PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Digital marketing...
It's a way to bring a narrative to life. Engaging with online communities to generate exposure, opportunity and sales.
WHY NOW?
- Faster computing power
- Super fast broadband
- Digital cameras
- Smartphones
- Tablets
FACEBOOK
- Launched in 2004
- 757m daily users
- 1.23bn monthly active users
- 50% users between 25-49 years old
- 150m access via mobile devices
AN AVERAGE USER...
- Has 130+ friends
- 55 minutes on the site daily
- Connected to 80 pages, groups and events
- Adds 25 comments to content monthly
- Creates 90 pieces of content monthly
PEOPLE DON'T VISIT FACEBOOK PAGES...
- Don't post more than three times daily
- The average status lifetime is three hours
- Post at 7am, lunch time and 7pm
- Visual eye catching pictures
A SHAREABLE IMAGE...
- Humorous
- At a recognisable location
- Reinforces a message
- Unusual
- Provokes an emotion
HOW TO FIND FREE IMAGES
- Www.flickr.com
- Advanced search
- Select Creative Commons and search for image
- Actions > view all sizes
- Download original size of the photo
A SHAREABLE POST
- Interesting and short
- Ask a question
- Lists - top 10s
- Include an image
- Link (delete it from the text box)
INSTAGRAM
- 150m monthly active users
- 43k uploads #wildlifephotography
- 1.2bn daily likes
FOR EVERY 33 LIKES YOU GET 1 COMMENT ON AVERAGE
WHAT IS TWITTER
- Social network
- Blogging platform
- Search engine
- Focus group
- News wire
TWIT TIPS
- Average tweet lifespan is 2 hours
- Most people retweet at 5pm
- Most click throughs are between noon - 6pm
USEE REAL-TIME HASHTAG UPDATES AT EVENTS
SCHEDULE
- Better planning
- Control the time of your messages
- Save time
- Keep on monitoring
MORE BLOGGING, MORE TRAFFIC
- Make your blog evergreen
- Post 3 times a week
- Share your blog posts on social media
- Higher the page rank, more likely to attract sponsors
- Turn off capcha for ease of engagement
BLOG STRUCTURE
- Short, optimised title
- Catchy introduction
- Neat, bite size paragraphs
- Good quality, resized images
- Finish with call to action
HELP PEOPLE FIND YOUR BLOG
6 EASY STEPS FOR PLANNING
1. Brainstorm your thoughts
2. Mark / create any actions
3. Prioritise the actions into a list
4. Add time scales to the actions
5. Transfer the list to a calendar so you have a daily schedule.
6. Share the calendar with your team
ANALYTICS
- Unique visitors
- Traffic sources
- Keywords
- Most popular pages
- Conversions