Are your social visions and goals meeting expectations? How do you stack up to your competitors? Have you listened/looked at yourself objectively lately? In this session, you'll get a crash course on how to do a social audit. You'll leave with a hype-free understanding of not only how to do a social audit but how that work impacts brand health, content development, keyword strategies for SEO, social responses trees, and more...
8. Recommended areas to focus on
during a social audit
1. Audit Plan
2. Access Governance
3. Legal
4. Brand Story
5. Social Channels
a. Audiences
b. Voice
c. Content Review
d. Posting
e. Response Tree
f. AI/Chatbot
g. Advertising
h. Analytics /KPI’s
i. Extras - Social SEO
9. #1.Audit Plan
✤ Documented Social Strategy
✤ Large-Scale Audit Annually
✤ Review All Areas
✤ Checkup Audits Seasonally
✤ KPI’s
✤ Content
✤ Competition
✤ Campaign Audits
10. #2. Access - User Governance
✤ Staff Roles/Responsibilities
✤ What level of access should they have
✤ Proper sign in
✤ Approval plans
✤ Platform tools / Access
✤ External Access / Agencies
✤ Rules of engagement response plan review
11. #3. Legal/Compliance - CYA
✤ Company Policy
✤ Protocols / Crisis Management
✤ Interns & Agencies (do they know the rules?)
✤ Influencer / Endorsement Disclosures
✤ eMail Collection Compliance
✤ National/International Laws
✤ Attribution / Copyright
✤ Language Use (i.e. sweepstakes vs. giveaway vs. contest)
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12. #4. Brand Story
✤ What is your company message?
Is it defined and clear?
✤ Is it reflected in your social?
✤ Recommended Resources:
✤ Building a Story Brand Podcast
✤ Building a Story Brand - Donald
Miller
✤ Don’t Make Me Think - Steve
Krug
StoryBrand
What does your customer want?
What are their challenges? Internal, External and
Philosophical
How are you the guide? Empathy & Authority
What’s the plan? Give them clarity “DMMT”
CTA – What are your calls to action?
What does SUCCESS look like?
What does FAILURE look like?
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16. #5. Social
Channels
✤ Review newcomers & rising
channels
✤ Are you where your customers
are?
✤ Rules/Plan/Goals for each
channel
✤ Posting plans / Content plans
✤ Best practices by channel
✤ Channel benchmarks for KPI’s
17. Social Channels:Are you
Optimized?
✤ Are your networks optimized?
✤ Photo (is your avatar/logo the same everywhere?)
✤ Cover images
✤ Bio
✤ URL, etc.)
✤ Which networks are currently bringing you the most value?
✤ Are you using each channel the way it is supposed to be used?
✤ Voice
✤ Posting frequency
✤ Best practices checklist
✤ Benchmarks for analytics and featured stats
✤ Response plan
✤ URL, etc.)
✤ How do your profiles compare to your competitors’ profiles?
18. #5a.Audience & Listening
✤ Where are customers talking? What social listening do you have set up? What is the
sentiment analysis?
✤ Who are your influencers? Where should we place most of our efforts?
✤ Who are we speaking to, how does it differ from our email lists, web visitors, etc…?
✤ What are the differences in audiences on each platform? Use this to help create social
personas for marketers in content development discussions.
✤ Google analytics & Google alerts
✤ SEO - Audience overlap analysis
✤ Trends
21. #5b.Voice
✤ Voice of each channel
✤ What are 2-3 characteristics that
describe you?
✤ Tone
✤ Energy
✤ Jargon
✤ Chart/update “Do’s & Don’ts”
✤ Are we human? Helpful? Intelligent?
22. #5c. Content
✤ Look at each platform - Does content align with your mission?
✤ Top performing content
✤ Why working
✤ Best platforms for use
✤ Actions to take
✤ Worst performing content
✤ Why unsuccessful
✤ Where used
✤ Actions to take
✤ Leverage discovery from competitor review
✤ Leverage discovery from audience
✤ Leverage research
✤ Keyword review
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26. #5d. Posting
✤ Content Planning
✤ Frequency
✤ What works for YOUR
customers?
✤ Content Calendar
✤ Do you schedule?
✤ Do you automate?
27. #10. Response
✤ Response tree
✤ Auto
✤ Crisis
✤ Automated responses language
✤ Crisis response – social listening – watching for
spikes - what/how?
✤ Critical to respond quickly & develop
relationships - KPI?
✤ Content is important but responding/relationship
building is critical to success - how will you do
that?
✤ Link strategy – tracking links - what, where, how?
28. #11.AI/Chatbot Stats
❖ 56% of people would rather message a company
than call customer service
❖ 1 in 2 people would rather shop with a business
they can message as opposed to call
❖ 67% of people expect to message businesses
MORE in the next 2 years
29. #11.AI/Chatbot
❖ If you have one evaluate efficiency,
use and analytics
❖ Do you need to add/remove content
❖ If you don’t have one evaluate if you
need one
❖ Anything you get as a frequent
question is a good candidate for a bot
❖ Benefits – subscribe feature, can
record every exchange for data
collection
30. #12.Advertising Review
✤ Review advertising goals
✤ Review budgets/performance
✤ Review targets - what’s working, what’s not, what’s
changed?
✤ Ad plans/timing?
✤ KPI’s by ad type
✤ Company roll up
31. #13. KPI/
Analytics/Goals
✤ You cannot be successful without KPI’s to make sure
you achieve what your company needs.
✤ What KPIs matter to your business?
✤ What defines your ROI?
✤ Look beyond vanity metrics and measure what truly has
value!
✤ Social impact / Revenue
✤ Response improvement
✤ Website Traffic/Leads
✤ Awareness/Engagement
✤ Look at research, stats, analytics and really analyze what
is working?
✤ Are you using tracking URL’s, UTM’s (naming
conventions?)
32. #14. Social SEO
✤ Profile optimization
✤ Bio
✤ Consistent Branding/Message
✤ Website optimization
✤ Are sites optimized for social sharing
✤ Links to socials
✤ Drip campaigns
✤ Keep content front of mind
✤ Keywords
✤ Trends/Research
✤ Ads/Websites
✤ Copywriting
✤ What are your competitors buying?
37. Competitor
Analysis
✤ Look at competitors & followers
✤ What do they do better? What do we do better?
✤ Are we human? Helpful? Intelligent?
✤ Hashtags?
✤ Gaps? Recommendations?