This morning as I browsed the daily tech and publishing news, I spotted an Apple Watch post.

I ventured onto the devices website to explore it's designs and functions, immediately adoring the concept and after a few minutes of browsing I have to admit, they had me sold.

Call it obvious, but if social media and digital publishing had a baby, it would be called social publishing. So why is it important to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and all the rest with with your digital edition?

It would be very easy for me to throw around (as many do) buzzwords such interactivity, engagement and visibility. Simply increase all those, and you will have yourself a perfect social publishing solution.

When you are constantly feeling the pressure to spend on social media but can't see the benefit it can be a real pain. So why not pick yourself up and try to monitor what you are doing online in a more efficient manner? With a few simple tweaks you will know if it's money well spent or well money burned...

1. Set yourself achievable goals

Make sure each campaign you put together has it's own goals. For example, if you wish to get bums on seats at your restaurant then gear your campaign strictly towards this by adding a booking link and code to all posts in that campaign. Then record how much you have spent and how many covers you got as a result.

Sales, marketing or spam?

We live in an age of cold calling, email filters and private numbers. No social network or mobile phone is safe!

1. Relying on organic posts

It's 2014 people, wake up! Things have changed and Facebook is making it harder for us to reach our fans organically. People keep telling me that pages are only reaching about 2-3% of their audience, which I don't understand. Yes, it is much harder to reach people now than it was this time last year, but if you are producing great content consistently, you will still reach people!