Social Interactions Metric

Measure the engagement levels of your social media campaigns

Track all your Social Media KPIs in one place

Social Media KPI Example - Social Interactions Metric

Social Interactions Definition

The Social Interaction KPI measures the effectiveness of your social media campaigns at fostering positive engagement. Interaction: A communication between an audience member and your brand's social profile. This may take the form of platform specific interactions such as Mentions on Twitter, Likes on Facebook, or +1's on Google+. Key interactions can play a pivotal role in a post or story going viral, so it is very important to ensure that you are nourishing the right types of interactions. As well, a strong social media measurement strategy will map these interactions to other marketing goals, such as website conversions or new wins.

Social Interactions Success Indicators

A high level of engagement that corresponds to the completion of key marketing objectives.
Viral posts that require little or no nurturing on your behalf.
Sustained engagement over a long period of time.

Social Interactions Challenges

The challenge with the Social Interaction metric is that not all interactions are equally valuable to your campaign, but the metric does not account for these difference. For example, one could argue that a "retweet" is more valuable than a "favourite" on Twitter because a retweet ensures the content stays in circulation longer. Similarly, different social media sites will have varying importance to your brand. One brand may find that Facebook is a hotbed of positive engagement, while another brand really hits its stride on Pinterest. As you can see, each social platform allows you to interact with your audience in a number of different ways.

Social Interactions Best Practices

All experts suggest that the best way to increase Social Interactions is to engage with your consumers. Promoting audience participation in your campaigns is a great way to spread your campaign and engage consumers. Here’s some expert advice:

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The best sales people sell relationships, not products, so as you work on building relationships with your consumers online, you need to think about the value that relationships provide your prospects.

How to Monitor Social Interactions in Real-time

Once you have established metrics for measuring Social Interaction, you’ll want to establish processes to monitor this and other marketing KPIs. Dashboards can be critical in this regard.

Learn more about how to track your Social Interactions on a Social Media Dashboard.