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Why Argyle Social?

How to Conduct a

Social Media Review

Uncover the hidden insights in your social data: How many fans should your business have? Are you attracting the right ones? Which content is resonating and which isnt? What offers, calls to action, and landing pages are working?

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WhyIntroduction Argyle Social?

As a social media manager, youre down in the trenches every day. Finding and sharing top quality content, responding to followers and customers, monitoring competitors, tracking KPIs: its a never-ending, mission-critical business treadmill that you just cant stop, let alone step off. While running full speed on the social media treadmill, its hard to step back and figure out if what youre doing is working. Sure, you know the data, but do you know whats good and whats bad? At Argyle, we talk to social media managers every day, and a few key questions come up over and over again...

How many followers should I have? What is a good click rate? What is a good interaction rate? What is a good conversion rate?

These questions all drive to a fundamental, overarching question: How am I doing? Social media marketing is an evolving practice in a new medium, so marketers dont yet have guidance on good performance versus poor performance. If you were a search engine marketer, youd know that 1-4% click-through on your ads is pretty good, and 3% conversion rate on an e-commerce landing page is reasonable. But if youre a regional coffee roaster with $10mm in revenue and thousands of customers, how many social followers should you have? If youre a mid-size B2B software company, how many clicks per post should you get? These questions dont have clear answers in part because there are no clear industry benchmarks or methodologies for building internal benchmarks.

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Enter the social media review. The social media review is a process that you can use to step back and evaluate the overall efficacy of your social media marketing programs from a high level. This is where you highlight your *And informs your boss that strengths and identify and correct your deficiencies. you deserve a bigger budget... and a raise. Its what informs your social strategy for next quarter.* In this white paper, were going to walk you through the methodology that Argyle uses to do social media reviews for our customers. Well equip you with the data, questions to ask, and best practices you need to conduct your own review. And well even give you a sample scorecard that you use to get you started. Well break the process down into bite-size chunks and leave you with actionable recommendations. Ready to find out how well your social media marketing is performing? Then lets dive in!

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The SalesArgyleFramework Why Funnel Social?

At Argyle, we use the sales funnel metaphor as the basis for our social media reviews. We simplify the process into three distinct stages:

1. Awareness Measured by followers / fans

Your initial goal is to make potential customers aware of your brand. This is a necessary prerequisite to moving them further down the funnel. In social, this primarily takes the form of a follow or like.

2. Interest Measured by clicks and engagement

Once youve generated awareness, you need to generate interest in your prospects. In social, this involves creating and/or sharing interesting, relevant content that drives engagement and clicks from your followers.

3. Action Measured by social conversions

Once youve groomed a prospect down the sales funnel, its time for them to convert. This can be an e-commerce purchase, a whitepaper download, or a micro-conversion such as a page view: either way, its the action you were looking to achieve at the beginning of this process. In social, be careful of how you measure conversions standard online marketing conversion tracking doesnt work for social. See the inset on social conversion tracking for more information.
The sales funnel metaphor assumes that you are using social media as an inbound marketing channel and that your goal is to increase sales. While some businesses have social accounts entirely devoted to customer support and/or market research, in this white paper were focusing on the general case.

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The Sales Funnel Framework (contd) Why Argyle Social?

A BRIeF A SIde On SOCIAl COnveR SIOn TR ACKIng TeCHnIqUeS

Tracking conversions in social media is different than tracking conversions in most online marketing. Social media tends to be intent generating rather than intent harvesting. An example to illustrate what this means: Search conversions usually happen at the bottom of the funnel: Person searches for product. Person clicks on a natural or paid link. Person buys a product. Social conversions usually begin much earlier in the funnel: Person sees one of your posts retweeted from someone they follow. Person clicks your link to an external website, thinks its pretty interesting, then wonders who originally tweeted it. They read about your company and think Hm! Although person didnt need your product earlier, they later have a need it fills. They dont remember your URl, so they search for you. Person clicks on a natural or paid link. Person buys a product. In both cases, traditional web analytics tools will count both conversions as either SeO or SeM, because the click that led directly to a purchase was from these sources. little do they know, your social media team actually deserves the credit for the second! This is where social media conversion tracking is so important. As a social media manager, make sure that youre using a conversion tracking tool thats specifically built with your needs in mind. If you dont, youre not going to get accurate ROI metrics and will underrepresent the true value youre creating. See our white paper on this topic if youd like to learn more: http://argylesocial.com/landing/social-media-attribution-whitepaper

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Awareness Why Argyle Social?

