Beyond Search: Leveraging Ads On Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn #SMX

Editor's Notes

1. It’s easy for marketers to become distracted by all the conversations on twitter and forget the main reason they using that channel, to drive demand. Similar to building a search persona to build your SEO campaigns, create a persona to learn about the Twitter audience that you want to reach. Target Audience – describe your perfect buyerSmall sized company in North America looking for a marketing software Understand Pain Points – How would your target customer articulate their need for your product in terms of keywords? What kinds of questions would they ask help for on Twitter?Need to drive more demand, need to streamline reporting, need more granular tracking capabilities Solution - Content includes overview, description, review and testimonial, as well as demo or trial Search Queries - Marketing software, how to drive more leads, how to acquire more customers Hashtags - #inbound, #content, #onlinemarketing, #leadgen, #webmktg Call-to-Action – Offer a call to action that compels the Twitter user to dive deeper into your conversion funnel. Free trial, purchase now, call for consultation, compare products, download a whitepaper
2. Layout your content plan for the campaigns to determine the offers and follow up.B2B and B2C examples of offers
3. http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/dap_10151_10104_DAP_KM+Black+Friday?adcell=promo1previewdoorbuster&SID=ISm22200224x000651http://whatsmyneed.com/https://twitter.com/tide/status/268003019541581824https://twitter.com/Spredfast/status/264079381822058496https://twitter.com/windowsphone/status/269167904229044224
4. 1. Include call-to-actions in Tweets with a required form on the landing page for users to fill out.Whether you're promoting a new whitepaper, guide, ebook, promotion offer, coupon, or free trial; be sure to include a form on your landing page to convert the visitor from Twitter to a lead.promote gated content" since that's the only way they will generate leads and attribute them to Twitter.you should not promote just gated content. It might also be a good point to talk about ratios of tweets - 15% self promoting, 70% share content, 15% interactions.
5. 1. Include call-to-actions in Tweets with a required form on the landing page for users to fill out.Whether you're promoting a new whitepaper, guide, ebook, promotion offer, coupon, or free trial; be sure to include a form on your landing page to convert the visitor from Twitter to a lead.
6. Use promoted accounts to build a following of your target audience. Blueprint of a Promoted AccountCharged on a cost per follower (CPF) basisShown in the Who to follow section – first positionShows a yellow or purple box “Promoted”Shows related people in your network that are following that accountShows the Twtitter AvatarShows the Twitter Name and UsernameYour account will be promoted in search results for related keywords and the “Who to follow” section of Twitter.
7. Everything you tweet organically will be seen by your potential buyers and when you run campaigns to your followers and users like your followers your Tweets are in front of the right peoplegetting more followers will help you establish a stronger presence, increase your reach, build your brand name and eventually generate more leads.
8. Best way to set up a promoted account campaignAdd relevant categories, add relevant users who are influencers of the interest“Include users like my followers” – if you have a followers base that is on target, check this box. If you don’t have the right followers base, don’t check this box. Specific what locations are important. International or local?Is your product/service gender bias or neutral?Set your campaign time period and bid.Once you set up targeting, you can see the summary of the campaign: estimated reach, interests, location, gender, bid
9. They are able to click on a Promoted Trend to view all Tweets containing the trending #hashtag or trend terms. They are also able to Tweet about the Promoted Trend by including the terms in their Tweets. Best practices:- There is one promoted trend ever 24 hrsOnly one advertiser can ‘book’ a promoted trend a day so you have to work with you Twitter rep to claim your day far in advanceYou can buy a trend for specific locations or globally. Be preapared to drop around 100K for a US promoted trend topicOn the plus side, promoted trends get about 50% engagement rate (when the typical is 1-5% and you don’t pay or each impression or engagement so it’s an effective national branding strategy
10. - Select keywords that are relevant to your offer – put them in “” if you want exact match, you can target @usernames as keywords- Pick specific locations where you do business- Choose which devices to display on – If you care about form completions choose desktop only so you don’t waste money on non conversions- Is your offer gender bias or neutral?- Choose what Tweet you want to promote
11. Monitor Twitter campaign on a daily basis and optimize campaigns to achieve highest performance levelsCheck your Twitter campaigns on a daily basis to make sure you are targeting the right keywords, location, and devices with the Tweets you are promoting. Also, adjust the bid accordingly using the suggested bid range that  changes on a daily basis.Close the loop by Tweeting relevant follow up links to users who became a lead from TwitterIf you have the capability to track a lead that converted from Twitter from a specific Tweet, close the loop and reply back on Twitter with follow up content.