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What’s Your “Thing”?

Braeburn Lodge

Braeburn Lodge

Dawson City

Dawson City

Lacombe

Lacombe

#1 Know Your Audience

 Create audience profiles (even if it is just in your head)  What do my audience members look like?  How do they consume content?  Where do they get their information from?  Why do they care about me?

CTC Explorer Quotient

Playing to the Audience

 For example…  Content built around less structured, less pampered travel  Focus on culture and nature  Keep them hooked and coming back – not a “one and done” mentality  Give them the tools to find their way but don’t lay it out for them  destinationcanada.com/en/tools

#2 Have a Plan

 Identify your goals

 Identify your audience  Identify your marketing channels  Develop guidelines to handle the good and the bad  Identify the content you need to create  Identify the individuals in your company that will handle your marketing duties (it could be you)  Identify measures of success

Things to Consider When Planning

 How many hoops does someone have to jump through to do business with you?  How to grow your repeat customer base?  Why don’t they buy? What can we do to change that?  Do our products meet the demands of the customer?

#3 You’re Probably Doing Too Much

 Companies often overextend themselves online  Do 1 thing really well before considering taking something else on  If you do shut down a social media profile, give followers an “out” – tell them what you’re up to and where they can find you  Auto posting to multiple accounts at one time might speed up the process, but it will often decrease the impact

Some Social Media Math

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Content 20 Delivery

Some Content Math

 1 social media channel  3 posts per week  52 weeks x 3 posts = 156 posts  Do you have enough content?  Also consider – e-newsletters, website updates, landing page content, ad copy, etc.  More channels? Do the math

#4 There’s More Than Social Media

 Online reviews – how do I monitor and respond to online reviews?  Online monitoring – what are people saying about me, my business, my industry and my competitors?  Website – websites are still

• important. Customers often start

their journey on Google  Online advertising – targeted ads are a great way to support a brand  E-newsletter – a tool that is

• ften list in the mix

 Offline Marketing – it’s not dead

Looking at Reviews - What Do They Really Think?

• Online reviews can make or break a

business

• We tend to see clients focus on the

numeric or star value and bypass the actual data inside the review

• Learning more about the content and

trends within business reviews can provide valuable insights into the reasons for the positive/negative review

• “Hands down THE BEST DEEP

DISH in Chicago !!! You will definitely try other spots, but only be filled with regret of not going to Giordano’s”

Diving Deeper Into Reviews

• Review data is sometimes the

most actionable data a business can collect

• Some of the best information

comes from positive reviews

• Review data can be turned

into content, advertising campaigns or a social media focus

• Want a cool social media

strategy? Be the company that

• wns reviews

Tools - Reputology

 Track all online reviews of your business in a single dashboard  Monitor review trends  Respond to reviews  Assign reviews to other members of your team

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#5 Understand Numbers and Trends

 Google Analytics – how does my marketing activity affect visitation to my website? What do people actually do on my website?  Website contact form – what are the questions that are frequently asked through my website?  Social media analytics – what can the analytics supplied by my social media platform of choice show me?

Tools – Social Rank

 Insights into your Twitter and Instagram audiences  Use Social Rank for any account  More information = better decisions

Tool – Lucky Orange

 Lucky Orange gives us a real look at what our visitors do on

• ur website

 Gives insights into user experience  Provides instant feedback  Is your website doing a good job of informing?  Luckyorange.com

Tools – Bit.ly

 Using a link shortener like Bit.ly allows us to track clicks in real time  Use this data to help determine the effectiveness of posts  Create custom links for better results  Free to sign up

The Power of Content

“We Made a Video”

 Making a video isn’t a content strategy  Making a video is part of a larger content plan  Create content with “legs” – content that can be used multiple times in multiple places and combined with

• ther pieces

What is Microcontent?

 Quick, easily consumed content designed for social media  Often created from larger pieces of content  Viewer/reader should be able to consume the content in less than 30 seconds  Designed to stand alone and supplement long form content – larger blog posts, website copy, etc.  Short videos  Cinemagraphs  Photo galleries  Photo collages  Gifs  Tips and lists  Short written posts

What We’ve Learned

 Understand the journey – don’t assume someone has been with you forever  Understand the customer – assume they know nothing  You aren’t the customer – don’t talk to you… talk to them  Find proofreaders in your audience group – you’ll learn lots about language, fonts, colours, etc.  Focus on barriers – why won’t someone do business with you? How can content help convert that person into a believer?

Small Business That Gets It

 Coutts Home Hardware – Forestburg, AB  Uses short Facebook videos to drive awareness and sales  418 Facebook page likes  4 Christmas videos (Nov 14- 20) – 6600 views, 44 shares  Canada 150 video (Aug 9) – 3700 views, 43 shares  Budget to make and promote videos - $0

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