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Social media is like teen sex.
Everyone wants to do it.
No one actually knows how.
Once done, there’s surprise its not better.
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- Avinash Kaushik
Author & Analytics Evangelist for Google
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• Why Measurement is Vital.
• A Better View of Social ROI.
• Connecting Metrics to Marketing.
• How to: Segment Social Web Traffic.
• How to: Set Goals and Attribute Leads.
• How to: Link Tag to Gain Greater Visibility.
• Attribute Keyword & Source to Individual Leads.
• What You Can Look Forward to in the Near Future.
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US Internet Users Who Use Social Network Sites, by Age, 2005-2010 (% of each group)
Source: Per Internet & American Life Project, * Older Adults and Social Media, *Aug 27, 2010
16%
67%
73%
76%
83%
86%
12%
25%
36%
48%
58%
61%
7%
11%
16%
25%
36%
47%
5% 7%
4%
13%
22%
26%
18-29
30-49
50-64
65+
Sep
2005
May
2008
Nov
2008
Apr
2009
Dec
2009
May
2010
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Change in Social Media Marketing Budget in 2010 According to US
Marketers, by Industry (% of respondents)
Note: n=2.317
Source: MarketingSherpa, *2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report, *December 11, 2009
79%
63%
55%
54%
53%
52%
43%
1%
3%
5%
1%
1%
3%
2%
Retail/e-commerce
Publishing/media
Computer hardware/software
Business/consumer services
Manufacturing/packaged goods
Travel/leisure
Educational/healthcare
Increasing budgets Decreasing budgets
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82% of firms
don’t even
measure for a
return on social.
Why Measure?
Source: Babson Executive Education & Mzings Social Software in
Business, Dec 2009.
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72% of CMOs do not
connect social marketing
to revenue.
Source: Bazaarvoice and CMO Club Survey, December 2009
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54% of firms say social
media’s #1 inhibitor is a
lack of resources.
Source: Econsultancy / Bigmouthmedia Social Media and
Online Report, Nov 2009
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Note: n=243
Source: R2Integrated (R2i) provided to eMarketer, April 14, 2010
Social is not a part of our
strategic roadmap
12%
We can’t develop a compelling
business case
9%
I do not think my
audience is active on
social media
21% Getting buy-in from
senior management
23%
Not enough data or
analytics to develop ROI
35%
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• In Ten Days We Need 40% more booth sales.
• All marketing budget has been spent.
Can Social Marketing fill the gap?
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• In Ten Days We Need 40% more booth sales.
• All marketing budget has been spent.
Can Social Marketing fill the gap?
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What Assets Do You Have?
• A List of Prospects?
• Are They Aware of the Event?
• Are They Predisposed to Do Business with You?
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Getting Real about Social ROI.
Investment Type Risk Duration Return
CD Low 6 mos 2%
Bond Med 2 yrs 10%
Asset Purchase Med 15 yrs Break even 2yrs.
12% for asset life.
Cable TV Low 3 mos 5:1
Billboards Med 6 mos 2:1
Direct Mail Med 6 weeks 3:1
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• Investment is Sources + Uses
• Advertising is Stimulus + Response
What are we missing in social marketing?
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Traditional Marketing
-push messaging
-interactive
-automated
-technology dependant
-mass & niche
broadcast
print
radio
outdoor
networks
communities
blogs
micro blogs
lower engagement higher engagement
Social Engagement
-dialogue
-driven by consumers
-personal
-people and technology
-niche
Traditional Marketing
-push messaging
-broadcast
-message oriented
-formal
-authoritative
-mass
banners
micro sites
e-mail
search
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Real Social Media is Consumer not marketer controlled.
Skipping from campaign to result omits the core of social
marketing: the consumer relationship. Consumers control
social media.
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Since Social Media is driven by
consumers, you must inspire and
measure their investment in your brand.
