{"id":311,"date":"2016-09-02T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/?p=311"},"modified":"2023-04-07T06:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T06:21:05","slug":"calculating-the-return-generated-by-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/calculating-the-return-generated-by-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating the Return Generated By Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content standard\"><div><\/p>\n<p><aside class=\"\"><\/p>\n<h1>13<\/h1>\n<h2>Calculating the Return Generated By Community<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/sponsored-by-sap.png\" alt=\"Sponsored by SAP\" width=\"113\" height=\"65\"><\/p>\n<p><\/aside><\/p>\n<p><article class=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Phew, you made it this far. At this stage, 99% of the work is complete. By far the most difficult challenge is collecting the data you need to make the calculations. Once you have the data, the calculations are really simple.<\/h3>\n<p>The return on investment is the profit (return-investment) divided by the investment. This is a profitability ratio expressed as a percentage, not a dollar value figure.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"tweet\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Return+on+investment+is+profit+divided+by+investment%3A+a+profitability+ratio+expressed+as+a+%25%2C+not+a+%24+value+figure&amp;url=https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/calculating-the-return-generated-by-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">\r\n\t\t<h3>Return on investment is profit divided by investment: a profitability ratio expressed as a %, not a $ value figure<\/h3>\r\n\t\t<span class=\"tweetButton\">&nbsp;<\/span><p class=\"tweetLink\">Click to Tweet<\/p>\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>One important lesson is that it is important to break the community down by year and not just the overall amount since the community was created. This highlights whether the community going forward is likely to continue to generate a positive return on investment.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"cta spreadsheet\"><div><h3>Community ROI Template<\/h3><\/p>\n<p>You can follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/roi.feverbee.com\">in this spreadsheet<\/a> (first page) or simply follow the process below.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/article><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"content standard\"><div><\/p>\n<p><aside class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"cta questions\"><div><h3>Any Questions?<\/h3><p>Don\u2019t understand? Need some help? Ask a question in FeverBee Experts.<\/p><p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/experts.feverbee.com\/t\/roi-testing-title-change\/4041\">Ask a Question<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/aside><\/p>\n<p><article class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"boxout\"><\/p>\n<p>A single online community is likely to yield a multitude of benefits to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a mistake to calculate the return of only one benefit. Instead, we would wish to identify the several possible benefits a community might yield and calculate the return of each of these. The sum of these benefits is the total return generated by the community.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Screenshot-2016-08-08-19.11.30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"screenshot alignnone wp-image-427 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Screenshot-2016-08-08-19.11.30.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-08-08-19-11-30\" width=\"1048\" height=\"562\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The total return generated by the community is $5,149,559. However, the figures per year are more important going forward. These show a steady increase which might highlight increasing profitability. To see if this is true, we need to know the investment in the community.<\/p>\n<p><\/article><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feverbee.com\/roi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}