Many social media teams lament that they don’t have enough budget, headcount or support to have a real impact on the business. Yet it’s often these same teams that fail to connect the dots. Your senior leaders don’t care about likes and retweets, they care about impact on business results. Here’s a four-step process on how to frame the discussion and speak their language to get more headcount and budget for social.
Measurement
Get Snapping: A Step-by-Step Method for Measuring Your Snapchat Effort
June 26th, 2017 by Carmen Shirkey CollinsCommunicators and marketers know the elephant in the room with Snapchat is that you can’t measure it. Wrong, argues Carmen Collins of Cisco, who not only has launched an extensive Snapchat effort at the company but also measures it. In this article she provides step-by-step directions so you, too, can measure Snapchat.
A 4-Step Route to Setting Facebook Insights KPIs
June 23rd, 2017 by Sophie MaerowitzFacebook Insights provides a wealth of demographic data and offers a window into what kinds of posts resonate the most. But Insights reports can also contain an overwhelming amount of data. To avoid drowning in a sea of irrelevant metrics, Kathleen Lukasik, vice president of social analytics at Ogilvy, advises clients to break down their goals into bite-size pieces before reading through Facebook Insights reports. At PR News’ Digital Boot Camp June 23 in Chicago, Lukasik laid out four steps to setting KPIs before sitting down to read through Insights results.
How Facebook, Snapchat and Pinterest Help Generate and Track Sales
June 20th, 2017 by Kathleen Celano, Brownstein GroupFor many businesses, leads and sales are primary KPIs. But before you can track sales, you have to generate them—and standing out from the crowd on social media is no easy task. Online consumers can anticipate when ads are coming and know when and how to skip them. Fortunately, major platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat and Pinterest, continue to develop new technologies to help generate and track sales, helping to prove the ROI of social media ads.
The Dirty Little Secret of Social Media Metrics
June 12th, 2017 by Allen Plummer, VanguardMarketers are trained to watch engagement, track reach, respond to comments and keep an eye out for influencers on social media. But above and beyond how many shares and click throughs a post receives, the question your senior leaders really want to know is, “What’s the ROI of your social media efforts?” If you want more budget, headcount or respect within your organization, then you better have an answer to that question.
Six Metrics to Measure Video Beyond Likes, Shares and Comments
May 22nd, 2017 by Melony ShembergerInstagram video has become useful and powerful content for strategic communicators. In much the same way as photos, Instagram users can like, share and comment on videos. For clients and organizations new to Instagram, the likes, shares and comments can give a marketing and PR team data about how a client’s or organization’s content is performing. Plus, these simple metrics can provide insight into what could be done to improve them.
Five Steps to the Perfect PR Measurement Dashboard
April 21st, 2017 by Seth ArensteinHow do you create the perfect dashboard? Does such a thing exist? And if so, will it change your life as a communicator? Probably not, Katie Paine of Paine Publishing and Johna Burke of BurrellesLuce say during PR News’ Measurement Conference in Washington, D.C. Dashboards can make your life easier and should, but they’re not the silver bullets of PR. The human element and the insights you can glean from dashboard are far more important, they say.
Real or Fake? How to Make Sure Your Brand Really Wants PR Measurement
April 17th, 2017 by DAVID ROCKLAND, PARTNER/CEO, KETCHUM GLOBAL RESEARCH & ANALYTICSRecently I got a phone call from Marion McDonald, chief strategy officer of Ogilvy PR Asia Pacific. She was preparing her presentation for the AMEC Summit in Bangkok, May 17-18 (www.amecorg.com). Now, Marion’s a great presenter, and I always will try to see one of her talks. In fact, at the AMEC Summit in Amsterdam a few years ago, she used the famous scene from the movie When Harry Met Sally as part of a discussion on how advertisers and PR people might work together.
How the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Links Social Listening to Content Creation
April 10th, 2017 by Seth ArensteinThe way some PR pros avoid social media measurement you’d think it was the plague or worse. Yet even those who have little time and budget to devote to measurement can reap benefits, says Danielle Brigida of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. One of the benefits, she says, is that social listening can lead to more informed content creation. Brigida discusses how she measures, what she measures and why.
Rector, Gilfeather, Bagnall and Daniels to Be Inducted Into PR News’ Measurement Hall of Fame
April 7th, 2017 by Jerry AsciertoEach April, PR News inducts into its Measurement Hall of Fame communications professionals who have played longtime leadership roles in helping to define and expand industry measurement strategies, programs and standards. This year’s inductees—Elizabeth Rector, John Gilfeather, Richard Bagnall and Mike Daniels—will be honored during a special ceremony April 21 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. during PR News’ Measurement Conference.