The document discusses best practices for social media marketing and the convergence of direct response marketing and social media. It provides tips for making email messages shareable on social platforms to increase viral growth. Examples are given of emails that drove sharing and increased click-through rates. The potential of paid social media advertising is also examined, noting it allows testing and optimization on modest budgets. Real data is shared for a Colorado advertiser spending over $1 million on social media.
2. The Convergence of Direct Response and
Social Media
Sallie Burnett, President, Customer Insight Group Inc, Moderator
Robin Seidner, VP of Marketing, Kutenda
Angela Brohman, Director Agency Channel, Silverpop
Troy Lerner, General Manager, Booyah Online Advertising
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3. The Convergence of Direct
Response and Social Media
SOCIAL MEDIA BEST
PRACTICES
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4. Social Media Best Practices
#1: Don’t just “Do it.” Think strategy.
Would you ever just send out a direct response
email or direct mail piece without a strategy?
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5. Social Media Best Practices
#2: Get away from the campaign mentality
Campaigns are an advertising concept
Social media has no “end,” just peaks and valleys
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6. Social Media Best Practices
#3: Start by listening – use metrics
ID where the conversation happens
Discover what people are saying: category, you,
competitors
Volume: what causes volume changes (spikes, lulls)
What’s the quality of comments of you vs. competitors
Negative isn’t necessarily bad
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7. Social Media Best Practices
#4: Don’t think you can control it. Be okay with that.
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8. Social Media Best Practices
#5: Integrate social media across your business
Be strategic
Understand how different pieces of your organization can take
part
PR: monitoring, listening
Marketing and media buying: viral growth
Customer support: direct customer engagement
Product development: learn from the people who really care
about your products
Work together to plan your approach
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9. Social Media Best Practices
Today’s best practices will be different in 6-12
months
More users mean new problems
The “big win” isn’t quite so easy
The next “game-changer” isn’t known
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10. The Convergence of Direct
Response and Social Media
EMAIL GOES SOCIAL
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12. Make your messages Shareworthy
• Be a trusted source.
• Know what motivates your customers.
• Keep the message simple.
• Make sharing options visible and easy.
• State the value.
• Produce timely and relevant content.
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13. Results
Over 800 recipients shared the email offer
resulting in an estimated 80,000 additional
impressions (8% list growth)
45% shared on Facebook
44% shared on digg
11% shared on MySpace
17% of recipients who posted had at least one
open of the post
Some posts had up to 10 opens
33% people who ‘opened’ a post then clicked
through to offer
3x CTR of their standard emails
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14. What B2C emails are Shareworthy?
Great offers New season / product
announcements Sale Notifications
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15. What B2B emails are Shareworthy?
Relevant
Articles Event /Webinar News / Press Releases
Notifications
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16. Getting started with social email
Focus on ‘Shareworthiness’
Make it easy to share
Monitor social ‘buzz’ (and engage)
Identify and reward your influencers
Test everything and don’t be afraid to fail
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17. The Convergence of Direct
Response and Social Media
Putting the Media in Social Media
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18. Facebook image ads
Text Ads
(Facebook uses MSN, MySpace
uses Google)
Banner Ads
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19. The way they sell it
•In bundles of 1000 impressions. (CPM)
•By the click (CPC)
You can target by age, gender, location and interests.
•On a modest budget, FB image ads make for an interesting test.
•“free” to build. Cheap to buy.
•Helps if you can track with Atlas
The way you should buy it:
• ….very carefully.
•With budgets of $20k+, you can try banners.
•Retargeting is a consistently successful strategy.
•Buy enough volume to negotiate the CPM below a buck ($200K+)
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20. Write new ads for Social Networks.
….your ad is an interruption, not a response
to a search query.
Catch them with an image
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21. Real Data for a Colorado advertiser
spending $1M+ on Social Media
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22. Conclusion
Paid advertising in Social Networks deserves a
look.
…if for no other reason than it is cheap, trackable,
and allows for a lot of tinkering.
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23. The Convergence of Direct Response
and Social Media
Sallie Burne+ Robin Seidner
Customer Insight Group, Inc. Kutenda
sallie@customerinsightgroup.com robin@kutenda.com
303.422.9758 303.819.5567
Twi+er:@sallieburne+ Twi+er: @kutenda, @copydiva
Angela Brohman
Silverpop Troy Lerner
Booyah Online AdverQsing
abrohman@silverpop.com
Troy@TheBooyahAgency.com
720.941.8432 303.345.6619
Twi+er: @AngelaBrohman, @Silverpop Twi+er: @troylerner
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