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This document provides an introduction and overview to a social media marketing guide for selling videos online. It discusses how to leverage social media effectively to build an audience and convert them into customers for video content. The guide teaches how to create a strategic social media plan around the AIDA process of attracting attention, interest, desire and action from consumers. It also provides a case study example of a business using videos on Gbox to showcase products and drive sales.
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- 1. The Ultimate Social Media Marketing Guide for Selling Videos Online Social Media Marketing Guide presents…
- 2. www.gbox.com Page !1 Introduction Everyone loves your videos and you already have a fan base that wants more of your content, but you are missing something. What are you missing? You are missing the money. There is a simple way to make money with your videos: using Gbox. Gbox is the turnkey solution to turn your popular content into dollars. However, one of the biggest converting factors when it comes to video selling or content selling is how you leverage social media. START HERE It’s easy as… 1, 2, 3!
- 3. www.gbox.com Page !2 How To Use This Guide In this guide follow along as we teach you how to build your audience using social media. When it comes to your target market, it isn’t just about posting updates on all your social network pages. It is about making that initial connection with your target audience, and then converting them into happy consumers. Who doesn’t want their consumers to keep coming back? That is the goal with social media. This guide is a step-‐by-‐step process on exactly how this connection is created with your target audience.
- 4. www.gbox.com Page !3 How To Use This Guide Since 2006, “Social Media” has been the most talked about buzzword, and using it the right way to achieve your goals is Gbox’s initiative. Our success is your success, so implement everything we teach in this guide and you are sure to see results with your videos. Today, no one wants to consume videos – or anything for that matter – in large amounts. They prefer what we like to call “video snacks.” Gbox provides this customized approach to give your consumers the experience they want from the Internet. We see many consumers getting a fragmented experience online. This means they have to go to many different places in order to keep a track of what they want to watch. With Gbox, everything is stored in one place.
- 5. www.gbox.com Page !4 What You Will Learn How to effectively leverage your social networks to build your own online community. How to build a social media strategy around selling videos online. What you need in order to build a successful video marketing strategy. How to use A/B testing to Sind out which videos are working and which ones need to go. How to attain conversions from your video selling business. How to launch an effective social media campaign to help you sell your videos, every time. How to set-‐up and optimize the right social networks for your videos.
- 6. www.gbox.com Page !5 What You Need To Know About Selling Videos Online Video selling and content selling is about exposing your passion. Your passion is what connects you to your audience, and your audience to you. We want to provide you with the resources you need to connect with your biggest consumers. We want you to keep your consumers engaged with your videos. Video selling depends on your consumers. If you give them what they want, they will deliver value in return. The bigger following you have, the more feasible it will be for you to sell your videos. The best content builds excitement and awareness amongst your prospects. Then you can use the content to build a business around your consumers.
- 7. www.gbox.com Page !6 Create A Strategic Plan Your strategic plan should be created around the AIDA process: Attention -‐ the ability to attract the attention of the consumer. Interest -‐ the ability to raise the interest of the consumer by focusing on beneSits and features. Desire -‐ convinces the consumer that they want to see your video. Action -‐ consumer is dead towards taking action by purchasing. The most important part of the process is to making your audience aware of your content.
- 8. www.gbox.com Page !7 Case Study -‐ Pattie’s Pastries Pattie’s Pastries is a great example we can use to breakdown the process. Pattie may have the best pastries in town but until she really stops people in their tracks to make them see what she has in store, no one will ever know about them. She starts using Gbox to create videos around her “secret recipes” to showcase her abilities. Her consumers vicariously experience her magic recipes through her videos shared through Gbox. Pattie has caught their interest and they are ready to check out her other recipes and inventory. Since her Gbox videos all point to her online store, it’s easy for consumers to visit her website and see all of the products she has available. Now they are ready to click the buy button on her video and make a purchase. At this point she has really caught their interest and started to build a community around her brand.
- 9. www.gbox.com Page !8 Create A Strategic Plan Here comes the tough part: you will be evaluated based on what you deliver. Your biggest prospects and customers will review what you have done for them through a review, comment or even a share on a social network. These reviews either make or break your business. If you have positive reviews, you start building trust with consumers and a larger audience. If you have negative reviews, your consumers will question the quality of your products and this may negatively impact their buying behavior.
