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Setting SMART objectives for social media

Setting SMART objectives for social media

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Setting SMART objectives for social media

- [Narrator] SMART objectives for social media. Are your business objectives SMART? By that, I mean are they specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound? It's so important to make sure that any business marketing or social media objective covers these five areas. And it sounds simple, but in practice I often find that business owners or marketers find it difficult to include all five factors. Without them, you have no specific direction to guide you, and you need to know what success looks like before you can achieve it. "To create more awareness about our business" isn't SMART. It's not specific, it's not measurable, and it's not time-bound. Here's an example of a SMART objective. "To generate awareness about our core service, and capture contact details in our CRM system for 1,000 new ideal customers over the next 12 months." Stating the core service makes it specific, the number of new ideal customers…

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