How To Measure Content ROI

24
HOW TO MEASURE CONTENT Finding your return on investment (ROI) Jason Dutton-Smith Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 1

Transcript of How To Measure Content ROI

Page 1: How To Measure Content ROI

HOW TO MEASURE CONTENT

Finding your return on investment (ROI)Jason Dutton-Smith

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 1

Page 2: How To Measure Content ROI

WHAT IS CONTENT MARKETING

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 2

Page 3: How To Measure Content ROI

CONTENT MARKETING

The distribution of valuable and compelling

content to attract, acquire, and engage a

clearly defined and understood target

audience – with the objective to driving a

profitable customer action.

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 3

Page 4: How To Measure Content ROI

“Traditional marketing is telling the world you

are a rock-star. Content marketing is

showing the world you are one.”Robert Rose – Lead Strategist, Content Marketing Institute

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 4

Page 5: How To Measure Content ROI

“Traditional marketing talks at people.

Content marketing talks with them.” Doug Kessler, CoFounder & Creative Director, Velocity Partners

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 5

Page 6: How To Measure Content ROI

IT’S ALL ABOUT

THE STORY

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 6

Page 7: How To Measure Content ROI

TYPES OF CONTENT

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 7

Page 8: How To Measure Content ROI

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 8

Case Studies

digital magazines

BLOGGING microsites

Website Copy

WHITE PAPERS

User Generated Content

videos

eBooks

Social MediaPODCASTTestimonials

FAQs

And many more….

Page 9: How To Measure Content ROI

HOW TO MEASURE AND CALCULATE ROI

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 9

Page 10: How To Measure Content ROI

ROI

3 metrics the

boss wants

The boss only cares about three things.

1. Is content driving sales?

2. Is content saving on costs?

3. Is content helping retain our customers?

But what other measures are there?

Jason Dutton-Smith 10www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Page 11: How To Measure Content ROI

ROI

measure

3 metrics the

boss wants

Jason Dutton-Smith 11www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Sales, cost,

retention

Lead quality, quantity, shorter cycles

Web traffic, likes, page views,

search engine rankings

Big boss

Managers

Team

Page 12: How To Measure Content ROI

4 MEASURMENT TYPES

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 12

Page 13: How To Measure Content ROI

CONSUMPTION

SHARING

LEADS

SALES

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 13

Page 14: How To Measure Content ROI

CONSUMPTION

METRICS

UNIQUE PAGE VIEWS

An easy measure using Google Analytics

VIDEO VIEWS

YouTube, Vimeo, Brightcove insights

DOCUMENT VIEWS

SlideShare, Linkedin and other platform analytics

DOWNLOADS

White Papers, case studies or other documents

SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS

Use of Social Media software to measure chatter

Jason Dutton-Smith 14www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Page 15: How To Measure Content ROI

SHARING

METRICS

LIKES, SHARES, TWEETS, G+1, PINS

Social sharing and listening tools such as Hoot Suite

FORWARDS

Email forwarding from eDMs

INBOUND LINKS

SEO tools such as Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO

Jason Dutton-Smith 15www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Page 16: How To Measure Content ROI

LEAD

GENERATION

FORM COMPLETIONS/DOWNLOADS

How often do visitors access gated content. Conversion.

EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS

Sign up conversion to your data base.

BLOG SUBSCRIBERS

Subscribers to your blog content. Blog comments is

another form of measurement.

CONVERSION RATE

How many visitors to your site who consume content

become a lead?

Each metric will have a different success measurement.

Jason Dutton-Smith 16www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Page 17: How To Measure Content ROI

SALES

METRICS

ONLINE SALES

E-commerce businesses.

OFFLINE SALES

Record which piece of content was consumed and

attributed to a sale.

LEADS ORIGIN

Record the handshake deal also. Tracking where leads

originate will indicate where marketing budget can be

allocated, or removed.

Think attracting new customers and retention of

current customers. Track where they come from and

what was successful.

Jason Dutton-Smith 17www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Page 18: How To Measure Content ROI

TRADITIONAL

ANALYTICS

• Page views

• Unique visits

• Social likes

• Social shares

• Web traffic

• Bounce rate

• Time on page

• Engagement

• Page rank

• Conversions

• Subscribers

• CPA (Cost Per Acquisition)

• CPC (Cost Per Click)

Jason Dutton-Smith 18www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66

Page 19: How To Measure Content ROI

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 19

Source: pardot.com

Page 20: How To Measure Content ROI

FIND YOUR INTERNAL SUCCESS

POINT AND MEASURE

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 20

Page 21: How To Measure Content ROI

DEFINE YOUR MEASUREMENT

GOAL FOR GOOD, EXCELLENT OR BAD

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 21

Page 22: How To Measure Content ROI

NEW SALES ARE GREAT

But don’t forget about retention

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 22

Page 24: How To Measure Content ROI

@morethanroute66

[email protected]

www.wordconnect.com.au

Jason Dutton-Smith

www.morethanroute66.com

Jason Dutton-Smith www.wordconnect.com.au @morethanroute66 24