{"id":34515,"date":"2018-07-28T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T10:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/?p=34515\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:26:10","slug":"use-multiple-marketing-tools-to-build-your-social-media-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/use-multiple-marketing-tools-to-build-your-social-media-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Multiple Tools to Build Your Social Media Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using multiple sources to assess your social media presence is not necessary but can be quite helpful. Tools like Sotrender can give you very good insights into your performance on social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter &amp; YouTube in terms of reach, engagement, communication strategy optimization and much more. However, there are some things which are better done with other tools. While we\u2019re proud of the quality of the product that we have here at Sotrender, we know there are other tools that can complement ours quite well and can offer different features that can be helpful for marketers and agencies.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this piece, we\u2019ll be talking about tools such as Brand24 and Google Analytics which can concurrently be used with Sotrender to get the biggest insights into your communication strategy and presence online. Since we know social media isn\u2019t everything, getting to know what others are saying about you on other portals and forums such as Reddit or any other platforms, websites and so on we use these tools in order to further explore what people are saying about your brand all over the internet and what kind of buzz is being created through the publications of external agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/3842881\/f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e\" class=\"hs-cta-img aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/3842881\/f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e.png\" alt=\"Are you ready to use multiple marketing tools?\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(3842881, 'f2e72a3c-1051-40d7-92e7-ae3d29097d4e', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<p>We know what you&#8217;re probably thinking though. How is Google Analytics a Social Media Marketing tool? Well the answer is simple; while dedicated social media tools are there to serve a specific purpose, Google Analytics helps you dig deeper into what your users are doing after they visit your website from social media platforms! It&#8217;s really as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34519 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"GA, Sotrender &amp; Brand24 - key social media marketing tools\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled.png 624w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled-475x267.png 475w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s how we would suggest using social monitoring and listening tools to get the most out of your communications strategy and maximizing the use of PR value generated from all around the web.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Tools<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brand24 is quite a useful tool when it comes to social listening and setting up alerts for keywords or phrases which you want to monitor. An example would be setting up a keyword such as World Cup or #worldcup in order for the tool to track it for you and notify you when there is a buzz around it or as they call it a storm alert for the tracked keywords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Sotrender and Brand24 plus ones such as Google Analytics can help quite a lot in making sure all marketing activities are tracked and quantified in ways that would allow for the analysis and most importantly \u2013 improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s consider the following scenario. You\u2019re a social media marketing manager at a mid-sized agency and want to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-does-your-target-audience-value-the-most-listonic-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> for your clients to measure the effectiveness of your proposed campaigns and projects that you\u2019ve worked hard on for the past few months. Now, how can you create a comprehensive report which will make the information clear while providing data which will be concrete and hard-hitting hence proving that what you did was beneficial for the client?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We think we can help you out there.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let\u2019s say you got a project this week from a brand looking to find influencers to sponsor and wanted to create a campaign to promote a new product about to be released to the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re probably going to do some market research, saw some competitors, will try to figure out who valuable influencers might be for the target market segment of the client which you\u2019ve been provided with and you want to try to build different persona profiles of these segments to try to align the message, medium and the delivery to the audience well. Sounds about right so far? Good, let\u2019s keep going then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a bunch of ways in which you can go about this. Using one tool on its own might not be the best approach because each is geared towards a specific purpose. Sotrender is most useful for assessing social media presence on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, generating reports and creating marketing strategies within the tool to help you assess the most effective way to tackle and approach campaigns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34529\" style=\"width: 1636px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34529\" class=\"wp-image-34529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled1.png\" alt=\"Sotrender 3\" width=\"1626\" height=\"1518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled1.png 1626w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled1-475x443.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled1-768x717.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled1-950x887.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1626px) 100vw, 1626px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dashboard &amp; Profile Summary &#8211; Sotrender<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brand24, on the other hand, is good for social listening and tracking specific mentions of the brand on a multitude of platforms and websites across the web in order to follow the buzz generated around your brand and monitoring specific campaigns. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Sotrender\/audience-scan-report-based-on-social-media-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> can be generated either as pre or post-campaign launch to either see where things went right or to figure out what would be the most effective way to approach a certain campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34535\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34535\" class=\"wp-image-34535 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled4.png\" alt=\"brand24 6\" width=\"673\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled4.png 673w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled4-475x538.png 475w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Google Alerts&#8221; Mentions Tracking &amp; Most Interactive Mentions &#8211; Brand24<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Analytics serves a completely different purpose where the final website traffic generated can be assessed and tracking of paid marketing is quite effective. The platform provides you with in-depth insights into the traffic generated from marketing campaigns and can show you which were the most effective and what platforms were the biggest in terms of conversion into paying clients if that was the main aim of the campaign. If the main goal of the campaign was to generate more likes on Facebook for a specific brand or to raise brand awareness then simple website traffic can be used or in this case Sotrender would be more effective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]>\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/3842881\/2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323\" class=\"hs-cta-img aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/3842881\/2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323.png\" alt=\"Analyze your social media efforts with our 14-day free trial!