It’s never been more important to include paid social media as part of your digital marketing strategies. Consumers of nearly every demographic spend countless hours on social media every week. If you’re not advertising on social you’re seriously missing out.
Our Webinar teaches you how to enhance your social media campaigns with paid advertising. In most social media platforms, clicks are inexpensive and highly targeted.
See more at http://www.threedeepmarketing.com/blog/enhance-social-media-campaigns/
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Paid Social Media: How to take your online marketing to a new level
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Three Deep Marketing
Paid Social Advertising
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Who am I and why are we here?
Carie Otto
Paid Media & Optimization
Strategist
Three Deep Marketing
Why are we here?
To see how social media may impact your
business in 2016 and beyond.
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The Plan for Today
• Social Media Trends
• Social Content Strategy & Advertising
• Diverse Targeting Options
• Ad Choices
• Case Study
• Questions
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Margot Bloomstein
Content Strategy
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Kristina Halvorson,
CEO & Founder of Brain Traffic, 1st edition of Content Strategy for the
Web
“Content strategy guides
planning for the creation,
delivery, and governance of
useful, usable content.”
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Various; See Notes
Content Marketing
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Joe Pulizzi,
Founder, Content Marketing Institute
“Create valuable, compelling and
relevant content on a consistent
basis and build an audience over
that time in order to see some
profitable customer action.”
AdAge
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Content Marketing is particularly hot, and has been since 2011.
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Not all Targets are Equal
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Facebook will recommended a
CPC bid based on competition for
the target audience.
Basic Targeting on Facebook (& Instagram)
Category Example
Demographics Women
Minneapolis/St.
Paul DMA
24-45
Interests Parenting
Behaviors Baby products
Data Income > $40K
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Advanced Targeting on Facebook
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Targeting Options on LinkedIn
LinkedIn will determine a
recommended CPC bid for
your audience.
Category Example
Demographics MSP DMA
Age 25-55+
Company Select Industries
500+ Employees
Job Senior Level
Skills Marketing
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Targeting on Twitter
Twitter will generate a
recommended CPC bid
based on your target
audience.
Category Example
Demographics Males
U.S.
Behavior Sports fans
Interests Basketball
Keyword March Madness
NCAA Bracket
College
Basketball
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You WILL PAY for Your Target Audience
Consider your audience.
Can still represent a steep discount over
search networks.
Use in combination with search.
Platform Experienced Average
CPC
Facebook $0.50 - $1.50
LinkedIn $4.00 - $9.00
Twitter $1.00 - $2.00
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Not all Ads are Created Equal
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Facebook Ad Formats
Standard Carousel
Video
www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide
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Instagram Ad Formats
Photo Ads Video Ads Carousel Ads
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Remember that target audience we defined
for facebook? It triggered this ad experience:
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Interactive ads are well worth it!
Carousel ads drove
2-3X higher CTR.
More clicks for same exposure.
Increased Relevance Score ~3 points.
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LinkedIn Ad Types
Ads that appear in the newsfeed have MUCH higher CTR.
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“Discounts” for quality ads
Ad networks give ads quality or relevance
scores based on the advertising trifecta.
Advertisers
Users
Ad
Networks
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Recipe Website: Social Media Case Study
PRIMARY
GOAL
.Share fun, fresh,
relevant content
with those who like
recipe Facebook
page and core
target markets.
SECONDARY
Encourage sharing
of this content
socially to extend
reach.
TERTIARY
Drive engaged
website traffic.
Drive in-store
purchases.
