16/01/2025
Are Your Social Media Marketing Efforts a Waste of Time and Money?
So it's been 30 days, 60 days or even 90 days of executing your social media strategy. Now it's time to determine whether your social media efforts are driving real results.
Unfortunately, not many people recognise the importance of audit and analytics in social media marketing. However, conducting a thorough social media audit can help you identify areas for improvement in your strategy.
So here is a Step-by-Step Audit Guide:
📌Review Your Social Media Objectives: go back and look at what objectives you set before you began executing the strategy. This will help you know exactly what you are looking from in the audit.
📌Analyze Performance Metrics and KPIs: Track likes, comments, shares, and mentions for Engagement. Monitor the number of people seeing your content for Reach and Impressions. For website traffic and conversions, measure the unique visitors, bounce rate and average time spent.
📌Evaluate Content Performance: Assess the performance of different content types (e.g., videos, images, blog posts). Focus on your highly engaged content. Identify top-performing content themes and topics.
📌Assess Social Media Channel Performance: Track engagement, reach, and conversions for each platform you are using. And identify areas of growth.
📌Identify Areas for Improvement: this is where you write your recommendations. By identifying gaps in your content strategy. Determining which channels require optimization and adjusting resource allocation to optimize results. Which means, probably focusing spending more ad budget on platforms that performed well.
📌Adjust and Refine Your Strategy for the next period: Update and refine your objectives based on audit findings. Update your content strategy to address gaps and optimize performance. This means focusing more on content that performed well in the previous period. Finally, reallocate resources to platforms that are working efficiently to drive results.
What are some key takeaways from your own social media audits? Share your experiences in the comments below!