From the SMX West Conference in San Jose, California, March 21-23, 2017. SESSION: Using Paid Search & Social Together To Deliver The Ultimate Knock-Out Punch. PRESENTATION: Using Paid Search & Social Together To Deliver The Ultimate Knock-Out Punch - Given by Maggie Malek, @magsmac - MMI Agency, Head of Social Media. #SMX #21B
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• Started on GeoCities...
• Majored in ”Traditional” PR
• Fell in love with social
now?
It’s all about creating experiences.
Maggie Malek
Head of PR & Social
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• 300 tickets.
• 30 days.
• One tiny budget.
Paid search + Social… Before it was cool
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• Increase visibility to
key new audiences
• Utilize existing
customers’ networks
to build awareness
through social
endorsement
• Educate on service
offerings
• Drive website traffic
and new consumers
into the sales funnel
• Improve search
engine optimization
(SEO) to enhance
searchability
• Improve brand
perception in
consideration set
• Capture direct
customer feedback
and market insights
• Resolve customer
service issues
efficiently
• Build brand trust and
customer loyalty
Awareness Consideration Preference Purchase
Design campaigns based on intention first
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Teams to involve
Paid Social
Brand
Organic Social
Paid Search
Organic Search
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Kick off: Brand provides
Inputs required
Business Objectives
Customer Data & Insights
Marketing Objectives
Specific Campaign Objectives
Available Competitor Data
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Kick-off: Search and Social Teams
SEARCHTEAM PROVIDES
Search Query Reporting on existing Paid Search
Organic search traffic reports
Website demographic information
Paid Search Demo & Geo information
Historical conversion data
Device info (mobile vs desktop)
Time of day
Any existing search KPIs
Top performing ad copy clicks or by CTR
Seasonality trends
Website content editorial calendar
SOCIALTEAM PROVIDES
Demographic data by platform
Historical social ad conversion reporting
Creative successes
Demographic breakdown by campaign
Social sentiment data by platform
Any online share of voice data
Social media editorial calendar
Organic Social KPIs
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Keep a holistic view of performance
SEARCH DATA SOCIAL DATA
Paid social team has read only/view access
to search data (Google Analytics,
Adobe/Omniture, AdWords, Bing, etc.)
Paid search team has access to Social
Analytics
Conversion or website actions are
established and tagged properly
Paid search team has access to any SOV
tools (BrandWatch, SproutSocial)
Ability to separate out paid and organic
social traffic (Requires social team to user
proper tags)
Links used in paid social ads are properly
tagged (By campaign, Organic vs Paid tags)
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Steps
Discovery: Understanding Your Consumer
SEARCH ENGINE DATA SOCIAL DATA
Onsite behavior Types of engagements
Search interest Context of engagements
Demographics Conversation trends
Relevant keywords Interactions
Location Share ofVoice
Device Time of day
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Other data to (PLEASE) consider.
• Customer survey data
• Focus groups
• Media consumption
• 121 Interviews with stakeholders
• Sales data
• Overall SOV analysis
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Finalize your personas
Shell Houston Open Target Personas:
Families Avid Golf Fans Millennials
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Finalize what you are going to say
Let the head lead the way.
And let the heart provide context.
• Who is your consumer?
• Understand your their objective.
• Design campaigns for intention.
• What questions are consumers asking?
• What trends are you seeing?
• What was MISSING from the data?
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Our final Shell Houston Open campaign
Target: Millennials
• Initial Keywords & Topics for testing: Charity, Houston, Giving, Golf,
Tickets, NCAA Final Four, top 10 PGA TOUR golfers
• Platforms:
Native contentDigital media
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Use separate campaigns for:
Use objectives or groups for:
• Audiences
• More specific budget allocation
• Months: For campaigns that span several
• Promoted Posts/Pins/Tweets to ensure they get budget
• Objectives
• Marketing Campaigns
• Within evergreen campaigns: Campaign type or Timing
• IO Numbers or Budget Buckets
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Steps
Opportunities to A/B Test
Search Data Social Data
Socially driven keywords driving conversions? Is search driven copy driving engagement?
Are new keywords popping up? What time are people most engaged?
Which ad copy has highest engagement? Are people clicking through to your website?
Which social site links generate the most traffic? How does social traffic convert?
Has average session duration increased? What does social traffic do on your website?
Where is traffic coming from? Has your share of voice increased?
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This blank layout offers you flexibility to insert your own standard slides above the SOCIAL PRO footer
YOU MUST USE THIS FOOTER AT MINIMUM ON ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SLIDES.
If a screenshot overlaps the footer on occasion, that’s fine – but do your best to crop appropriately.
If explicit fonts are important, you may provide a PDF to the event organizers to present your deck live on site, and to be used in the version SOCIALPRO CONFERENCE will upload to Slideshare.
