Once you have an overview of your wider topic area it’s time to turn your attention to your own social media accounts.

Using the data provided by each platform, as well as the data of your own in-platform research, you can get an idea about what is working for you on each platform. This will help you make more informed decisions about how to tailor your activity on each to suit the individual audiences, and therefore improving your engagement and performance.

Metrics you’re gathering for each channel here are:

• Top three posts in last year
• Followers, and growth rate
• Estimated reach
• Engagement rate
• Response time (Facebook)
• Top five responses (comments, replies etc) from consumers
• Top five hashtags used
• Day and time you post

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