Looking for ways to rock your social marketing? The data is in, and savvy marketers are using it to turn readily available social data into attributable conversions. Join Daniel Morrison of aimClear as he covers selling with first-touch social psychographic data: disciplined, high intent, active targeting, including owned-audience cookie pools for performance marketers to exploit.
6. @DanimalsHouse
3 STEPS FOR SOCIAL / SEARCH MARKETING
INTEGRATION TO DRIVE ROI
1. Inject users into YOUR funnel with Social
Psychographic Data
2. Cookie with Retargeting Pixels {Owned}
3. Nurture & Convert with Remarketing & RLSA
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#SEJThinkTank
54. @DanimalsHouse
3 STEPS FOR SOCIAL / SEARCH MARKETING
INTEGRATION TO DRIVE ROI
1. Inject users into YOUR funnel with Social
Psychographic Data
2. Cookie with Retargeting Pixels {Owned}
3. Nurture & Convert with Remarketing & RLSA
21 3
#SEJThinkTank
How Many – staked a claim on FB, TWTR, LinkedIn to drive bottom line value for their business in the early days?
How many are promoting content and or running social channel ad campaigns in tandem w/ Search & Display?
Did your social efforts take off immediately and drive real impact to your bottom line?
How many of you never looked back and tripled your returns overnight?
Or are your social media efforts more similar to a money pit?
Are you having challenges proving out the value of social from an ROI perspective?
Some people think you cannot make money from social...here to tell you 1) that is cow manure because you’re doing it wrong if it’s not adding to your bottom line
But FIRST, let’s talk Social Media Manger’s REVOLUTION
The days of Polyanna fluffy-as-X KPIs for Social Marketers ARE OVER
Ubiquitous presence
Engagement
Community
Loyalty
Service
ALL are praiseworthy objectives. They’re FUNDAMENTAL & ESSENTIAL to brands today; however these classic KPIs are not sufficient in today’s world.
Time to define the new social goals
At the heart of EVERY marketer’s objective should be SALES.
Pushing the needle
And EVERY SOCIAL marketer who wants to keep their job & satisfy stakeholders MUST know how to generate attributable sales and build psychographically-focused OWNED audiences for Performance Marketers to EXPLOIT
Let’s dive into logistics on the process
- Relatively new word, but what does it mean: study of personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, proclivities, lifestyles, illnesses, sexualities etc
- Psychographics are the part of us that make us who we are, it’s selling pizza delivery to stoners or new york times subscriptions to liberals, or orthodontist adhesives to orthodontists that own small practices
Demographics is how the US census defines us
Psychographics is how our friends and family define us
Let’s talk about the fundamentals of building good personas; everything that is available on the internet is tracked, pages visited, behaviors on pages etc so there’s a wealth of opportunity for marketers to segment behaviors and define their target audience
Root personas in behaviors, third party data is deep (tade desk, blue kai, axciom data logix etc)
Super complex data sets available to marketers to classify and segment
Shopping, what products people buy, how much money they spend, how much $$$ they have in assets, when their phone contract is up
Consider you own a restaurant or are marketing a restaurant
First, root your persona in behaviors, not just interests
First, Root your Personas in Behaviors
Make sure you think about / research the source of where the data originates, here we have data from Mastercard
3rd party aggregators can be a bit of black box but they are used to help determine whether consumers have purchased goods in real world after seeing ads online
Datalogix tracks $2+ trillion of consumer spending from 1500 different data partners spanning 110mm househols
Data source must come with some authority to truly be valuable
Second, clarify by active filters
If you’re marketing a restaurant, when you’re building your interest buckets to clarify your root persona targets, get active with it
Active intent is the intent explicitly described in the syntax (mountain biking trails in Duluth, MN)
Passive intent is the implicit intent in the activity, trail maps, trail reviews, trail photos, length / difficulty of trail etc; addressing passive intent will help improve time onsite…passive intent attempts to answer the question of “what’s next”
- Third) Layer on Financial qualifiers
- Qualify your personas financially (can also mean lower income); know who your audience is when determining what to sell them
- Do you want to target retarget everyone who almost purchases your ecommerce option or would you rather only retarget those who use premium credit cards online
Dual Root – Selling mortgages to veterans
Two roots, mortgage online behavior, people who are receptive to higher online mortgage offers, data aggregators are a bit of black box; that’s why it’s important to know the source of your data (study the aggregators as much as you study the data itself
Occupations, veterans who are previously employed by US military
If you’re doing mortgages for veterans, you must decide what your root persona is, and then you can build in your high intent targeting details
- Remodeling
Like Extreme Home Makeover
Dialing in income qualification and we’ve sown seeds for an audience with excellent lead gen potential
Many conv require 1+ touches (especially when more information is required to convert)
W/psychographics, the cost of branding needs to be paid for with sales, 1st touch or attributable conversion w/n timeframe
Truly social PPC is to content marketing what PPC is to SEO; need scale & focus of paid to prove organic
What is a cookie pool?