The first critical step in your social media review is evaluating your followers and fans. How many do you haveand is that enough? Who are they? Are they the people you want to reach? How do you get more? The more you know about your followers and fans, the more easily youll be able to craft relevant and precise social media marketing campaigns.

How many followers / fans do you have?

Your follower count is continually increasing.* last month you had 1,132 followers and this month you have 1,206, for an increase of 6.5%. But is that good? Obviously more is always better, but it is important to put a stake in the ground and define what good is.
*As long as youre not spamming your followers about the debt ceiling debate (@barackobama) or showing off an unpopular haircut (@justinbieber).

We recommend evaluating the strength of your follower count by comparing it to your non-social audience. linking followers to more concrete marketing comparables will help you make more useful judgments. Here are some suggestions:

B2B
If youre a B2B company, measure followers / leads. do you have more leads than followers? Maybe you should find clever ways to encourage your leads to follow you in your email marketing nurture campaigns. Your circumstances will vary, but we would challenge you that your followers-toleads ratio should be as close to 1:1 as you can get. If social is one of your primary marketing channels, then you should be socializing with as many of your leads as possible.

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newspapers and Blogs

Why Argyle Social?

If you are a newspaper or blog, consider measuring followers / unique visitors on your site. If you have 1,500 followers and 20,000 monthly unique visitors, only 7.5% of your monthly audience is actually following you. If you have a follow button on every page, clearly its not getting a lot of clicks. Consider making the follow action more obvious on your site or even an opt-out step in the sharing process.

Consumer Products Brands

If youre a consumer product brand, measure followers / customers. If you have 250,000 followers and know that roughly 150,000 people bought your products last year, youre doing very well. Many people are following you just because they find your content valuable and/or they aspire to purchase your products. More than likely, your followers will be fewer than your customers. You goal should be a 1:1 ratio, even though your might be starting from a much weaker ratio. Consider two key levers to drive social awareness: First, your product packaging and advertising should always include a mention of your social properties. Second, your customers will always be interested in offers on your products. Create offers that are contingent upon following your brand.

SUggeSTIOnS
Many of the actions youll take to promote fan growth will be on your website, your products packaging, and your advertising. Always be on the lookout for new and innovative ways to push people to your social properties and encourage them to follow you. Over time, companies will increasingly integrate the follow action with other interactions they have with their customers, leads, and audiences: lead forms filled out with Facebook Connect data that include an auto-like Unique offer codes tied to a Facebook like, Access to freemium content behind a Twitter OAuth wall that includes an auto-follow These practices will become more and more standard as a means of building followers. How many of these are you doing already? How many are your competitors doing? dont get left behind.

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Who are your followers / fans? Why Argyle Social?

lets say you ran a contest last month. In this contest, you promised one lucky winner a free iPad. All that entrants had to do was like you on Facebook and post your contest to their wall. The contest was a huge success in one week you doubled your fan count. Huzzah! In the following weeks, youve posted several links and a couple of offers. You were hoping to see a doubling of clicks on your links and conversions on your offers, but that didnt happen. Whats going on?*

*Show some love.

This is a straightforward example showing that raw fan / follower count isnt very meaningful by itself you also need to evaluate who your fans and followers are. When asking this question, consider these dimensions:

What are my fan demographics? How did my fans find me? How much fan churn am I seeing?
lets take these one at a time.
WHAT ARe MY FAn deMOgR APHICS?

Your company is looking to connect with specific types of people. You tailor your advertising, website, product, and all corporate communications with a specific audience in mind. The same should be true of your social media marketing. First, make sure you know the exact target customer profile youre trying to reach. This may be the same demographic targeting that is common to the rest of your organization or it may be specific to your social campaigns. lets say you sell gardening supplies and are primarily targeting women from 35 to 65 on the east coast. Awesome now we have something to shoot for.

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There are many tools online that will show you the demographic information on your fans and followers, but the most common way to look this up is via Facebook Insights (for Facebook) and Twitter Analytics (for Twitter). Unfortunately, Twitter Analytics is not yet open to the general public, so you may have to be patient to get at that data if you dont yet have access.

Why Argyle Social?

