CHAPTER 11

AUDITING YOUR PERFORMANCE

Why this is important

Continuous testing, benchmarking and learning is a cornerstone of all social media activity. It will help you identify areas of relative underperformance, potential risks and opportunities to generate better results.

The purpose of the audit is to:

  • measure the overall return on investment generated by social media;
  • identify areas of risk;
  • review the effectiveness of individual activities;
  • test the effectiveness of systems and process and identify areas requiring improvement;
  • identify investment needs;
  • highlight skills/knowledge gaps and training needs;
  • highlight potential missed opportunities.

This is not an exhaustive list, but these are the problems I tend to encounter during ...

Get The Financial Times Guide to Social Media Strategy now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.