Growing your business with Facebook

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Grow Your Business with

Facebook

Colm HanrattyManaging Director

Sixtwo Digital

@colmhanratty&

@sixtwodigital

ABOUT ME Born in…

4 hours from 7th of the 7th, ‘77

ABOUT ME Like to

travel

HOW DOES THIS HAVE ANY RELEVANCE?

Think human, not corporate......most of the time

A BIT MORE ABOUT ME

A BIT MORE ABOUT ME

WHAT WE DO

Proven track record of generating a Return On Investment for businesses

SERVICES

Social media management Strategy development Campaign implementation Content creation Evaluation and measurement Training Photography Video Social advertising

WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT TODAY

WHAT WE’RE COVERING…

1. Strategy2. Sharing tools3. Best practice4. Facebook advertising5. Facebook Insights6. Much more…

HOW MANY PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK IN DROGHEDA?

MOST POPULAR FB PAGES IN IRELAND

THE BEGINNING

WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE BRANDS ON FB?

FACEBOOK IN IRELAND

Strategy

BUILDING YOUR STRATEGY

What are you using it for?

Who do you want to target?

How are you going to do it?

Planning

Monitoring

SETTING OBJECTIVES

What are you using it for?

Who do you want to target?

How are you going to do it?

Planning

Monitoring

WHY USE FACEBOOK?

Generate revenueSupport marketing initiatives

Brand awareness

To be ‘social’Give brand a personality

Customer service

Support brand propositionAuthorative voice

User Generated ContentDrive traffic

Facebook

SETTING OBJECTIVES

KPI = Reach

KPI = Revenue

KPI = Traffic referral

CALCULATING ROI (RETURN ON INVESTMENT)

Know what you’re using social media for, then you’ll be able to measure your ROI

BUILDING YOUR STRATEGY

What are you using it for?

Who do you want to target?

How are you going to do it?

Planning

Monitoring

WHO DO YOU WANT TO TARGET?

BUILDING YOUR STRATEGY

What are you using it for?

Who do you want to target?

How are you going to do it?

Planning

Monitoring

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT?

BUILDING A STRATEGY

What are you using it for?

Who do you want to target?

How are you going to do it?

Planning

Monitoring

ABOUT ME

BUILDING A STRATEGY

What are you using it for?

Who do you want to target?

How are you going to do it?

Planning

Monitoring

KPIs

Sales Followers Likes Engagement Traffic…

• Repeat?• Tweak?

TASK…

Have you used Facebook? If so, how?

Best Practice

LIKES, NOT FRIENDS

http://www.Facebook.com/pages/create.php?migrate

http://www.Facebook.com/username (Once you’ve chosen one you can can change it one more time)

Once it has ‘likes’ give it a ‘Vanity URL’ (username) at ...

If your Facebook page has ‘Friends’ and not ‘Likes’ it is set up as a ‘Profile’ – this is the wrong way. To migrate it to a page that has Likes visit:

LIKES, NOT FRIENDSIf you want to change your actual name of the page, here’s how:

Once it has ‘likes’...

WHY YOU NEED A PAGE, NOT A PROFILE

Can’t schedule or target content

No Facebook advertising

Don’t know demographics / location of audience

Unable to see reach of posts

Can’t use Facebook Offers

Break Facebook guidelines…

Unable to use new Customer Service features

FACEBOOK SETTINGS

YOUR PAGE 851 pixels wide x 315 pixels high

160 x 160

FILL OUT ALL INFO

BEST PRACTICE

Post consistently… but not too much

Ensure posts represent all aspects of your business

Post timely content, and use good imagery

Boost important posts and use targeting

Use ads for to promote special offers and try ‘Facebook Offers’

Analyse, analyse, analyse

Experiment with all types of posts

SHARING CONTENT

Scheduling posts

Targeting posts(free when page has 5k+ Likes)

CUSTOMISING YOUR PAGE

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs

CROSS PROMOTION

Cross promote other channels Don’t duplicate content

‘LIKE-BAITING’

LIKE-BAITING

LIKE-BAITING

OTHER RECENT ALGORITHM UPDATES

OTHER RECENT ALGORITHM UPDATES

RUNNING PROMOTIONS ON FACEBOOK

Sales – coupons

Likes – coupons/sweepstakes

UGC – photo, video comps (although lower conversion rate)

Data capture

What’s the objective? User Generated Content? Sales?

Ensure prize supports brand/business (never give away an iPad!)

Support via Facebook advertising

WHY YOU SHOULDN’T GIVE AWAY AN IPAD

3RD PARTY APP SITES

RUNNING CONTESTS ON YOUR PAGE

People can enter competitions via ‘liking’ or ‘commenting’

You can ask people to enter competitions via posting photos or commenting on your page

Will increase engagement

You can’t use personal timelines to run competitions ie ‘share’ is still against Facebook rules

You can’t use tagging

No data capture

Effective for increasing engagement and likes

Most popular apps/promotions – coupons, sweepstakes

RUNNING CONTESTS ON YOUR PAGE

https://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php

TASK…

Have you ran any contests/promotions on Facebook? If not, are you going to?

CAMPAIGN STRUCTURE

MAIN TYPES OF FACEBOOK ADVERTISING

1. Post boosting

2. Growing likes

3. Directing traffic / increasing conversions

4. Promoting an offer

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

CREATING AN AD CAMPAIGN

Tie the text to the visual – make sure they copliment each other

AB test – try different ads

Have a consistent tone

Keep it short and sweet

Add a call to action

Mention price (when appropriate)

Use desktop…

FACEBOOK ADS REPORTING

FACEBOOK ADS REPORTING

AUDIENCES

FACEBOOK OFFERS

FACEBOOK OFFERS

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – LIKES

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – LIKES

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – LIKES

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – REACH

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – REACH

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – REACH

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – REACH

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – REACH

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – POSTS

Breakdown of posts

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – POSTS

Breakdown of posts

FACEBOOK INSIGHTS – PEOPLE

STOP SAYING ‘FIND US ON FACEBOOK’

HERE’S WHY

1. Launch Facebook2. Click into the search box3. Enter the business name4. Choose from the results

Find us on Facebook =

1. Launch a browser / Google2. Click into the search box3. Enter the business name4. Choose from the results

Searching on the internet =

HERE’S WHY

Find us on the internet!(But businesses don’t do this… as it makes no sense!)

Saying ‘Find us on Facebook’is the same as saying:

HERE’S WHY:Business indicating they’re on Facebook by showing the logo but not giving their Facebook web address, meaning you have to ‘Find them’:

HERE’S WHY

But when you go looking for them… you can’t find them!

OVERVIEW

It’s not B2C or B2B

It’s H2H

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

Engaging Inspiring Entertaining Educational

Thanks

colm@sixtwodigital.com

@colmhanratty | @sixtwodigital

FB.com/sixtwodigital