Once you have the data in hand, compare your actual fan demographics the targets you defined earlier. The above graph from Insights shows gender and age for Argyles Facebook fans. Were actually pretty happy about the age breakdown, but wed like to see a more even split between male and female.
WHeRe dId MY FAnS FInd Me?

This is where we get fancy. Its very important to understand where youre getting your fans. Are you running Facebook ads or a Twitter promoted account? Are they coming from your website? A recent contest? This data also comes from Facebook Insights and Twitter Analytics (for those with access). In Facebook, there are two areas you need to look at: like Sources and external Referrers. like Sources will tell you where new users find you from within the Facebook ecosystem, while external Referrers tell you were users found you from outside the Facebook ecosystem. Between these two data points, you can get an accurate picture of where your fans are coming from. There is no inherently better or worse way of acquiring fans its up to you to find out what works best.

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Understanding churn will help you understand your fan base. Fan churn is simply lost fans as a percentage of your overall fan base. If your page has 1,000 fans and 10 of them unliked it last month, then your churn is 1%. Churn is a good measure of how valuable people find your content. very simply, if youre posting interesting content and valuable offers, people will stick around. We suspect that a churn rate of 1-2% is natural, so take heed if you notice your churn climbing higher - you might have some work to do. There are a couple of things that fan churn tells you:

Why Argyle Social?

HOW MUCH FAn CHURn AM I SeeIng?

Compare your fan growth rate to churn rate. If your churn is 1% and your growth
is 10%, thats no problem. If your churn is 3% and your growth is 4%, youre losing fans almost as quickly as youre gaining them. Yikes If your growth and churn are both high, that means that most of your fans havent been with you for very long. The longer fans are with you the more receptive they are to your marketing messages.
BRIngIng I T BACK TOgeTHeR

We started off by posing a situation: an iPad giveaway contest doubled your fan count, but this wasnt generating additional clicks and conversions. Our gut instinct is that the fans from the contest werent the right target audience for our Page, and the data we just gathered proves this out. Heres how to analyze this situation:

1. Using like Sources and external Referrers, verify that your new fans did in fact
come from the contest that you ran. 2. look at your demographics from one month ago, prior to the contest. now compare those to the demographics from today, after the contest. The differences between then and now represents the demographic breakdown of the fans coming from your contest. does it match your target demographic? likely not. Of course 13-18 year old males arent interested in your content and offersthey just wanted a free iPad! 3. Compare your churn from one month ago to your churn today. Any increase in churn you see is from people liking your page simply for the duration of the contest and then unliking you afterwards.

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Why Argyle Social?

SUggeSTIOnS
getting fans is much easier than getting the right fans. Thus, its critical to keep an eye on the demographic profile of your fan base fans outside of your target demographic wont progress further down the sales funnel. The iPad giveaway example we provided exposes this nuance. Prizes like an iPad are valuable to any demographic, so your contest will therefore attract a broad range of entrants. Instead, offer a prize that only your target demographic will care aboutfor instance, a lifetime supply of your product. If youre using Twitter Promoted Accounts or Facebook ads, make sure that your targeting is narrow. As always, the best type of fan to get is the one who is referred by a friend. good content and compelling offers are your best weapon.

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Interest Why Argyle Social?

Once youve stopped to admire your fans, its time to move our analysis down the funnel to interest. For your fans to actually convert into customers, they need to interact with your content and click the links youre sharing.

How many clicks are you getting?

There is a good way and a bad way of looking at click data.

The bad way: You posted something yesterday. It got 150 clicks. The good way: Over the past 7 days, your posts received 1,402
clicks, for an average of 112 clicks per post and 1.39 clicks per follower. Clicks were up over a week prior. An increase in posting frequency drove the uptick in clicks, as your clicks per post remained flat.

Were going to focus primarily on clicks for this section. But note that our definition of clicks includes those that drive views to content on your site and also those that drive views to external content.

See the difference? On a day-to-day basis, social media marketers get drawn into the How did my individual piece of content perform? trap. Unfortunately, looking this deep into the weeds doesnt really tell us anything actionable. Raw performance data is necessary, but we need to see it in context (and often in aggregate) in order to identify trends and take action. There are three primary data points we use to evaluate interest, and one bonus data point for those of you who really want to compare yourselves against other companies. These data points must be used in conjunction to get a full picture of your traffic.

1. 2. 3. 4.

Clicks Clicks per post Clicks per follower (bonus!) Click response rate

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Clicks Why Argyle Social?

