Calculating Your Social Media Marketing Return on Investment

You have started your social media marketing. You are posting to Twitter and Facebook and interacting with your fans and followers. You feel like things are going well, but you are unsure how to determine the ROI and impact of your social media efforts. Don’t worry; you are not alone. There is clearly a need for sharing and learning more about social media marketing and its ROI. Many social media marketers look to transfer their familiarity with email marketing to social media marketing. This is a good first step, but to really take your social media marketing to the next level, you need to deeply analyze social media and its ROI. It is very easy to jump in and start measuring your ROI by counting how many Facebook fans and Twitter followers you have. Or you could get more advanced and measure retweets and likes. Although these are important social media components to track, a goal-based approach to ROI will help you better understand the “why” behind the “how” of your marketing initiatives.

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GKV

Founded in Baltimore, Md. in 1981, GKV is an advertising agency that offers a variety of services: digital strategy, advertising, social media marketing, PR, and branding. The team of more than 200 employees mostly works with mid-market businesses across several industries – consumer products, healthcare, and telecommunications. GKV has an ongoing project with a food production company. The partnership began with a focus on traditional media. GKV created marketing materials for print and TV. Now, GKV is helping the client build its social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.

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Founded in Baltimore, Md. in 1981, GKV is an advertising agency that offers a variety of services: digital strategy, advertising, social media marketing, PR, and branding. The team of more than 200 employees mostly works with mid-market businesses across several industries – consumer products, healthcare, and telecommunications. GKV has an ongoing project with a food production company. The partnership began with a focus on traditional media. GKV created marketing materials for print and TV. Now, GKV is helping the client build its social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.

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