As presented at PodCamp Toronto 2014
Likes. Shares. Viral impressions. Organic reach. Clicks. Social media offers a wealth of analytic tools showing how people are interacting with your content. Tallies of eyeballs and counts of social gestures. Yet few brands or agencies are actually paying attention to the metrics that matters most in marketing and communications.
Come for a discussion as to what the most important thing that you're not likely tracking is, and walk out with some solid ideas and best practices of how to track it. Those with Math Anxiety, fear not. This is a session about getting answers and not crunching numbers.
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6. Like if you
think puppies
are cute.
Yarrr. Talk Like
A Pirate Day
Mateys. Like if
ye be a pirate.
Share if you care.
For no apparent
reason, here is a
photograph of a
sloth.
You’re welcome.
The first thing
I’m going to
do tonight is
___________.
8. A one-click
social gesture
with ambiguous
meaning
“I Agree”
High
five!
“I Disagree”
I think I‟m
sharing this.
I clicked by
mistake!
„bookmark‟
this for
later.
9. Do we count these things because they matter?
Or do we think they matter because they can be counted?
10. For the next slide:
STAND UP IF YOU
WOULD LIKE THIS
ON FACEBOOK
12. For the next slide:
STAND UP IF YOU
WOULD SHARE
THIS ON
FACEBOOK
14. For the next slide:
STAND UP IF YOU
WOULD LEAVE A
COMMENT ON THIS
23. What we are
hoping to achieve…
•
•
•
•
•
•
Awareness
Education/Understanding
Establish a Need or Want
Create a Positive Association
Form or Change an Opinion
Establish or Regain Trust
24. What we are
hoping to achieve…
•
•
•
•
•
•
Awareness
Education/Understanding
Establish a Need or Want
Create a Positive Association
Form or Change an Opinion
Establish or Regain Trust
33. Start with your
communications objectives
•
•
•
•
•
•
Awareness
Education/Understanding
Establish a Need or Want
Create a Positive Association
Form or Change an Opinion
Establish or Regain Trust
34. And your business objectives
•
•
•
•
Purchase behaviour
Purchase consideration
Likelihood to recommend
Reputation
• Customer / Client
• Employee
• Vendor
• Investor
36. Best Practices
Ensure the full
audience has
an opportunity
to participate.
Use known
information about
your population to
pinpoint sample
bias/error
38. Best Practices
Clear questions
written in plain
language.
You, I, and that guy‟s
grandma should all be
able to read the
question and
understand it just the
same.
give
me
ambiguity
or
give
me
something
else