Clicks are, well, clicks. You publish links to Twitter, Facebook, and linkedIn. You use a URl shortener. You get reports on clicks, broken down by social network, social property, and post, and grouped by campaign. Right? If you dont, you should be link shortening and click tracking is the most fundamental tool in your social media marketing toolkit.
Check out bit.ly for a handy free URl shortener or ahem! check out Argyle Social for an integrated, business-class offering.

Clicks data becomes most useful when viewed in trends. A month-on-month increase of 20% is excellent, whereas a 20% decrease over the same time period is less than ideal. However, be careful when ascribing too much to this number. Well need some additional data to explain any trends we see.

Clicks per post

A raw clicks count doesnt tell us much of anything. If we take clicks and divide by the number of posts made during the time period, we can start explaining the trends we see. lets say in month 1 we get 1,000 clicks and make 50 posts, for a total of 20 clicks per post. Imagine the following situations that could arise in month 2:

1,250 clicks on 50 posts; 25 clicks per post 1,250 clicks on 63 posts; 20 clicks per post
Both results are goodyou generated 25% more clicks than the prior month. But the first scenario is clearly better. not only are you getting more total clicks, youre also getting more clicks on every post that you make. This indicates that whatever youre doing seems to resonate with your audience!

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When looking to increase clicks, you have two primary levers: you can post more often, and you can post better content. Posting more often will only get you so far, so make sure youre laser-focused on the clicks per post youre generating.

Why Argyle Social?

engagement per post also provides guidance regarding the quality of your content. Keep close tabs on those likes and retweets as well!

The same logic works if youve had a particularly bad month:

750 clicks on 38 posts; 20 clicks per post 750 clicks on 50 posts; 15 clicks per post
In both situations your clicks went down by 25%. As before, the first scenario is clearly better. Your clicks per post have stayed consistent; the decrease in clicks is just because youve made fewer posts. Thats easy enough to fix.

Clicks per follower

We can also normalize clicks by the number of followers in a given period. This is especially useful if youre going through a period of high growth in your fan base. Continuing with the example above, lets say in month 1 we get 1,000 clicks and have 800 followers for a total of 1.25 clicks per follower. Imagine the following situations that could arise in month 2:

1,100 clicks from 850 followers; 1.29 clicks per follower 1,100 clicks from 950 followers; 1.16 clicks per follower
Both results are good, but the first scenario is clearly better. While its hard to make a definitive judgment about whats going on, it seems like the 150 new fans added in the second scenario werent as interested in the content you were sharing, thereby driving down the average click rate.

Remember from the Awareness part of the funnel make sure youre aggregating the right followers that fit your target customer demographic. As your follower base grows, you can expect a natural decline in clicks per followerjust make sure you watch closely!

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WhyClick response Social? Argyle rate

The ultimate way of normalizing clicks is both by fan base and by post count. A simple example: if you generated 1,500 clicks on 50 posts and 1,500 fans, your response rate is 1,500 / 50 / 1,500 = 2%. What this means is that 2 out of every 100 fans click on every link you post. Weve found that this metric is the most easily understandable way to look at the level of interest your fans are showing in your content. While results will obviously vary, we try to aim for response rates of 1-3%. Anything higher than 3% is gravy, while anything under 1% needs work. Trust us on this one. If you dont already know your average response rate, throw together a quick spreadsheet* and figure it out. Youll be fascinated by how much you learn by the end of the exercise.
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What types of content are working?

We now have plenty of information on our performance, including an understanding of the factors underlying that performance. But we still dont know enough to make tactical decisions about what to do more, what to do less, and what to change. In order to make decisions like that, we need to figure out what content is working and what content isnt. enter the Content Matrix. no need to decide between the red pill and the blue pill were talking about a two-dimensional grid, not a 4-dimensional virtual reality built to enslave all humans. This grid is going to be your biggest tool to measure and improve your content. lets take a look.

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The Content Matrix Why Argyle Social?

Your content has two primary dimensions: topic and content type. lets say youre a real estate developer. Your topics and content types will likely look something like this: Topic
Real estate Trends Financing local real estate news Owning a home

Content Type
Informative guidance / How-To engaging: Joke / question Call to action

Topics answer the question What am I posting about? and content types answer the question How am I posting about it? Once you have your topics and content types defined and have tagged your posts accordingly, its time to report out your performance. Your quarterly report should look something like this:

Take a moment to digest this. Theres a lot there. Feel free to daydream of all the insights you could gain if only you had this data on your social media efforts. If your daydreams also involve rainbows and ponies, were right there with you.

