Getting the attention and then engaging with your target audience is really challenging. Ubiquitous social media, cross-platform media consumption, and declining ad effectiveness make it virtually impossible to cut through the noise and connect – much less actually engage.
That said, there’s still hope and there are tools that can help today’s digital marketers achieve success in this regard.
The key to success is creating quality, “share-worthy” content. But how can brand marketers ensure their content is reaching and impacting their desired audience?
During this session you will learn:
How to embrace your first and third-party audience data and brand personas to know when your content is landing with the right audience(s)
The essential tools, technologies, and data to track the discovery and sharing of content
How to track brand influencers and the people they influence
Speaker: Ben Straley, Vice President, Social Technologies, Rio SEO
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How to Create Brand Buzz Using Social Audience Data and Smart Segmentation
1. How to Create Brand Buzz Using Social
Audience Data and Smart
Segmentation
August 14th, 2013
@rio_seo / @womma / #socialtargeting
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Ben Straley
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VP of Social Technologies at Rio SEO
17 years digital marketing experience
8 years word of mouth marketing and
social media marketing experience
Based in Seattle, Washington
Find Me Online
linkedin.com/in/bstraley twitter.com/bstraley
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Goals for Webinar
Learn How To:
Collect and Manage Valuable First and Third-Party Data
Create Rich Profiles of Your Influencers and the People They
Influence (aka Your Social Audience)
Scale Up with Large “Social Look-alike” Segments
Activate Your Social Audience
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Our Technology
Discovery, Engagement, and ROI From Search and Social
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SOCIAL
SEARCH LOCAL
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Leader in Discovery Marketing
” No question [Rio SEO]
is the best fit for
discovery marketers
who want to optimize
their content across
multiple discovery
platforms, not just
search engines.”
The Forrester Wave™: SEO Platforms, Q4 2012
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Every 60 Seconds…
510,000+ New Comments
98,000+ New Tweets
20,000+ New Posts
600+ New Videos
3,400+ New Pictures
694,000+ New Search Queries
168,000,000+ New Emails
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Where The Journey Begins
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Source: Forrester Research, Inc. “Mix Art and Science for Marketing Success”, 2012
Discover / Explore / Buy / Engage
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Social Discovery
Source: http://gigaom.com/2012/10/12/dark-social-why-measuring-user-engagement-is-even-harder-than-you-think/
Majority of social
traffic and
engagement
comes from
“dark social”.
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The Discovery and Engagement Loop
Discovery
Engagement
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When people
engage, they
share with friends
which leads to
more reach and
discovery…
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And Social’s Not All!
Source: Social Media, Backlinks and Classic SEO: U.S. and UK SEO Ranking Factors 2012, SearchMetrics
http://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2013/06/07/us-and-uk-seo-ranking-factors-2012/
Social Signals Drive Search Rankings
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Three Factors Drive Engagement
Consumer
ContextContent
Most Likely to Capture
Attention and Drive
Engagement
Key Attributes
WHO is the user?
WHAT captures their
attention and elicits
engagement?
WHERE do they
engage and share?
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Targeting Plan vs. Actual Reach
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V.
Target Persona
Actual Persona
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How to Reach Your Intended Audience
Analyze
Audience
Define Target
Persona(s)
Create Relevant
Content
Drive
Engagement
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Analyze
Define Target
Personas
Correlate
Relevant Content
Drive Engagement
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First-Party Data
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The Data You
Collect Directly
from Site Visitors
and Customers.
