1. Data Driven Social Media Management Using data, process, and iteration to turn your social media marketing into a revenue-generating machine. August 4, 2011
2. Who are these people talking to me? Eric Boggs CEO, Argyle Social @ericboggs ericboggs.com Jason Falls @jasonfalls socialmediaexplorer.com (Weâre smarter than we look. Hopefully.)
3. Details Jason will lead Q/A at the end of the call. Tag your tweets/questions with #datadriven. Weâre recording this shin dig. Weâll send an email follow up to everyone. Eric is @ericboggs. Jason is @jasonfalls.
8. Data SourceA slice of aggregate, anonymous Argyle user data. December 2010 through May 2011 70k+ posts 381 organizations; all industries, all sizes
9. Insight #1 RSS Automation Works RSS automation is just as effective as manual posting at driving clicks and conversions.
10. Insight #2 Scheduled Posts Generate Clicks, Not Conversions Scheduled posting is a great tool if your goal is traffic, but not if youâre attempting to drive conversions.
11. Insight #3Hashtag Stuffing Doesnât Work Donât target content to hashtags. Target hashtags to content when relevant.
14. The Social Media Marketing Funnel Your goal as a marketer is to move people down the funnel. Key Insight: every step is measurable. Awareness: Fans Interest: Clicks Action: Conversions
15. Measuring Awareness: Fans Raw numbers and trends are easy but not very instructive. Compare with something real to make judgments: B2BCompare total fan count to lead count. Aim for 1:1 ratio. Consumer ProductsCompare fan count to customer count. Aim for 1:1 ratio. Newspapers & BlogsCompare fan count to website uniques. Aim for 15%. How many fans do you have? Fan count is important, but itâs just one of many numbers that lead to success in social media marketing. Fan / Follower counts are important for normalizing other social media marketing metrics!
16. Measuring Awareness: Fans Who are they? When it comes to your social audience, quality is just as important as quantity. Demographicsâtarget and actual âLike Sourcesâ and âExternal referrersâ Fan churn (% of fans who unlike you)
23. Measuring Action Requires Attribution Social media builds awareness and interest in your brand but doesnât usually lead directly to sales⊠âŠbut you can still measure its impact on revenue! The secret: use multi-touch conversion tracking.
24. Attributing Conversions in Social Two Types of Marketing Channels Intent Generating channels build consumer awareness and interest, creating an intention to purchase a product. Intent Harvesting channels capture consumer intent to purchase and drive them to the cash register. Two Types of Conversion Tracking Multi-touch tracking attributes revenue to all of the channels that touched the consumer on their path through the funnel. Last-touch tracking attributes all of the revenue for a purchase to the last channel that touched the customer prior to the sale.
25. Measuring Action: Conversions KPIs Revenue Conversion count Revenue per conversion Conversion rate Key Questions What is your call to action strategy? What offers work best? Are you using landing pages?
26. Measuring Action: Conversions Metrics in Action Increase in revenue is driven by higher conversion volume Increase in revenue is driven by higher revenue per conversion Decrease in revenue is driven by lower revenue per conversion Decrease in revenue is driven lower conversion volume
Eric introduces himself, then introduces Jason.Point out that DJ Waldow is in the photo behind JasonâŠand took the photo of Eric.
Jason quick promo of his site and book.
Eric quick promo of whitepaper.
Intro slide â Eric frames the presentation.Examples of insights that weâve gathered from customer data that might change the way you manage socialâŠand as a prelude to a conversation to how you can use data from your own social media marketing efforts to make smarter marketing decisions.
Eric quickly explains the data source for the next few slides.
Eric â explain context of the data.Jason â suggest the action: use a service to automate posts via RSS. (Note: most RSS posts publish immediately, are not scheduled. Might need to delineate in the next slide.) if possible, schedule homegrown content to post multiple times. consider publishing content from other RSS feeds, can filter by tag or category.
Eric â explain the graph.Jason â explain the takeaways:Timeliness premium when it comes to transactions. The further into the future Argyle users scheduled posts, the less influence the posts had on revenue.Suggests a few things:- Marketers arenât scheduling posts with a strong call-to-action- Followers are less responsive to âplannedâ content.- Time-sensitive call-to-action is compelling
Eric â explain slide.Jason â commentary:Data suggests that posts with hashtags rarely outperform posts without hashtags.Scenarios that work:- Moderately sized, well-targeted conferences â SocialFreshâŠnot SXSW- Charitable causes- Highly engaged groups and chatsScenarios that donât work:- Huge conferences- Generic tags- Trending topic spamRemember that your followers are your primary source of attention.
Eric - Weâve walked through a few examples that illustrate how data can drive social media marketing performance and â more importantly â marketing decisions. But weâre just talking about aggregates. The story gets more interesting when you start to look at your data in a similar fashion.
Eric - Social media marketing is a specialized version of marketing. Marketing is a business function. Business functions to drive outcomes. So by the transitive property you learned in 7th grade algebra, social media marketing is ultimately about driving business outcomes.Jason - Every step is measurable. You canât optimize a two-step process - by breaking your social audience into segments, you can more easily move people down the funnel and measure your efforts.
Eric â audience size is the obvious place to start, but follower counts are often a polarizing metric.Jason â commentary re: follower counts, importance of quality, ratios as a smart way to normalize and benchmark follower data.
Letâs say you ran a contest last month. In this contest, you promised one lucky winner a free iPad. All that entrants had to do was like you on Facebook and post your contest to their wall. The contest was a huge success â in one week you doubled your fan count. Huzzah!In the following weeks, youâve posted several links and a couple of offers. You were hoping to see a doubling of clicks on your links and conversions on your offers, but that didnât happen. Whatâs going on?This is a straightforward example showing that raw fan / follower count isnât very mean- ingful by itself â you also need to evaluate who your fans and followers are.