Darren Barefoot - Measuring Social Media Success: Making It Worth It

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Measuring Social Media Success

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You’ve got a Facebook page, a Twitter account and a blog on your website. Great, but what are these emerging communication channels really doing for your organization? Are they enabling you to increase your email list size, recruit volunteers or acquire new donors? How are you measuring the value of your social media activity. Taking lessons from web-centric campaigns like Save the Great Bear, TckTckTck and TheBigWild.org, this session will provide practical solutions to the thorny problem of measuring results on the social web. Attendees Will Walk Away With: • Guidelines for how much time organizations should be spending on social media marketing and outreach. • Simple strategies for connecting online activities to marketing and business goals. • Recommendations of tools for monitoring and measuring your web presence. Darren Barefoot Darren is a writer, marketer and technologist. He regularly speaks about social media, marketing and emerging technology, and has been quoted on the CBC, BBC, The Wall Street Journal and dozens of others. He's the co-author of "Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook".

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Measuring Social

Media Success

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Introduction

@dbarefoot

#ncwk

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Questions for you

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Ten rules

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Set quantifiable

objectives

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If it doesn’t have a needle,

it doesn’t count

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Beware of creatively-named

metrics

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Measure everything

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All visitors are not equal

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Automate

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Be clinical

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Iterate

rapidly

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Fail fast

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Your cat doesn’t care

if you bury it

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People

Objectives

Strategy

Technology

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Identify business objective

Find online indicators of success

Measure performance of

indicators

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• Donations

• Service delivery

• Outreach

• Volunteer roster

• Public profile

• Board members

• What else?

Business Objectives

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• Donations - online donations

• Service delivery - online questions and

request

• Outreach - conversion rates

• Volunteer roster - online requests

• Public profile - online mentions or

incoming links

• Board members - online inquiries

What are the

indicators?

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Donations

Dollars raised or number of donors

through social media channels

Track through analytics and donation tools

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Volunteer inquiries

Number of inquiries per month through social

media channels and/or ‘conversion rate’

Manually count the number of requests to

volunteer

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Outreach

Petition signatures that

originate in social media channels

Track through analytics

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Questions for each

other

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Our Tools

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Google Analytics

+

Scout Labs +

NetVibes

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Demonstrate support for

protecting wild spaces

Petition signatures

Goal tracking in Google Analytics

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Conversion Rates

0.002.53

3.524.45 5.54

22.09

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Online Mentions

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Questions for me?

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[email protected]

@dbarefoot

Photos courtesy of the

Library of Congress