This document discusses balancing content strategy and social advertising. It provides an overview of content strategy and content marketing, noting they should align with business goals. The document also discusses using social advertising to create awareness, attract audiences, and capture leads. It emphasizes controlling targeting and using demographic, interest, and custom audience targeting. Finally, it provides three examples of companies with connected content and advertising strategies.
4. FALCON SOCIAL
(@FalconSocial)
Copenhagen startup founded in 2010
An enterprise-focused, all-in-one social media management platform
Hit hypergrowth period in Q3 2013, so most of our teammates are relatively new
Employees consist of 108 team members, of 30 different nationalities
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5. TODAY
Content
• The Balance of Advertising and Content
• Building an Audience with a Rich Content Strategy
Advertising
• When & How to Boost Effectively to Capture Leads
• Using Custom Targeting to Avoid Spamming Your Audience
• 3 Examples of Connected Content Strategy & Advertising We Like
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• Comments - Questions?
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In social marketing, maintaining
authenticity comes from a combination of
structure, self-awareness, and consistency.
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8. THE BALANCE
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Content Strategy:
• Is the framework for your content
• Aligns an overview with business goals
• Gives content a sustainable lifecycle
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Content Marketing
• “Delivering the content your audience is seeking in all the places they are
searching for it”. (Joe Pulizzi)
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9. THE BALANCE
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Who We Are
• Clean aesthetic
• Scandinavian background
• UX and ease-of-use
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10. THE BALANCE
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Where We’ve Been Lucky
Working from scratch:
• Most content created in the last 5 months
• The need for social presence backed up into content strategy
New, growing team:
• Flat, Scandinavian hierarchy
• Team members are new & enthusiastic & looking for ways to work together
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11. STRATEGY & AUDIENCE
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Self-awareness:
• Who are you
Client research:
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• What are your target audience’s challenges
• What type of content do they typically look for
Organization
Resources
Responsibility
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12. SOCIAL ADVERTISING
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Why Advertise?
• Create awareness
• Attract new audiences
• Capture leads
• Increase consumption of existing audiences
• Strengthen brand position
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TARGETING
• Hard and soft sell
• Explicit and implicit CTA
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• Catchphrases and puns
• Capitalization
• Offer or benefit lead
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FORM
• Twitter lead gen cards
• FB custom CTA buttons
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• Dedicated landing pages
• Bidding optimization
• Capture contact info for retargeting
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TARGETING
Tracking
• From ad to conversion - The customer journey
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• Split testing
• Segments
• Creative
• Content
• Conversion tracking
• Attribution modelling
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TOOLKIT
Tracking
• Google Analytics
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• Conversion paths
• Conversion sources
• Time lag
• Affiliate advertiser insights
• Split testing tool e.g. Optimizely
• Heat and scroll maps
21. EXAMPLES WE LIKE
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General Electric - “Imagination at Work”
Conglomerate corporation with Energy, Technology Infrastructure, Capital
Finance and Consumer & Industrial divisions
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