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Top Social Media Marketing Tips
1. Top Social Media Marketing Tips
Rick Goldman President Advertising Excellence
2. Quick Introduction – Rick Goldman
Began web design company in 1995
Created full service advertising agency in 2003
I’ll give you this PowerPoint presentation, no spam!
How many here today get paid to do social media marketing?
Remember Friendster & MySpace?
Please interrupt me with any questions
4. Possible Social Media Goals
Get new customers
Customer retention
Promote new products/services
Keep in touch with customers
Get better ranking in Google
10. Who are you trying to target? (3 years ago)
88% of 18–29 year olds use Facebook.
84% of 30–49 year olds use Facebook.
72% of 50–64 year old use Facebook.
62% of 65+ year old use Facebook.
What about gender?
What about education?
What about income?
11. Who are you trying to target? (3 years ago)
59% of 18–29 year olds use Instagram.
33% of 30–49 year olds use Instagram.
18% of 50–64 year olds use Instagram.
8% of people 65+ use Instagram.
What about gender?
What about education?
What about income?
12. Who are you trying to target (2018)
YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most
popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of
teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they
are online 'almost constantly’
16. How often should you post something?
Major brands post an average of 1.5 times per day to Instagram. There's
no drop-off in engagement for posting more, provided you can keep up
the rate of posting.
Constant Contact says to post on Facebook a minimum of three times
per week while keeping your maximum posting frequency to 10 times
per week.
Post to Twitter at least 5 times a day. If you can swing up to 20 posts, you
might be even better off.
17. Quality vs Quantity
Useful Information
Funny or Entertaining
Things your followers care about
#onion
#coconut
18. What should you be posting and how?
Pictures
Pictures with prices
Pictures of sale items
Pictures of anything
Hashtags Always
#bannerstands
#tradeshowdisplays
#marketing
28. Test a posted ad against another
Post A offers free shipping – Coupon Code: ship
Post B offers 10% discount – Coupon Code:10
Post A has the company logo
Post B has a person’s photo
Post A buy any $50 item get one free
Post B buy any $50 item for $25
Post A has green Buy Now button
Post B has a red Buy Now button
29. How to get people to pay attention?
Grocery Store Checkout – Look for the tabloids
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30. Sometimes it helps to pay to play
Be sure to respond to
messages on social
sites FAST!
The social site will
state “Typically
responds within…”
31. Spy on your competitors
Who do my top competitors follow?
Who follows my top competitors?
What do my competitors post?
What works best for my competition?
Patent office won’t issue a patent on ideas
32. Why should anyone follow you?
Behind the scenes video of how we make our…
Word of the day on Twitter gets you a free…
Live customer service on Twitter
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