Many small businesses are spending a lot of money online to market their products and services, but are they getting a positive return on their investment? Learn how to track ROI--not just traffic--for a variety of online marketing channels, including email marketing, social media marketing, and paid campaigns. You will learn how to implement the analytics needed to measure marketing ROI, helping you optimally allot your marketing time and money to maximize your results.
Is Your Company Losing Money on Twitter? How to Measure Social ROI
1. Is Your Company Losing
Money on Twitter?
VGC Unlimited
Gangplank Avondale
6/7/2013
Paul Vazquez
How to Calculate ROI Using Online Marketing Analytics
5. Agenda
• Introduction
• Background
• The problem
• How to calculate marketing ROI
– Measuring resource allocation
– Segmenting by channel
– Measuring conversion value
• Going further
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18. The Problem
• Maximize profit
• Deciding how to allocate resources to:
– Paid advertising
– Social media
– Email marketing
– SEO
– Etc.
• Subject to the constraints of finite:
– Time
– Money
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25. Resource Allocation
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• Track time
– Toggl
– Other tools
• Convert time to money
• Track money spent
– Cost of materials
– Cost of employees or consultants
26. Resource Allocation
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• Track time
– Toggl
– Other tools
• Convert time to money
• Track money spent
– Cost of materials
– Cost of employees or consultants
For each channel!
27. Resource Allocation
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• Track time
– Toggl
– Other tools
• Convert time to money
• Track money spent
– Cost of materials
– Cost of employees or consultants
Value of Time + Cost of Marketing = Investment
For each channel!
42. Putting It All Together
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• Value from each traffic source = Return
• Value of time + cost of marketing = Investment
ROI =
Investment
Return
44. Going Deeper
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• Further Segmentation:
• Social / Email
– Split test campaigns
• Paid advertising
– Split by keyword, ad copy, ad title, targeting
• SEO
– Identify the most valuable keywords and invest