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Back to reality? Ok, good. lets walk through this report step-by-step. First, note that one of the cells is grayed outFinancing / engaging. Who ever heard of engaging content on home financing? Some cells in your matrix wont make sense, and theres no reason to try to create posts in that cell if you know they wont resonate. next, look at the color-coding. Colored posts are the outliers. Obviously, green is good and red is bad. Take a look at your green cells. It looks like engaging contentquestions, polls, and jokesabout local real estate news is an absolute gold mine. Your posts in this cell lead all other posts by a long shot. Make sure you continue to continue doing what youre doing here. now look at some of the red cells. It looks like informative posts on financing arent working well at all. It turns out that no one wants to read long articles on the details of interest rates and loan types.* What is working, however, is simple how-to posts on the same topic. It seems like people realize that they need to deal with financing, but theyd prefer to be walked through the process step-by-step rather than read broad informational articles. In the future, you may want to consider eliminating your informational financing posts.

Why Argyle Social?

Who would have thought that people wouldnt find detailed articles about the machinations of the home financing process to be interesting and engaging?

Whats even more concerning, however, is that your call to action posts are not performing as well as youd like. Ultimately, youre trying to drive prospects down the sales funnel, and if your call to action posts arent getting clicks, youre not achieving that objective. Well talk more about call to action posts in the next section on conversions. You dont have to stick to the data weve highlighted above, either. Consider the following possibilities: look at post count within each cell as a percentage of total post count. Where are you spending your time and directing your fans attention? does this align with your strategic objectives? look at post counts for each content type as a percentage of total post count. Are you posting too many informational links? Sometimes people want to see that you have a personality. Are you posting too many calls to action? As a general rule, calls to action should be no more than 5-10% of your total post count. Show trends over time. Your social media marketing is always evolving. Set goals at the end of every quarter for areas that you want to improve, and then report on your progress.

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The social media content matrix is your ultimate tool to evaluate the efficacy of your content. But its also action-oriented the whole point is to allow you to make tactical decisions on where and how to improve. Use an iterative approach: make tweaks to the content youre publishing, evaluate the response from your fans, repeat.

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HOW dO I BUIld A COnTenT MATRIx?

At Argyle, we think its critical to define your content matrix at the beginning of your social media marketing efforts. If you dont have goals set for your topics and content types, your content machine is a rudderless ship. That said, if you didnt create this type of matrix during your planning phase, its not too late to do it now. Once you have your matrix planned out, you need to implement it. This involves tagging every single post you make with its topic and content type. The data in the cells of your content matrix is very difficult to construct after the fact. The only way to efficiently create this report is by using a social media management tool that allows you to tag your posts as you publish them and provides performance-reporting capabilities. look into the features of your platform and figure out how to get this data. You need it.

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Action Why Argyle Social?

The final step of a good social media review focuses on how to get your fan base to act on your content. You got them to follow your social presence and click / engage with your content. How do you motivate them to act? In social media, as in all online marketing, we measure action in conversions.*
*Once more with feeling: this review methodology works best for marketers that drive outcomes through online conversions. (Think ecommerce transactions, free trials, whitepaper downloads, contest completions, video views, etc.)

Before we get too far into this section, its important to talk about measuring social conversions. Most marketers use a web analytics tool such as google Analytics or if youve got some cash Omniture to track online conversions. These tools work well to track marketing efforts that happen further down the funnel, such as email or search. But these tools dont work well (or at all!) when it comes to social conversions in part because social touch-points happen further up the acquisition funnel. So make sure youre using a purpose-built social conversion tracking tool. See the notes on page 5 if youd like more information on this.

How much revenue am I generating?

last month your social media marketing drove $32,590 in revenue. Congrats! But dont take that victory lap yet just making judgments on a single revenue number isnt enough. In order to more fully evaluate your performance, youll need to dig a little deeper. The world of conversions is chock full of interesting numbers that you absolutely need to know.

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IMPORTAnT WAYS TO Me A SURe RevenUe:

Conversion count: How many conversions did you

get last month? Pretty self-explanatory, right?

