MMI's Head of Public Relations and Social Media, Maggie Malek took the stage at SMX East on September 27th and shared how to merge search and social media advertising to deliver quality consumer experiences.
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SMX East 2016 | Paid Search & Social: The Ultimate Knock-Out Punch
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Maggie Malek, Head of Social at MMI Agency
Paid Search & Social: The Ultimate
Knock-Out Punch
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• Started on GeoCities...
• Majored in ”Traditional” PR
• Fell in love with social
now?
It’s all about creating experiences.
Maggie Malek
Head of PR & Social
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• 300 tickets.
• 30 days.
• One tiny budget.
Paid search + Social… Before it was cool.
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• Increase visibility to
key new audiences
• Utilize existing
customers’ networks
to build awareness
through social
endorsement
• Educate on service
offerings
• Drive website traffic
and new consumers
into the sales funnel
• Improve search
engine optimization
(SEO) to enhance
searchability
• Improve brand
perception in
consideration set
• Capture direct
customer feedback
and market insights
• Resolve customer
service issues
efficiently
• Build brand trust and
customer loyalty
Awareness Consideration Decision Retention
The role of search and social
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To break through the noise, to ultimately
change hearts and minds, brands must design
for experiences from the outset.
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Kick off: Teams
Paid Social
Brand
Organic Social
Paid Search
Organic Search
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Kick off: Brand provides
Inputs required
Business Objectives
Customer Data & Insights
Marketing Objectives
Specific Campaign Objectives
Available Competitor Data
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Kick-off: Search and Social Teams
SEARCHTEAM PROVIDES
Search Query Reporting on existing Paid Search
Organic search traffic reports
Website demographic information
Paid Search Demo & Geo information
Historical conversion data
Device info (mobile vs desktop)
Time of day
Any existing search KPIs
Top performing ad copy clicks or by CTR
Seasonality trends
Website content editorial calendar
SOCIALTEAM PROVIDES
Demographic data by platform
Historical social ad conversion reporting
Creative successes
Demographic breakdown by campaign
Social sentiment data by platform
Any online share of voice data
Social media editorial calendar
Organic Social KPIs
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Ongoing data sharing
SEARCH DATA SOCIAL DATA
Paid social team has read only/view access
to search data (Google Analytics,
Adobe/Omniture, AdWords, Bing, etc.)
Paid search team has access to Social
Analytics
Conversion or website actions are
established and tagged properly
Paid search team has access to any SOV
tools (BrandWatch, SproutSocial)
Ability to separate out paid and organic
social traffic (Requires social team to user
proper tags)
Links used in paid social ads are properly
tagged (By campaign, Organic vs Paid tags)
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Steps
Discovery: Understanding Your Consumer
SEARCH ENGINE DATA SOCIAL DATA
Onsite behavior Types of engagements
Search interest Context of engagements
Demographics Conversation trends
Relevant keywords Interactions
Location Share ofVoice
Device Time of day
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Use listening tools to
identify key conversation topics
Facebook
Account Connecter
Facebook
API Connecter
Facebook
Account List
Facebook
Insights Query
Facebook
Select Post
Facebook
List Comments
Facebook
List Posts
Connect to API
Connect to Account
List Accounts
Get Insights
Select a Post
List Accounts
Get Comments
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Other data to (PLEASE) consider.
• Customer survey data
• Focus groups
• Media consumption
• 121 Interviews with stakeholders
• Sales data
• Overall SOV analysis
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Finalize your personas
Shell Houston Open Target Personas:
Families Avid Golf Fans Millennials
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You can’t just look at scalable social channels.
Higher opportunity for Organic Reach
Broadening
Appealing/
Bigger
Lower Opportunity for Organic Reach
Niche
Appealing/
Smaller
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Finalize what you are going to say
Let the head lead the way.
And let the heart provide context.
• Who is your consumer?
• Understand your their objective.
• Design campaigns for intention.
• What questions are consumers asking?
• What trends are you seeing?
• What was MISSING from the data?
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Our final Shell Houston Open campaign
Target: Millennials
• Initial Keywords & Topics for testing: Charity, Houston, Giving, Golf,
Tickets, NCAA Final Four, top 10 PGA TOUR golfers
• Platforms:
Native contentDigital media
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Steps
Opportunities to A/B Test
Search Data Social Data
Socially driven keywords driving conversions? Is search driven copy driving engagement?
Are new keywords popping up? What time are people most engaged?
Which ad copy has highest engagement? Are people clicking through to your website?
Which social site links generate the most traffic? How does social traffic convert?
Has average session duration increased? What does social traffic do on your website?
Where is traffic coming from? Has your share of voice increased?
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This blank layout offers you flexibility to insert your own standard slides above the SOCIAL PRO footer
YOU MUST USE THIS FOOTER AT MINIMUM ON ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SLIDES.
If a screenshot overlaps the footer on occasion, that’s fine – but do your best to crop appropriately.
If explicit fonts are important, you may provide a PDF to the event organizers to present your deck live on site, and to be used in the version SOCIALPRO CONFERENCE will upload to Slideshare.
WE CANNOT ACCEPT any PPT Decks with specialty fonts used or embedded, nor can we install fonts on conference presentation machines. NO EXCEPTIONS. You *MUST* use thePDF option if you require special fonts.
DELETE THIS SLIDE IF YOU DO NOT USE.
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YOU MUST USE THIS FOOTER AT MINIMUM ON ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SLIDES.
If a screenshot overlaps the footer on occasion, that’s fine – but do your best to crop appropriately.
If explicit fonts are important, you may provide a PDF to the event organizers to present your deck live on site, and to be used in the version SOCIALPRO CONFERENCE will upload to Slideshare.