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Content Marketing
Promote posts to four key audiences:
Parents
of young
children
Empty
Nesters
Current
Likes
Young
Adults
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32%
33%
10%
25%
People Reached
Parents (28-44) Empy Nesters (45+)
Current Facebook Likes Young Adults (18-27)
20%
40%
26%
14%
Total Engagements
Parents (28-44) Empy Nesters (45+)
Current Facebook Likes Young Adults (18-27)
Results
Empty NestersEmpty Nesters
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2015 Page Likes and Engagement
Daily Page Engaged Users Daily: The number of people who engaged with your Page. Engagement includes any click
or story created. (Unique Users)
Daily New Likes Daily: The number of new people who have liked your Page (Unique Users)
Lifetime Total Likes Lifetime: The total number of people who have liked your Page. (Unique Users)
Facebook purged inactive or
deleted accounts from page likes
in March
December 1, Facebook
Paid Campaign Started
December 31, Facebook
Paid Campaign Stopped
Results
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1-Jan 31-Jan 2-Mar 1-Apr 1-May 31-May 30-Jun 30-Jul 29-Aug 28-Sep 28-Oct 27-Nov 27-Dec
Total Reach
The number of people who were served any activity from your Page including your
posts, posts to your Page by other people, Page like ads, mentions and checkins.
Daily Paid Reach Daily: The number of people who saw a sponsored story or ad pointing to your Page. (Unique
Users)
Daily Organic Reach Daily: The number of people who visited your Page, or saw your Page or one of its posts in
news feed or ticker. These can be people who have liked your Page and people who haven't. (Unique Users)
October 15, Organic
Facebook Campaign
Began
December 1, Paid
campaign on
Facebook Began
December 31, Paid
campaign on
Facebook Ended
Results
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Results - Pinterest
2015 Pinterest Follower Growth
Facebook Ads started
Pinterest cleaned out many
spam accounts early in
November
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Results - Pinterest
1/1/2015 2/1/2015 3/1/2015 4/1/2015 5/1/2015 6/1/2015 7/1/2015 8/1/2015 9/1/2015 10/1/2015 11/1/2015 12/1/2015 1/1/2016
2015 Clicks to Website from Pinterest
Clicks Visitors
Facebook Ads started
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Results At the Business Level
Huge lift in engagement across multiple
channels.
Spike in web traffic from social sites.
Content reached target audiences.
Does the core target audience need to be
redefined based on learnings?
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Free To Explore
Facebook Advertising
• Facebook for Business: www.facebook.com/business
• Power Editor: www.facebook.com/ads/manage/powereditor
LinkedIn Advertising
• Linkedin Ads: www.linkedin.com/ad
Twitter Advertising
• Twitter Ads: ads.twitter.com
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Three Deep Marketing manages $7+
million in paid media spending annually
All campaigns are managed by certified
paid media strategists with proven
success
Let’s take a 10,000 foot look at the top social media networks (in terms of daily visits, active users, and ad revenue).
Facebook was supposed to die years ago, was it not?
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/facebook-earnings-q3-2015/
The number of active registered (logged in at least once in the last 30 days) users continues to grow. Current counts show that there are currently more than 1.6 billion active users. http://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/
One billion of those users log in every, single, day. They average about 20 minutes of time spend on facebook each day. http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-17-amazing-facebook-stats/
It’s expected that there will be $170 million US users on FB by 2018. Used by the young and the old: 87% of high school seniors still say they use FB “all the time” and more than 1/3 of senior citizens are on the media tool.
Yeah, great. So all of us advertisers wrote Mark Zuckerberg a big, fat check in 2015. The facebook ad revenues reflect something bigger though, than just how amazing of growth this company has and is still experiencing. You know that old saying “10,000 people can’t be wrong?!” Well, what about – the engine where advertisers place BILLIONS of dollars each year MUST have something going for it…
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/facebook-earnings-q3-2015/
Facebook mobile ad spots are growing incredibly fast. Just like 2015 proved to be the year where more searches happened on mobile devices than computers, facebook users are incredibly active on mobile devices. We’ve actually run facebook campaigns where more than 90% of traffic in the campaign was driven on mobile devices.
