Author Bill Eager is a dynamic speaker who engages audiences with interactive presentations. An Internet pioneer, Bill helped create one of the first large-scale Intranets connecting 25,000 employees at BASF Corporation. He has written 12 books about Internet marketing including Transformative Digital Marketing and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Online Marketing. Join Bill Eager at the BMA Colorado Morning Brew on Feb. 22, where he will be presenting Winning Campaign Strategies: Using Sentiment, Personas & Archetypes to Engage Your Audiences.
Companies and brands that use social as a vehicle for brand awareness and lead generation are often faced with the challenge of defining and measuring metrics to demonstrate the value of their efforts — and calculate a positive ROI. The low hanging fruit of metrics is number of fans, likes and views. They indicate volume, but not value.
Engagement with your content is much more significant. It shows you that the content you spend so much time to create and share resonates with your target market. Content, story and sentiment drive engagement. Great content is based upon stories that have an emotional bond with your audience. The stories create and generate sentiment. This, in turn, creates the engagement you are looking for.
This means you need to focus on specific metrics to understand and evaluate the stories that you create and share. Metrics for resonance of your stories can include:
Comments
Re-tweets
Number of shares
Migration across social platforms
Total engagement on all platforms
Time spent reading/viewing
Click throughs to landing pages
Taken together, these measurements show you which content performs the best and which social platforms work best for different types of content. This, in turn, directs the creation of new content. A successful blog strategy identifies a target audience and the specific subject matter that resonates with this audience. Then, with deep social listening, discover the best blogs and social platforms to share stories based on this subject matter. The metrics you watch and track should create useful insights:
Does the sentiment of your story resonate with audiences (see and record how many comments you get)?
What stories create the greatest viral lift (how quickly are they shared across networks)?
What stories engage prospects and customers and translate into meaningful actions (actions such as click throughs to landing pages)?
What stories drive discussions, leads and customers?
What stories bring audiences to your web site, and then what happens when they arrive?
BMA Colorado Morning Brew: Winning Campaign Strategies: Using Sentiment, Personas & Archetypes to Engage Your Audiences
