Social media marketing has become important in business. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to gauge the effectiveness of social media as a marketing strategy, particularly as it relates to the budget and return on investment for the organization. Understanding social media engagement can help you understand how to maximize your social media marketing.
What is social media engagement?
Social media engagement is an umbrella term that refers to the way people interact with your social media posts. This includes likes, comments, and shares of your posts. Most often, organizations use social media engagement as a way to measure how effective your social media posts are. For some social media strategies, engagement is used to help determine if a campaign is progressing a strategy toward its return on investment. It gives tangible numbers an organization can use to track and, if needed, make adjustments to a strategy or campaign.
Why is it important for businesses?
Social media engagement does not always translate to sales. However, an increased social media engagement can show the effectiveness of a campaign. In addition, it can be used to get information about the target audience. For example, if an organization gets higher engagement on posts with direct questions to the audience, it makes sense that those would be the kinds of posts that the organization would post more often. Conversely, if an organization gets lower engagement with polls, those posts can be used less frequently. The engagement can help you clarify and strengthen your strategy and how it’s implemented on social media platforms.
Social media marketing can be highly effective for organizations to achieve their goals. Though this type of marketing can be difficult to track, particularly when determining if a campaign has paid for itself, social media engagement can be a good way to examine data and maximize your use of social platforms in your marketing strategy. Call 732-889-3322 or contact us here for a free social media audit.
