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7 Goal-Setting Tips and Strategies for Social Media Marketers “How cool would it be to have 1 million Facebook fans?” This is how I tend to go about setting social media marketing goals. I pull an aspirational number out of the air and go for it. Would it be cool to have 1 million Facebook fans? Absolutely! Is this the right way to set goals? Coming up with goals for our Facebook page and other social media channels has often been a bit haphazard for me. Keep reading below to see five amazing strategies that I found. 7 Popular Goal-Setting Strategies for Marketers to Try What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Henry David Thoreau I love this quote from Thoreau because it emphasizes the process over the end result. I often find myself wondering what exactly is the best way to set goals … or if having no goals at all might be a possibility! S – Specific – The more specific you can be with writing down your objective, the easier it will be to clearly see what it is you need to accomplish. Goal:

61 Social Media Metrics, Defined Of all the hundreds of social media acronyms and abbreviations out there, I think “KPI” has confounded me the most. I think it’s because the phrase “key performance indicator” always sounds like something you need to be wearing a suit in front of a Powerpoint presentation in order to say. But when you get down to it, it’s really quite simple. KPI is just a way of saying “This is the stuff that’s important enough to me to focus on and measure.” Basically, social media KPIs, or social media metrics, are whatever is most important for your business. These are the goals and benchmarks that help you determine how well your campaigns and strategies are performing. Social media KPIs could be the amount of engagement or shares you’re receiving on your social media networks. In fact, there are so many different KPIs that it can be tough to keep them straight sometimes. First, a quick view of the social media funnel There are measurement opportunities at every stage of this journey. Don’t forget…

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