Unless you take the time to understand your advertisers' businesses on a deeper level, you won’t be able to give them what they really need – a solution. To learn how to more effectively sell solutions, flip through the deck from our How to Solve Advertiser Challenges with Promotions webinar.
How to Solve Advertiser Challenges with Promotions
1. How to Solve
Advertiser
Challenges
with
Promotions
#PromotionsLab
2. PRESENTERS
Jamie Kinnaird
Manager of Contests & Promotions
BH Media
jamie.kinnaird@owh.com
@jamkin1120
#PromotionsLab
Julie Foley
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
julie@secondstreet.com
@julie_foley
Brandy Carter
Director of Integrated Sales
SmartReach Digital / Entercom
bccarter@smartreachdigital.com
@BrandyCCarter
Sara Droke
Director of Emerging Media
WPSD-TV
sdroke@wpsdlocal6.com
@sjdroke
3. TWITTER + QUESTIONS
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4. WHO WE ARE
#PromotionsLab
Increase ROI, Build &
Engage Audience
5. Case Studies Promotion Examples
Playbooks &
Worksheets
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42. SURVEY RESULTS
#PromotionsLab
Did you know Haydel's
Bakery has Gluten
Free Options?
Yes No
Did you know Haydel's
Bakery makes King
Cakes all year long?
Did you know we
ship worldwide?
Yes No Yes No
45. SECRET SAUCE
• Valuable insights for the advertiser and
lead generation
• Mobile database, Facebook, and email
database growth
• Proof through results
#PromotionsLab
46. Sara Droke
Director of Emerging Media
WPSD-TV
sdroke@wpsdlocal6.com
@sjdroke
53. SECRET SAUCE
• Targeted promotion for a niche
audience
• Survey questions qualified entrants
• Follow-up meeting with client to discuss
next steps
#PromotionsLab
60. SECRET SAUCE
• Compelling prize for target audience
• Heavy social media promotion
• Follow-up email immediately after
contest ending to opt-in list
#PromotionsLab
61. Jamie Kinnaird
Manager of Contests & Promotions
BH Media Group
jamie.kinnaird@bhmginc.com
@jamkin1120
64. THE CAMPAIGN
Custom Banner Advertising/web features/social media
mentions to fans deliver your call-to-action visually and
socially.
#PromotionsLab
Call-to-Action message centered around
driving traffic to Your Contest
Your Exclusive Contest Email
Online Advertising
Support
Facebook
Contest App
New
Fans
Commercials/spots/print ads drive people to your
Facebook page.
Deliver your message to up to 40,000 consumers via
email at a fraction of the cost of direct mail advertising.
Custom Facebook App allows potential customers to enter your
sweepstakes and capture Likes and database information.
We will provide custom analytics that demonstrate ROI.
68. SECRET SAUCE
• Needs analysis conversation to
discover advertiser challenge
• Relevant prize for the advertiser’s
target audience
• Heavy promotion to drive entrants to
advertiser’s Facebook page
#PromotionsLab
74. SECRET SAUCE
• Drove foot traffic with unique promotion
with upsell opportunities
• The same, quality ecommerce offer
from each course
• Heavy promotion in core and digital
media
#PromotionsLab
82. Case Studies Promotion Examples
Playbooks &
Worksheets
#PromotionsLab secondstreetlab.com/solutions
83. QUESTIONS?
Jamie Kinnaird
Manager of Contests & Promotions
BH Media
jamie.kinnaird@owh.com
@jamkin1120
#PromotionsLab
Julie Foley
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
julie@secondstreet.com
@julie_foley
Brandy Carter
Director of Integrated Sales
SmartReach Digital / Entercom
bccarter@smartreachdigital.com
@BrandyCCarter
Sara Droke
Director of Emerging Media
WPSD-TV
sdroke@wpsdlocal6.com
@sjdroke
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SecondStreetLab.com is your go-to place for industry insights, case studies, promotion examples and downloadable tools to help you be more successful with promotions
The URL on your screen will take you to a special page where you can download the advertiser challenges playbook!
the data from Borrell
Associates indicates there has been a massive shift in
spend toward promotions:
This chart from Borrell Associates shows the growth in online promotions spending. We are currently seeing that 40BB is being spent by local advertisers in 2014.
By 2017 that number will double to 80BB!
WHY?
This growth in online promotions spend is happening Because Advertisers want to be a part of promotions because they ignite interactions with potential consumers in ways that traditional advertising alone can’t duplicate
Have you noticed your advertisers are expecting more?
Advertisers are increasingly keeping score of the number
of measurable results they get from their marketing
spend, and leads, foot traffic, email addresses, and
customer data are all critical to their success. Being able
to deliver these results positions you to grow relationships
with advertisers in your market.
Online promotions can Solve advertiser’s problems as They want activation, engagement
They want to be more engaged with their audience
The needs analysis conversation is one of the most
important parts of the sales process, and it’s also the one
that is skipped the most often.
Relationship selling doesn’t cut it anymore for advertisers – your advertisers see so many reps, and they have so little time; you have to be the one that brings solutions to them.
The goal of a needs analysis conversation is not to go in
and sell a spot or an ad – the goal is to understand your
advertisers' challenges and goals and to determine how
you can move the needle for them in your market by
asking the right questions
Learn what advertiser wants to accomplish
Uncover challenges
Build a relationship
Gain insights that will help you suggest the right promotion type
The most important questions you will ask your advertiser are “what are your main goals” and “how will you measure success?”
Always start here when talking to your advertiser during the needs analysis stage.
These questions will give you the essential information you need to make a good recommendation
Plus, taking the time to ask these questions with the advertiser ensures that you will bring relevant results
to the follow-up meeting after the campaign has run.
