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  MEASURING ROI
  The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing

                                                             The question of how to measure the Return On Investment (ROI) of social

                                                  l          media marketing has long been a bone of contention. With the lightening
                                                             spread of social media usage, the lack of standardised metrics and the
                                               pressure on marketing departments to prove they’re getting ‘bang for the buck,’ the
                                               financial viability of social media marketing will remain a highly contested topic in the
                                               business world, at least for the foreseeable future (Fisher, 2009).

                                               A study by Knowledge Networks in 2012 revealed 15,100,000 consumers go to social
                                               media channels before making purchasing decisions. Social media is where actual
                                               and potential customers are interacting and engaging, with the activities taking place
                                               on social media sites helping to shape the way they think and feel about brands and
                                               products.




  “             Social media is where actual and potential customers are
                interacting and engaging, with the activities taking place on
                social media sites helping to shape the way they think and
                feel about brands and products.
                                               Marketers and brands are fully aware of the benefits of social media marketing. Take
                                               for example Oreo’s “You Can Still Dunk In The Dark” Tweet during the Super Bowl
                                               blackout this year. In less than 24 hours it had received over 15,000 retweets and
                                               20,000 Likes on Facebook, catapulting Oreo into the social media marketing Hall of
                                               Fame and generating unprecedented levels of conversation and positive sentiment
                                               around the brand.

                                               Although such virility is hard to come by, it is the immense capability of the social web
                                               to propel a brand to the forefront of consumers’ minds, for a fraction of the cost of
                                               a print or television campaign that continues to make it so alluring to marketers and
                                               brands alike. However, the ROI of such campaigns can be incredibly hard to measure
                                               – how can an increase in customer engagement or reach on social media sites
                                               translate to hard numbers and how does it impact on the bottom line?




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From the plethora of encouraging statistics and the array of awe-inspiring case
                                               studies available, using social media as a marketing tool would seem like a no-
                                               brainer. However, the inability to accurately measure ROI has been cited by marketers
                                               as one of the most significant barriers to the adoption of social media tactics. It is
                                               believed that over 70 per cent of online businesses that utilise social media as part
                                               of their marketing strategy do not measure the ROI (Cohn, 2013). This figure seems
                                               astonishingly high considering the millions of pounds made from online sales each
                                               year.




                                               WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
                                               Some marketers have tried to reinvent or change the meaning of the ROI acronym –
                                               Return on Influence or Return on Engagement is the new ROI. Others have suggested
                                               that ROI is old fashioned thinking and not in tune with social media. However, the
                                               problem lies with the way in which marketers are approaching the measurement of




  “
                                               ROI, not in the meaning or applicability of the acronym.


                It is believed that over 70% of online businesses that utilise
                social media as part of their marketing strategy do not
                measure the ROI
                                               Understandably, managers need hard numbers to know whether or not their
                                               investments in social media marketing are worthwhile. However, this ‘show me the
                                               return’ approach is very short-term oriented; building ‘relationships’ and having
                                               ‘conversations’ takes time in a world where customers are very much in control of their
                                               online experiences. Viewing social media as “just another” marketing communications
                                               vehicle is a mistake, as it is largely a consumer-controlled environment, not a marketer
                                               controlled one (Hoffman and Fodor, 2010).

                                               Social media marketing is ultimately successful because it is about people, not money.
                                               Community, conversation, sharing – all the social media ‘buzz’ words are people or
                                               consumer-centric. Social media is not about sales, market share or profit margins;
                                               web analytics alone are no longer adequate because customers are talking to each
                                               other, with the majority of conversations taking place outside of a brand’s site (Benson,
                                               2008).

                                               However, the main problem is that social media has not been connected with the
                                               bottom of the funnel were the conversion, sale or customer retention takes place. This
                                               has resulted in executives having misaligned expectations as to where social media
                                               fits into the sales funnel (Stelzner, 2013). Marketers are constantly under pressure
                                               to measure everything they do and are all too often being forced to justify the cost
                                               of social media marketing using conventional advertising metrics, regardless of their
                                               effectiveness.




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“             Viewing social media as “just another” marketing
                communications vehicle is a mistake, as it is largely
                a consumer-controlled environment, not a marketer
                controlled one

                                               Traditionally online marketers have been able to quantifiably measure the results of
                                               their efforts using safe, defined metrics: Unique Visitors, Cost per Clicks, Page Views
                                               etc. However, when attempting to transfer these traditional metrics to social media
                                               marketing, the results have proven to be inconclusive or inaccurate, as they fail to take
                                               into account the qualitative aspect of user interactions. This often results in campaigns
                                               that expect the customer to work for the brand, when in fact it should be the other
                                               way around.