\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(3842881, '2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34557\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34557\" class=\"wp-image-34557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GA.png\" alt=\"User Acquisition Dashboard - Google Analytics\" width=\"1014\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GA.png 1014w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GA-475x259.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GA-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GA-950x517.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">User Acquisition Dashboard &#8211; Google Analytics<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Benefits<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sotrender<\/a>, you can benefit in 3 main ways<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generating automatic reports for the pages you manage or those of competitors. This information can also be monitored from within the tool once the profiles you manage and those of your competitors are added. The information that is retrieved ranges from the growth of number of fans to a heat-map of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/faq\/how-does-sotrender-count-interactivity-index-relative-interactivity-index-activity-index-and-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">Interactivity Index<\/a> \u2013 a composite metric created by Sotrender to help marketers assess the efficacy of their social media activities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<div id=\"attachment_34571\" style=\"width: 1213px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34571\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-1.png\" alt=\"Automatic Reports Formats - Sotrender\" width=\"1203\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-1.png 1203w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-1-475x192.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-1-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-1-950x385.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1203px) 100vw, 1203px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Automatic Reports Formats &#8211; Sotrender<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/generating-pptx-reports-in-Sotrender.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1609\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/generating-pptx-reports-in-Sotrender.png 1609w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/generating-pptx-reports-in-Sotrender-475x215.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/generating-pptx-reports-in-Sotrender-768x347.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/generating-pptx-reports-in-Sotrender-950x430.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1609px) 100vw, 1609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_34533\" style=\"width: 1341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34533\" class=\"wp-image-34533 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled3.png\" alt=\"Sotrender 1\" width=\"1331\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled3.png 1331w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled3-475x192.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled3-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled3-950x383.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1331px) 100vw, 1331px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interactivity Index Heat-map &#8211; Sotrender<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordering reports to identify the audiences of a certain target market segment using our Audience Scan research targeted at Facebook. This report, for example, gives you in-depth insights into the audiences, their demographics, behaviors and can help you build a proper rationale for your campaign. For example, this can help you as an agency to identify influencers for brands to associate themselves with or sponsor and be featured on as well as a multitude of other uses such as exploratory market research to establish a primary customer base profile for B2C companies.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_34547\" style=\"width: 1213px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34547\" class=\"wp-image-34547 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200.png\" alt=\"Sotrender report sample data\" width=\"1203\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200.png 1203w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-475x192.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceea374d-24a3-4393-9df3-9a54ea90492a_pasted20image200-950x385.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1203px) 100vw, 1203px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience Scan Report &#8211; Sotrender<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Competition benchmarking and tracking. This is one of the most popular features within Sotrender since it allows you to track your competition and see how they are performing and benchmark your brand (or that which you\u2019re managing campaigns for) against the main competitors within the field.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_34531\" style=\"width: 1416px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34531\" class=\"wp-image-34531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled2.png\" alt=\"Sotrender 2\" width=\"1406\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled2.png 1406w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled2-475x433.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled2-768x700.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled2-950x866.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1406px) 100vw, 1406px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benchmarking &amp; Competition Tracking Dashboard &#8211; Sotrender<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This feature is also complemented by the research reports since those allow you to find out which competitors are the most aligned with your fanbase or target group as a first step. Automatic reports can also be generated for specific groups of profiles which are set for benchmarking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/brand24.com\/features\/ rel=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brand24<\/a>, you can benefit in 3 main ways<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme social listening on a multitude of channels \u2013 this includes literally almost any website you can think of. This can help give you an idea of who is talking about your brand, in what way and how influential the mentions are on a score of 1-10 which is based on the number of followers\/website traffic for example.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_34537\" style=\"width: 1614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34537\" class=\"wp-image-34537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/untitled5.jpg\" alt=\"brand24 5\" width=\"1604\" height=\"1810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/untitled5.jpg 1604w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/untitled5-475x536.