How to Measure the Success of Your Influencer Campaign

Influencer marketing has recently become an extremely popular marketing method with its affordability and high returns on investment (ROI). Not to mention, there’s the wide reach and loyal following from popular influencers that brands leverage to build their own business. Though influencer marketing has been proven to be successful, determining ROI remains a challenge. Read on for our top tips for measuring the success of your influencer marketing campaign.

1. Determine campaign reach

Every campaign is different and it’s important to determine your particular goals beforehand. If your goal is to increase your brand’s reach, we’ve determined the top three methods to demonstrate how far your message has traveled. These methods include impressions, followers, and traffic.

Impressions- Depending on the length of your campaign,  the campaign manager should request post insights from the influencer. This way, you can check the number of impressions that post has generated since posting. This will give you an idea of how many times your brand’s post was seen by your target audience. 

Followers- Before your campaign, you should check to see how many followers the influencer has. Based on this, you’ll have a general idea of how many people might see your sponsored post.

Traffic- Traffic will determine and track the number of visitors that came to your website through the influencer’s link or promo code. However, this is typically only used when the influencer has included a link to your website in the sponsored post. You can track this data using a spreadsheet and find out how much buzz the influencer’s post has generated.

2. Determine Campaign Engagement

Though engagement is a vital aspect of a campaign’s ROI, you shouldn’t measure success solely on engagement alone. The engagement on posts reflects how interested people are in your brand and its products. To get a better idea of your ROI, it’s also smart to find out the cost per engagement to get a better sense of your ROI. Our top three methods of engagement are likes, clicks, and shares. 

Likes- After the campaign is complete, it’s important to double-check how many likes the post has received to determine how many people actually interacted with your post. More likes can even boost the overall ranking of your content on social media channels. 

Clicks- Keep track of the clicks the sponsored post gets. These clicks can give you an idea of how many people showed an interest in the post and your brand. 

Shares- Shares are beneficial because they showcase how many people found your content interesting and wanted to share it with friends. Shares show the number of people that are recommending your content to their close circles. 

Comments- The higher the number of comments on the post, the better the engagement. Comments show that the audience has shown a high interest in the content. You can track these metrics and put them in a spreadsheet to give you an idea of the total number of engagements on the posts. To find the cost per engagement, you can simply divide the total cost by the total engagements.

3. Determine the revenue generated

If your goal is to generate sales from influencer marketing, you need to find out how many sales have been generated, which will give you a better idea of your ROI. There are a few ways to determine the revenue through affiliate links, Google Analytics, and Promo Codes. 

Affiliate links

You can generate affiliate links and send them to your influencers. When people will click on these links and make a purchase, you’ll be able to track them. Usually, the influencers receive a commission for every sale that they generate which is a great incentive for them to collaborate with you. 

These links will also give you an idea of the number of clicks that were made on each link. You’ll even know the average value of your sales and the total number of sales. Based on this, you can find the success of your campaign and also the performance of each influencer.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics can also help you track online sales. You can set up an “Event” and see which customers visited your website via the influencers’ posts. This will help you find the ROI of your influencer marketing campaign in terms of sales

Promo codes

Promo codes are great for tracking the purchases that are generated from a specific influencer. When you create a discount code for an influencer, their followers can use that code upon purchasing to get a discount during a set period of time. When the code is no longer active, you can see how purchases resulted from using that code then calculate your ROI using this information. 

Measuring success

There are a variety of ways to determine the success of your influencer marketing campaign. It’s important to combine all these tracking methods including regular communication with the influencer so you can calculate your ROI with ease to efficiently measure your campaign’s success. 

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