Is It Worth It? Social Media and the ROI Conundrum
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Social media & the C-Suite value debate
Understanding: what SM is and isn’t Integration & the end of business
fiefdoms (aka silos) Measurement approaches
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Can you measure what you don’t value?
>70% of Fortune 500 CEOs don’t do social media
Traditional advertising & PR: estimated reach and impressions ◦ Tells us nothing about the
customers ◦ Relies purely on correlations
What’s the ROI? (Right question: why invest?)
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Time Legal Safety (except for LinkedIn) Skepticism/trust Proof of financial return on money
spent
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26% fans, followers and supporters (#s) 25% web traffic (#s) 16% lead generation ($) 10% reduced cost of customer support ($) 7% value of sales generated through social
media programs ($) Source: Center for Marketing Research, University of
Massachusetts
Return on Engagement (ROE) Return on Participation (ROP) Return on Listening (ROL) Return on Fluid Listening (ROFL)
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Companies communicate/interact
People get relationships, trust, conversation
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Amplifier of existing business functions
Delivers velocity to marketing processes
Empowered WOM
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Public Relations/
Corp Comms
Marketing
Advertising
Web/ Content
Mktg/SEO
Human Resources
Customer Service
Sales
Customer
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2007 2008 2009
Total Rev: $61B
$6.5M 40 SM employees 25K to 1.5M followers
Social media is not a strategy, it is a communications tool Social media supports existing business goals & objectives Every customer touch point can be enhanced by social media
◦ Public relations/corporate communications/crisis management ◦ Marketing (including email marketing, newsletters, etc.) ◦ Customer service ◦ Human resources ◦ Lead generation/sales ◦ Event planning/management ◦ Market research ◦ Mobile apps
Goals & Objectives Tactics ◦ Blogging ◦ Blog comments ◦ LinkedIn Groups & LinkedIn Answers (B2B) ◦ Shares, mentions, retweets ◦ Status updates (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+) ◦ Alternative channels(Pinterest, Tumblr, StumbleUpon)
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To measure, you must establish targets (timeframes)
Social media goal: increase brand awareness, encourage engagement via myriad social platforms, boost sentiment (non-financials) leading to conversion (financial) ◦ Frequency (more transactions) ◦ Reach (more customers) ◦ Yield (more transactions per
customer)
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$225.99 for 50K “100% Top Notch Quality Twitter Followers” in 20 days. $9.99 gets you 900
$590.99 for 100K+ video views
$350 for 25K Fan Page likes
$550 for 10K +1s
$55 for 300 followers
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Initiation
Outputs
Inputs
Non-financial
outcomes
Conver$ion
blogs, tweets, shares, updates, videos, comments
listening, tracking, monitoring, data
collection, analysis likes, shares, RTs, subscribers, mentions, bounce rates, page views, time per page
$ales, repeat $ales
plan development, KPIs set
KPI reveals if goals & objectives, which lead to specific tactics, achieve specific targets
Visitors/followers are easy (gamed); the “right” visitor is hard
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Website analytics Event registrations Newsletter subscriptions Likes Email signups Recommendations Registration for contests Blog Poll/surveys completed Blog comments Shares RSS subscriptions Retweets Content requests/downloads Bounce rates Click-throughs Sales revenue Time on page
ROI is not projection or estimate ROI calc: only after investment yields return Establish baseline; monitor deltas/changes & factor
sentiment analysis Incorporate all costs ◦ travel, personnel, training, memberships, consultant fees,
conferences, Facebook ads, sponsored tweets, YouTube ads, mobile app dev. Social media is not free.
Correlations are OK. Track non-financial metrics (transactional precursors), i.e. followers, likes, subscriptions. Dotted, not a direct line. Overlay sales data
Direct line consideration: isolate tactics & track customers ◦ promotional codes, special landing pages, CRM intelligence,
custom links, email bugs, i.e. track your customer from SM to conversion
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Monitoring
Facebook Insights
Google Analytics HootSuite Sprout
Social TweetDeck
Dashboards ($)
Cision Radian6 Spiral16 Sysomos Vocus
Focus Groups
Market Research
Customer Audits
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Objective: Increase sale of HMI licenses Target: 250 more licenses sold in Q2 in N.A. market
Q2 KPIs Positive company/product mentions in Q2 Net new FB likes, RTs, subscriptions, downloads isolated to HMI
campaign Net new click-throughs of links to website (inbound links) Net new downloads of promoted content (white papers,
backgrounders, marketing) showcasing why additional seats are needed
YouTube HMI promotional video (views) Coupon/discount codes isolated to Q2 campaign issued via
email marketing, tweets, FB updates, inbound website events Actual HMI license sales in Q2
ROI Correlate response with sales via social monitoring tools Comparison metric: HMI licenses sales outside of N.A.
market; comparative sale of other products (baselines. Social media campaign increased perception and
awareness, stimulating a preference and driving customers to purchase decision. Conversion.
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Objective: Reverse disinformation on bailouts & Ford Target: U.S. market, 2009
2009 KPIs Frequent and appropriate engagement with public Counter all blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. posts including Ford in
federal bailout
ROI: pre and post-sales results Positive financials Analysis showed positive sentiment
Public relations alone insufficient Integrated corporate approach to crisis management
1. Social media ROI is a financial calculation. Likes, followers, shares, etc. are non-financial metrics.
2. You must have a business justification for social tactics. Followers, fans, subscribers have no value unless they can be turned into customers.
3. You cannot deliver ROI if you do not have access to digital intelligence and real-time financial data. Calculators + Excel are your new friends.
4. Anything and everything can be measured. Measure what matters; what matters to your company may not matter to mine.
5. If C-Suite demands ROI proof, SM campaign plan starts with business objective(s), targets (timeframe) and KPIs (metrics). No measurement, no ROI.
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“The single most potent negative business trend of the last several years has been the systematic dehumanization of business processes and the steady push towards transactional sales over relationship-based partnerships.”
Chris Brogan
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One-off or long-term relationship; one date or a marriage? Pay it forward
Not lacking ability to show social media ROI; missing tactics to link KPIs to transaction events – the digital footprints that lead to the cash register
Plan to capture those footprints before your first tweet, status update or blog post: track & trace
If you build it, you must nurture it
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