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/untitled5-768x867.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/untitled5-950x1072.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1604px) 100vw, 1604px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#Playstation Tracking by Most Influential Authors and Sources &#8211; Brand24<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracking the different sentiments that come along with the mentions or posts related to the brand online. While this is not 100% accurate due to the developing field of sentiment analysis (especially when it comes to identifying sarcasm for example), it still gives a good idea of the overall sentiment around the posts.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_34539\" style=\"width: 1086px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34539\" class=\"wp-image-34539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled6.png\" alt=\"brand24 4\" width=\"1076\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled6.png 1076w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled6-475x195.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled6-768x315.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled6-950x389.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interactions &amp; Sentiment &#8211; Brand24<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working continuously to improve your online image and presence (even if it\u2019s through others). This is very important where people are influenced by the different reviews or opinions they read online and would be averse to buying your product or service for example even if they see one bad review which seems legitimate and in that case might use a competitor instead because of this momentary doubt.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_34543\" style=\"width: 1204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34543\" class=\"wp-image-34543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled8.png\" alt=\"brand24 2\" width=\"1194\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled8.png 1194w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled8-475x246.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled8-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Untitled8-950x493.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Influence of Social Media Authors &amp; The Most Active Authors &#8211; Brand24<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google Analytics<\/a>, you can benefit in 3 main ways<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracking traffic to your website with detailed information on demographics, behavior on the website, sources of traffic and other metrics which can give details on how users are arriving to your website and how they\u2019re using.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting goals for purchases and other actions that website visitors undertake and being able to identify the sources of those goals met in order to be able to further analyze the bottom line that you want to achieve and how you\u2019re getting it \u2013 or to put it more bluntly, this is how you figure out what brings in the cash.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Google Analytics with other CRM systems in order to be able to better guide your visitors through the website and make sure they follow the path you believe would be the best for them to understand what you have to offer and whether it fits them which is very important. Even if you can make a quick buck selling more to people who won\u2019t even use your product or not be returning customers, in the long run this is not a good idea \u2013 no matter what kind of circumstances you\u2019re operating in. Whether through legal fees for defending false advertising claims later to bad reviews on rating websites and other word-of-mouth issues that you\u2019ll face, it will always be a loss.<\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(3842881, '2d3fed96-64cc-4629-afbe-1141517fa323', {}); <\/script><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>The Process<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Using these three tools in unison, this is what the strategy might look like<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A client comes to your agency.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They ask for a few campaigns to be run for a product launch that\u2019s happening in two months.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You figure out the terms of the agreement and have it set in place (incl. demographics, target market segment and personas).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add the social media profiles of the brand and their supposed competitors to Sotrender\u2019s platform.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add the campaign terms, hashtags and other keywords (which competitors might be using for example) into Brand24 in order to start tracking what people are saying about these topics in order to identify possible tones, wording and graphics to be used in the campaign.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Track the growth of fans, impressions and interactivity indices on Sotrender to figure out the best performing posts and when to post them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If needed, order a report from Sotrender in order to better identify and verify the target audience group which had been agreed upon with the client.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Prepare the material for the campaign.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run a few test posts at times when activity is not very high in order to gauge the reaction of the audience to the campaign materials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reach out to a few portals in order to announce this product release and try to get some buzz around the topic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assess the reaction from organic appearances of the brand\u2019s keywords and set campaign monitors that had been put in place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gauge any increase in website traffic and any customer behavior associated with the campaign (using tracking URLs and so on) through Google Analytics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make any needed adjustments to the campaign and publish the main campaign as previously planned while continuing to monitor any changes in the engagement rates, reach and growth of the number of likes or followers, for example, using Sotrender to track any other organic appearances of the brand or product-related keywords on other portals using Brand24 after the campaign is done, create reports using Sotrender and Brand24\u2019s automatic reporting tools and through exporting data from Google Analytics to assess the successes and failures of the campaign as a whole and specific aspects of its performance in order to create a continuous improvement plan for the next report all of these back to the client.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a more intuitive way to look at it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/process-1.png\" alt=\"Marketing Agency Process\" width=\"988\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/process-1.png 988w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/process-1-475x330.png 475w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/process-1-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/process-1-950x661.png 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 988px) 100vw, 988px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, the cross-analysis can help in three main ways<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Verifying data from different sources. 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