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Most organisations use social media to reach their audiences, but how many of them are proactively studying the responses they get? There are many reasons why you should be using your social media analytics, so here are a few useful tips on how to get the most out of it:
Understanding who your audience is will allow you to think more strategically and create content that is relevant and engaging to them. Use the inbuilt analytics tools in your accounts (Facebook, Twitter etc) to learn more about the habits of your followers – what content provokes the biggest or most engaged reaction etc – and use that knowledge when planning new content.
Time and resources are finite, so looking at your analytics and understanding which platforms work best for you will save you time and give you focus. Perhaps your audience spends more time on Facebook than they do on Instagram and your follower numbers prove this – if so, there’s a clear advantage to prioritising the platform that works best for you and your audience. Similarly, if your tone of voice wins you legions of followers on Twitter but isn’t suited to Facebook posts, think about where best to place your resources.
Using social media analytics will give you the confidence to predict exactly when to share your content for maximum impact, right down to the day and specific hour. Experiment with scheduling and posting content around the clock and use your findings to establish when your audience is most likely to receive your messages. Does your audience spike around lunchtime, or do they check in after work or at an event?
If those tips weren’t enough to convince you that revamping your social media strategy can be easy and impactful, here are a few more quick ones:
Your social media analytics will help you make decisions about your content strategy going forward. When you’re planning how to grow your channels, you can use the concrete data from your analytics to define your approach – it also puts any reporting into a digestible format when you’re reporting your findings to the wider organisation.
Use data to define your social media KPIs
It’s important to measure your social media activity with key performance indicators (KPIs) – analytics will turn this into a clear and identifiable goal. You can see at what rate you’re gaining followers, for example, and allow that information to dictate an end-of-year target.
One of the most gratifying areas of social media is watching a planned piece of content develop a life of its own as it’s shared around your eager audience and beyond. But for those tweets and posts that don’t quite hit the mark, what are you learning from them? Tweak your approach until the likes and shares begin to mount up again.
Your individual social media campaigns don’t have to be the same every time – use your analytics data to super-serve particular audiences when you know they’ll be looking, and in a way you know audiences will respond to.
Now that you’re up to speed with the power of data, you may want to know more about social media analytics. Check out the video below, and to learn more you can read one of the articles linked below.
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Article reviewed on 31st March 2021.
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