Advanced Facebook and Social Media Strategy

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How To Enhance Your Marketing

with Social Media

Hill Country Trail RegionOctober 29, 2015

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Facebook

Facebook Stats

• Over 1.4 billion active users• Average user is connected to 70 pages• Smartphone mobile users check Facebook an

average of 14 times a day• 1.31 billion users access Facebook from a

mobile device

Source: IDC; expandedramblings.com

• Average number of connections between local business pages and users is 2 billion

• Average number of weekly local business page views is 645 million

• Average number of weekly comments on local business pages is 13 million

Facebook Stats

Source: IDC; expandedramblings.com

Composer

Pinned Post

Page Features

NEW! Facebook Call to Action Button

• Available call to action text includes:– Book Now– Contact Us– Use App– Play Game– Shop Now– Sign Up– Watch Video

NEW! Facebook Call to Action Button

NEW! Facebook Call to Action Button

Understanding Insights

Understanding Insights

Understanding Insights

Understanding Insights

When To Post

Organic Post Targeting

Organic Post Targeting

Organic Post Targeting

Organic Post Targeting

Facebook Offers

• Affordable and great for brand awareness

• Spent $3.70 and drove over $200 in business

• 102 offers claimed/5 redeemed

• Redemption rate on this offer was low

• Ask your community to share!

Source: Doe’s Eat Place

Facebook Offers

Source: Doe’s Eat Place

Facebook Offers

Source: Facebook

Facebook Boosted Posts

Source: Visit Bloomington

Facebook Boosted Posts

Source: Visit Bloomington

Facebook Advertising

Facebook Advertising

Facebook Advertising

Facebook Advertising

Facebook Advertising

Facebook Advertising

Best Practices

1. Develop a strategy

First, Some Questions

1. Can you describe your business/organization?2. What are your goals?

a. Generate salesb. Brand enthusiasm c. Loyalty

3. What is your relationship with your audience?a. Awarenessb. Interestc. Actiond. Advocacy

Source: Jay Baer (http://convinceandconvert.com)

More Questions

4. How does your audience use social media?5. Who will be your community managers?6. What social media platforms will you use?

(Hint: Where is your audience?)7. How will you be human (what is your “voice”)?8. How will you know when/if you’re successful?

Source: Jay Baer (http://convinceandconvert.com)

2. Stick to a schedule

• Check Facebook 3 times per day – no more than 5 minutes each time

• Check Twitter 3 times per day – 2-3 minutes each time

• Pin and post on Pinterest and Instagram 1 time per day – 2-3 minutes each

• Source content (Google Alerts, etc.) – 10 minutes per day

Goal #1: Increase Engagement Measure: Likes, comments, shares, retweets, mentions, favorites Tools: Facebook Insights, Twitter Analytics, Hootsuite, Iconosquare,

Sprout Social Goal #2: Website Traffic

Measure: URL clicks and traffic from social media Tools: Shortened URL (bit.ly, owl.ly, goo.gl), Google Analytics

Goal #3: Increase Brand Awareness Measure: Follower growth rate, % change over time in followers,

sentiment, reach by region, clicks by region Tools: Hootsuite, Facebook Insights

Goal #4: Conversion Measure: Email subscribers, downloads, transactions/sales Tools: Google Analytics

What To Measure

Sources: BuildFire, Hootsuite, Social Media Examiner

3. Plan: Build and use a content calendar

4. Schedule posts in advance

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