- 10. www.gbox.com Page !9 Create A Strategic Plan Last is the advocacy stage. Pattie has mastered this stage of the process. She has created an online community of advocates who love her pastries. They are continuously sharing her creations with their friends and family. Her audience has grown from her family of Sive to nearly 18,000 people in the last year alone. The is the power of content selling! Jump onboard!
- 11. www.gbox.com Page !10 DeFine Your Objectives What do you expect social media to accomplish for your video selling business? Many people have the tendency of jumping into the execution mode without really thinking about their goals. Even when it comes to their goals, they only think about getting more followers and “Likes.” These are called “vanity metrics” and they will not take you anywhere with your business. The keyword here is your target audience. Yes, it doesn’t matter if you have 9 followers or 9,000 followers. The only way to make money from your video business is by selling to your target audience. What would you rather have? 9 followers who regularly purchase your products, or 9,000 follower who never buy? When people focus on vanity metrics they are easily lead to the belief that social media doesn’t work. This is why it is paramount to know what you want to accomplish through social media.
- 12. www.gbox.com Page !11 DeFine Your Objectives Social media is a great way to accomplish many different objectives. The biggest requirement for achieving your objectives is by putting in consistent effort. Nothing can be achieved with social media overnight. Think about what sort of objectives you want to accomplish from your social media marketing efforts. For example, some of the most common goals include: lead generation, targeted website trafSic, improving brand reputation , building brand awareness, and, selling more videos online! Let’s take a look at each of these in detail on the next page.
- 13. www.gbox.com Page !12 DeFine Your Objectives 1. Increase website traf;ic: The best way to initiate this is through search engine optimization and getting your articles to show up in the search engine results page. Once you have developed solid relationships with people who trust you, through social media, they will visit your website. Not to mention when you tweet a blog post, video or other link, there is always a chance that it will show up in the search engines. Set a benchmark and monitor it often. Again, this isn’t an overnight job. 2. Reputation Moderation: Social media is the number one place to Sind out what people are saying about you. You wouldn’t believe it but people rate everything through social media. If they had a completely great experience with you, then they will share it. If it was horrible, people will be sure to share that as well. In the end, social media allows people to learn about things faster than any other method.
- 14. www.gbox.com Page !13 DeFine Your Objectives 3. Brand Awareness: Your brand personality will determine who follows you and who doesn’t follow you on the web. Your audience is watching your updates. What do you want people to see your company as? They are ready to talk about your brand. The way your audience speaks about your brand will help you determine if your brand awareness is on the right track or not. 4. Increase Video Sales: Any social media strategy you create should be centered around video sales. This is measured in concrete numbers (views). You can track this through campaign-‐speciSic landing pages, coupon codes, and even contests.
- 15. www.gbox.com Page !14 Establish Your Key Performance Indicators How will you know if you have reached your goals through social media or not? This is not an “automated” tactic. Social media requires consistent effort to maintain engagement. You have to stay on top of your audience’s activities and adjust to their ever-‐changing wants and needs. Here are some guiding questions to help you determine your key metrics: How many social shares is your content getting? (This is also called earned media when your fans “share” your content with their friends and connections.) How many comments is your audience leaving on each post online? How many comments are you receiving on your videos? How many ratings do you have on your videos? How many friends or followers are you losing on a weekly basis? Which keywords are people clicking on the most? Which are not getting many clicks? Which links are being clicked on? (You can use Snip.ly to check this) Are you tracking your linkbacks, pingbacks? Is your content leading to sales or increased trafSic?
- 16. www.gbox.com Page !15 Your Target Audience A well-‐deSined target audience will bring you more video sales than you ever imagined! The important step here is to create a proSile of your ideal customer. The whole point of this exercise is to identify who your content is speaking to, and then create content your target audience will instantly resonate with. You want to confront “pain points” to build trust with your target audience. Think about the tone your audience relates to. Remember, the more you listen to their needs, the better you can respond to their needs. Then you can be positioned as an industry expert in your niche.
