OPINION! Axel Schmiegelow, Chairman of the Social Media Section at BVDW & CEO of Sevenload: Social relevance is the key to the measurability of social media

Axel Schmiegelow is a recognized expert for Marketing, media and Startups-Founding. Since the summer of 2006 he has been a member of the management board of sevenload, a social media network for photos, videos and web TV. In 2009 he became chairman of the Social Media specialist group in the Federal Digital Association Economy eV

Axel Schmiegelow, born in 1972, is Founders and CEO of Internetagency denkwerk. As early as 1998, Axel Schmiegelow, as a co-founder, brought the world's first bookmarking and tagging start-up oneview to life and celebrated success in 16 countries and 10 languages. As a seed investor, he is a board member of the Online-Tour operator itravel and at Qype, the leading recommendation portal and city magazine on the Internet for Germany, England and France. its seedFinancing laid the foundation for sevenload's successful business model.

Mr. Schmiegelow, everyone is talking social media. But how can companies measure the success of social media at all?

The Success On the one hand, social media marketing can be measured like any other lead generation on the Internet. Dedicated microsites with an optional ordering function and random samples can still validate the measurement. On the other hand, social media has a strong opinion-forming role Effect. This can be over customers-Feedback-Measurements, online surveys, qualitative evaluation of opinion forums and traditional market research.

Opinion-forming effect sounds pretty spongy - how can the customer satisfaction be quantified?

Customer satisfaction as such can vary depending on Industry, which is at stake, can be measured through customer feedback on the product itself. An indirect measurement can be done quantitatively by measuring the number of ratings and comments, but above all by qualitatively evaluating the social media posts.

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So the customers make positive comments, very nice - but what exactly does that mean in the end for the sale?

Take Twitter, for example: Twitter is not only an independent channel for visits, it is also an extremely important opinion-forming medium. The quantity of Twitter traffic is not as important as its quality. What counts here is the pure branding effect through targeted use of the Companys controlled information. In addition, the word-of-mouth factor of information that is not planned and controlled by the company, but is published by the users themselves, generates a significantly higher reach. The network effects of retweets and link sharing on Twitter should not be underestimated, because in addition to the positive Brand perception is increasingly being used on Twitter as an early warning system for crisis PR.

Network effects thus ensure a higher level of awareness, which sounds logical - but how could concrete measurement mechanisms now look like, for example, expressing the commitment of the members or the degree of recognition of the brand in success numbers?

The established performance values ​​in the online advertising market are only partially sufficient to measure the advertising impact of an online advertising medium. Social relevance is the keyword here, which needs to be captured in the form of activity categories. Networking, Contribution and Sharing, for example, are factors that enable advertising and media planners to quantify the value of social media.

But is not there the danger that the original dynamic of social media is lost, because it is regulated by measurability and is pressed in campaigns?

The better measurability initially means that social media offers can be financed at all. The risk of relativising the value of social media interaction by using performance parameters that do not reflect this interactionspiegeln, is of course given. It is all the more important that measurement methods and media spending are based on performance values ​​specific to social media. Ultimately, the dynamics of social media are so pronounced that it is inconceivable that they will be affected by campaign bookings sustained will be prevented.

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