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©Renegade, LLC 2010, Adapted from the Social Media Client Benchmarking Template wri@en by Jonathan Briggs & the OTHER media 2010, Published under a CreaKve Commons License (Noncommercial, share alike, a@ribuKon) 1 Social Media Audit Client: Date of Audit: Purpose of Audit: Assess client’s current social media presence relaKve to compeKKon and overall best pracKces in order to provide a clear roadmap for a measurablyeffecKve social media program.

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©Renegade,  LLC  2010,    

Adapted  from  the  Social  Media  Client  Benchmarking  Template  wri@en  by  Jonathan  Briggs  &  the  OTHER  media  2010,    Published  under  a  CreaKve  Commons  License  (Non-­‐commercial,  share  alike,  a@ribuKon)    

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Social  Media  Audit  

Client:  

Date  of  Audit:  

Purpose  of  Audit:    Assess  client’s  current  social  media  presence  relaKve  to  compeKKon  and  overall  best  pracKces  in  order  to  provide  a  clear  roadmap  for  a  measurably-­‐effecKve  social  media  program.    

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Goals   Checklist  

Assess  current  state  of  client’s  SM  acKvity  

Assess  compeKKve  SM  acKviKes  and  relaKve  strength/weakness  

IdenKfy  infrastructure  and  organizaKonal  changes  needed  to  support  tacKcal  opportuniKes  

IdenKfy  cultural  changes  (if  any)  required  to  make  social  media  program  an  on-­‐going  success  

Outline  SM  tacKcal  opportuniKes  

Define  overall  SM  strategy  in  the  context  of  overall  business  goals  

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Introduc6on  

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Channel   Presence   Comments-­‐  The  purpose  here  is  to  establish  a  benchmark  for  the  work  done  thus  far  in  establishing  a  web  &  social  media  presence.    

Website  

Microsites   An  effecKve  site  should  be  supported  by  other  channels.  

Blogs  

Social  Networks   At  this  stage,  focus  only  on  the  major  players  

Microblogs  

Video  (YouTube  and  Vimeo)  

Feedback  

Search  (Google,  Ning,  YouTube,  etc.)     Do  your  social  media  efforts  enhance  organic  search  results?  

Other  (mobile  app,  web  app,  wikis,  )  

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Social  Media  Environment  

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Reac6ons  to  and  Goals  for  Social  Media  –  Planning  &  Compe66ve  Issues  

Ques6ons   Reac6ons   Comments  

Strengths  and  weaknesses  of  current  web  presence  

What  do  you  like?  What  are  you  unhappy  with?  

Social  media  goals   How  do  these  goals  support  the  overall  goals  of  the  organizaKon?    

Strategic  role  of  each  social  media  element  in  context  of  overall  goals  

Leads,  sales,  retenKon,  cost-­‐cudng,  loyalty,  customer  saKsfacKon,  customer  referral  

What  companies  do  you  admire  for  their  social  media  success?  

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Reac6ons  to  and  Goals  for  Social  Media  –  Infrastructure  &  Organiza6onal  Issues  

Ques6ons   Reac6ons  

Who  has  responsibility  for  social  media  in  the  organizaKon?  

How  will  you  measure  the  impact  of  any  changes  you  make?  

What  tools  are  in  place  to  help  with  this  measurement?  

What  is  in  place  to  help  you  deal  with  adverse  comment  and  discussion  on  social  media  sites  now?  

What  are  the  email  markeKng  processes  in  place?  

Where  is  the  SM  strategy  being  aggregated  into  the  overall  markeKng  strategy?  

Do  you  have  a  “hubsite”  for  all  of  your  social  media  content?  

Who  in  Senior  Management  is  acKve  in  social  media?  

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Reac6ons  to  and  Goals  for  Social  Media  –  Cultural  Issues  

Ques6ons   Comments  

Do  you  have  a  corporate  social  media  policy?    Is  this  policy  informed  by  regulatory  issues  in  your  industry?  

Are  there  any  cultural  issues  (good  or  bad)  that  have  had  an  impact  on  your  social  media  acKviKes?    

What  are  the  senior  mgmt  reacKons  to  tools  like  Twi@er  and  Facebook?  

Commitment  from  Senior  staff  is  crucial  to  success    

Do  you  encourage  your  employees  to  parKcipate  in  company  and/or  personal  social  media  acKviKes?    

Is  there  a  culture  of  allowing  staff  to  access  social  media  during  the  work  day?  

Are  there  any  internal  people  who  could  become  your  social  media  expert  or  the  voice  of  your  brand?    

