Holiday Social Media Marketing: Tips, Tricks, Examples
Blaise LuceySenior Content Strategist
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Brittany BergerContent & PR Manager
Agenda
1 How Consumers Use Social & Web to Research & Buy Gifts
2 Examples of Great Social Holiday Campaigns
3 How to Prep Social Channels for the Holidays
4 What You Need to Get Started
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But social research is happening.
Source: eMarketer / Market Track
52%
of consumers plan to use social media for shopping during the holiday season.
36%
of consumers plan to use social media to look for discounts.
32%
of consumers plan to use social media to research gift ideas.
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The Social Revenue Breakdown
Source: Business Insider
Facebook makes up 50% of social referrals to eCommerce sites & 64% of total social revenue.
Instagram is mostly used for branding, but sees around 400% more engagement than other social networks (Forrester)
While great for brand awareness, Twitter sales are relatively lower, but extremely effective in specific industries, like event planning
Despite a smaller audience, Pinterest drives 16% of social revenue.
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The Social Audience Breakdown
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2422906/8-social-media-tips-to-prep-for-2015-holiday-shopping-season
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2015/10/13/how-to-use-social-media-to-drive-sales-during-the-holidays/#.ViAO4hCrTBI
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When you’re optimizing your channels for the holidays, you should consider when your audience is most active. At Bitly, we use Audience Intel, a feature of Bitly Brand Tools, to figure out the best time to post content.
We can drill down by specific social network to analyze audience behavior. We can also dig into specific subsets of each audience, finding out, for example, when Facebook users on iPhones are most often engaging with content.
This can help businesses time specific mobile ads and other initiatives.
And if your audience is mobile, your ads should be mobile, too.
Image: Sarlitt.me
Facebook Ad(fake)
Zappos Home“Wait… I wanted those
sweet boots.”
Zappos Product“Oh snap. What a deal.
Add to cart.”
vs.
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Deep linking on mobile ensures that you can personalize the experience for mobile users. Here, we can see a mock-up of a Zappos Facebook Ad.
Without deep linking, the ad opens the app to the main page. That’s a confusing user journey and can have a big impact on conversion.
In the second example, Zappos uses deep linking to send users directly to the location in the app where they can buy the shoes they wanted.
5Examples of Social Holiday Marketing
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2422906/8-social-media-tips-to-prep-for-2015-holiday-shopping-season
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Retailer Adore Me used Facebook Ads during Cyber Week 2014, targeting young female professionals aged 18-36.
The ad copy offered percentages off, limited time offers, comparisons of sales vs. regular pricing, and call-outs of free shipping.
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Last November, TD Bank ran a campaign that offered 24 different people in 24 different communities around $30,000 each.
The giveaways - and the community service involved after - were filmed. Results were posted onto a micro-site & shared via #MakeTodayMatter.
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Old Navy offered a giveaway campaign where one of the first 100 people in line at a store won one million dollars.
The campaign engaged retail customers with the Old Navy social and digital marketing teams. The result was a much more interesting waiting experience.
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The Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks is an extremely popular product. To capitalize on that seasonal popularity, Starbucks created social accounts for the beverage itself - giving the product a personality and a way for loyal customers to engage with it.
The results were impressive, to say the least.
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+ New channel for ads+ Fun, 10-second deals
+ Captive audience
RESULTS
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SnapChat is a newcomer to the social advertising game, but can provide a really interesting experience for customers.
Here, Amazon gamified disappearing deals by offering codes that vanished after 10 seconds. Other brands work with influencers to make the most of SnapChat.
So what about service? http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2422906/8-social-media-tips-to-prep-for-2015-holiday-shopping-season
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2015/10/13/how-to-use-social-media-to-drive-sales-during-the-holidays/#.ViAO4hCrTBI
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Driving social inquiries to landing pages helps streamline customer interactions:
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Determine your promotion schedule
Campaign #1 Campaign #2 Campaign #3
Launch Date Nov. 1 Nov. 15 Dec. 1
1 Day Later
3 Days Later
7 Days Later
10 Days Later
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Determine how you’ll delegate & prioritize
Priority #1 Priority #2 Priority #3
Brittany Promotion Engagement Support
Patricia Support Engagement Promotion
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Documentation
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Campaign social timelines
Social posting calendar
Team delegation plan
How to prioritize incoming messages
KPIs and reporting processes