Social Media Analytics - How to gain real insights

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How to Gain Real Insights from Social AnalyticsJon QuintonAgency DirectorBuiltvisible

Make your social media reporting more actionable, improving buy-in for future campaigns and always-on activities

SOCIAL ANALYTICSLearn to measure what you really care about

Jon QuintonAgency Directorjon@builtvisible.com@jonquinton1

What do we REALLY care about, and how can you measure that

Read ‘Cracking the Sales Management

Code’

Keep it simple!

Often, it boils down to three questions

1. How many people saw my content via social?

2. How has social contributed to revenue?

3. What should we prioritise next?

I’m going to show you how we answer those questions

1. How many people saw my content via social?

How many people saw my content via social?

461 tweets

How many people saw my content via social?

332 tweets

How many people saw my content via social?

Reached 782,681 People

How many people saw my content via social?

Reached 799,005 People

How to calculate reach:

Step 1: Get a Buzzsumo account, go to ‘Content

Research’, and enter the content you’re interested in

How to calculate reach:

Step 2: Click ‘view sharers’ and download the

report.

Then, repeat the process for every

placement gained to see how many

people you reached via Twitter.

Finding out why your content did well on social:

Talkwalker’s virality map is awesome.

Start unpicking ‘why’ a piece did well, so you can attempt to repeat next time

round.

Assigning a value to your social impressions:

Using Google’s Display Planner, it’s easy to assign a comparable value to your impressions. In

this instance, 530,000 impressions on Twitter would have cost £887 via Display.

Assigning a value to your social impressions:

And 3.6m impressions via Facebook would have cost £5,400 via CPM bidding on Google Display.

Understanding ‘who’ you’re reaching:

For B2B, LinkedIn offers excellent insight into who you’re reaching by seniority, industry, job

function and more.

Understanding ‘who’ you’re reaching:

Twitter also offers excellent audience insights, from household income, to

marital status, to buying habits

2. How is social impacting my revenue?

First some context:

Social typically

acts as an ‘assist’

rather than a direct route to

conversion

Source: http://adwords.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-customer-journey-to-online-purchase.html

First some context:

Source: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/tools/customer-journey-to-online-purchase.html

This great feature from Think with

Google helps you see typical

interactions by channel, by

sector

Create custom reports in GA to track conversions by network:

Creating custom reports in GA to see traffic and conversions via social is simple

Create custom reports in GA to track conversions by network:

Here’s the problem!

How is social impacting my revenue?

Any conversion reporting you do needs to reflect

Social’s typical place in the mix. Assisted conversions

are a must.

Conversion segments to track first interactions:

Conversion segments for any goal completions that

originated from a first interaction with social

How do I compare to my competitors?

How do I compare to my competitors?

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Reviewing total shares across brands. Buzzsumo

let’s you export a report per brand, term or topic.

How do I compare to my competitors?

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Are there networks you’ve ignored?

Comparing sentiment by media type:

Four Seasons Sentiment by media type Ritz Carlton Sentiment by media type

Reviewing sentiment gives you a clearer idea of not just coverage, but

the nature of the coverage you’re gaining

Try: https://www.talkwalker.com

Comparing mentions, engagements and reach:

3. Where should we focus future efforts?

Find what works – do more!

Revisit all the data we’ve already looked at. If you’re having success with something – repeat!

B2B insights via LinkedIn ad builder:

Using LinkedIn’s ad builder, we can see an audience size of 23,000 senior level mangers who work in travel & tourism, and are currently based

in Italy

Top referrals from GA:

Take your referral data from GA, and repeat the earlier process to find

out where, and why, they are having success on

social

Discovering what content worked well for your competitors:

Four Seasons Wedding Ideas—An Intimate Wedding in Scottsdale, Arizona

Four Seasons Kate Spade Wedding Shoes & Accessories

Four Seasons Cake Tasting

China by High-Speed Train

Four Seasons Lauren Scruggs and Jason Kennedy’s Winter Wedding

24 Riesling Wine Recommendations

Four Seasons Palo Alto Wedding Venues at Four Seasons Palo Alto

Best Beaches in the World—Four Seasons Magazine

Four Seasons Wedding Ideas - Alternative Wedding Cake Ideas

Best Views in the World from Four Seasons

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Discovering what content worked well for your competitors:

Unforgettable Vacations at Four Seasons

The Best Travel Photography on Instagram

10 Lanai Resort Favorites

John Legend Interview with Four Seasons

Four Seasons Wedding Traditions Around the World: Gifts

Sleep Well With Four Seasons

Four Seasons European Heritage

Luxury Flats in London

The Four Seasons App

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• Keep it simple – less is more!

• Find the metrics that matter the most (reach, revenue, competitor share)

• Always unpick the ‘why’

Key takeaways:

THANK YOU!

Jon QuintonAgency Directorjon@builtvisible.com@jonquinton1

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