The document provides tips for measuring the success of social media efforts through establishing goals, defining appropriate metrics, and gathering intelligence on performance. It recommends knowing the intended outcome, tracking relevant metrics like leads and sales, and using analytics tools from Google, Coremetrics, and Radian6 to benchmark results and identify trends over time. Measuring the impact on customer service and brand reputation can also indicate if social media activities are achieving their objectives.

1. By : Robin Low 4 pillars of SOCIAL MEDIA Tips to grow your influence

2. Create Networks Blogs Articles Groups Forums Pages Twitter eHow YouTube Podcast Existing Networks Join Forums Join Groups Wikipedia Twitter Comment on blogs Build Relationships Reply to forums Post value Twitter Follow Twitter reply RT Start Events Measure Success # of reply # of RT # of clicks on links Track influence Sales ROI from links Benchmark with competitors

5. be consistent Consistency is key. Allocate a few hours a week to monitor your social media progress. Give your audience a regular time that you put up more articles for them to come back.

6. market your blog & articles Post your new article / blogs and news on your existing networks. Cross promote your pages. Add blog addresses and other account information on name cards and other marketing materials

16. “ A direct result of not tying activity to an end game, the ability to know what it is we want to measure before we engage. Doing so, allows us to define a strategy and a tactical plan to support activity that helps us reach our goals and objectives.” -- Brian Solis, author and principal of the FurtureWorks agency measuring ROI

17. Brian Solis’s ROAD

18. Popularity Many companies engage in social media, and most like to use some form of popularity matrix to measure ROI. Words like engagement, participation, and involvement became key terms for defining online interactions with consumers. Trust and affinity are used to measure the core group of followers. Of all these matrixes, you could measure the improvement in customer service. Both in terms of the increased ability for people to rate and review products, as well as the opportunity for customer service teams to engage and provide proactive response.

19. Measuring success Inability to measure ROI, lack of budget funding, and management resistance are barriers to companies implementing social media campaigns, and it is a great way of getting budget slashed.

20. “ I’ve seen multimillion-dollar print and television advertising initiatives get the green light because CMOs understood the media — and I’ve seen $10,000 social-media efforts scratched because execs didn’t get it. ”

21. Tips DISCOVER THE AVENTIS ADVANTAGE! Know Your End Game: As Brian Solis said defining your end game is necessary in order to be able to quantify results. Know what are you trying to accomplish and how you want to try keep track of it all. Define Your Metrics: What metrics do you need to track to quantify results: Leads, Registration, Sales? Check Your Tracking: I can’t tell you how often a new client doesn’t have the right pixel/cookie set on the right confirmation page. If your success metric is sales make sure you’re not just tracking leads. This requires testing. Set Expectations: Benchmarking is great way for you and your CMO to have realistic expectations from a campaign. Fireclick and Coremetrics are two tools that can provide benchmarks based on industry averages related to conversion rates, cart abandonment, and other valuable data. They also allow you to pull data from a specific vertical.

22. Gather Intelligence Google Analytics: Google Analytics is the defacto analytics system in most companies. You can track visits, page views, bounce rates, etc. Be sure, if sales are a key metric, that the ecommerce portion is activated.

23. Gather Intelligence Coremetrics: Coremetrics Analytics provides the website analytics features you need to successfully acquire, convert, and retain high-value visitors and customers. * Marketing optimization: gain a 3D view of your marketing programs’ effectiveness across channels and over time, including which programs drive new visitors, trigger action, and influence visitor behavior. * Merchandising: increase initiation and decrease abandonment of key activities (shopping carts, booking travel, starting applications, completing registration, etc.) by automatically mapping product and promotional categories to website analytics reports * Content analysis: improve site navigation, content, and tools by knowing the value of page real estate and promotional effectiveness based on site goals

24. Gather Intelligence Radian6 : The Radian6 flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with real-time, relevant results. Smoothly uncover influencers, track and measure engagement and determine which conversations are having an impact online. Radian6 provides Web Analytics and CRM Integration.

25. Gather Intelligence Brantology : Brantology is an independent business and brand online intelligence service provider that combines technology, processes and trained staff to monitor your social media reach. (The main difference is they have a human vetting all your data)

26. Key Metrics

28. Look beyond your distributed sites With the amount of distribution sources available in social media always take time to see if elements of your campaign have been distributed beyond the initial sites you targeted. It will allow you to spot new opportunities to expand your campaigns.

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