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23%
21%
20%
13%
12%
9%
7%
Email marketing
Serach engine optimization
Online display advertising
Print media
Paid search
Direct mail
Affiliate marketing
Mobile marketing
TV/radio
Note: n=275; *client-side; **UK (72%), other Europe (10%), North America (8%) and other (10%)
Source: Econsultancy, *Social Media and Online PR Report 2010*
59%
76%
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Tactical Results
• Booked Sales
Track leads from source
• Lead Volume
• The Value of Anything I’d
Otherwise Budget For.
• Email & RSS Subscribers
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Consumers Investment in You
Follower / Friend Count
# of Comments Left
Page views.
Influence Scores
Social Booking
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• Consider what are pre-requisites to be credible:
– B2B buyers expect to find Linked In profiles of sales execs.
They don’t buy based on them, but they’ll default to those
who know or can validate.
– B2B firms may not have to have blogs, but agencies who
serve them do.
– You may not need Twitter, but do you need activists from
there?
• Pre-requisites don’t generate results; their absence denies them.
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• Think of your firm’s social investment as seed money.
Gaining investment of consumers in your brand is
strategic.
• Build & Measure:
– awareness
– engagement
– word of mouth.
• Now you have scale that can drive RESULTS!
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Company Type Description $ Metric
B2C
Largest legal advertiser in US
Famously contested PPC
terms
Marketing Team of 50
CPFGC
Visit to QualLead
B2B
Legal Division > 100 years old
Global web operations.
Likelihood to Order
Engagement time
Media
Content driven
Revenue from Ad Impressions
and Subscription.
Ad Views
New Subs and
Trials
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• Public Relations
• Awareness, Audience Share
• Conversation share, Engagement
Measures
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Department Goal Measure
Digital Marketing
Improve Search Rankings
Increase Referral Traffic
SERP Reports
Acquisition Costs
Sales Increase Sales
Lead Generation
Time to Close
Customer Service
Real Time (multi-synch) client
issue resolution.
Time / Cost per Resolution
Product Management
Gain Client Input Quantity of client insights vs.
alternative means.
Public Relations (AR/IR/Press)
Awareness
Crisis Response
Value of audience share
Anticipated impressions //
replacement costs
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• Firms with a social media business strategy are
twice as likely to consider their efforts a success.
• Give it a home in departments that deliver value.
• Focus on growing and leveraging the investment
your audience makes in your brand.
• Once there is a PLAN, then you can MEASURE.
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Alternatives
• Consensus
• Highest Paid Person’s Opinion (HiPPOs)
• Quote Experts
• Imitate Competitors
• Survey Customers
• Large Scale Trail and Error
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A process to determine an optimal or realistic
decision based on existing data.
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• Compare Visitors by Medium.
• By Section of Site Visited During Session.
• By Search Phrase Type (Visitor Intent)
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Measure Social Media as Its Own Segment
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• Instead of Shrinking This URL:
http://www.usefularts.us/Web3_0_Seminar
• Shrink This one Instead
http://www.usefularts.us/Web3_0_Seminar?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=So
cial&utm_content=Sept13&utm_campaign=Web3.0_Seminar
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• Tell Your Lead Database The Keywords,
Source, Campaign and # of Visits for Each
Lead.
• Use a Lead Management Platform or hack.
• This technique is via an analytics firm called
<shout out start> Webshare Design </shout out complete>
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//It is possible to write a script that passes GA cookie data to your Lead Database
// It parses a string and returns a value. I used it to get
// Get the __utmz cookie value. These are the cookies that
// stores all cyour ampaign information.
// var z = _uGC(document.cookie, '__utmz=', ';');
//
// The cookie has a number of name-value pairs.
// Each identifies an aspect of the campaign.
//
// utmcsr = campaign source
// utmcmd = campaign medium
// utmctr = campaign term (keyword)
// utmcct = campaign content
// utmccn = campaign name
// utmgclid = unique identifier used when AdWords auto tagging is enabled
//
// We're going to extract the number of visits that the visitor
// has generated. It's also stored in a cookie, the __utma cookis
// var a = _uGC(document.cookie, '__utma=', ';'); var aParts = a.split("."); var gavisits = aParts[5];
This approach was developed shared by Webshare Design.
