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Is Your Business Monitoring What Matters On Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Is Your Business Monitoring What Matters On Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] | Measuring the Networked Nonprofit | Scoop.it

A recent study revealed that almost half of companies are not monitoring their online social media communities.


More than one-third said that they only measure Likes, comments and interactions on Facebook, with fewer than one in four actively measuring the ROI of their social media campaigns.

Social media affects your bottom line; brands that are proactively using these tools see numerous benefits. And for those that aren’t, the absence of social media can also impact their bottom lines, albeit in a very different way.

This infographic takes a closer look at why the shift to in-depth social media monitoring is critical for the modern business.


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Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, April 19, 2013 2:08 PM
Irvin There is a trick. Convert your Social Media into some currency you are more familiar with. Divide followers by your sales or profits or traffic and you create a ratio between a leading and following indicators. Sales is following, traffic is leading. I just put a riff about this on Martin W. Smith on G+ too.
Irvin Banut's comment, April 19, 2013 3:49 PM
Thank you so much Martin for this valuable insight. I will definitely check out Google+ as well.
Drew Hodges's curator insight, February 19, 2015 5:58 PM

This article looks at how we have almost become lazy with our sampling methods. For example when we look up keyword searches like a brand name, it is more effective to look at the whole conversation. Another common metric we use is using sample sets of data, although there is so much data it would be impossible to look at every single piece of data, it is important to set a sample size big enough so that the data has minimal outliers. For example a sample size of 10 might give you a totally different picture than a sample size of 100.  

 

What is not talked about in this article that was touched on in class was the idea of getting the whole picture. For example with software they may be using keywords like they say in the article but it may not have the typical connotation when read in context of the statement. 

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Measure, Track and Optimize Social Media KPIs: 40 Dashboard Tools You Can Use

Measure, Track and Optimize Social Media KPIs: 40 Dashboard Tools You Can Use | Measuring the Networked Nonprofit | Scoop.it

Here's a great list of dashboard tools for tracking social media.  Remember the most thing before tool selection is to figure out your keyword searches and KPIs.

 

I have an entire wiki on listening and monitoring tools and adding this wonderful post found by Robin to it.
http://socialmedia-strategy.wikispaces.com/Listening 

http://socialmedia-strategy.wikispaces.com/Beth%27s+Big+List

 

 

 

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If you are looking to track, monitor, manage and optimize different key social media-related perfomance indicators you probably some kind of dashboard where to do this work.

 

In this well-organized collection by Barry Hurd you can find anything from the very basic to the most sophisticared solutions at your disposal. 

Useful. 8/10

 

Find it all here: http://barryhurd.com/2011/11/10-social-media-dashboards-for-tracking-stuff/ 

 


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How to Calculate the ROI of Social Media

Wonder how some businesses are getting value out of social media? Wonder how to calculate the ROI of social media?
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Social Media Traffic: How To Analyze It With Google Analytics

Social Media Traffic: How To Analyze It With Google Analytics | Measuring the Networked Nonprofit | Scoop.it

From the article by Eugen Oprea on Social Media Examiner: "Google Analytics allows you to see where your visitors come from and if they engage with your content or leave immediately.

 

Additionally, you can set up goals that match your business goals and measure if visitors are meeting those goals.

 

With Google Analytics, you can get valuable insights about your visitors and in this article I am going to show you how to track social media traffic.

 

This will help you identify the social media sites that send the most visitors back to your website to see which one needs more attention.

 

You will also discover how you can learn more about the visitors who come to your site from Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or other social media sites.

 

Additionally, you will learn how to use a feature called Advanced Segments to segment your social media traffic and see how those visitors behave on your site."

 

Informative. 8/10

 

Full article: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-track-social-media-traffic-with-google-analytics/ 


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11 ways to measure the value of social media

11 ways to measure the value of social media | Measuring the Networked Nonprofit | Scoop.it
We hear that “data is the new oil” and maybe so, but just like crude oil, data needs to be refined to maximise its value. It needs to be processed into actionable insight. Online and mobile activities generate vast amounts of data and there are no shortage of tools and technology available to analyse it. But the reality in many cases is “analysis paralysis”, little actual insight, or recommendations that can’t then be acted upon owing to a lack of relevant resources.
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