LinkedIn has held the professional social networking title for years – and it continues to accumulate more members quarter over quarter. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/04/linkedin-reports-q4-earnings.html
Members – majority FREE accounts (80%)
Time – ~40% of users spend less than two hours per week on the site/app, while 50+% spend 3+ hours/week in the tool
Linkedin Takes a content-focus. https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/blog/best-practices--content-marketing/2015/4-linkedin-content-marketing-tactics-worth-investing-time-in--in
Earnings
In the final quarter of 2015, LinkedIn saw a 34 percent increase in revenue from $643 million in the year-earlier period. Adjusted earnings increased 54 percent from 61 cents in Q4 2014. LinkedIn's focus on sponsored content will impact short-term revenue growth in favor of the long term (says the CFO).
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2015-social-media-stats-trends-images-part-1-wahiba-chair-mba : Based on information from Pew research study. http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/09/demographics-of-key-social-networking-platforms-2/
Based on the information provided so far, I bet it’s clear that we are going to spend the majority of our time on FB and LinkedIn.
But before we dive in to how to use social networks to promote your business, we must talk about how content is really QUEEN (or king, it’s the ongoing debate here at Three Deep). Without first having a strategy to anchor to, your social media advertising will all be for naught.
This is where social media marketing/adveriting comes into play. If we’ve come up with some really great things to say
“instead of distracting our audience with advertising that's not relevant to them”Keep in mind that what makes a customer action profitable depends on the strategy – it doesn’t always mean dollars. Aaaaand we’ve made it full circle!
We can use content marketing – POST content strategy – to amplify the reach of our social media content.
So, who cares? Well, If you spend time developing good, quality content that your audience actually cares about and nobody is there to hear it, what good is it? This is why social matters. In a recent post from contently, content experts recommended placing at least 20% of your content budget into marketing / advertising the content.
Fans
Geo
Demo
Interests
Behavior
Third Party Data
Half of all advertising dollars are wasted, but you don’t know what half, right? WRONG. With digital you can measure what does (and doesn’t!) work. You can start by targeting small. You don’t have to be a major truck company spashing your ads all over during football games because it’s believed that “men who like football like trucks.” The mass advertising approach is a far cry from specific, detailed targeting campabilities in the paid social universe. AND you can continually measure and adjust/optimize your campaigns.
Custom
Look-a-like
Pixels
Targeting options: followers, devices, behaviors, keywords, geography, language, gender, interestes
If we were running a March Madness based campaign, our target audience may look like the following
Tailored audiences also allow you to reach your CRM database on twitter through a data hashing/matching
There is an auction to get in front of these people. Some are more in demand than others. FB seems to experience incredibly low CPC rates surprisingly. Well below the search market place.
LinkedIn is quite expensive – a recommended range will be provided when you are configuring ads.
When users were able to scroll through the product options and interact with the ad, it drove much greater click through rates.
LinkedIn tips of the trade: if you notice impressions start to fall, change the ad. Launching a similar but different ad FREQUENTLY will keep you in the game.
When you are making the network money, you will be rewarded by being given the chance to make them even more money. That’s a very cynical way to put this, but think about it. If your ad is more likely to be engaged with, the social network, just like a search engine, has reason to run your ad more often. More clicks on your ad means more $ for them. It also means that you will get more traffic/engagement (depending upon your chosen formats and ad types), typically at a discounted rate. So, if we move away from the “advertising is the dark side of the internet” view, this venn diagram really represents a win-win-win situation. People are served better content/ads that they are more interested in, advertisers can reach their target audience (at a micro-targeted level) and ad networks make money.
Facebook determinues relevance on a scale of 1 to ten. With one advertiser (RW), a lift in Relevance score from 5 to 7/8 on facebook drove a 30% reduction in CPC – which was already incredibly low for todays digital media standards.
Facebook & Pinterest. Mostly curated content, very little “new”. It takes a lot of effort to create this content. We can accelerate the reach of it using paid. again, allocate some of your dollars to be “working dollars” to make sure this content reaches the right audience.
Social is a fairly inexpensive platform. You can test your messages, target audiences, etc. and apply your learnings to other channels.