Jeffrey Hayzlett is a leading business expert who used Facebook ads to grow his personal brand and increase sales of his book. His team created an interactive Facebook page with videos and information about his book to engage fans. They targeted Facebook ads at audiences interested in business and marketing to boost attendance at his events and drive traffic to his page and website. As a result, 74.9% of traffic to Hayzlett's website came from Facebook, his Facebook fans grew 175% in 3 months, and he can now reach over 7 million connections of his 14,000+ fans.
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1. Facebook: Building Essential Connections
The leading business expert uses Facebook Ads
to build his community, drive more attendees to
his keynote appearances and increase the sales
of his book, Running the Gauntlet.
Goals
Jeffrey Hayzletts team wanted to use the global reach
of Facebook to raise awareness of his global marketing
skills to:
Grow the community around his personal brand
Increase Jeffreys fan base on Facebook to build the
audience for upcoming appearances
Drive sales of Jeffreys new book, Running the Gauntlet,
by creating buzz in his Facebook community
Approach
To raise awareness of his Facebook presence, Jeffrey
made his Page interactive by creating additional tabs
featuring videos, his new book, a detailed biography,
and other features.
A welcome tab featuring a video of Jeffrey introduced
people to his Page
A second tab included several videos offering advice
and insights on marketing and entrepreneurial
objectives
Jeffrey posted about the new book and gave users the
chance to participate in a webinar discussion
The page launched virtual events and contests that
supported the books release
To raise awareness of Jeffrey and his events, the
company used Facebook Ads to drive more people to
both his Page and external website:
To boost attendance to a Hayzlett-related event, ads
asked people to register for a two-day conference
To attract people who would be interested in
marketing strategies, the company targeted
words such as business marketing, social media
marketing, mobile marketing and business
person
The Hayzlett group included questions in its ad copy
to encourage people to like their Page, such as You
want change? Change the questions youre asking!
Results
74.9% of traf鍖c to the Hayzlett website came from Facebook
175%increaseinnumberoffanswhohavejoinedtheJeffreyHayzlett
PageinjustthreemonthsfromDecember2011toFebruary2012
14,000+ fans means that Jeffrey Hayzlett can now reach over 7.1
million friends of fans
One of the most exciting things for us was to drive our fan
growth and spread the word about Jeffreys book. We were
delighted about what we were able to accomplish through
Facebook ads and the Page community. The fact that we could
target so precisely taught us a lot about the people were try-
ing to reach from a marketing perspective. Facebook allows
Jeffreys community to travel with him around the world and
interact with him on the journey. The pictures, videos and
sentiments shared there are unique, and we highly value the
interaction. 56% of marketing executives choose Facebook as
their preferred platform and we know why! The people who
connect on his page are passionate - and we do our best to
meet them there with radical transparency.
Sue Jenks, Director of Social Media, The Hayzlett Group
Jeffrey Hayzlett Page
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Jeffrey Hayzlett is a global business celebrity and former Fortune
100 c-suite executive. From small business to international
corporations, he has put his creativity and extraordinary
entrepreneurial skills into play, launching ventures blending his
leadership perspectives, insights into professional development,
mass marketing prowess and af鍖nity for social media. He is a
well-traveled public speaker, the author of the bestselling books,
The Mirror Test and Running the Gauntlet, celebrity editor to one
of the largest-circulation business publications and one of the
most compelling 鍖gures in global business.
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