The document discusses strategies for influencing today's consumers through social advertising. It provides an overview of key topics including why social ads are effective, top social platforms, best practices for campaign strategy, current trends in social media marketing, and additional resources. The presentation was given by Caitlin Jeansonne, Social Media Director at MMI Agency, and focused on how to build successful social advertising campaigns.
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Goals
Awareness Consideration Preference/
Purchase Retention
• Increase visibility to
key new audiences
• Utilize existing
customers’
networks to build
awareness through
social endorsement
• Improve brand
perception in
consideration set
• Reinforce key
brand attributes
• Educate on service
offerings
• Drive website traffic
and new
consumers into the
sales funnel
• Purchases and
conversions
• Capture direct
customer feedback
and market insights
• Resolve customer
service issues
efficiently
• Build brand trust and
customer loyalty
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Audience
Houston Families Avid Golf Fans Millennials
Develop personas
• Who are they?
• What are their
needs?
• Where do they hang
out online?
• What are their
objections?
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Audience Targeting
• Demographics (age, gender, location)
• Relationships (relationship status, family makeup,
parents/children)
• Education (school, field of study)
• Work (employer, industry, job title)
• Home (home type, ownership, composition)
• Ethnicity
• Life events
• Interests
• Remarketing & Lookalikes
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Audience Connection Targeting
Why does it work?
• Social proof
• 83% of people trust
recommendations from
people they know
• People tend to behave like
their friends
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Budget
• Facebook minimum is $5/day
• 38% of organizations spent >20% of their
total ad budgets on social in 2015
• Things that affect budget:
• Audience size
• Audience competition
• CTA
• Relevance score
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Rule of thumb: The more you’re expecting
a user to do, the more you should expect
to pay
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Platform(s)
• Where do your users hang out?
• Where does your content make
the most sense?
• Where are you already active?
• What platform has targeting
options that make sense for
you?
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Creative
+84% improvement
vs.
• Should match the “feel” of the
network
• Optimize image size, character
count by platform
• Facebook 20% Rule
• Ex: Instagram square images
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Creative
• Every word counts
• Avoid ad fatigue by swapping out
often
• Think mobile-first
• Test, Test, Test
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Rule of thumb: Creative should feel as
native to the platform as possible.
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Live video
• Facebook Live, Instagram Stories,
Periscope, YouTube and Snapchat
• Facebook Live video streams are
pushed to the top of fans’ News Feed
• Reporting options vary widely by
platform
• Content strategy is key
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Messaging Apps
• Messaging apps provide the benefits of texting
without the extra fees for: international messaging,
encryption security, communicating with users on
incompatible devices
• Most popular messaging apps:
• Kik
• WhatsApp
• Facebook Messenger
• 36% of smartphone users and almost half of all
young adults use at least one messaging app
• Rise of Chat Bots: artificial computer programs built
to mimic human conversation and stimulate
conversation with a user
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Influencer Marketing
• 59% of marketers will increase
influencer marketing budgets in 2016
• Some brands still treat influencer
content as an ad buy
• The rise of microinfluencers
• Adhere to all FTC guidelines
#ad
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Additional Resources
• Follow industry resources:
• The Skimm
• SmartBrief on Social Business
• MarketingLand
• Digiday
• Training resources:
• Lynda.com
• Twitter Flight School
• Facebook Blueprint
• Google Analytics
• Google Adwords
Hubspot: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/horrifying-display-advertising-stats#sm.00001hxexdbpuwe6mrjydjg2oex8z
There are now 198 million active ad block users around the world. (Source: PageFair)
A study revealed that only 2.8% of participants thought that ads on website were relevant. (Source: Infolinks and bannerblindness.org)
33% of internet users find display ads completely intolerable (Source: Adobe)
Ad blocking grew by 41% globally in the last 12 months. (Source: PageFair)
About 50% of clicks on mobile ads are accidental. (Source: GoldSpot Media)
54% of users don’t click banner ads because they don’t trust them. (Source: BannerSnack)
32% of US teens cite Instagram as their favourite social network
42% of all online women use the platform
66% of content that users Pin comes from brand websites
Facebook: 1.7 billion users
Youtube: Over 1 billion users
WhatsApp: 900 million users/Wechat: 1.12 billion users
Instagram: 400 million users
Twitter: 320 million users
LinkedIn: 300 million users
Snapchat: 100 million users
Pinterest: 100 million users
Reddit: 36 million accounts
Periscope: 10 million users
Google+: 300 million users
Who are they?
What do they care about?
How do they act online?
What are their wants/needs?
What are their objections?
Facebook accounts for 62% of social logins made by consumers to sign into the apps and websites of publishers and brands
Nielsen’s most recent annual Trust in Advertising study found that 83% of people trust recommendations from people they know