- 17. www.gbox.com Page !16 Your Target Audience Here is the criteria you want focus on for this: Who is this person? Age Income level Education level Relationship Status Do they have kids? Gender Ethnicity Where do they hang out? Where are they geographically located? What associations are they part of? Which websites do they visit? Which publications do they read? How do they primarily communicate? (Text, twitter, social media, phone, email, etc.) What are their likes and what are their dislikes? What are their biggest preferences? What is their secret desire? What are they looking for? What is their biggest problem? What are the spending their money on? What are they complaining about?
- 18. www.gbox.com Page !17 Your Target Audience After you identify your inSluencers and audience, you want to approach them in an authentic way. If you identify the champion within your consumers and then help them “win” in their lives through your content, they will become ambassadors for life. Remember, your consumers all have different needs based on their individual context. Once your recognize your prospect’s needs, you can create content that is speciSic to them. In the next steps, follow along as we show you how to implement the right social media strategy geared to the right prospects, and how to deliver your content at the right time.
- 19. www.gbox.com Page !18 Who Is Your Competition? DeSining your target audience is the Sirst step to success. Now you also need to know your competition. Your competition will give you an idea on what your competitive advantage is, as well as which tactics your competition is already carrying out. This will require you to research other organizations and brands in your niche. This is what you look for: Which networks and sites are they using? Who is following them? Or “Liking” them? What are people saying about them? (Read their Facebook and YouTube reviews for this). This is on-‐going research for your brand, meaning that you shouldn’t just do it once and then never again. In order to maintain the competitive advantage when it comes to your competitors, you want to further your research on a weekly basis.
- 20. www.gbox.com Page !19 Which Social Networks Should I Use? The social networks you use depend on your audience. For example, Pattie’s Pastry business relies heavily on Facebook and doesn’t use LinkedIn at all. She just doesn’t see much traction on LinkedIn, so she concentrates her marketing efforts on Facebook.
- 21. www.gbox.com Page !20 Which Social Networks Should I Use? We suggest you pick the top three social networks to be apart of initially and then once you have been established on those, you can move on to other social networks. Here is what you want to keep in mind with these networks: Be present. Be consistent. Create content your audience can instantly relate to.
- 22. Social Media Site Comparison Tool Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Blogs Flickr YouTube Yelp Foresquare Text x x x x x x Photos x x x x x x x Videos x x x x x x Tagging x x x Sharing x x x x x x Friendship/ Following x x x x x x x Rating x x Reviewing x x x Commenting x x x x x x x Checking In x x x x How You Can Use It Custom service, PR,HR/ Recruiting, building personal relationships with customers, encouraging fans to share your stuff, driving site/ blog trafSic. Custom service, PR,HR/ Recruiting, building personal relationships with customers, encouraging fans to share your stuff, driving site/ blog trafSic. Professional networking, PR, HR/ recruiting. Share your industry expertise, help your site rank better with search engines, control your business’s online reputation. Give your customers another way to Sind you in search, showing instead of telling — especially good for hospitality, restaurants, retail. Give your customers another way to Sind you in search, showing instead of telling — especially good for hospitality, restaurants, retail. Control your business’s online reputation, stay on top of customer sentiment, customer service. Offer deals for customers near you, give your customers another way to Sind you (through proximity). No-‐No’s Oversharing (keep those party photos off your business page). One-‐way conversation s that don’t listen and respond to others. Spamming groups with pitches for your business. Letting them die: keep that content coming. Failing to tag your photos. Bad sound quality, lack of valuable content. Posting positive reviews under a pseudonym. Checking in everywhere all the time; you don’t need to be mayor of a parking lot. High-‐Pro;ile Users Nike, Coke, the New York Times, NPR Ashton Kutcher, Kanye West, Anderson Cooper, Sarah Palin Barack Obama, Bill Gates Seth Godin, Bill Marriot The Smithsonian, the British Monarchy, the White House GEICO, Old Spice, Justin Bieber Bravo TV, the New YorkTimes How Big Is It? ~1.19 Billion active users (worldwide) ~232M active users (worldwide) ~332M users (worldwide) 152M worldwide (per Blogpulse) ~87M (worldwide) ~1 Billion active users (worldwide) 15M reviews; 39M monthly visitors in Nov. 2010 ~45M users (worldwide) In One Word Ubiquitous Easy Professional Storytelling Pictures Movies Opinions Proximity What You Can Do With ItThings to Know About it
- 23. www.gbox.com Page !22 Create A Survey You have done the research on your target audience. You have done the research on your competition. Now what? It is time to Sind out how interested your target audience really is with the content you create. This should determine the purpose of your video content and what your consumers really want from you. Here are some survey services you can use to help determine the interest level of your target audience: Qualaroo Survey.io SurveyMonkey.com Typeforms.com
- 24. www.gbox.com Page !23 Create A Survey Here is a list of possible questions to ask: How did you Sind my video content? (or brand) How would you feel if my (brand) no longer existed? What would you likely use as an alternative if (brand) was no longer available? What is the primary beneSit you received from the (brand)? Have you recommended (brand) to anyone? What type of person do you think beneSits most from this (brand)? How can we improve the (brand) to meet your needs? Is it okay if we follow-‐up through email if we have questions on any of your responses?
