When it comes to marketing your small business to consumers, promoting business to business to get clients or using social media marketing to advance engagement; many businesses use social media as an add-on to other advertising, rather than tracking it’s own return on investment.
While social media is a part of the marketing platform–there are some ways to help measure it’s effectiveness other than, likes, follows and shares.
Today’s Digital Marketing Update
In today’s Digital Marketing Update, Video Podcast #69, host John D. Verlin discusses Keys To Getting ROI With Social Media.
He references an article in the Harvard Business Review by Keith Quesenberry.
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Enjoy The Video Podcast
Key Podcast Take Aways
- Target most likely social media platforms that your customers will be using–not a broad reach.
- Create a social media strategy that is in line with your business goals, not just measurement of follows, shares and likes.
- Utilize other measurement platforms like Google Analytics to measure “conversion” rates and cost per conversion.
- Track web traffic flow from social media posts/ads to further factor ROI.
- Create a value for social media customer interaction that may lead to sales.

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Copyright, John D. Verlin 2017