{"id":1124,"date":"2018-02-12T08:51:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoozo.com\/blog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2018-01-26T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T08:52:44","slug":"significance-of-social-media-audit-for-online-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoozo.com\/blog\/significance-of-social-media-audit-for-online-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Significance of Social Media Audit for Online Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to HBS (Harvard Business School Publishing), social media audit is a systematic examination of social data to help marketers discover, categorise, and evaluate all the social talk about a brand. This approach captures what consumers are saying about a brand, what competitors are doing on social media, and what the brand itself is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few steps to perform social media audit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Find out all profiles on social media channels <\/b>\u2013 As a marketer, you need to find out lesser-known social media profiles to optimise them and make them popular. You should check as well as optimise business profiles on various networks like Google Plus, LinkedIn, Yelp, Tumblr, etc. For maximum impact, optimise business profiles on the top employment websites such as Indeed.com, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Record data <\/b>&#8211; Record the platform of each business profile, its URL, total number of fans and followers, rate of engagement, communities your business has joined and other matrices. Of course, it will take time, but it will improve your overall understanding of your target market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Complete each profile <\/b>\u2013 It is a time consuming task; however, it is important. Go through each profile and make sure that it is 100% complete. For better yields, add website\u2019s URL, biography, picture, hours of operation, location, etc. It will also help websites to improve their rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Check for consistency <\/b>\u2013 For businesses, it is important to consistently improve its brand image across the web, which can be achieved by sharing the same business profile, logo, ads across all social media profiles. Your businesses\u2019 images, videos and graphics should relate to your company\u2019s image. Make sure that your content is consistent and support your overall marketing strategy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Consider the market <\/b>\u2013 Every platform is unique; so, create business profiles accordingly. It will help you to have a vibrant presence on the web. You also need to check the tone of customers to adjust yours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Set realistic goals <\/b>&#8211; Once you have combed through your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoozo.com\/social-media-marketing.html\">social media profiles<\/a> for consistency, it\u2019s time to go ahead to set realistic goals. Goals could be anything, from increasing the total number of followers, visitors, views, shares, comments to rate of engagement.\u00a0 Remember \u2013 it is equally important to remove unnecessary and unauthorised profiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, make your <b>social media marketing <\/b>strong and effective through social media audit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to HBS (Harvard Business School Publishing), social media audit is a systematic examination of social data to help marketers discover, categorise, and evaluate all the social talk about a brand. This approach captures what consumers are saying about a brand, what competitors are doing on social media, and what the brand itself is doing. 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