- 25. www.gbox.com Page !24 Create A Video Content Strategy As you know, social media is all about connecting with people. The most important part about connecting with your target audience is to create content that grabs their attention. You need to create content that resonates with the ideal customer proSile you created.
- 26. www.gbox.com Page !25 Create A Video Content Strategy Here are the types of content you can use: Entertainment: Everyone can use a good laugh during his or her day. Create something funny and share it with your audience. This can also be in the form of sports, Silms, or news/media. Problem solving: Create videos around a solution to a customer’s problem. This is determined by their “likes” and “dislikes.” Q&A: See which discussions they are taking part in and answer questions based on their most commonly asked questions. Help them become more ef;icient: Teach your audience something that will help them do things faster and more efSiciently. Newsjacking: What is the most relevant information that relates to your target audience? What are they currently talking about? Create a video based on that. Innovation: Try to get them to tune into new ideas by recommending a service or a product to them. This should be something they didn’t already know about, that you have positive experience with.
- 27. www.gbox.com Page !26 Create A Video Content Strategy -‐ Guiding Questions Use the following questions to help guide your video content creation strategy: Which networks will you use? Research different groups within the biggest social networks to determine which ones your target audience is using. Even though you may want to use more than one social network, your target audience is generally using one. Search for keywords in your industry on the social networks to see what people are talking about in relation to a speciSic topic in your niche. This will help you determine what you should focus on. Which keywords will you target? Use UberSuggest to Sind the keywords you want to target in your social media efforts. These can be the keywords you use in your hashtags as well.
- 28. www.gbox.com Page !27 Create A Video Content Strategy -‐ Guiding Questions Where is the value/quality of your content? This means taking the time to really understand what your target audience wants, and deliver it to them to the best of your abilities. The quantity does not matter. As long as they enjoy consuming your content, they will keep coming back. How will you implement the task at hand? Determine who will be responsible for the content and implementing the content strategy. How often will you post content? How much time and money are you willing to invest in your content?
- 29. www.gbox.com Page !28 Create Conversions Do you plan on monitoring the sales you make from your video? Then you will have to follow a plan. Social media is the ideal medium for reaching a large number of people who are ready to buy the content you have to offer. Most people feel as though social media doesn’t convert because it requires work on both ends of your marketing funnel. The biggest difference between social media trafSic and any other trafSic is that social media trafSic comes with a bigger connection potential. The people who visit your site through social media will feel a connection with you. Remember, it takes time. With consistent, high quality content delivered regularly, your audience will convert to buyers.
- 30. www.gbox.com Page !29 How To Effectively Use Google+ Google Plus is an effective platform that is under-‐ utilized by many brands. The best part of Google+ is their Google Authorship feature, which allows your content to be indexed in search engines -‐ instantly increasing your visibility. The main source of trafSic in this case is going to come from Google communities. This means you need to join niche communities, syndicate your content and then become the catalyst for discussions within each of them. The most important thing to keep in mind is to join communities based on your target audience and your business niche -‐ and then become an active contributor in these communities. If you join the wrong communities with the wrong audiences, then you will not be able to generate the quality leads you were looking for. Whenever you have new content to post on Google Plus, make sure you link it to one of these communities. Sometimes it is relevant to tag others who have contributed to your content (use this tactic sparingly so you aren’t seen as spamming).
