what the tech is going on with your online communications
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Slides from a presentation given by Andrew Hanelly, Polly Karpowicz, Maggie McGary and Elizabeth Weaver Engel at the ASAE Technology Conference, December 2011TRANSCRIPT
What the Tech Is Going On with Your Online Communications?Dec. 7th | 1:30 -2:45 PMHub Tag: #Tech11 LM3
About UsElizabeth Weaver Engel, CAEPresenter – Web and Ads@ewengel
Maggie McGaryPresenter – Social Media@maggielmcg
Pauline S. Karpowicz, CAE
Presenter – Email@polly_at_apsa
Andrew HanellyModerator@hanelly
About You
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Agenda• The Problem• Solution(s)• Q&A• Tools & Takeaways
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The Problem• Data overload• Resource underload• Differing tools and opinions• Lack of applicability• Each platform is unique
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The Problem
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The Problem
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So, how do we solve it?
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So, how do we solve it?
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It depends.
Social media metrics
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Metric overload
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What metrics matter?• Web traffic• CTR• Conversions
Metrics should align withorganizational goals.
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Web and ad metrics
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Solving web analytics• What should I measure?• Special cases– Bounce rates– Site search– Online forms – the “Mom” test– A/B testing– Private communities– “Slashdotting”
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Solving web analytics
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Solving ad metrics• What should I measure?• What do your advertisers care about?• How do you demonstrate that?
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What advertisers want
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Awareness
Interest
Conversion
What we can give them
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Impressions
Click-thrus
URL tracking
Email metrics
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Where we’ve been
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•Manual HTML•20-30hrs•Web staff created all•Personalization•Basic Delivery•Manual Click thrus
•Templates•5min - 10hr•WYSIWYG editor•Variable messaging, A/B testing•Image and Ad management•Full suite of metrics•ISP Monitoring•Bounce resolution•Dedicated advisors and help
We were very excited!
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•KISS•Ease into new capacity•Training•Largely the same content•Still HUGE step forward
Gathering eyeballs
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• List size versuslist quality– Open rate– Delivery rate– Subscriber ratio
Collecting eyeballs is the easy part, reaching engagement is more challenging.
Getting engagement
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• Open rate• Click thru rate• Conversions• Viral leads• A/B test results• Relation to other
communications/outpostsYou can learn just as much from what
people don’t do.
Monitoring
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Finding Value in Metrics
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No longer chair of department
Member says: “total waste of time”
Overwhelmed with daily email deluge
I didn’t sign up for this.
Interesting, but what do I do with this information? What’s next?
MOST important metric
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• Drumroll, please…• It depends! Really.• Three MOST important things:
1. Define your goal.2. Clear call to action.3. Have hooks to measure the outcome…
did you meet your goal and did your audience do what you wanted them to do.
Takeaways
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Tools of the tradeFrom Google:• Analytics• Webmaster Tools• SEO Starter Guide
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Tools of the tradeFrom others:• TweetReach.com• Facebook Insights• Double Click• Your AMS• Your bottom line (most important!)
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Ask us anything!Elizabeth Weaver Engel, CAENACHRI@[email protected]
Maggie McGaryASHA@[email protected]
Pauline S. Karpowicz, CAEAPSA@[email protected]
Andrew HanellyTMG@[email protected]