I’m glad to discuss this technique as I’m sure are the nice people who made it at Webshare.
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• Many social networks have
sketchy analytics.
• Even the best web analytics
are directional, though they are
systematic.
• Test for statistical significance
to be sure.
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• Strategy Increases Your Chance of Success.
• A results-only approach omits the “social” part of social.
• Social power is based on investment by your consumers.
• Biz model and department goal determine social goals.
• Segmented data = power | Aggregate data = madness.
• Setting Goals Starts to Measure Results.
• Pursue Tagging and Tricks to Inch Up Visibility.
• Integrate | Automate | Segment | Optimize
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Editor's Notes
Hi everyone, I’m Dave Wieneke and thanks for joining us. In order to fulfill the promise of this presentation’s title: “Measuring What Counts for Your Business in Social Media” we’re going to really have two presentations – first one of strategy “what counts for your business” and then a “how to” demonstration “measurement” techniques. My goal is to have something useful for everyone regardless of your industry or company size. As a quick intro I’ve run strategy for a national newspaper (the CS Monitor), a division of a B2B Marketer: Thomson Reuters Legal, and today I direct digital marketing for Sokolove Law which a 21st century law firm and the largest legal marketer in the US. That’s it for the intro – let’s get the “anti-hype” view of social measurement on the road.
Judging from industry press, interest among marketers in social media is as pervasive as teens thinking about romance. Recognize diversity in audience – you may be a social media specialist looking for new strategy, in a firm considering it’s first initiatives who wants to measure it, or a friendly skeptic asking if there’s any there, there.
<Walk through> (tag = “append marketing parameters to inbound links”) -- We will turn conventional thinking about social ROI and strategy on its head – AND show how to use basic analytic tools to measure SOME of social media’s business results. That’s a lot to do, so let’s get going.
Social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter have reached mass adoption and platform status. They’re among the most trafficed websites the the world, and are literally becoming the new networks – organizing content and influence in onlne communications.
Investment in social media: which includes: those social networks I mentioned, user reviews, syndicated videos and blogs is growing explosively. According to Forrester, it will continue to grow 34% annually, from around 700M to 2009 to over 3B in 20104. That will leave it behind still behind search marketing and display advertising, but a larger chuck of interactive marketing than email or mobile, even as they continue to grow. If you’re a social media professional, there couldn’t be a better time to be building your practice.
Analytics is how we begin to rationalize the allocation of investment within the business, and to set expectations.
If business is ultimately focused on creating receivables – marketers like us, must move to describe the business results we can provide in tactically, and as a long term asset. Performance targets are social media’s friend – it get’s us off a hype cycle that drives magical thinking.
And absent this – once the group think or hype of social media subscides -- we rationalize continued investment to this part of the business….or a big problem will arise.
Anyone who has done social media at any scale knows its labor intensive. Real-time presence, its about people. This may be earned or owned media – but growing to scale isn’t free.
And less you think this problem was confined to 2009 – as the gold slice of this pie chart shows, a lack of meaningful business data as the #1 inhibitor to social. And that certainly drives a lack of mgt buy in, and its absense on the strategic roadmap. Though social is promising, measurement is the hurdle to clear for mass business adoption. The 9% in red who can’t make the case, and the 12% in black how aren’t there because its not on their strategic roadmap – they simply want a plan to make social media worth the effort. The “magical thinking” which they are avoiding is where we start to build our case for social media in the real world.
This is the challenge I met as I gather a team to help a local event marketer who was days away from their event. They were out of budget, and hoped that social media could close a 40% sales gap in 10 days.
This is the challenge I met as I gather a team to help a local event marketer who was days away from their event. They were out of budget, and hoped that social media could close a 40% sales gap in 10 days.
This is one of the biggest questions in marketing. It transfixed social marketing over the last year, but as positive results accumulate, many marketers are justifying investments based on early results….and because of buzz.
