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ADVANCED SOCIAL
ANALYTICS
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What’s the point of
analytics?
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Are you spending time &
money on the right things?
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What are the right things?
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Go back to your goals.
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Do you have goals or
aspirations?
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Are they realistic?
Can they be measured?
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Increase total sales to
$17 million by Q4
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Communicate the social and
economic value of
(organization).
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Every goal can be broken
down four ways.
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KPI
What will we measure?
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Tactics
How will we get there?
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Metrics
What data do we need?
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Report
How can we show results?
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(real client example)
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Strong vs Fluffy Metrics
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Share of Voice
Amount of overall
conversation that’s about
you vs your competitors.
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Influence
Who is talking about your
brand and what is their
impact?
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Engagement
Overall engagement on your
posts.
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Why Engagement
(Can Be) a Trap
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Not all engagement is
created equal.
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Can lead to chasing
engagement for the sake of
engagement.
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Who is this for?
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But our engagement
went down!
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This is the danger of
boosted posts.
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Why do you want to attract
the people who click like on
anything?
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Instead, break down that
engagement.
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Amplification Rate
Number of shares per post.
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Conversation Rate
Number of comments
per post.
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Applause Rate
Number of likes per post.
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What is most important for
you right now?
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Reporting Tools
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https://www.rivaliq.com/
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https://buzzsumo.com/
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https://sproutsocial.com/
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https://buffer.com/
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Your job is insight, not data.
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What can you automate?
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Do you need a dashboard?
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https://www.annielytics.com/annielytics-dashboard-course/
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Don’t forget
Google Analytics.
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Google Analytics is a big liar.
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“Reporting on last-click
attribution in 2014 is like buying
a football team and only paying
the players who score.”
-@anniecushing
Conversions > Attribution > Model Comparison Tool
Conversions > Multi-Channel Funnels > Assisted Conversions
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Give credit where
credit is due.
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But then there’s Dark Social.
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You can’t actually track
everything.
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Text Messages
gchat
Slack
Private Browsing
Gmail
Apps
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/dark-
social-we-have-the-whole-history-of-the-web-wrong/263523/
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Get this report: http://kickpoint.ca/dark-social-ga/
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Summing Up
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Report on what’s important.
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Report on what’s
uncomfortable.
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Try to get the real story.
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DANA DITOMASO
THANK YOU!

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