- 31. www.gbox.com Page !30 How To Effectively Use Google+ Last of all, add a hashtag that is related to your content type and niche. Try to get as many “+1s” on your content as you can, because this increases your visibility to your followers’ audiences as well. Best Practice: Post 3-‐4 times a week on Google+ and have a weekly hangout recapping all your content. This can be done in a “weekly roundup” form, so if your audience missed out during the week, then they can watch the hangout to get a recap.
- 32. www.gbox.com Page !31 How To Effectively Use Facebook for Video Promotion The best part about Facebook is that it is a learning platform. You want to use it to learn more about your target audience and their online behavior. How can you use Facebook effectively to build your video business? 1. Go to your “Friends” on Facebook. 2. On the top right, click the the “Find Friends +” feature. 3. Search for people who are local and try building a local community before you expand your horizons. 4. Then check if the locals you connect with would be a good audience for you. 5. Hand-‐pick a select number of people. 6. Send them a message: “Hello this is Pattie the Pastry Chef and I just moved to ____________ and I am trying to expand my network. I’d love to learn more about what there is to do around here. Could we connect?” 7. Build a relationship and connection. 8. Then send them to your videos and sell!
- 33. www.gbox.com Page !32 How To Effectively Use Twitter for Video Promotion Twitter is another under utilized tool, but it can also be the most effective tool as far as video promotion goes. How can you promote your video through Twitter? Twitter Lead Generation Cards Twitter Cards have been available for a while, but they have just recently become relevant to lead generation marketing. Now you are able to include opt-‐ins and tweet them out to your followers, for free! You can choose the call-‐to-‐ action of your choice along with a branded image. This means you can capture their information even before they leave Twitter. The best part is that you will receive their name, email address, and Twitter handle right to your inbox, for free.
- 34. www.gbox.com Page !33 How To Effectively Use Twitter for Video Promotion To Set Up Twitter Lead Generation Cards: 1. Go to Twitter Ads and click “Creatives” and “Cards” 2. Then click on “Create Lead Generation Card” 3. Fill in the information and add an eye-‐ catching picture. If you are sending the prospects to a landing page, Sill out the destination URL. 4. Once you are done, click SUBMIT. 5. Now click the blue symbol on the top-‐right hand of your screen to compose a tweet. 6. You have the option to attach the card to your tweet in STANDARD form (FREE) or PROMOTED form ($$$) 7. “Standard” will send it out to your followers, and “Promoted” will send it to a targeted paid audience. Best Practice: Create a lead generation card linking to free content, so your followers can learn more about who you are and what you do. This can be a whitepaper, report, eBook, or a PDF.
- 35. www.gbox.com Page !34 Followerwonk Power Tactic FollowerWonk is a tool that analyzes your Twitter followers. 1. The reason you want to use FollowerWonk is to create a Master List of your target audience. 2. This Master List is crucial in helping you Sind out the interests, needs and buying behavior of your target market. Once you have a Master List, start creating content around their needs, and watch your conversion rates soar! 3. Click on “Analyze” at the top, put in your twitter handle and click submit. 4. Then download the CSV Sile. 5. Now click where it says “Analysis of your handle’s Twitter followers” and click “view all.” 6. First thing is Sirst: delete all the followers that have no URL or destination site in their proSile.
- 36. www.gbox.com Page !35 Followerwonk Power Tactic 7. Next you want to Silter out any social sites. Here is a list to help you: Facebook, Fb.,Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Google, Gplus, Goo.gl, Yahoo, Amazon, Ask., Myspace, Flickr, iTunes, Vimeo, IMDB, Wikipedia, Wiki, Apple, About.me, Etsy, Flavors, Zazzle, Vizify, Soundcloud, Fiverr. Wefollow, Eventbrite, Meetup, and Forum. 8. Now go to the “Last tweet” column and Sind out how active your followers are. If they have not tweeted in the last 6 months, then delete them. In your excel sheet, sort them from the “oldest to newest.” 9. Go to Open Site Explorer and research your current list of URLs to see who they are linked to. This will help you determine your target audience and how viable they are. 10. After completing these steps, you now have a highly targeted list of prospects you can reach out to. They have been active on twitter, they have active sites and this leaves room for other business opportunities as well. Best Practice: Get in touch with all your prospects through a manual, individualized email. This may sound tedious, but it is effective. Start by sending them a “Hello, is there anything I can help you with? I see that we are both following each other on Twitter.”
