One of the best parts of internet marketing is how measurable your efforts are. Unlike TV, radio or print you can see exactly how many people interacted with your brand online, what they did, what they bought, where they came from and more. This workshop explores the key features of Google Analytics as a free tool to measure the effectiveness of your internet and social media marketing plan. Topics to be covered include initial set-up, individual reports generation, establishing campaign metric goals, and analyzing reports.
Measuring the Effectiveness of Internet & Social Media Marketing
1. Measuring the Effectiveness of
Internet & Social Media Marketing
Amanda O’Brien
Hall Internet Marketing
Social Media Breakfast Maine
2. Internet Marketing is the most measurable marketing around
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3. Tie your social media goals into your business goals!
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4. What are you
participating in
social media for?
• Short term sales
• Engage existing customers
• Complement promotional campaigns
• Encourage word of mouth
• Brand awareness
• Increase searchability
• Spread news and information about your business
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5. “You've got to be very
careful if you don't
know where you're
going, because you
might not get there.”
6. You don’t have
to do all of this!
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10. Measuring SEO
Keyword rankings
Google Analytics
Site traffic
New and repeat visitors
Referring traffic
Time on site
Bounce rate
Website conversions
14. Measuring SEO
Setting up goals and defining funnels Goal Value
Name of goal – email signup, contact form filled out, purchase When visitors become customers
10% Contact Calls = Lead
Define funnel – Home page to Products to About Us to Contact Us
Cost per sale = $500
Value - $$ Goal = $50
Type of goal - URL Destination, Time on Site, or Pages/Visit
21. Things you can measure
• Traffic data
• Fan/follower data
• Interaction data
• Content performance
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23. ROI is Easy
Return on Investment
Ratio of value received to the actual cost over a base period of time
Resources x Rate
= ROI
Return
Time spent (track it)
( + )x Talent & Technology
Rate
Money in the bank
24. So what is the problem?
High bounce rates| Low conversion rates | Low pages per visit | Fear
25. Tippy top of the sales funnel – Discovery – Powdered Sugar
Bottom of the barrel of the sales funnel – Retention - Dough
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38. One Example
CruiseSource and
Royal Caribbean
Social Media contest:
Objective
Data points
• Blog post views/shares
• New fans
• Views/interactions
• Mentions
• Search rankings
Summary
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40. Quickest Summary Ever
If you are going to put the effort in you should:
• Have a plan
• Measure if it works with key business metrics (not social media metrics)
• Keep what works, ditch what doesn’t
41. Thank You
Amanda O’Brien
amanda@hallme.com
@amanda_pants
www.hallme.com/blog/
www.socialmediabreakfastmaine.com
Amandapants.com