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How to Track Social ROI for a Local Business

1/9/2019

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social media how toDo you use social media to market a local business? Wondering how to measure the effectiveness of your online efforts?

In this article, you’ll learn how to track and report on organic and paid social media marketing for a brick-and-mortar business.

How to Track Social ROI for a Local Business by Adam Coombs on Social Media Examiner.
How to Track Social ROI for a Local Business by Adam Coombs on Social Media Examiner.

4 Social Media Goals for Local Businesses

While retail marketers are still engaging in an age-old debate—brick-and-mortar vs. eCommerce—the results are that the two can coexist peacefully. However, some local businesses don’t have the means to add a digital component beyond social media profiles and a website pointing consumers to their front door. But that doesn’t stop them from using these digital channels to drive new revenue. Unsurprisingly, Instagram and Facebook are leading the way.

Yet, as any social media marketer will tell you, it’s important to be able to calculate your ROI and the impact of your efforts on your business. Social ROI is essentially what you get back from the time, resources, and effort you’ve put into your social media marketing.

Before you can measure your social ROI though, you need to set goals for your local business. These might include:

  • Return on ad spend (ROAS)
  • Organic ROI
  • Store visits
  • Check-ins

All of these are good metrics for assessing the effectiveness of your social media marketing. Here’s how to measure each one for your local business.

#1: Assess Return on Ad Spend (ROAS)

Calculating ROAS is at the core of any digital marketing reporting. Knowing your ROAS will help you determine if you should continue, stop, or even double down on certain social media campaigns. To measure ROAS, you simply divide campaign profit (revenue – cost) by campaign cost.

Return on Ad Spend = (Revenue – Cost) / Cost

Suppose you generated $300 from the $100 you spent on Facebook and Instagram ads. Divide your revenue ($200) by your cost ($100), and your ROAS is 2.

If you’re running social media ads to drive digital sales, the process for calculating ROAS is simple: You install the Facebook pixel on your website, set up conversion tracking, and voilà.

Offline conversions, however, are a bit more complex. For Facebook and Instagram, offline conversions let you measure conversions that happen at your physical store location. What’s more, offline conversions allow you to calculate your ROAS from online campaigns.

To implement an offline event tracking, you need to set up offline conversion measurement on Facebook.

Set Up an Offline Event Set on Facebook

To get started, open Ads Manager and select Events Manager in the Measure & Report column.

Option to select Events Manager in Facebook Ads Manager.

Then click Add Data Source in the upper-right corner of the page and select Offline Event Set from the drop-down menu.

Option to select Offline Event Set as Data Source for your Facebook Ads offline events.

In the Create an Offline Event Set window, enter a name and description for your event set and click Create.

Option to add a Name and Description to your Offline Event Set.

In the next window, select the ad accounts to which you want to assign this offline event set and click Next.

Option to select ad accounts for this offline event set.

Finally, select the people to whom you want to grant permission to upload data to your offline event set. After you click Next, your offline event set is created.

Assign people to your offline event set.

Create an Offline Event Data File

Once you’ve created your offline event set, you need to create a customer data and transaction event file in CSV format. This is what you’ll upload to Facebook.

Be sure to include a variety of data for each transaction, including:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • Transaction amount
  • Timestamp
  • Event details
  • Order ID

Sample of offline event data to be uploaded to Facebook.

To map your data correctly, you need to obtain some personal information from customers. Retail stores can do this in a number of ways. Some businesses, like grocers, will use rewards cards that offer discounts with every transaction. Others will go with digital receipts that require the buyer to provide their email address at checkout to receive their receipt via email.

You can also use any combination of:

  • Coupon signups
  • Loyalty programs
  • Click-to-collect
  • Surveys
  • Raffles

Whatever tools you use, just make sure you’re collecting at least the basic information needed to upload into your data file to track your offline conversions.

Upload Your Data File

After you’ve created the data file you want to upload, open Business Manager, select your business, and click Offline Events in the Measure & Report column.

Option to select Offline Events under Measure & Report in Facebook Ads Manager.

Then open the offline event set you created and click the Upload Offline Events button.

When your offline event set page opens, select the CSV file you want to upload. Then click the Map Data button.

Option to drag and drop your data file to Facebook Ads Manager.

Now review each column and make sure the data is mapped correctly. If you need to change the data type for a column, hover over the column header and click the pencil icon that appears.

When you’re finished, click the Review button.

Option to map data against import of content.

On the next page, resolve any issues with your data and then click Start Upload. It can take up to 15 minutes for your data to upload and display.

Resolve any issues with your upload data.

There are more data points you can use to understand your campaign results at a higher level, but these are the basics for finding out each campaign’s efficacy in terms of ROAS and lifetime value.

#2: Measure Organic ROI

Organic ROI for social media is your ROI without using any paid advertising. The best way to measure the impact on your store is with discounts, promotions, or coupons used at checkout, or from leads generated specifically through content.

Discounts, Promotions, and Coupons

If you want to measure the organic ROI for each of your social media channels, you can share different promo codes on each channel. To illustrate. you might use a promo code like PROMO1 on your Instagram profile and PROMO9 on Facebook to see which code is used more often at checkout.

Example of a Lala Sudde France post noting a promo checkout code.

To measure the value of each transaction, take the total revenue generated from customers who used a specific promo code and divide it by the number of followers for that social profile.

If you earned $400 from users using the Instagram promo code and you have 2,000 Instagram followers, you earned $0.20 for each follower.

Revenue Per Follower = Promo Revenue / Followers

It’s best to measure these campaigns over time and use multiple promotions to find a definitive number for each social profile.

