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Competitive Benchmark Analysis

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Competitive Benchmark Analysis, in the context of social media, refers to the process of evaluating and measuring your brand’s social media performance against that of your competitors to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats within your niche or industry.

This entails breaking down the fundamental performance metrics—like follower count, engagement rate, post frequency, types of content, audience specifics, reach, and other calculations—to see how your brand measures up and what practically implementable next steps there are for making your strategy better.

Analyzing your rivals' work on social media can yield rich insights for your own marketing strategy. Look closely at the content they share, the specific networks they invest in, and the conversation styles they adopt across platforms. You can even take a peek at the influencers and partners they collaborate with. All this can help you pinpoint what seems to be working well in your industry and—crucially—where you stand to be different and, ideally, better.

It isn't sufficient for Competitive Benchmark Analysis merely to replicate what competitors are doing. Instead, you must glean from their redundancies as well as their successes and failures to optimize not only your own but also the social media strategies of your clients. You must arrive at a better audience engagement. You must achieve superior content creation. And you must set better, more realistic industry goals for all those involved.

This process also holds value for revealing market gaps where your brand’s social media presence could uniquely flourish, identifying nascent trends that your competitors are leveraging to their advantage, and keeping a pulse on the seismic shifts in consumer behavior or anticipations that are reconfiguring the world of your target audience.

Gathering data efficiently isn't just some brand-building mandate—it's a fundamental prerequisite to building any kind of (social) relationship. Enter the essential tools, namely social listening platforms and analytics dashboards, that can help your brand gather that data and turn it into something usable. By necessity, I won't get into too much detail here, but let me outline (and endorse) some essential uses of these tools.

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