Distribution
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Social Media ROI Will Become Important. Until now people have experimented with low budgets and without very specific goals. The bigger budgets will bring an need to show return.
How To Measure Social Media ROI. The number one thing about ROI is that it is measured in dollars (or in euros or any other currency you might prefer).
Social Media ROI Backwards (for B2B) …If you have thousands of followers on social networking sites then the obvious question comes up. How do we get money out of it? What social media channels are you using, how can people reach you, are you visible?
Followers Fans Number of mentions Reach Social bookmarks (SumbleUpon, Delicious) Inbound links Blog subscribers
Interaction
How likely are followers going to engage, spread your message and interact with eachother?
Retweets Forward to a friend Social media sharing Comments Like or rate something Reviews Contributors and active contributors Pageviews Unique visitors Traffic from social networking sites Time spent on site Response time
Influence
How do attitudes change due to the social media activities? This is the branding value that should convert into sales.
Share of conversation vs competitors Net Promoter Satisfaction Sentiment positive, neutral or negative Number of brand evangelists
Action and ROI
How many sales and other real world result do you get from social media?
Conversions (email subscriptions, downloads, install widget or tool, etc) Sales revenue Registered users Issues resolved and resolution rate Number of leads (per day, week, month) Cost of lead Lead conversion rate Cost of sale Revenue (per follower, lead, customer) Lifetime value of customers Support cost (per customer in social channels) Share of repeat customers (from social media vs other channels) Transaction value per customer Money in the bank, net profit, etc
Internal
The raw output of your social media team. It is important to measure if increases in your input produce similar or better increase in the other KPIs. And, of course, your boss probably wants to know how much are you spending
Blog posts E-books Presentations Videos Facebook updates Tweets Forum posts Social media marketing budget Social media staff payroll Social media development costs
Priit Zallas (2012) 48 Social Media KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) post Dreamgrow http://www.dreamgrow.com/48-social-media-kpis-key-performance-indicators/