There's nothing more valuable to an advertiser than a
promotion, but it's important that you pitch the right
promotions to the right advertisers.
Each of your advertisers will have different needs and
goals, and while you can include survey questions or an
email opt-in on the registration form of any promotion you
run, each type has its own particular strengths.
If multiple promotions would work for an
advertiser, pitch an ongoing campaign to
solve all their challenges.
This is a stage many sellers overlook, so separate yourself from the pack and show your advertiser that you’re a true asset to them and informed.
It is also critical to building the relationship and demonstrating the effectiveness of your media
Here are a couple of tips for things you’ll want to bring with you and do at the follow-up meeting
Delivering measurable results with promotions renders
you invaluable to advertisers, and sets you up to grow
your business with them going forward.
thnk about how powerful it will be for you as a media company to be in complete control of the questions advertisers ask like: "was it successful“? and "did it deliver the results they expected". ?
So what is next? Since you’ve delivered results for the advertiser – continue the discussion – what is on the horizon for them in the next quarter? How can you continue to drive results!?
Remember Promotions delvier results. Today we are going to hear from 3 local media professionals that will walk us through how their promotions most effictiveely solved their adverstiers challenges.
Let’s jump right in!
First we are going to hear from Brandy Carter, director of integrated sales at SmartReach Digital a division of Entercom Radio in New Orleans, LA. Brandy spoke at our Promotions Summit back in June and has some great case studies to share with us about her local advertisers. Brandy let’s start with your regional community bank:
Brandy
Growth was exponential
Emily
Big aspect of this campaign
Send out a newsletter called Common Cents
Gave them 562 new emails
Emily
They ran out of gift cards!
They sold 1000 gift cards
Emily
In Card Sales
That encouraged them to look at more promotions
Used power of new fans in first quarter promotion
Community Rewards program, had over 78k votes
They were floored
Emily
In Card Sales
That encouraged them to look at more promotions
Used power of new fans in first quarter promotion
Community Rewards program, had over 78k votes
They were floored
$500 Gulf gift card just in time for Mother’s Days, Father’s Day and Graduation!
$500 Gulf gift card just in time for Mother’s Days, Father’s Day and Graduation!
Emily
Big aspect of this campaign
Send out a newsletter called Common Cents
Gave them 562 new emails
Brandy
Growth was exponential
Thanks Brandy! Next up is Sara Droke – director of emerging media at WPSD-TV in padukah, ky
Sara let’s start with your case study from a local hearing aid retailer
the contest received 359 entries, which was a great result, especially considering the small niche to which we were marketing and the fact that the audience for hearing aids skews older.
45% of all contest entrants) said that they plan to purchase a hearing aid within the next year, and of those, 54% plan to finance their purchase. 96 respondents (26% of entrants), also indicated that they would be interested in a Lunch & Learn event.
217 people (60% of entrants) opted in to receive emails from the Audiology & Hearing Center and 55 people (15% of entrants) indicated that they would like to have someone from the center contact them by phone.
Our final speaker is Jamie Kinnaird, manager of contests and promotions for BH Media! Jamie is going to discuss how a contest and an ecommerce promotion were able to solve advertiser challenges in two differnet sized markets in the BH family. Jamie let’s start with Winston Salem’s advertiser: a local pizza place!
Advertiser: Mario’s Big Pizza North Carolina
WS been successful running a number of facebook contests in their markets. They use the playbooks that Second Street provides. Our sales method is to have that needs analysis
We ran a Facebook contest for them across all of their locations in the Triad of NC. Post was organically shared 48 times,, immediately increased their traffic and engagement on their page.
Email sent to WS list of 40k ppl in the triad.
added over 800 likes in 2 week period, 600 likes on one day (day of eblast)
.
12k circulation paper
In our market we are right across the river from Omaha. When ppl want to go golfing they think of Omaha – which leaves our courses a little undertrafficked. Reminded our readers that you don’t have to go across the river to play a good course. You can play all these great LOCAL courses and have a great experience for only $99.
Our publisher went out and pitched the golf courses to ALL courses himself.
print, online, email campaign. Numerous large print ads (1/2 page and bigger print ads), Email blasts to our 11,500 subscriber database, run of site banner ads and banner ads on our daily newsletter.
We created a website (southwestiowagolfguide.com), which featured a landing page for each course. We also ran 1/4 –page grouped ads featuring all the courses throughout the promotion. Each course got a feature story in our golf guide special section that published in April 2014.
That is $32,500k in revenue for the paper!
New faces. Trying new courses. We are going to pitch the 2015 golf card soon for Christmas Gifts!
Paid off b/c of the results.
Just b/c we are tiny market doesn’t mean this can’t work. PROOF that a small np in a small market can take advantage of a great idea and run with it and it did well for our advertiser.
So how do you deliver the kind of results that brandy, sara and Jamie have delivered in their markets?
First – TRAIN YOUR TEAM. We have a wide range of training courses available to you as Second Street clients! From contest planning to ballot sales to DEAL sales – there is a certification for your sales teams that will help them pick the RIGHT promotions and understand the process for delivering results!~
REmember - relationship selling doesn’t cut it anymore for advertisers - so many reps, so little time; you have to be the one that brings solutions
Contest, Facebook? Ballot? Ecommerce offer? Align your advertisers goals with the right promotion type to fufill them.
Remember what Gordon Borrell said at the beginning of our webinar?
“Advertisers want results you can measure those results with promotions.”
Share those measurable results. You have had the needs analysis – you know what the advertiser wanted to get out of the promotion. You are in a position to share the success with them! Use those results as a tool to secure more business and to gain TRUST through proof of results.
SecondStreetLab.com is your go-to place for industry insights, case studies, promotion examples and downloadable tools to help you be more successful with promotions
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