                                               However, something must be measured in order to gauge effectiveness, so simply
                                               bumbling along without clearly defined metrics in place is not an option. If you have no
                                               goal, then you cannot measure against it and you cannot manage what you cannot
                                               measure, so setting the objectives from the outset is a must.




                                               SO WHAT CAN WE MEASURE?
                                               A simple Google search of ‘ROI social media’ throws up over 2 million hits, many of
                                               which put forward convincing and compelling arguments. With the overwhelming
                                               amount of conflicting information available, it is impossible for marketers to know
                                               which way to turn.




  “             As an agency we are seeing clients request far more
                accountability from their marketing across the board. At the
                early inception of social, people were ecstatic to just track likes
                and followers but the realisation has quickly set in that this
                does not give an accurate indication of campaign effectiveness,
                or ROI. The social sphere is a highly measurable environment
                and it is essential that we try to track the complete user journey
                across the marketing mix
            Duncan Thomas,
            Managing Director of Pomegranate Group




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Stelzner (2013) suggests we dispose of all social media lingo such as fans, followers
                                               and likes and start thinking in terms of other marketing channels and what you
                                               measure there. For example, if you measure how much you spend on content, agency
                                               fees and total spend on social media marketing, then compare it to the value of the
                                               conversions from social media, you can begin to understand the ROI. Therefore, the
                                               question is not whether to blog or to post on Facebook, but what set of objectives
                                               need to be achieved. The objectives will then determine which set of tools with their
                                               corresponding metrics can best achieve them.

                                               Although Stelzner (2013) makes a valid point regarding the current focus on social
                                               media Fans and Likes being too narrow-minded, his approach still fails to emphasise
                                               the importance of the qualitative data that can be extracted and measured by social
                                               media sites. Another major flaw in this approach is that customers may not match the
                                               social journey you expect them or want them to take. For example, someone may see
                                               a brand’s Facebook post then return the following day to the brand’s website directly.




  “             The focus should be on measuring the results of individual
                social campaigns, as opposed to social media as a whole, as
                this provides brands with a greater indication of the results
                of their efforts
                                               Despite its flaws, this approach will still provide marketers with a solid indication
                                               of their ROI, but the focus should be on measuring the results of individual social
                                               campaigns, as opposed to social media as a whole, as this provides brands with a
                                               greater indication of the results of their efforts. For example when Southwest Airlines
                                               added podcasts, videos and other social tools to their ‘Nuts About Southwest’ blog,
                                               page views increased by 40 per cent and visitors stayed 26 per cent longer on the
                                               company’s website (Berg, 2009).

                                               Big brands such as Kellogg and companies such as Procter and Gamble have also
                                               seen some success in terms of measuring ROI in this way. Procter and Gamble’s
                                               social networking site links customer investments in brand conversation to sales. The
                                               site has over 350,000 members and is credited with market response increases of up
                                               to 30 per cent (Cummings, 2008).

                                               Hoffman and Fodor (2010) go on to argue that turning the traditional ROI approach on
£££                                            its head is essential to measuring social media. They suggest that the focus should
                                               be on consumer motivations to use social media and measuring the investments
                                               customers make as they engage with brands, as opposed to calculating returns in
                                               terms of customer response. Such an approach takes into account the long-term
                                               returns of significant corporate investment in social media marketing, along with short-
                                               term goals such as increasingly monthly sales. Marketers should therefore steer clear
                                               of measuring traditional objectives such as direct sales or increases in market share
                                               from social media.




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CONCLUSION
                                              It is important to recognise that measuring social media ROI is far more complex than
                                              the basic cost versus sales equation, and whilst it is possible to determine whether
                                              or not it is having a positive impact on you business, it is not currently possible to
                                              determine its full effect. Ian Lurie (2013) suggests that smart organisations value social
                                              media within their own context and that everyone from the marketing team to the CFO
                                              needs to understand that the value measured is only a fraction of the real value.
                                              Moreover, the accuracy of ROI will be dramatically increased if you measure it from an
                                              activity specific point of view, as opposed to a medium specific point of view.

                                              Asking what the ROI of social media is can be likened to asking what the ROI of the
                                              companies’ telephone system is (Pickstone, 2013). Measuring the ROI of a two-week
                                              social media campaign as opposed to the ROI of a company Facebook page is a
                                              much better stance to take. Such an approach combined with defined objectives and
                                              overall business KPIs will help to tie activity to outcome and give a more accurate end
                                              result.

