lead Nurturing
• Social media contests
• Contest registration landing pages
Results:
1 47% lead-customer conversion rate
2 17% increase in sales from social
media
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Follow up Resources:
http://academy.hubspot.com/social-media-publishing-videos-training
http://academy.hubspot.com/social-monitoring-videos-training/
Hinweis der Redaktion
Today’s sessions is going to be tactical. We’re going to go over the steps to take in HubSpot to make sure you are flawlessly executing your social media strategy.
I work day to day with new HubSpot customers and help them design a plan and strategy to work towards their inbound marketing goals.
Before stepping foot into social media, it’s crucial you know your goals and the resources to help you get there.
This is a question I always ask when working with a new customer.
Revenue, Profit, other types of monetary goals
If you’re a leader of a company here today, this needs to be clearly defined and communicated to your employees.
If you’re a marketing director or manager here today, this is the type of question that you need answered to effectively build and execute a successful marketing campaign.
If you’re on the agency side, you need these success metrics to show the campaigns you’re building are helping the client work towards their goals
Monitoring
Publishing
Reporting
Before speaking out on social we must listen first. This is why monitoring is the first step of social media execution.
After mapping out your social media goals, it’s important to build out a monitoring system to listen to the conversations from competitors, prospects and customers in your industry.
You have the ability to create customized listening streams based on these types conversations.
What is a listening stream and why do we need it?
It is a filtered list of content from twitter that allows us to connect with people, learn about the latest industry news, and understand the conversations that are happening in your industry.
What would we want to listen to?
While monitoring these steams it’s important to know who is interacting with you. Are they an existing customer? Are they an active lead?
- HubSpot gives us this type of information.
By knowing this information, you can tailor your response to the person’s messages
After building out your monitoring system, you need a place a track the interactions and conversations across all of your social channels.
One of the most difficult parts of social media is keeping track of the interactions across multiple channels.
With social inbox, you no longer have to go to each individual channel to monitor and respond to conversations.
It’s all in one place
- Now you wont miss out on the opportunity to connect with a lead or a customer because your social media is centralized in HubSpot. This simplifies your social media workload
Beyond Inbound, how many of your companies go trade shows or events?
Download the HubSpot mobile app, so you’re able to engage with event attendees while you’re on the tradeshow floor.
From here on out, nearly every major event will have a hashtag or backchannel of people talking about the event.
It’s also really useful if you’re just out of the office and need to schedule a social post to go out tomorrow morning or next week.
3 things to do before hitting the publish button
Tracking is important so we can see:
how many interactions you get on a post
how many people actually clicked on the content you sharing
Every time you post through HubSpot, every message will automatically be tracked
You can either publish this content right in HubSpot or….
You can use the browser bookmarklet or chrome plugin
Publish from any page on the web
Lets say you find an interesting article that would resonate with your audience. Hit the bookmarklet and schedule that post to go out with your social publishing calendar.
From the publishing calendar, you’ll see when there’s an open time to publish.
Next we get into optimization
When we talk about our publishing calendar, we first need to identify times of day your audience is active on social
Then on your publishing calendar, you can make sure that those times are the default times your social posts go out
Adjust
You cant publish the same sized photo on every social channel. With our new image editor, you can crop the photo to fit the channels requirements.
You can also use your image editor to add filters, text, and other effects to enhance your images.
Across each channel, the formatting of the content can have a dramatic difference on the amount of interactions you get on a post. The longer you spend on social, the more you’ll understand how post length and type of content influence these interactions with your audience.
Identify channels that resonate with your audience
Identify influencers through conference lineup and industry blogs
Create listening streams for twitter and follow them on social
See what channels they are most active on and where they are getting the most social engagement
This comes back to understanding your success metrics
- Don’t hit the publish button unless we know how this is helping us move towards our goal
A final thought on this is you want to learn more about effectively publshing on social, check out this book that came out from Gary Vaynerchuk last year.
This book is filled with social media case studies on things to do and NOT do on social.
We have to be able to communicate how are efforts are contributing towards our goals
At the end of the day, what is the ROI of social media?
By publishing through HubSpot, you have the ability to see how many customers first found your through social?
This report shows us how social is contributing to the bottom line through traffic, leads, and customers
- Another ROI based report
- How much revenue can we attribute to these customers?
- This report contains the customers that first found us through social and the actual revenue they are bringing into your business. This is proving the ROI of social.
Attribution reporting which is a brand new report allows us to see what types of content people converting on from social
To get more granular, we can report on which channels are bringing in the most leads and customers. We can then focus our efforts on driving more traffic to those areas.
For large companies, macro conversions like ROI is easier to report on because they receive a high flow of leads, revenue through digital.
However, if you’re just getting up and running with social, you may not have this flow through those channels yet. This is why micro conversions are important.
Micro conversions allow you to show your improvements over time in getting more people to these channels and to your site.
- 1st micro conversion is: conversation rate
- Benchmark this and set your conversation rate goal for next month.
- For example, this month maybe we had 5 conversations through social, can we get beat that next month
How many people are amplifying my content to their networks.
- Benchmark this and beat this rate next month
How many people are showing affinity for my content
- Benchmark this and improve on this next month.
So there you have it,
Monitoring, publishing, and reporting…the 3 areas of social media execution.
Focus on these 3 areas while executing your social media strategy and you’ll have the proper tools to listen, speak, and measure the progress towards your goals.
Lastly today, I want to go through a few customer case studies
Identify most effective social channels using social analytics
Reallocate resources to create content that is effective in driving in new leads
Setup social publishing calendar to automate social posts which helped them save time
Sports/Fitness company Zaggora wanted to use social to connect with audience and boost sales through lead nurturing
Ran social media contests to increase brand exposure
Within posts they included a link that drove users to a landing page to register for a this contest. They could then nurture these leads that were registering on the landing page
They also used social for giveaways and could track everyone who shared, retweeted, or liked their post
In closing, whether you’re a marketer or a manager, the importance of planning can’t be understated. Before diving deep into social, state your social media goals and build a plan that will allow you to get to this destination.