Just over a week ago, Eventbrite’s Tamara Mendelsohn published some interesting data, Social Commerce: A First Look at the Numbers, revealing the sales value of social media shares for the event ticketing site.
The Eventbrite data is interesting and has generated some useful discussion, but taking the data – along with the average sales value of an Eventbrite ticket ($60), it’s possible to use it to generate a ballpark valuation of your social media presence.
In a nutshell, to obtain a very rough estimate of the sales value of your social media presence, take the number of social media shares generated (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) and multiply those by the following coefficients (derived from Eventbrite’s data). Then simply multiply the result by the average value of a sale (AOV).
- Social Media Sales Coefficient
- Facebook =0.042 (for Eventbrite each Facebook share generates $2.52 )
- Twitter = 0.007 (for Eventbrite each Twitter share generates $0.43)
- LinkedIn = 0.015 (for Eventbrite each LinkedIn share generates $0.90)
- Email (Share) = 0.039 (for Eventbrite each email share generates $2.34)
For instance, applying this very rough and ready logic to top brands on Facebook, and using Google shopping search returns as a proxy for average order value – we get an indication of how much these brands’ Facebook pages are worth
- Starbucks = $2.69M (if est av. order = $4 * 16,041,033 * 0.042)
- Skittles = $430,491 (if est av.order = $0.89 * 11,516,630 * 0.042)
- Victoria’s Secret = $6.40M (if est av. order value = $25 * 6,099,033 * 0.42)
- Converse All Star = $9.30M (if est av. order value = $30 * 7,380,742 * 0.42)
Of course, these valuations should be taken with a pinch huge mountain of salt; drawing any conclusions from the data from one particular company in a particular situation in a particular market with a particular (very good) social commerce strategy and applying it to completely unrelated companies in other markets ignores a mountain of variables that drive social media valuations. At the very best, this rule of thumb calculation only provides a very initial indicative and caveat-laden ballpark response to the question ‘how much is our social media presence [potentially] worth?’
For those, too cautious (or too wise) to use these preliminary social media sales coefficients for a proto-valuation of a social media presence – there are nevertheless a number of useful insights and data points of interest in the Eventbrite data
- A Facebook share is worth 6x a Twitter share (5.86x to be precise)
- A Facebook share is worth3x a LinkedIn share (2.8x to be precise)
- A Facebook share is worth an email share (1.08x to be precise)
So Facebook rules in the world of social media optimization (SMO), for Eventbrite at least, and indeed Tamara notes that Facebook is the #1 referring site for traffic to the company’s site, surpassing Google. On average each Facebook share drives 11 visits back to Eventbrite.com.
Other data of interest;
- On Eventbrite
- A Facebook share generates $2.52 in sales
- A Twitter share generates $0.43 in sales
- A LinkedIn share generates $0.90 in sales
- An email share generates $2.34 in sales
- Facebook is the #1 referring site for traffic to the company’s site, surpassing Google
- On average each Facebook share drives 11 visits back to Eventbrite.com
- Averaging across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Email one share drives over 7 visits back to Eventbrite.com
- Sharing is independent of event size – the share rate remains consistent
- Classes/workshops and networking events have the most share activity, followed by fundraisers, conferences, and music events
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Hi Paul,
Good information about the value of each social media channel. We’ve had a lot of discussion first about how to even calculate ROI on social media events, then trying to decide what the value of followers are for a B2B site. I agree that no one should draw too much from this set of data, but no doubt we will see this continue to evolve in the coming months.
cheers,
craig.
Thanks for the comment Craig, at the very least the Eventbrite approach is good creative stimulus for thinking about ROI in social media.
Good read, Paul. Thanks!
It seems one message is really important here: relativity. Is it safe to say that, even if the data isn’t necessarily quantifiable, it can be used for ongoing key performance indicators, which, over time, can then be qualified?
The ebb and flow of social media activity and web traffic provide this ongoing context from which relative measures can be drawn. Then, the ability to constantly/consistently measure and refine become more tangible. I get that message here. In other words, find a relative measure that works and use it to your advantage; don’t just become data rich and information poor. At least Eventbrite is proactively working towards understanding some type of KPI!
Thanks for reading and for your comment Jack – I agree on the data rich information poor – a good description of most social media dashboards…
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Good and informative. thank you. Can we have an algorithm to evaluate a social media page? I am asking this because, 90% of the pages having huge likes except the ones of celebrities are manipulated. I it only my opinion, not a general one. I have seen many fb groups are online where people can exchange likes. Also i havenoticed, many people trying to exchange different pages from the same fb account. so the like which one get back are from these fake accounts.
so in this case if one shared a post or like a post, how much does it worth?
so if one try to calculate the value of a fb page just by the number of like of followers, does it make sense?