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First-Party Social Insights
Discover the content that fuels
sharing and gets amplified
through word-of-mouth
Identify the sites and
communities where influencers
and advocates are most
engaged
See the awareness, traffic, and
engagement lift generated by
paid media tactics
Optimize performance for
greater engagement and lift
and measure ROI
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The 1% Rule
1% of Your Audience
Can Drive 20% or
More of All Visits
Through Sharing
These Visits 2-4x More
Likely to Engage and
Convert
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First-Party Social Segmentation
Ad Impressions
Visitors
Searchers
Content Sharers
and Social Visitors
Happy
Customers
Advocates
(aka “Net
Promoters”)
Good: Visitors
Better: Searchers
Best: Loyal Advocates (1-
5% of Your Audience)
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Expanded Insights with Third-Party Data
Demographics Psychographics
Behavioral Social
Third-Party
Data
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Creating Detailed Audience Profiles
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• Web Analytics
• CRM
• E-Commerce
• Email
First-Party Data
• Demographic
• Psychographic
• Behavioral
• Social
Third-Party Data
Data Management
Platform (DMP)
1. Connects Third-Party
Data to First-Party Data
2. Creates and Maintains
Audience Segments for
Outbound Marketing
Brand Influencers + Social Look-alikes
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Influencers + People Who Follow Them
Attributes Details
Gender 60% Female
Age 20-29 y.o.
Location 80% Urban / Sub-urban
Income $80,000+
Shares Content
About
Photography
Consumer Electronics
Parenting
Spends Time on
Sites Like
Social Networks
Casual Games
Photo sharing
Reach
Potential
1.1M
Attributes Details
Gender 65% Female
Age 30-39 y.o.
Location 80% Urban / Sub-urban
Income $100,000+
Category
Interests
Parenting
Health and Wellness
Shopping
Media Interests Social Networks
Casual Games
Entertainment
Reach
Potential
2.5M
Your Brand’s Influencers: Followers…
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Give Your Influencers What They Want
More Relevant, Useful
Content
Status = The First, The
Best, The Only
Rewards for Referring Friends
and Followers
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How & Where to Activate Your Influencers
On-Site and In-App
Deepen Influencer
Engagement With
Social Referral Rewards
Refer 5 Friends
Gamification
Points, Levels, Badges
,Content Unlocks
Social Retargeting
Reach Your Influencers
Across The Web With
Targeted Rich-Media and
Display
Email
Native Advertising
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Up to 7x More Efficient Cost per Acquisition
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Get Scale with Social Look-alikes
Social
Look-alikes
Social
Visitors
Influencers
•5.5M
•5% growth
•1,240,000
•15% growth
m/m
•105,000
•10% growth
m/m
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Social Remarketing
and Look-alike
Targeting
>6.5M Uniques
>30M Impressions
EXAMPLE
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Putting It All Together…
More Social Traffic
More Influencers
Incremental Annual
Recurring Revenue
30%
14%
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$5M Identify & Connect with influencers
and the communities with which
they engage
Create & Promote shareable
content to drive word of mouth and
enable discovery
Engage target audience with
compelling content consistently
and repeatedly
Optimize content and advertising
to increase sharing and reach
Major Online Retailer Generating Millions in
Incremental Revenue
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Summary and Take-Aways
Track Your Content and Identify Your Influencers
Connect Your First-Party Influencer Data to Third-Party
Audience Data
Create Influencer Profiles Based on Actual
Demographic, Psychographic, Behavioral, and Social Attributes
Get Their Attention with Relevant Content and
Rewarding Experiences
Activate Influencers and Look-alikes With Social Retargeting
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Questions and Download
Ben Straley
bstraley@rioseo.com
Rio SEO
marketing@rioseo.com
Download our latest whitepaper
SEO + Social: The Most
Effective Advertising Mix
http://rioseo.co/seo-social-whitepaper
Editor's Notes
Forrester conducted an independent study of the top enterprise SEO solutions out in the industry and Rio SEO was recognized as the only leader in the space. This is primarily due to our ability to deliver the only complete solution for the SEO lifecycle which includes not just reporting solutions but solutions built around execution and automation of SEO.We were also identified as the leader due to our strategic vision moving forward which begins to look at our space across SEO and Social and how these two are starting to become more and more related to each other. Our recent acquisition of Meteor Solutions, who is leading the social space, is specifically targeted to position us for delivering solutions around not just SEO (or local SEO) but how social and SEO relate.
So all of the digital connections, links, and content make it even easier for people to turn to the Web to begin the customer journey at discovery. And what guides the initial discovery process more than anything else is the content that gets surfaced through social and search.