                                              Once you have defined and researched your target audience and determined your
                                              social media campaign objectives, constructing a simple table such as the one below
                                              can help to get some basic metrics in place for measuring the ROI:


                                                OBJECTIVE                          ACTION                      METRIC

                                                Increased footfall in a            Drive people from a brand   Use a facebook specific
                                                store                              Facebook page to visit a    voucher code or a specific
                                                                                   physical store              link to an online booking
                                                                                                               system to track users
                                                                                                               bookings

                                                Increase brand awareness           Build ‘buzz’ around brand   Monitor the number of
                                                                                   on Twitter                  brand mentions and pre-
                                                                                                               defined keywords




                                              However, there is reason to be optimistic about improving the effectiveness of social
                                              media marketing, as the social web is a highly measurable environment. In a well-
                                              designed social media campaign, consumers are likely to spread brand-related
                                              content, share their experiences and tweet about the brand. Trying to measure such
                                              behaviours lets marketers measure the bottom-line of their social media efforts whilst
                                              focussing on strategies that take into account the objectives of both the brand and
                                              the online customer. Although there will always be some behaviours that cannot be
                                              accurately traced, such as offline word of mouth, carefully planned and executed
                                              social media campaigns can offer up phenomenal opportunities for the cost-effective
                                              measurement of customers’ online investments in a company’s brand (Hoffman and
                                              Fodor, 2010).




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In summary, Chad Wittman (2013) makes a great point when he asks, “What is the
                                              ROI on a glass of Coke Zero versus a glass of orange juice?” Should you look at the
                                              sugar content or the calorie content? Coke Zero will win from a numbers point of view
                                              every time but you know the orange juice is the better choice. Although brands need
                                              to have an understanding of their social ROI, they must be careful not to become too
                                              obsessed with it, as you then risk losing site of its actual value.




                                              GET IN TOUCH
                                              If you would like to find out more about how social media marketing could help your
                                              business, get in touch.


                                              E: hello@pomegranate.co.uk
                                              T: +44 (0)20 7336 7322
                                              www.pomegranate.co.uk




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REFERENCES
                                              Benson, C (2008). Social Media Measurement, Community Management [online]
                                              Available at: http://conniebensen.com/2008/05/10/social-media-measurement/
                                              [Accessed: 28th March 2013].

                                              Berg, P “Southwest Airlines: Nuts About Online Communication” (presentation at the
                                              Inbound Marketing Summit, Boston, May 27-28, 2009).

                                              Cohn, M (2013). How to Measure Social Media ROI – Is It Even Possible? [online]
                                              Available at: http://socialmediatoday.com/compukol/1121551/how-measure-social-
                                              media-roi-it-even-possible [Accessed: 27th March 2013].

                                              Cummings, B (2008) “J&J Takes Baby Steps Toward Social Media,” Brandweek,
                                              Apr.13.

                                              Fisher, T (2009). ROI of Social Media: A Look at the Arguments. [online] Available at:
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                                              Ghali, P (2011) Calculating Your Social Media Marketing Return on Investment.
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                                              Hoffman, D and Fodor, M (2010). Can you measure the ROI of your social media
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                                              Lurie, I (2013) What 5 Experts have to say about Measuring Social Media. [online]
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                                              Sterne, J (2010). “Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your
                                              Marketing Investment,” Wiley, pp. 272.

                                              Pickstone, R (2013) What is the ROI of Social Media? [online] Available at: http://
                                              measurethis.co.uk/social-media-roi/ [Accessed: 27th March 2013].

                                              Wittman, C (2013) What 5 Experts have to say about Measuring Social Media.
                                              [online] Available at: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/what-5-experts-have-to-say-about-
                                              measuring-social-media [Accessed: 27th March 2013].




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Measuring the ROI of Social Media Marketing

