article thumbnail

Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics

Pam Moore

Mark also highlights that engagement is a key metric. Is the business value worth the investment compared to other marketing and business activities you could be investing in? What About the Silent Lurkers? Instead we look at different metrics that determine how engaged our audiences are.

Feed 167
article thumbnail

How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

This is the classic social media metric that is SO important, but get’s a lot of question for not being as easy to attribute to quantifiable business growth and direct indicator of sales increase. This is a good start, and it is an important metric to measure. Look for trends you can correlate to social activity. Referrals.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Different established communities like different things, which is why activity on one social media portal might be different than activity on the other, by both people and companies. It might frustrate you to know that LOTS of people are lurkers. I know I have a LOT of lurkers on my site. 640 Million on Facebook.

Lurker 203
article thumbnail

How to come up with social media content using feedback from your silent fans

Sprout Social

When you build a content strategy plan based only on the metrics you can see, you’re designing it for just a tiny portion of your potential target audience. A holistic content strategy plan includes behind-the-scenes metrics. Consider incorporating these three less obvious metrics into your planning process. Referral traffic.

article thumbnail

The Social Media Analytics Compass: What and How to Measure

Razor Social

In an audience you will typically have the following: Lurkers – People that monitor what you share but don’t interact. Engagers – These are people that are more active in your community and you’ll start recognizing some of the names. This active monitoring will give you ideas. Sentiment Analysis.

article thumbnail

Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Drive a strategy development process that results in a project vision, objectives, roadmap and success metrics. As I was leaving that brand we looked at sizing the amount of conversation (hard activity), but the best research we had indicated over 2 Billion conversations about product, service and brand. Go join that! Josh: Good point.

article thumbnail

Instagram Reels Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know

Hootsuite

That being said: with Reels and Explore, you’re likely to be served up videos from creators you haven’t heard of… but if you have interacted with them in some way previously — lurkers, raise those hands in the air high and proud — Instagram takes that into consideration too. Cultivate an active community. Relevance of the content.

Instagram 142