WE CANNOT ACCEPT any PPT Decks with specialty fonts used or embedded, nor can we install fonts on conference presentation machines. NO EXCEPTIONS. You *MUST* use thePDF option if you require special fonts.
DELETE THIS SLIDE IF YOU DO NOT USE.
This blank layout offers you flexibility to insert your own standard slides above the SOCIAL PRO footer
YOU MUST USE THIS FOOTER AT MINIMUM ON ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SLIDES.
If a screenshot overlaps the footer on occasion, that’s fine – but do your best to crop appropriately.
If explicit fonts are important, you may provide a PDF to the event organizers to present your deck live on site, and to be used in the version SOCIALPRO CONFERENCE will upload to Slideshare.
WE CANNOT ACCEPT any PPT Decks with specialty fonts used or embedded, nor can we install fonts on conference presentation machines. NO EXCEPTIONS. You *MUST* use thePDF option if you require special fonts.
DELETE THIS SLIDE IF YOU DO NOT USE.
This blank layout offers you flexibility to insert your own standard slides above the SOCIAL PRO footer
YOU MUST USE THIS FOOTER AT MINIMUM ON ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SLIDES.
If a screenshot overlaps the footer on occasion, that’s fine – but do your best to crop appropriately.
If explicit fonts are important, you may provide a PDF to the event organizers to present your deck live on site, and to be used in the version SOCIALPRO CONFERENCE will upload to Slideshare.
WE CANNOT ACCEPT any PPT Decks with specialty fonts used or embedded, nor can we install fonts on conference presentation machines. NO EXCEPTIONS. You *MUST* use thePDF option if you require special fonts.
DELETE THIS SLIDE IF YOU DO NOT USE.
Because the efficiency is going to naturally happen
Voiceover: We are the data scientists. The storytellers. The dreamers. The doers. The people in this room understand human behavior better than anyone in advertising. Together, we understand what makes people move, what drives the to change, what encourages them to buy. It’s through what you say, it’s through what you do, it’s through the customer journeys that you create. Experience is everything now.
When you have a multi-billion brand. It's important to be clear in exactly who you are. These are the VALUES of our brand. But everything doesn't need to look the same. More logos doesn't work.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
We look at our phone 1,500 times a week. On average, that’s about 177 minutes a day
The simplest of moments are times that are the most meaningful, they’re unforgettable and they’re intentional. And that is where I would love for you start to rethink things, like focus on the embrace.
About 7/8 years ago… I focused on the word engage. And that was a word I was very close to. When I have your attention and you have my attention… What happens next? And I realized that it’s no longer the word. The word is embrace. It makes it a little bit more human. And it’s intentional.
I call customers today accidental narcissists because every app that we use reminds us that we are the most important thing in that moment: You want car, you have Uber. If it’s more than 12 minutes, you are absolutely impatient. You have Tinder, you have Instacart(?). All of these apps are teaching you that you can get what you want when you want and I call it the egosystem.
This is what we’re designing for. We have to see differently and we have to design experiences that might be different than the experiences we want. It starts with what matters to them. This is where it begins.
Most people (3/4th) said they just need SOMETHING to help. They go to YouTube, Amazon… Think about Google’s future business, they’re competing now for Amazon’s search. Yes, Amazon is now a search engine because it brings you products and user experiences. It’s easier for people to make decisions that way.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
Danger of having one team. It’s usually a search team that tacks on social to boost ranking or a social team that tacked on search to buy ads at greater efficiency.
Danger of having two teams that operate in silos. The goals of search and social can be very different. You may be creating programs that fight against each other rather than compliment each other.
Month and Millions of dollars for a giant dashboard – Crudest means
Month and Millions of dollars for a giant dashboard – Crudest means
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Facebook Open Graph
YouTube organic search
Amazon products and reviews
Twitter search
Instagram hashtags
And the list goes on…
What questions are you NOT seeing? What trends are NOT there? This is time to break assumptions or prove them.
Even if your brand isn’t the title sponsor of an event, there are ways to create the conversation. Step one is to assess the event’s audience and decide if there is a relative tie-in to your brand. Ask yourself (and answer honestly)… Do you have the right to play in this space?
• Will the audience care if our brand joins a conversation online or will we alienate people?
• Is our brand in any way relevant? There is nothing worse than watching a brand fail with an untimely tweet.
• How do we truly engage with consumers during events without coming off sales-y or disingenuous?
Screenshots of paid search, facebook, instagram ad, video.
We understand your consumer because we ARE your consumer
We are brand storytellers. We are digital natives.
We take detours based on what we learn from our performance. We move. And in doing so, we are extremely adept at inspiring consumers to move with us.
Whats the story. How to tell the story. Where do we tell the story.
Insights - MMI lives in the middle of it all
Search, Social, Paid Media
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Document successes and failures. Learn from things.