  • 1. I NS RI E SE IDE S MEASURING ROI The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing £££ INSIDE SERIES Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 1
  • 2. $ MEASURING ROI The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing The question of how to measure the Return On Investment (ROI) of social l media marketing has long been a bone of contention. With the lightening spread of social media usage, the lack of standardised metrics and the pressure on marketing departments to prove they’re getting ‘bang for the buck,’ the financial viability of social media marketing will remain a highly contested topic in the business world, at least for the foreseeable future (Fisher, 2009). A study by Knowledge Networks in 2012 revealed 15,100,000 consumers go to social media channels before making purchasing decisions. Social media is where actual and potential customers are interacting and engaging, with the activities taking place on social media sites helping to shape the way they think and feel about brands and products. “ Social media is where actual and potential customers are interacting and engaging, with the activities taking place on social media sites helping to shape the way they think and feel about brands and products. Marketers and brands are fully aware of the benefits of social media marketing. Take for example Oreo’s “You Can Still Dunk In The Dark” Tweet during the Super Bowl blackout this year. In less than 24 hours it had received over 15,000 retweets and 20,000 Likes on Facebook, catapulting Oreo into the social media marketing Hall of Fame and generating unprecedented levels of conversation and positive sentiment around the brand. Although such virility is hard to come by, it is the immense capability of the social web to propel a brand to the forefront of consumers’ minds, for a fraction of the cost of a print or television campaign that continues to make it so alluring to marketers and brands alike. However, the ROI of such campaigns can be incredibly hard to measure – how can an increase in customer engagement or reach on social media sites translate to hard numbers and how does it impact on the bottom line? INSIDE SERIES Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 2
  • 3. From the plethora of encouraging statistics and the array of awe-inspiring case studies available, using social media as a marketing tool would seem like a no- brainer. However, the inability to accurately measure ROI has been cited by marketers as one of the most significant barriers to the adoption of social media tactics. It is believed that over 70 per cent of online businesses that utilise social media as part of their marketing strategy do not measure the ROI (Cohn, 2013). This figure seems astonishingly high considering the millions of pounds made from online sales each year. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Some marketers have tried to reinvent or change the meaning of the ROI acronym – Return on Influence or Return on Engagement is the new ROI. Others have suggested that ROI is old fashioned thinking and not in tune with social media. However, the problem lies with the way in which marketers are approaching the measurement of “ ROI, not in the meaning or applicability of the acronym. It is believed that over 70% of online businesses that utilise social media as part of their marketing strategy do not measure the ROI Understandably, managers need hard numbers to know whether or not their investments in social media marketing are worthwhile. However, this ‘show me the return’ approach is very short-term oriented; building ‘relationships’ and having ‘conversations’ takes time in a world where customers are very much in control of their online experiences. Viewing social media as “just another” marketing communications vehicle is a mistake, as it is largely a consumer-controlled environment, not a marketer controlled one (Hoffman and Fodor, 2010). Social media marketing is ultimately successful because it is about people, not money. Community, conversation, sharing – all the social media ‘buzz’ words are people or consumer-centric. Social media is not about sales, market share or profit margins; web analytics alone are no longer adequate because customers are talking to each other, with the majority of conversations taking place outside of a brand’s site (Benson, 2008). However, the main problem is that social media has not been connected with the bottom of the funnel were the conversion, sale or customer retention takes place. This has resulted in executives having misaligned expectations as to where social media fits into the sales funnel (Stelzner, 2013). Marketers are constantly under pressure to measure everything they do and are all too often being forced to justify the cost of social media marketing using conventional advertising metrics, regardless of their effectiveness. INSIDE SERIES Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 3
  • 4. Viewing social media as “just another” marketing communications vehicle is a mistake, as it is largely a consumer-controlled environment, not a marketer controlled one Traditionally online marketers have been able to quantifiably measure the results of their efforts using safe, defined metrics: Unique Visitors, Cost per Clicks, Page Views etc. However, when attempting to transfer these traditional metrics to social media marketing, the results have proven to be inconclusive or inaccurate, as they fail to take into account the qualitative aspect of user interactions. This often results in campaigns that expect the customer to work for the brand, when in fact it should be the other way around. However, something must be measured in order to gauge effectiveness, so simply bumbling along without clearly defined metrics in place is not an option. If you have no goal, then you cannot measure against it and you cannot manage what you cannot measure, so setting the objectives from the outset is a must. SO WHAT CAN WE MEASURE? A simple Google search of ‘ROI social media’ throws up over 2 million hits, many of which put forward convincing and compelling arguments. With the overwhelming amount of conflicting information available, it is impossible for marketers to know which way to turn. “ As an agency we are seeing clients request far more accountability from their marketing across the board. At the early inception of social, people were ecstatic to just track likes and followers but the realisation has quickly set in that this does not give an accurate indication of campaign effectiveness, or ROI. The social sphere is a highly measurable environment and it is essential that we try to track the complete user journey across the marketing mix Duncan Thomas, Managing Director of Pomegranate Group INSIDE SERIES Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 4
