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Q: What does social insight mean?

It refers to useful, unexpected, and actionable information or intelligence that is extracted from social media data using social media analytics tools. It can refer to information obtained about an organization's online reputation, a company's customer base, social media ad campaigns, target audiences, consumer trends, competing firms, and other areas of interest to a business. Learn more

Q: What does social listening mean?

It refers to the use of technology to aggregate various engagement, reach, and other metrics from across social channels, collect and analyze mentions of specified keywords, such as a brand or product name, on the social web, and obtain actionable social listening insights. Social analytics enables enriching, sorting, and filtering of mentions, allowing users to quickly find the conversations and people most important to their brand.

Q: What is a social listening tool?

It is a software application that uses scrapers and data-science algorithms to automate data gathering, data analysis, and data enrichment. It makes it easier for firms to collect metrics from multiple social media platforms, gather and analyze mentions of specified keywords from across social channels, and filter and curate social conversations in order to extract useful social listening insights.

Q: How does social monitoring work?

Software applications are used to collect engagement, reach, and other important metrics from across social networks, enabling organizations to monitor multiple accounts from one centralized platform. The technology is also used to gather and aggregate mentions of specified keywords from across the social web, from social networking services, microblogging sites, discussion forums, online reviews, and many other sources.

Q: How do you monitor social marketing campaigns?

You can use a social media monitoring service or social listening tools to measure and track social media reach and engagement across platforms, evaluate the effectiveness of your influencers, compare your brand's Share of Voice to that of your competitors, and monitor and analyze the number, sentiment, and content of your brand's social mentions during and after the campaign to assess its overall impact.

Q: How do I track social media marketing analytics?

You can use either the built-in analytics tools provided by social networking services or leverage a social listening tool to gather engagement and reach metrics from across multiple networks. Social listening tools also provide you with advanced analytics capabilities such as sentiment analysis and AI-fueled trend detection, helping you obtain useful insights from your social media data faster.

Q: What are the benefits of social media monitoring?

It enables you to carry out more efficient and comprehensive customer care on social channels, track and improve your brand's presence and performance across multiple platforms, and gather actionable insights you can use to inform your social media marketing strategy and enhance your digital marketing campaigns. Using social monitoring tools, brands can achieve greater customer satisfaction, increase brand awareness, reduce marketing spend, and boost their marketing ROI.

Q: How can I monitor my competitors on social media?

You can use social monitoring or listening tools to find out which platforms your competitors are most active on, what type of content and how frequently they post, and the levels of engagement and reach they get. Depending on your tool, you may even be able to explore the demographics of their audience. You can also compare Share of Voice, Share of Reach, Social Reputation Score*, and other metrics useful for benchmarking your own brand's performance against that of your competitors. *A proprietary Synthesio metric

Q: Why should I monitor social media for my business?

You should monitor social channels to get real-time feedback from your customers, carry out proactive customer service on social media platforms, better understand your brand's online reputation, evaluate the performance of your social media marketing campaigns, identify trending topics that you can use to inform your content development efforts and keep an eye on your competitors.

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