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WEBINAR SCHEDULE 2/11 - Building your social media plan 2/18 - Executing on your social media plan 2/25 - Improving your social media plan with data
Mark Kilens @MarkKilens
Amy Ullman @AmyUllman
AGENDA 1 Time management best practices 2 Social media ROI 3 Diving deeper into data
1 TIME MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES.
TIME MANAGEMENT 1 2 3 4 Google Chrome extension Social Media Publisher HubSpot s Mobile app Social Monitoring
1 GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSION
CHROME PLUGIN Install the plugin & the social media compose button will appear. Allows for easy copy & paste for sound bites.
2 SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLISHER
SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLISHER Bring your content calendar to life! Create offline with the bulk upload feature
3 HUBSPOT S MOBILE APP
HUBSPOT S MOBILE APP No desk no problem! The mobile app lets you share content on the fly ios & Android
4 SOCIAL MONITORING
THE SOCIAL MONITORING TOOL Allows users to create Twitter streams Based on Smart List e.g. All contacts with a Twitter handle Bring in your Twitter lists
THE SOCIAL MONITORING TOOL Mentions of your keywords, competitors, products, brands, etc.
2 SOCIAL MEDIA ROI.
WHAT METRICS SHOULD WE TRACK & WHY? These can vary from business to business, but. We should always start with a goal in mind. According to HubSpot Social Media Manager, Brittany Leaning, when she reviews her data, I am looking to tell a story, to answer a series of questions For each stage in the inbound methodology here are some great questions to get started when analyzing data.
DEMONSTRATING ROI AT EVERY STAGE 1 2 3 4 Attract Convert Close Delight
1 ATTRACT
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK What percentage of your overall traffic came from social media? How many visits are you getting from social? Over the course of the week? month? quarter? Monthly visits data overall & from sources only for January
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK Which social platforms attract the most visitors? Use the Sources tool to take a deeper dive into all of your campaigns.
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK Is this typical or an abnormality? Save report of social media data from the previous month. Review at the beginning of each month. Export data & review. For quick check use the Sources tool & sort by social to track trends.
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK What opportunities are there for improving the metrics of some of the less well performing platforms? If there are no opportunities, do we ditch them entirely? For instance do your infographics kill it on Facebook but not on Pinterest?
2 CONVERT
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK How many leads are you generating from each of the social platforms? Show visits to conversion rate to track this over the course of a particular time frame.
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK How many leads are you generating from each of these social platforms? How many of these leads are qualified? Which persona generates the highest number & percentage of leads Enterprise Customers: Use the Contacts reporting tool. Use the List tool to export the data & create custom reports in Excel or in your CRM.
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK Which posts generated the highest number of conversions? If you re getting significant traffic, but not a lot of conversions, what are your options: Changing the ratio of offers to other content Types of offers kits versus templates vs Ebooks Positioning of offers? Titles or soundbites?
3 CLOSE
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK Which platforms have the highest conversion rate from lead to customer?
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK What s the breakdown but channel? Double-click the social media channel
METRICS TO TRACK & QUESTIONS TO ASK How do the views to submissions & views to customers per offer compare to the rest of your channels. Use the Landing Page tool to measure.
4 DELIGHT
HOW TO DELIGHT YOUR CUSTOMERS ON SOCIAL Are your customers following you on social media? Use the Social Monitoring tool to find out!
HOW TO DELIGHT YOUR CUSTOMERS ON SOCIAL How can we better serve our customers through social media? Pro tip social as tech support: Create a stream of customers that have question marks in their tweets. Respond ASAP with as much info possible to solve the problem in the moment.
HOW TO DELIGHT YOUR CUSTOMERS ON SOCIAL Create a LinkedIn group & encourage your customers to join Fosters a sense of community. Connect existing customers through geo-targeted User Groups or on-going meet-ups
3 DIVING DEEPER INTO DATA.
1 Data follow-up best practices 2 Social platform data 3 Overcoming challenges
1 DATA FOLLOW-UP BEST PRACTICES
LET S EXPERIMENT! Wording of posts Changing of visuals, thumbnails or other images Type of content Sources of content Positioning of content e.g. Quotations? Stats? Titles? Try using contra competitive timing e.g. Times of day, Days of the week
CREATE WORKFLOWS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DATA: e.g. Lead generation workflows for LinkedIn group members Utilize social clicks as a criteria for lead scoring Pro tip: Follow up a tweet with a personal email
SOCIAL DATA LIVES IN INDIVIDUAL CONTACT RECORDS Use the data for segmentation purposes Create workflows based on social media data Create lists of heavy social users for lead scoring & sales notifications
USING THE CAMPAIGNS TOOL Build out campaign tokens in the Tracking URL Builder tool. Tie all social efforts in their own campaign. See which campaigns generated the most visits, leads & customers.
2 SOCIAL PLATFORM DATA
SOCIAL PLATFORM DATA LinkedIn Facebook Twitter
LINKEDIN METRICS Data from company pages Page views Unique visitors Clicks for products or services
LINKEDIN METRICS Visits to company pages by LinkedIn members Data is split into member visits by the following: Industry Function Company
LINKEDIN METRICS Track LinkedIn Group performance (You have started your own group haven t you?) Group Performance, Clicks Love the transparency share your stats once in a while!
LINKEDIN METRICS Track growth over time: Daily new membership Total growth over time Week-over-week growth
LINKEDIN METRICS Get to know your LinkedIn Group LinkedIn provides demographics information for group members: Industry Region Function
FACEBOOK METRICS Facebook Insights provides a wealth of data, but sometimes there is too much of a good thing. Our favorites to use? People talking about this Page Likes People Engaged Page tags & mentions Page Checks ins
FACEBOOK METRICS Engagement Rate Likes Comments Shares Clicks
TWITTER METRICS The bad news: This data is only available to paid search users But if you are a user: Bucket tweets by engagement Demographic info of followers
TWITTER METRICS The good news: Social Monitoring, Social Publishing & Campaigns tools provide a rich source of Twitter data.
3 OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
COMMON SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGES: Boss is nervous about negative posts on social media Boss does not see the value of social media Sales team does not like the quality of leads No time, no results
BOTTOM LINE: Like it or not if customers or prospects they are going to be do doing it whether you have a social presence or not. This is your chance to control the conversation and turn it around
Bring on the data! If none of the criteria above are what your boss is working for, let s start tracking it.
Review the existing SLA & revise goals if unreasonable Help the sales team manage their own social accounts, so that sales has more touch points with their prospects.
NEXT STEPS 1. Create a monthly social media report 2. Analyze applicable social platform data 3. Use the data to create a goal and plan to improve specific aspects of your social media plan 4. Set up social monitoring email notifications
CLASS RESOURCES How to Convince Your Boss to Invest in Social Media Marketing How to install the Chrome plugin for HubSpot social media How to analyze your social media messages with HubSpot How to export details from your social media accounts Follow-Up a Customer Tweet With a Personal Email
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