  • 5. Stelzner (2013) suggests we dispose of all social media lingo such as fans, followers and likes and start thinking in terms of other marketing channels and what you measure there. For example, if you measure how much you spend on content, agency fees and total spend on social media marketing, then compare it to the value of the conversions from social media, you can begin to understand the ROI. Therefore, the question is not whether to blog or to post on Facebook, but what set of objectives need to be achieved. The objectives will then determine which set of tools with their corresponding metrics can best achieve them. Although Stelzner (2013) makes a valid point regarding the current focus on social media Fans and Likes being too narrow-minded, his approach still fails to emphasise the importance of the qualitative data that can be extracted and measured by social media sites. Another major flaw in this approach is that customers may not match the social journey you expect them or want them to take. For example, someone may see a brand’s Facebook post then return the following day to the brand’s website directly. “ The focus should be on measuring the results of individual social campaigns, as opposed to social media as a whole, as this provides brands with a greater indication of the results of their efforts Despite its flaws, this approach will still provide marketers with a solid indication of their ROI, but the focus should be on measuring the results of individual social campaigns, as opposed to social media as a whole, as this provides brands with a greater indication of the results of their efforts. For example when Southwest Airlines added podcasts, videos and other social tools to their ‘Nuts About Southwest’ blog, page views increased by 40 per cent and visitors stayed 26 per cent longer on the company’s website (Berg, 2009). Big brands such as Kellogg and companies such as Procter and Gamble have also seen some success in terms of measuring ROI in this way. Procter and Gamble’s social networking site links customer investments in brand conversation to sales. The site has over 350,000 members and is credited with market response increases of up to 30 per cent (Cummings, 2008). Hoffman and Fodor (2010) go on to argue that turning the traditional ROI approach on £££ its head is essential to measuring social media. They suggest that the focus should be on consumer motivations to use social media and measuring the investments customers make as they engage with brands, as opposed to calculating returns in terms of customer response. Such an approach takes into account the long-term returns of significant corporate investment in social media marketing, along with short- term goals such as increasingly monthly sales. Marketers should therefore steer clear of measuring traditional objectives such as direct sales or increases in market share from social media. INSIDE SERIES Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 5
  • 6. CONCLUSION It is important to recognise that measuring social media ROI is far more complex than the basic cost versus sales equation, and whilst it is possible to determine whether or not it is having a positive impact on you business, it is not currently possible to determine its full effect. Ian Lurie (2013) suggests that smart organisations value social media within their own context and that everyone from the marketing team to the CFO needs to understand that the value measured is only a fraction of the real value. Moreover, the accuracy of ROI will be dramatically increased if you measure it from an activity specific point of view, as opposed to a medium specific point of view. Asking what the ROI of social media is can be likened to asking what the ROI of the companies’ telephone system is (Pickstone, 2013). Measuring the ROI of a two-week social media campaign as opposed to the ROI of a company Facebook page is a much better stance to take. Such an approach combined with defined objectives and overall business KPIs will help to tie activity to outcome and give a more accurate end result. Once you have defined and researched your target audience and determined your social media campaign objectives, constructing a simple table such as the one below can help to get some basic metrics in place for measuring the ROI: OBJECTIVE ACTION METRIC Increased footfall in a Drive people from a brand Use a facebook specific store Facebook page to visit a voucher code or a specific physical store link to an online booking system to track users bookings Increase brand awareness Build ‘buzz’ around brand Monitor the number of on Twitter brand mentions and pre- defined keywords However, there is reason to be optimistic about improving the effectiveness of social media marketing, as the social web is a highly measurable environment. In a well- designed social media campaign, consumers are likely to spread brand-related content, share their experiences and tweet about the brand. Trying to measure such behaviours lets marketers measure the bottom-line of their social media efforts whilst focussing on strategies that take into account the objectives of both the brand and the online customer. Although there will always be some behaviours that cannot be accurately traced, such as offline word of mouth, carefully planned and executed social media campaigns can offer up phenomenal opportunities for the cost-effective measurement of customers’ online investments in a company’s brand (Hoffman and Fodor, 2010). Inside Series Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 6
  • 7. In summary, Chad Wittman (2013) makes a great point when he asks, “What is the ROI on a glass of Coke Zero versus a glass of orange juice?” Should you look at the sugar content or the calorie content? Coke Zero will win from a numbers point of view every time but you know the orange juice is the better choice. Although brands need to have an understanding of their social ROI, they must be careful not to become too obsessed with it, as you then risk losing site of its actual value. GET IN TOUCH If you would like to find out more about how social media marketing could help your business, get in touch. E: hello@pomegranate.co.uk T: +44 (0)20 7336 7322 www.pomegranate.co.uk $ Inside Series Measuring ROI: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social Media Marketing www.pomegranate.co.uk 7
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