Monday, September 16, 2013

Calculate Return on Investment (ROI) for your Social Media Efforts

ROI is return on investment, TLV is the average amount of revenue paid to a business by a customer over the lifetime of the relationship (and not just based on one average sale, but rather over the course of the business relationship).  So, it is also crucial to know what your customer retention rate is before you calculate TLV.  Finally, COCA is the cost of customer acquisition.  It’s the total amount invested to bring in a customer.  To calculate COCA, you add all of the costs involved in the marketing, salaries, overhead, etc.  

So, let’s say we have the following:

TLV=$700K

COCA=$15K

We would then calculate the ROI with this equation:

700K-15K/15K = 45.66%


It is important when using social media as a marketer because we can use this information to help lower your COCA.  Furthermore, many social media sites are generally free for business usage, and as such, can significantly lower your COCA.

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