Talk about the first two stimulus / response phases. Your directors of sales already know this is their gut. Their prospects suddenly are in charge – they are coming to sales to negotiate, and already have decision criteria in hand, and know your firms value proposition. To not make this change and provide them aircover in consumer driven social media is the kind of failure many firms won’t endure.
ROI measures stimulus / response transactions well. You turn off the light and no residual light remains. Turn it back on – and its like it was never dark. Investment is discreet that way – deals don’t overlap. Advertising is fairly discrete, most companies think of PR that way. That’s why it gets turned off like a switch during hard times. (note to social media folks – 20% of social teams currently sit in PR). Think of the switch – that’s what the event company that needed sales was looking for.
If social media is in its freshman year, then social media measurement is in junior high. I’ll not present an illusion of perfection, because honestly we all know social marketing is an evolving process. But it is a marketing process – billions of dollars are invested by firms each year. And measurement plays a vital role in connecting our activities with our strategy.
Faucets direct resources – they don’t create them. If you build a superior social media faucet, you need consumers to put their investment of time, network and reputation behind it. The investment made by your CONSUMERS in the brand is the resovoir behind social media. ROI calculations suppose that the firm’s investment is complete and sufficient, it misses that customers are in control.
Your firm is providing seed capitol for clients to make a real investment. Don’t treat it like a light switch.
All firms are about billability – and marketing rightly associates channels to revenue. But leads can’t be the start and finish – because creating leads isn’t your clients’ goal. And who ever speaks to them in social, needs to take off the marketer hat and do it personally.
This will be the only time I show my own firm’s social. We’ll look beyond legal – in our conservative space we have been an early actor.
Talk about benefits.
It is an error to choose measurability over effectiveness. 1,800+ marketers tell us the best sources may have hazy attribution.
The little known blender company saw its sales increase fivefold.
P&G has 350,000 members on vocalpoint, and 100,000 teens on tremor. General Foods has over 100,000 on pssst.generalmills.com. From this comes word of mouth, r&d, promotable validation – and ready made lists of pre-disposed buyers for future launches.
Usually in a cab we focus on a single metric – either cost or time. Drivers need tactical data about weather, demand and traffic patterns….but the owner care about the revenue meter. Do you have a social media strategy that connects to the revenue meter, or some key business value? If your not – that’s okay – it’s a hobby. Some people drive to enjoy the city, they’re not cabs.
Walk through. Every business has a different result. Coming from a print back ground there’s an “anti-pattern” separating the digital people from the print news people.
I used to work in news publishing. Having separate digital vs. print news teams is a big anti-pattern. Same thing with splitting Social team from marketing……One of the great misnomers is that there is anything inherantly social about the tools of social media. Video, Blogs, Networks, Twitter can all be used in an a-social, self-referential, counter productive ways. These tools aren’t social – unless they’re in the hands of socially savvy marketers. And we’re going to talk about the huge range of metrics available and what one can do with them through the social media lifecycle.
Consideration is tangible but incomplete. Engagement and acquisition give a more complete picture of impact, but are further from outcome.
I’m surprised to note that I look at RSS subs a few times per week, but general follow numbers monthly. And yes, I do a monthly report even for personal media.
But wait – engagement is so specific to content I look at that daily. And them sum it to monthly reports.
We stay engaged to promote those who promote and engage the brand.
Adhocracy.
Analytics data is the single most effective way to measure and demonstrate return on marketing investment. Analytics creates answers based of facts consumers give us.
+ Does social media marketing deliver website traffic that pays off in conversions and reveneue? + Which channels perform best or worst? How does this compare to organic or paid search, or radio, or mail? + What content in our blog drives the most / best leads? (what are our “money pages”)
It is how we begin to rationalize the allocation of investment to this part of the business.
Segmented data is powerful – data in aggregate is mostly muddiness that obscured effects.
Overdrive Interactive’s social eye and Metricly provide early dashboards, as do some agencies and analytics consultants.
