This document provides an overview of advertising and marketing in social media. It begins by explaining how customers initially joined social networks and started sharing opinions, which led brands to recognize the need to engage with customers on social media. It then discusses social media advertising, which focuses on generating traffic and awareness, and social media marketing, which aims to increase visibility and promote sales. Key components for successful social media campaigns are outlined, including understanding channels, setting goals, capturing user data, measuring results, and continually learning.
2. WHAT WE’LL COVER:
o Social media: How businesses got here
o Advertising in social media
o Marketing in social media
o Key components for every campaign
o Questions and discussion
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4. FIRST CAME CUSTOMERS…
People joined social network sites and started:
o Interacting
o Talking about brands and companies
o Sharing opinions, interests and experiences
o Giving reviews and recommendations
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5. BRANDS TOOK NOTICE…
o Brands needed to go to where customers
are talking.
o Ability to learn more about customers and
prospects.
Through social media, brands and companies:
o Connect
o Engage
o Listen
o Learn
o Grow their business
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6. INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS
Now, almost every part of a business touches
social media:
o Sales
o Marketing/Communications
o Customer Service
o Human Resources
o Legal
o Investor Relations
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8. SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING
Social media advertising focuses on
paid space on a social networking site.
o Ads focus specifically on generating traffic
to a site where customers make a purchase
or gain awareness about a product or
service.
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9. TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ADS
o Facebook ads, promoted posts and sponsored
stories
o Twitter sponsored tweets
o YouTube commercials
o Website ads: pop-ups, banners, user registration, etc.
o LinkedIn ads
o Paid search engine ads: PPC and top ranks
o Blog advertisements and blogger ambassadors
o Mobile ads
o QR codes
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11. EXAMPLE: FACEBOOK ADS
TARGET USERS
o Location o Gender
o Age o Interests
o Likes
STATS o Frequency
o Reach o Click Through Rate
(CTR)
o Actions
o Clicks
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13. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
Social media marketing focuses on increasing
website traffic and visibility to promote sales.
o Email marketing
o Company blogs
o Blogger brand advocates
o Engaging customers in lifestyle storytelling
o Community relations outreach campaigns
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15. EXAMPLE: FORD SOCIAL
BADGES – Graphic badges to display pride in
different Ford products
OUR STORIES – Tells Ford’s brand and lifestyle
stories
YOUR STORIES – Customers share their real-life
experiences with Ford products
YOUR IDEAS – Submit your ideas for products,
green technology, safety, convenience, etc.
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17. DRIVE THROUGH THE NOISE
o Your campaigns must stand out above the
others.
• Simple, engaging and unique.
o Understand the channel and how to engage
your audience.
o Ads and campaigns must drive an action.
• Clicks are currency.
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19. CREATING A CAMPAIGN
 Determine goals and time frame.
 Define your audience.
 Define and allocate resources.
 Create simple, engaging ad or campaign.
 Provide call to action and destination.
 Monitor and tweak if necessary.
 Evaluate.
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21. KEY COMPONENTS OF ALL
CAMPAIGNS
o Understand the channels
o Set goals and define related strategy
o Capture usable data
o Measure results
o Listen and learn
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22. UNDERSTAND THE CHANNELS
o Facebook: Visual and message-based platform
• Gain likes and comments
o Twitter: Single message platform
• Drive news and share content
o LinkedIn: Professional networking platform
• Professional or educational, recruiting
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23. UNDERSTAND THE CHANNELS
o Search Engines: Content search platform
• People are looking for an answer – make your
site be their answer.
o Blogs: Message-based platform
• Provide valuable/helpful information, tell the
brand’s stories, demonstrate thought leadership.
o Email Marketing: Message-based platform
• Send out requested information and updates to
customers/investors/leads.
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24. SET GOALS
Set MEASURABLE goals that prove VALUE.
EXAMPLES OF GOALS:
o Drive purchases
o Increase visibility or sharing
o Growth of following
o Connect with more customers
o Lead generation
o Capture target audience data
o Increase positive sentiment
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25. CAPTURE DATA
To understand your customers and
effectiveness, you need to know who
they are.
o Where did they come from?
o Where are they located?
o What are their interests?
o What are they looking at?
o Why are they here?
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26. CAPTURE DATA
o HOW TO CAPTURE DATA?
o Email forms
o Google Analytics
o Social platform advertising
o Third-party management and analytic
platforms
• HootSuite
• TweetDeck
• SproutSocial
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32. MEASURING SUCCESS
WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?
o Conversions (sales and revenue)
o Increased site traffic and more pageviews
o More customer engagement with brand and/or
peers
o Increase in positive conversation online
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33. LEARNING NEVER STOPS
o Social media is constantly evolving and
changing every day.
o Listening is critical: What do your customers
want?
o As your following grows, you will see what
they like and don’t like through their
interaction.
o No two days or situations are the same.
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