From the story of Noah in the Quran and Bible to Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh , humanity has been telling the same dramatic story for thousands of years: the world ends… and a few survive. But here’s the twist: this isn’t just a Middle Eastern idea. In India, Manu is warned of a great flood and builds a boat to preserve life. In ancient Persia, Yima creates a protected sanctuary to survive a deadly winter. In China, Yu the Great doesn’t escape disaster; he solves it, controlling floods through sheer effort and innovation. Travel across the globe, and the pattern continues. Indigenous American stories speak of floods that reset the world, like the tale of Nanabozho recreating land with the help of animals. In Australia, the Rainbow Serpent shapes rivers and landscapes through powerful floods. So why do these stories exist everywhere? Some scholars point to real ancient disasters - massive floods, rising seas, or climate events that left a deep ...
Note: This post is for beginners, so you can skip this and read other posts if you are proficient in social media data analysis.
What is Analytics or Data Analysis?
Useful information is called data. It can be in multiple forms, such as descriptive or numerical. For example, the number of people who have visited your site or liked your post. In Pakistan, Analytics is underrated and not fully utilized compared to other digital marketing branches. The emphasis is on promotion and interaction. Digital marketers and page owners neglect the data and numbers and what story these facts and figures depict. The situation is not very different in other countries where SME businesses don't concentrate on data analysis. So let me educate you based on the matrices you should be looking at and how you can deduce inferences from them and improve your content strategy.
The number of visitors: This is the most basic metric you would encounter on FB, IG, Twitter, or other platforms. The inferences you can make from this metric are: how many people are coming to your page? Do they come on a particular day or time? Are they increasing or decreasing? From these questions, you can infer that you are doing a good job if people regularly come to your page. If the number is decreasing, then you should improve your content.
When do they visit your page?
It is also another useful metric that can tell you when visitors see your posts. Is there a trend that they visit your page, for example, on a particular day of the week or a particular time of day? For example, I used to work at a university. Our primary audience was university students. They would like posts in the afternoon when they had a lunch break or in the evening when they reach their homes, i.e., 7-9 PM. You can also see if your audience is available at a particular time and then schedule your posts at that time slot.
Who is your audience?
The demographic factors, such as gender, age, location, country, profession, roles, etc., tell you about your specific audience. For example, if you see those female users are the majority of visitors, you should post relevant content of interest to them. Female and male social media celebrities fail to recognize this insight. The female/male celebrities keep posting content relevant to the female/male audience and neglect others. This way, they lose a significant audience's attention.
What is the audience looking for?
Facebook provides insights on post engagement. Similarly, other platforms also tell what posts performed well. If you see that a particular post, such as a video, animation, image, text, or memes, is getting attention, you should be doing that more.
These are some of the most important insights you should be looking for. Once you get comfortable with them, you should search for more metrics and infer results from them.
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