In 1994 an engineer at netscape named lou montulli wrote the original specification for a mechanism to save a user’s state, which he termed a ‘cookie’
In most simple sense, cookies are text files that a web server stores on a computers hard drive
They are used to remember settings (location settings, items in cart, pages visited on website etc
Cookie data can also be used matched with offline data to create very specific audiences
New expectation for social marketers is that they will provide team curated, owned-audience cookie pools for performance marketers to exploit
Capturing users at the top of the funnel and tagging them to later market to them in a more cost-effective medium
Are audiences the new keywords? No, queries are here to stay, but audience targeting makes your keyword targeting smarter!
Keywords are still part of it, but you need to constantly be thinking about what every differeent piece of information you know about a person means for your audience
Best performance marketers will be the people who can understand (and explain) core concepts of how to target folks beyond keyword groups
- Choose your objective of sending folks to your website…can also use conversion objective (and should if you have FB conv pixels placed)
- Set your targeting parameters to reach the audience you want to see your content
- Tag URLs in a way that can be segmented / analyzed via google analytics (or other analytics platforms)
- Use dark posts on FB to reach your audience
RLSA – Remarketing List for Search Ads (terrible! I’ll probably get it wrong today and call it RSLA)
Powerful by overlaying audience targeting and keyword targeting, advertisers can now know the people behind the behavior
RLSA will makeup a smaller amount of your impressions because it only reaches people who visited your site AND searched for your keywords
- Setup AdWords remarketing lists to segment your visitors based upon traffic source, behavior, exit pages etc
Filter by utm codes within your URL
Filter by referrer contains (FB, LI, TWTR etc)
So much data, many touch points, many different onsite behaviors / actions
Sorting through all touch points and getting ads in front of visitors at the right moment is tough for any marketer, even the most advanced
Proper remarketing requires planning and precision
Too many advertisers today are taking the blanket approach and deploying every tactic under the sun (search remarketing, display remarketing, remarketing across every third partner network
Too many marketers are shooting first, then taking aim
Sometimes negative feelings toward brands do not derive from product usage, social media or word of mouth, but, rather, because consumers feel that the brands they follow are haunting them
Overexposure quickly results in decreased campaign performance
Overexposure in its most harmful sense can either lead to banner blindness or negative association
If you can’t control your ads, you may be driving customers away
Start by mapping the purchase cycle / customer journey
Audience segmentation allows you to tailor ad messages to users in different stages of the purchase funnel
Process is simple: place different pixels or setup different rules for different pages of your site, then tailor creative based on the depth of engagement of each user
If visitor comes to main page, target with creative around general brand awareness
If they look at product page, show them ads about the specific product or family of products
NEED TO ADD SPEAKER NOTES
A couple visits to your website doesn’t mean visitors want to start seeing your ads everywhere they browse
Frequency capping limits the number of times a tagged visitor will see your ads and will prevent the feeling of being overwhelmed
ADD NOTES HERE
Attractive to use the max 540 days for every list; however, worth remembering that most visitors don’t actually remove their cookies…good chance you’ll literally follow them around for this duration
No brand wants to be remembered as the stalker brand
Set appropriate time frames for different buying cycles: annual purchases (car insurance you probably want 12 – 13 months); free 7 day trial you’ll want to put for 15 days; 3 day flash sales you’d put at 24 – 48 hours
Covered a few tips on how not to be annoying
Next a few tips on how to maximize results
Bid modifiers, Ability to broaden keywords, customize your ad text