Content Opt-Ins

While many marketers associate content opt-ins with eCommerce, they can also be a great lead generation tool for brick-and-mortar businesses.

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For instance, if you want to generate more leads for your roofing company, you might offer a free eBook or guide on your social media channels in exchange for users’ contact information.

You don’t need to make a direct sales pitch in the freebie you provide. Instead, use it to lead to a roofing estimate, or simply brand your company throughout the content so people know you’re a local provider.

Example of an indirect sales pitch for a roofing estimate on Facebook.

Once someone makes a purchase, you already have their email and information in your CRM to attribute the sale to your organic campaign. This can require a website or you can use a Google Forms add-on that will send the document once people have filled out the opt-in form.

#3: Track In-Store Visits

Another business objective for brick-and-mortar businesses can be store visits. Like online traffic for digital marketing, store visits are the offline result of your social media efforts. Retail businesses can target ads to consumers who are likely to visit a store within a certain distance from where they are.

In addition to boosting transactions, store visits can help your business:

  • Get reviews.
  • Drive check-ins.
  • Optimize experiential shopping.
  • Identify in-store issues.
  • Expedite employee training.

As you look to drive in-store visits from social media, you also need to understand the return for these campaigns.

To create a Facebook campaign for store visits, first set up locations for your business on Facebook. After you do that, create a new Facebook campaign and choose Store Visits as the campaign objective.

Option to choose Store Visits as a conversions campaign objective in Facebook Ads Manager.

In the Business Locations section, click Create a New Location Set (or select a previously used location set from the drop-down list).

Option to create a new location set for your Facebook business ad.

In the Business Location Targeting window, select your store locations, which will be listed by city or town, instead of by business name. Then click Next.

Option to select store locations for your Facebook business ad.

On the next screen, set the radius around your store. What you choose depends on how wide you want to cast your net, the level of local competition, and how accessible the area surrounding your store is. When you’re done, click Continue.

Define your location by an automatic radius for your Facebook ad.

Finally, enter a name for your location set and click Confirm.

Confirm location set targeting for your facebook ad.

From here, you can create your Facebook ads as usual by defining your audience, setting your budget, and choosing the ad creative. Remember, these ads will be seen only on mobile devices, so carousel images and quick CTAs (such as Get Directions) are recommended.

Option to select Get Directions for the Call to Action of your Facebook campaign.

Unlike offline conversions, store visits aggregate data to provide an estimate of the number of people who visited a store after seeing an ad. For Facebook, these results are measured 1, 7, or 28 days after seeing an ad. Also, store visits can only be measured during the duration of the ad itself.

To understand your cost per visit for store visits, divide the number of store visits by the amount you spent on ads. If you spent $100 and received 200 store visits, for instance, each visit cost $0.50.

You can use this data to determine how many store visits equal one transaction and calculate how much you’ll need to spend to achieve your target revenue.

Example of store visits and cost per result data from a Facebook campaign.

You can measure foot traffic using a variety of tools. For example, software providers like RetailNext or Euclid Analytics provide extra layers of analytics for store owners to understand their paid performance.

Measure Foot Traffic for YouTube Ads

Eligible stores can use Google’s store visits to measure foot traffic from YouTube ads as well. Eligible stores include those with:

  • Multiple locations in eligible countries
  • Stores linked to their respective Google My Business pages
  • Thousands of ad impressions and clicks
  • Location extensions available
  • The correct backend data on purchase transactions

YouTube provides brick-and-mortar businesses with another advertising outlet capable of giving actionable metrics toward their social media advertising campaigns.

#4: Monitor Check-Ins

While store visits are a good metric to measure the effectiveness of your social ads, check-ins push your marketing efforts a step further by acting as a personal referral.

Option to select Check Ins for your Facebook Business page.

Facebook check-ins are a great objective for local businesses because they can help you organically increase your brand awareness. When people check in to your business, you gain exposure to their network of friends and the referral often includes photos of people they know.

If Facebook users have Location Settings turned on, they can simply tap the Check In option and choose the store from a list of nearby businesses.

Example of check in locations for nearby businesses on Facebook.

Many times, users will check in at your business without any incentive, simply to promote great service, share a wonderful shopping experience, or to show off the interior of your business.

However, it can be beneficial to incentivize users to check in because it can mean more foot traffic and buzz for your business. Incentives might include:

  • Participation in raffles
  • Discounts
  • Donations for every check-in

You can turn on check-ins in your Facebook page’s About section. Furthermore, if your location is turned on for Facebook (as described above), you can add it on Instagram as well.

Example of the check-ins for a Facebook page appearing on Instagram, too.

Once turned on, you can monitor recent check-ins in the notifications center or on your business’s banner when searching.

Monitor check-ins in the notification center or on your business's banner in search.

You can also measure how many check-ins occurred due to your Facebook ads. If you want to calculate the cost per check-in, just divide the number of check-ins by the campaign cost.

Selection of campaign performance data to include Check-Ins.

Conclusion

In today’s digital world, the chances that someone enters a store without doing any online research about it are shrinking. In fact, more than 65% of shoppers will look online before entering a brick-and-mortar store.

Brick-and-mortar businesses can use social media marketing to help drive foot traffic and revenue. But as any marketer will tell you, it’s hard to sleep at night without knowing the ROI and impact of your efforts. Luckily, brick-and-mortar marketers have a variety of ways to calculate their social ROI.

What do you think? Which of these social media goals do you focus on for your local business? What tips can you offer for tracking social ROI for brick-and-mortar businesses? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

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