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List  Four  Major  Compe6tors  

Compe6tors   Website   Microsite   Blog   Facebook   TwiMer   YouTube   Other  (feedback)  

Comments  Establishing  compeKtors  web  and  social  media  performance  will  help  set  benchmarks  and  goals  for  the  company  and  the  brand.  

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Facebook  

Feature   Notes   Compe6tors   Comments  

Assess  the  presence  of  the  company  or  brand  on  Facebook  

Is  there  any  official  or  unofficial  presence?  Has  it  been  thought  through?  

Look  for  staff  involvement  with  Facebook  

Many  companies  will  have  a  staff  that  is  acKve  on  FB  

Evaluate  Fan  page   Fan  Pages  provide  powerful  tools  for  developing  a  brand  presence  

Links  to  company  or  brand  site   How  is  FB  being  used  to  drive    traffic  to  main  website?  

Record  number  of  fans   Make  a  note  of  the  current  number  of  fans  

Last  Kme  their  Facebook  presence  was  updated  

Make  a  note  of  the  date  when  an  update  was  made  to  the  page  (by  the  company)  

Specific  Facebook  apps  or  automaKon  

List  any  evidence  of  the  use  of  apps  by  the  company  

Like  Bu@on  throughout  web  presence  

Link  from  main  website  to  FB  are  important.  

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TwiMer  Use  twi@er  analyKcs  tools  to  measure  how  well  they  are  doing  with  their  compeKtors  

Feature   Notes   Compe6tors   Comments  

Bio  and  background   Does  this  help  set  up  the  goal  of  your  company?  

Styles  of  tweets:  Publishing   Pushing  data  

QuesKons   Asking  for  info  

Customer  Service   Helping  followers  

ConversaKon   Engaging  followers  

Links  to  company  or  brand  site   How  are  you  driving  traffic  to  main  website?  

#  followers   Record  as  baseline  

Influence   How  influenKal  can  you  be?  

Reach   How  many  people  can  you  reach  through  your  followers?  

Recency   How  oqen  are  you  tweeKng?  

Follow  us  bu@ons  on  site   Needed  to  drive  fans  

Retweet  bu@ons  next  to  content  on  website  

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Blogs  and  Comments  

Feature   Notes   Compe6tors   Comments  

How  are  you  monitoring  reacKons  to  your  organizaKon  or  products  on  blogs  or  posted  in  comments?  

Blogs  are  some  of  the  most  powerful  drivers  of  both  community  and  reputaKon.  

Are  you  parKcipaKng  in  responding  to  comments?  

Bloggers  are  likely  to  talk  about  a  successful  company  or  its  products  and  the  client  will  want  to  be  involved  with  this  process.  

Who  are  the  powerful  bloggers  in  your  industry?  

You  may  want  to  set  up  your  own  blog  to  be  more  in  control.  

Does  your  own  blog  or  presence  on  services  like  GetSaKsfacKon  help  provide  a  place  for  customer  discussion?  

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Member-­‐only  Communi6es  &  Special  Interest  Social  Networks  

Feature   Notes   Compe6tors   Comments  

Is  there  a  relevant  member  only  community  /  special  interest  social  network?  

Is  the  community  healthy?  How  so?      

Size,  frequency  of  visit,  duraKon  of  visit,  content  sharing  

Is  the  community  built  on  a  common  plasorm  like  Ning  or  is  it  custom  built?  

Is  there  an  opportunity  to  create  a  new  community?  

What  is  the  group  commonality  and  unmet  need?  

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Search:  How  social  media  ac6vi6es  support  organic  search  

Feature   Notes   Compe6tors  

How  does  website  perform  on  an  organic  search  basis  for  wide  range  of  relevant  terms?  

Do  current  blogs  enhance  organic  search  results?  

Are  microblog  feeds  and  other  news  feeds  on  the  website?  

Is  there  a  lot  of  Flash-­‐based  content?      

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List  Key  Phrases  that  define  how  the  company  or  brand  would  expect  to  be  found  in  the  search  engines.  

Keywords  or  phrases   Demand   Visibility   Comments  

These  should  be  based  on  real  needs  as  likely  to  be  typed  into  search  engines.  While  brand  terms  are  important,  more  than  half  of  these  should  be  generic  market  or  industry  terms.  

Use  one  of  the  soqware  tools  available  to  assess  demand,  

How  visible  are  you  for  each  of  these  terms?  This  will  help  you  understand  more  about  your  terminology  and  how  far  you  have  to  go.  

Check  that  compeKtors  really  are  their    compeKtors  in  terms  of  these  terms  

Notes  on  compeKtors  

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