paid online placements - an overview
DESCRIPTION
What are paid placements used for? Learn how you can leverage online advertising platforms for content distribution, leads, and sales. *Originally used as a presentation for The Startup Institute.TRANSCRIPT
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Paid Placements
Jennifer SpivakPartner/Managing Director @ Social Fulcrumwww.socialfulcrum.com@jennifer_spivak // @socialfulcrum
Social Fulcrum New York | Boston T 707-234-5365 [email protected] www.socialfulcrum.com
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Agile methodology, firm results. Data driven marketing to help your business reach the tipping point.
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Our Skill-set
Social Media MarketingWe find the places online where your consumers live and breathe, and establish loyal connections with them through community building and strategic engagement.
Inbound MarketingWe utilize SEO best practices to help new prospects find what you're offering and create engaging content from your digital assets to keep them coming back for more.
Paid PlacementsBy understanding who your target customers are, we are able to build successful ad campaigns that help you generate more qualified leads.
Data-Driven Decision MakingOur team has history in consulting, finance, and big data. What does that mean? We're great with excel! More importantly, we are able to analyze social media, audience, ad copy, image and conversion data, and use this data to guide the digital strategy for your online marketing campaign.
Our Approach
Agile Marketing: We spend the first months of client campaigns testing, validating, reshaping, and gaining feedback from ideas, in order to quickly learn which messages resonate, which media are most effective, etc., all before spending client money on work that we think is a good idea (but don’t really know for sure). We see this as a more authentic, effective, and modern approach to advertising.
Art + Science: We believe that effective online marketing is one part art (design, content creation, compelling copy), and one part science (metrics, measurement, analytics). Our team combines these two crucial elements in each and every strategy we develop and tactic we implement in order to create beautiful, viral digital marketing programs that drive business objectives.
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What Are Paid Placements Used For?
Brand Awareness Engagement Content Distribution Lead Generation Sales/Customer Acquisition Audience Growth List Building Concept Testing Headline Testing Audience Testing Etc.
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Is Paid Required?1 Paid Placements @ SiNY
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QUICK EXERCISE
How can these groups of people be targeted?
Moms who homeschool their children Business owners looking to hire a marketing agency People who work in IT
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Google AdWords
Types of Ads Search (text) Display
Targeting By keyword phrase By location
Messaging Unique ad groups Dynamic Keyword Insertion
Tracking Integrate with Google Analytics to track conversions Optimize for conversions to lower CPA
Great For: Lead Gen, Sales, Concept Testing
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Facebook Advertising
Types of Ads Too many to name! Page post ads, offer ads, app install
ads, like ads Based on ad objective
Targeting Interests, education, family status, location, etc. Partner Categories Custom Audiences
Messaging & Creative Native, native, native! Image-focused CTA buttons
Tracking Conversion pixels
Great For: Brand Awareness, Engagement, Content Distribution, Lead
Gen, Sales, Audience Growth, Headline Testing, Audience Testing
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Types of Ads “Traditional” ads Sponsored Updates
Targeting Location, job title, seniority, industry, groups, etc.
Messaging Identification headlines
Tracking LinkedIn Lead Collection
Great For: Lead Gen, Sales, Content Distribution
LinkedIn Advertising1 Paid Placements @ SiNY
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Twitter Advertising
Types of Ads Promoted Accounts Promoted Tweets Lead Gen Cards
Targeting Interests, keywords, accounts Retargeting through third-parties
Messaging & Creative Native!!! [hashtags, etc.] A note on using images
Tracking Campaign URLs + Google Analytics
Great For: Brand Awareness, Engagement, Content Distribution, Lead
Gen, Audience Growth, List Building
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Outbrain
Types of Ads Text Only
Targeting Limited
Messaging Killer headlines!
Tracking Campaign URLs + Google Analytics
Great For: Content Distribution, Headline Testing, Engagement
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StumbleUpon Paid Discovery
Types of Ads Content Page
Targeting Interests
Messaging Your Content!
Tracking Within StumbleUpon
Great For: Content Distribution, Engagement, List Building
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Reddit Ads
Types of Ads Reddit posts pinned to the top of a sub-reddit
Targeting Sub-Reddit
Messaging Native! Nothing Sales-y
Tracking Campaign URLs + Google Analytics
Great For: Content Distribution, Engagement, Lead Gen, List Building,
Headline Testing
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Looking Ahead1 Paid Placements @ SiNY
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QUICK EXERCISE
How would copy differ on Google vs. Facebook vs. Twitter if we were advertising Startup Institute?
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Case Study: Outbrain Content Distribution1 Paid Placements @ SiNY
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Case Study: LinkedIn Lead Generation1 Paid Placements @ SiNY
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Case Study: Facebook Audience Growth1 Paid Placements @ SiNY
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CHALLEGE: Create Your Own Ads
Groups of 3: Google, Facebook, LinkedIn
Google.com/Adwords Facebook.com/Ads LinkedIn.com/Ads
Create 3 ad variations Be prepared to share what you did, what you learned,
what questions came up, etc.
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