always starts with setting goals for your content and accounts. Setting goals for your social media will guide the content you create and post, the engagement tactics you use, and the types of optimizations you need to make to reach your target demographic. Before you set social media goals, an excellent place to start is to understand the different types of achievable goals within the framework of this digital marketing medium.
The most common social media goal is to increase awareness for your brand within your target demographic. Awareness is measured through reach and impressions. If you’re familiar with the marketing rule of seven, you’ll know that it takes seven interactions with a brand before purchase. Here are some common social media awareness goals to track:
Social media awareness and discovery goals are at the top of the social media marketing funnel, followed by engagement metrics and goals. Engagements are the data points that speak to the algorithms within each platform to indicate whether or not social media users find your content valuable or interesting. Algorithms reward content and accounts that have high engagement rates with more visibility within their existing communities and target demographics. Remember, social media companies want users to stay on the platforms for as long as possible. After all, human attention is the commodity they sell to advertisers. So, if you want your content to reach and impress upon more people, you need to focus on increasing engagements. Here are some common engagement goals:
The number of followers your account has isn’t the most important goal to focus on, but it’s easy to benchmark. We refer to a follower account as a vanity metric if it’s the only one a brand is focusing on. Healthy follower growth results from highly engaging content that social media users enjoy consuming. Here are some common social media growth goals:
If awareness and discovery are at the top of the social media marketing funnel, conversions are at the bottom. The holy grail of social media goals is conversion. After the point of conversion, the purchase intent or decision happens. Here are some common social media conversion goals:
We’ve kept the social media goals outlined above quite general to accommodate the different types of businesses and industries that use social media in their digital marketing efforts. When it comes to your specific business, it’s important to choose goals that make sense for your business. Even more important is to make the goals specific to your target demographic.
Are you wondering what types of goals you should set for your brands’ social media? Read our guide on how to set social media goals.
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