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Because the efficiency is going to naturally happen
Voiceover: We are the data scientists. The storytellers. The dreamers. The doers. The people in this room understand human behavior better than anyone in advertising. Together, we understand what makes people move, what drives the to change, what encourages them to buy. It’s through what you say, it’s through what you do, it’s through the customer journeys that you create. Experience is everything now.
We look at our phone 1,500 times a week. On average, that’s about 177 minutes a day
The simplest of moments are times that are the most meaningful, they’re unforgettable and they’re intentional. And that is where I would love for you start to rethink things, like focus on the embrace.
About 7/8 years ago… I focused on the word engage. And that was a word I was very close to. When I have your attention and you have my attention… What happens next? And I realized that it’s no longer the word. The word is embrace. It makes it a little bit more human. And it’s intentional.
I call customers today accidental narcissists because every app that we use reminds us that we are the most important thing in that moment: You want car, you have Uber. If it’s more than 12 minutes, you are absolutely impatient. You have Tinder, you have Instacart(?). All of these apps are teaching you that you can get what you want when you want and I call it the egosystem.
This is what we’re designing for. We have to see differently and we have to design experiences that might be different than the experiences we want. It starts with what matters to them. This is where it begins.
Most people (3/4th) said they just need SOMETHING to help. They go to YouTube, Amazon… Think about Google’s future business, they’re competing now for Amazon’s search. Yes, Amazon is now a search engine because it brings you products and user experiences. It’s easier for people to make decisions that way.
When you have a multi-billion brand. It's important to be clear in exactly who you are. These are the VALUES of our brand. But everything doesn't need to look the same. More logos doesn't work.
A moment that people obviously care about and want to share.
So why do we need to integrate?
Micro-moments. There’s what you design, and there’s what people do. Experience is partly how you feel and partly what you do. Micro-moments are 5 particular scenarios. I want learn, buy, know, do, and go. They happen when you’re in the bathroom, while you’re on a train, while you’re walking. And they’re fast. They’re bursts. The whole research cycle, the whole customer journey is very different.
Here’s the mind blowing stat. Of the mobile users, 90% are not brand centered. They have no idea what brand they’re going to go to for when they make that decision. I want you to think about what that means for the future of brands. That stat right there, changes everything.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
Month and Millions of dollars for a giant dashboard – Crudest means
Month and Millions of dollars for a giant dashboard – Crudest means
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Facebook Open Graph
YouTube organic search
Amazon products and reviews
Twitter search
Instagram hashtags
And the list goes on…
What questions are you NOT seeing? What trends are NOT there? This is time to break assumptions or prove them.
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Automation is good for your always on…
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3 Stats On Millennials, Teens, And Social Media by MaryLeigh Bliss
How can the importance of social media in Millennials and teens’ lives be stated? When we surveyed 13-33 year olds for our quarterly Social Media Tracker, only 2% say they don’t use any social platform. Millennials reportedly spend 11 hours and 26 minutes with smartphones daily, and our research shows that messaging and social networking are the two activities they are doing the most on mobile during that significant amount of time. Teens are even more likely than older Millennials to use their phones for social networking. According to our recent monthly survey delving into social media behavior, four in ten 13-33 year olds admit they are addicted to social media.
So we don’t need to tell brands it’s important to understand the role that social media plays in young consumers’ lives—but we can keep you constantly up to date on its impacts and implications. Here are five new stats on Millennials and teens social media behavior and preferences right now:
1. Half of 18-33 year olds say getting likes on social media gives them a rush.
There’s a reason so many feel addicted. Young consumers are often criticized for their compulsive social media use and over-sharing, but that social use can make them feel really good. Social sharing actually releases a higher dose of “feel-good hormone” oxytocin than in-person interactions—and 50% of 18-33 year olds say getting likes gives them a rush. A lot of attention is paid to the negative side of social media, but when we surveyed Millennials and teens, 50% of 13-33 year olds, and 70% of 13-33 year olds also said that social media makes them feel better about themselves, versus 28% of 13-33 year olds and 18% of 13-17 year olds who say it makes them feel bad about themselves.
2. Teens start using a social network less once their parents join.
Sixty-six percent of 13-17 year olds say they start using a social network less once their parents join, versus 35% of 18-33 year olds. Of course, teens throughout generations have wanted to have safe spaces away from their parents, and generally prioritize time with peers over time with family—but this generation of teens has another layer of reasons that they might want to use different platforms from their parents. This is the first generation to have their childhood digitally documented—from first sonogram on—and those postings can come back to haunt them. No wonder they’re less interested in platforms once mom and dad join them; they’re eager to avoid embarrassment. In fact, one of Snapchat’s original goals was to make a platform that "confuses the olds" to keep teens “safe” from parents.
3. Four in ten Millennials and teens have posted about a brand on social media.
While young consumers can be sensitive at times about how brands invade their social media spaces, the majority tell us that they have friended or followed a brand on social media, and we know their favorites to follow. But perhaps even more importantly, 39% of 13-33 year olds say they have posted about a brand on social media. Since they are more likely to listen to their peers’ opinions on brands than any other source, this social sharing is vital. When we ask what they’ve posted about brands, 49% say a positive message about an experience—more than any other kind of post. That’s compared to 22% who have shared a negative message about an experience. They’re also posting about brands when sharing their purchases: 46% something they bought.
Screenshots of paid search, facebook, instagram ad, video.
Maybe say it's a continuous cycle. Your voice over on this slide can be; it's an open process of analyzing the data, refining the strategy based on learnings, developing contextually relevant content based on the data and experimenting. Rinse, lather, repeat!
Document successes and failures. Learn from things.