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Whats a micro-conversion? e-commerce companies can track conversions back to revenue generated very easily because they actually collect cash from online transactions. If your conversions arent directly tied to a dollar value (commonly lead forms or signups) you can still tie these actions to dollars. Just estimate the value of a lead or a signup!

Revenue generated: How much revenue was generated by the conversions you received? This can be a hard dollar figure if youre an e-commerce company, or an estimated dollar figure if you are using micro conversions.

Revenue per conversion: If youre an e-commerce

company and sell products from $10 to $1,000, it obviously makes a big difference whether youre average conversion is for $20 or $700. Trends in this statistic can be very instructive.

Conversion rate: To find your social conversion

rate, take your conversion count and divide by your total clicks. If you had 3,200 clicks last month and got 45 conversions, thats a 1.4% conversion rate. A 1% social conversion rate isnt badremember, social is a very soft sell, so dont try to compare conversion rates with search engine marketing.

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Once you have your core data, its time to start looking at trends. lets take a look at some scenarios to give you a feel for the insight you can extract from this data.
Conversions Revenue RPC Conv Rate diagnosis Congratulations! Youre successfully moving upmarket. Youre getting higher value conversions, but they are fewer and farther between. Overall, your revenue is up, so all is well. Youre moving downmarket, with more frequent lower value conversions. Unfortunately, the increased frequency isnt making up for the reduced value, so your overall revenue is down. Solve this either by recovering some of your lost revenue per conversion or by increasing your conversion count. Your landing pages and offers have gotten way more compelling. Your conversion rate has gone up so your customers are clearly responding to what youre putting out there, and its driving more conversions and more revenue.

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PUT TIng I T All TOgeTHeR

( symbols representing trends: up, down, and flat )

As you can see, theres a lot more than a simple revenue number at play here. Make sure you understand the underlying drivers of revenue so that you can explain whats really going on.

Whats working and what isnt?

In order to get actionable information, you need to know more than aggregate numbers. You need to dig into the details. Once youve gotten a user to click on your call to action, which we looked at in the previous section, its now up to the landing page to drive the prospect down the remainder of the funnel.

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At Argyle, we use the following simple table to look at the difference in efficacy between landing pages:

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A
190 13 6.8%

landing Page
Clicks Conversions Conversion Rate

B
240 10 4.2%

C
210 9 4.3%

d
180 12 6.7%

When evaluating landing pages, conversion rate is king. Once a prospect gets to a landing page, there is a binary function that happenseither they convert or they do not. For a given goal, you will want to use landing pages that have the highest conversion rate and discard the non-performing ones.

Summary
And that is how we conduct social media reviews at Argyle. The trick is this no single set of metrics or piece of advice will be perfect for your situation. Use this guide as a start and begin to create your own process based on your needs. In order to help you do this, weve shared a spreadsheet that will get you started on your way. Click here for the sample spreadsheet: http://ar.gy/scorecard Of course, we ultimately hope that you wont use spreadsheets to manage this data, as doing so is extremely time-consuming and inefficient. If you find you outgrow the spreadsheet, sign up for a demo of Argyle Social and well show you how easy it can be to conduct a social media review when the data and insights are all right there in front of you.

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Social Media Argyle Social? Sheet Why Review Cheat

KPIs Awareness
Followers Followers / leads (or Followers / Uniques) growth/Churn

Key questions

Best Practices

do I have a right-sized audience? Index your follower count to another marketing metric such as email list Am I retaining my followers? size, leads per month, or page views. do I have the right followers? Use follower churn to gauge the quality of your audience.

Clicks

Interest

Clicks per post Clicks per follower Click response rate

What does my click data tell me about the effectiveness of my content? What content works best?

Use compound metrics like Clicks per Follower or Click Response rate to normalize your data. Use a content matrix to organize your content and uncover performance insights.

Conversions

Action

How much revenue am I generating?

Revenue Revenue per conversion Conversion rate

Use a purpose-built social conversion tracking tool to measure sociallyinfluenced conversions.

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About Argyle Social Why Argyle Social?

Founded in 2009, Argyle Social is an innovative software-as-a-service platform for social media marketing management and analytics. The platform helps marketers to easily organize and publish social content, manage customer interactions across social channels and quantify the bottom-line impact of their social media marketing efforts. Argyle customers include gander Mountain, Sharefile.com, Blue Sky Factory and UnC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The company is based in durham, nC. For more information, visit http://www.argylesocial.com