Paid Social Media Marketing

Paid Social Media Marketing 

Paid social advertising is a highly cost-effective way to expand your reach. If you play your cards right, you can get your content and offers in front of a huge audience at a very low cost. Most social media platforms offer incredibly granular targeting capabilities, allowing you to focus your budget on exactly the types of people that are most likely to be interested in your business. Below are some tips and resources for getting started with paid social media marketing? 

# Facebook Ads

If you’re like a vast number of marketers out there, you could be under the impression that advertising on Facebook (or any other type of social media) is limited to branding and customer engagement.

You have access to hundreds of millions of users, their locations, interests, behaviors, countless other targeting capabilities, not to mention the ability to reach them at any given hour of the day, for a whole lot less than any other available advertising medium of equal scale.

If you know how to use it properly, Facebook can be one of the most powerful advertising platforms for driving your business forward. 

# Twitter Ads

Many businesses aren’t quite sure how to tackle marketing on Twitter from a paid perspective. It’s certainly not a one-size-fits-all endeavor, and if you don’t quite know what you’re doing, you could wind up waste. 

It may seem like common sense, but when you’re outlining the strategy for your Twitter ads, you should always have your goals in mind. It’s tempting to think that your Twitter presence has to be comparable to that of a needy teenager, desperately asking strangers to Re-tweet this!‖ or Follow us!‖ or Please for the love of god give me attention so that this seems like a worthwhile investment!‖ You’re probably just wondering,

Why Advertising on Facebook is better than Advertise on Twitter?

#1: Your Audience Is On Facebook

Facebook has a user base larger than the population of China! With 1.49 billion members worldwide, and 22 billion ad clicks per year, Facebook is providing businesses with the largest advertising opportunity since search. So yes, your audience is on there somewhere – it’s just a matter of finding them (which I’ll get into in reason #3), but if you have doubts just re-read those stats because they are quite telling, my friend.

#2: Facebook Ads Are Cheap

Seriously, they’re practically free! Well, not quite. In fact, the reason you need to advertise is because getting traction from organic activity on your business page won’t yield results. 

On the bright side, Facebook ads tend to cost a fraction of what other online marketing channels cost. 

If you’re strapped for cash, just ensure that you set reasonable daily Facebook budgets so you don’t exceed what you’re able to spend.

#3: The Targeting Capabilities of Facebook Are Exceptional

Along with tons of different ad types, like video ads, the level of granularity you can get with

Facebook targeting capabilities. You can literally target President Obama or the Prime Minister of France. Whether it be by behaviors, interests, demographics, connections, age ranges, languages, or locations, you can dig pretty deep with these targeting capabilities and layer them upon each other to ensure you’re getting rid of any questionable, out-of-market clickers.

#4: Facebook Is Effective to Push On-the-Fence Leads Down the Funnel 

Still nervous? Try out re-marketing on Facebook through custom audiences. This strategy works wonders for marketers because re-marketing works by targeting an audience that has already visited your site, and therefore is more likely to be interested in your products or offerings at some level.

#5: Facebook Allows You to Find New Qualified Leads Easily

Once you’ve found an audience that converts like crazy, you can clone them. The feature is called ―lookalike audiences‖ where you can take a custom audience and Facebook will reach NEW people who are similar to that audience and therefore likely to be interested in your business.

Lookalike audiences can also be built with conversion pixels (for instance, the conversion pixels from your paid search ads!), install data from mobile apps, or simply from fans of your Facebook page. You can also further define the size and targeting options to ensure your lookalike audience is an accurate reflection of your target buyers.

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How Smart Marketers Turn Data into Successful Campaigns

Connect the Dots

The next generation of marketing requires a deeper level of understanding of the consumer, something legacy tactics can’t reliably deliver on their own. That’s why you need cookies that connect data between sessions and device, revealing individual trends, behavior, and areas of opportunity. But you have to remember to connect the IDs of cookies across multiple devices that belong to a single person.  From there, you can see what the data is actually telling you about each customer as an individual and how he or she browses and shops. With those insights in hand, you can create more targeted campaigns that reach consumers across platforms – treating them like people and not simply as a series of data points collected by a cookie, which helps the marketer provide a consistent experience across all connected devices.

Geotargeting

But data-driven marketing is more than just tracking and optimizing behavior. It also involves meeting, current weather conditions, and more. For example, a smart marketer knows not to promote a Patagonia fleece to a potential customer in Florida. A smart marketer knows that potential customers in the northeast during the month of December would benefit the most from that Patagonia fleece. The same thinking can be applied to brands appealing to a global customer base. Because overseas shoppers will see a dot-com URL rather than their national extension, they may wonder: Does this company ship to my country? If so, can I expect drastic shipping fees?

Enter geotargeting. When the page loads for UK shoppers, for example, geotargeting technology recognizes their location and displays a box with clearly defined benefits just for that traffic segment, including flat-rate shipping and the ability to shop in their native currency. With 70 percent of consumers  to share their location information for the sake of receiving some sort of loyalty or benefit, location-specific content can provide customized relevancy that increases the chances of a conversion and a more reliable and engaging shopping experience.

Keep Current Customers

Marketers also can use data they have on hand to retain existing customers. This can be done by incentivizing customers with tailored offers that factor in customers’ past purchases and cross-promote products they may also enjoy. You can even give those returning customers preferential treatment, such as VIP-only shipping promotions and other perks. There’s always going to be the most important customer who deserves a meaningful experience. Pay attention to this customer. Ignore the masses for a second. Use the data you already have on this customer (demographics, income, marital status, day of the week he tends to buy, etc.) to develop a clear picture of the actual person behind this data. And then deliver an experience best suited to that individual.

Sophisticated targeting will work only if it’s synchronized across channels. Marketers should be able to determine the differences in how consumers browse and buy on social, mobile, and desktop, and respond to that behavior accordingly.

Data-driven marketing is the smart way for brands to connect with their customers and deliver relevant experiences that drive engagement and bottom-line business results. Today, customers are in the driver’s seat. They are constantly inundated with pleas for their attention from other marketers, media organizations, and more. Only the retailers who deliver a compelling customer experience will thrive in this competitive environment.

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