- 37. www.gbox.com Page !36 How To Effectively Use LinkedIn for Video Promotion LinkedIn is one platform you can’t ignore. How do you really promote using LinkedIn? Is it a platform that is worth your time? Here is how you can effectively use LinkedIn: 1. Go to the publishing platform (click on the pencil shown the right of the status update on LinkedIn and publish a post). 2. Then join 50 different groups on LinkedIn that are related to your niche. 3. Participate in those groups by answering questions and asking questions. 4. The secret sauce: build a close relationship or connection with the owner of the group. 5. Message other members in the group and invite them to a preview of your video. (Make sure they are targeted). 6. Click on the “Keep in touch” with contacts under the “Contacts” section and congratulate those who post about a positive life event. Now start building your connections on LinkedIn and watch your business grow!
- 38. www.gbox.com Page !37 Set Up Your Email Newsletter Whether you are having speciSic events, promotions or other information, an email newsletter is a great way to engage with your current audience. This doesn’t have to be fancy at all. It can be text based.
- 39. www.gbox.com Page !38 Set Up Your Email Newsletter Here is an example of an newsletter outline: Hi [Name], [Introduction] -‐ This should be something personable, fun and attention grabbing. [Top News] -‐ Any current news they should be aware of would go here. [News & Events] -‐ Any type of upcoming events. [Spotlight and Promotions] -‐ Put your top consumers in the spotlight by placing their picture here. -‐ If you have any recent promotions, this is where they should be displayed. [Feedback & Survey] -‐ Provide any Sinal updates and always ask for feedback (this can be done through a survey).
- 40. www.gbox.com Page !39 Set Up A Drip Marketing Campaign Drip email campaigns allow you to move your consumers through your sales funnel. In addition it allows you to keep in touch with your customers on a regular basis. We suggest you start with a manual email drip campaign. Once you Sind out how frequently your consumers want to be contacted, then you can turn this into an auto-‐responder that is delivered automatically within your chosen constraints. Here are a couple of tools to get started: Aweber CakeMail
- 41. www.gbox.com Page !40 Nurture Sequence Auto-‐Responders Nurture Sequence Auto-‐ Responders Opt-‐In To Your Newsletter Convert To Buyer! Your nurture sequence autoresponder emails need to be delivered consistently to nurture your potential client. These emails must contain valuable information that positively impacts their lives. Once you build rapport and trust with your target audience, they will turn into happy buyers! Nurture Sequence Auto-‐ Responders
- 42. www.gbox.com Page !41 Optimize The Call-To-Action Every web page or landing page you create must have a call-‐to-‐action. Make sure this is a big yellow button and overly clickable. The bigger this is, the better. A great tool for A/B testing different call to actions: LeadPages Some examples:
- 43. www.gbox.com Page !42 How To Launch A Social Media Campaign It’s important to have a clear goal in mind when creating a social media campaign. Ask yourself: What do I want to accomplish? Ultimately, your social media campaign should attract potential customers to “opt-‐in” to engaging with your brand. This can be through submitting their email address to your newsletter, or by following you on social media. To help identify where you should be directing potential clients to, we recommend you focus on whatever channel that is currently converting the best for you. For example, if your emailing marketing campaigns are more successful than your social media pages in converting visitors, then you probably want the focus of your campaign to be adding more people to your email list. When you launch your marketing campaign, you will have to take several steps before you can build an engaged community.
- 44. www.gbox.com Page !43 How To Launch A Social Media Campaign Step 1 The Sirst thing you want to do is email your existing email list. We use Aweber to get in touch with our users. Try creating a split A/B test with your emails to Sind out which converts at the highest rate. Best practice: Send two different variations to 30% of your list, and then pick a winner. Use the winning email to send to the rest of your list. Step 3 We recommend “growth hacking” your way to success. A great way to spread the word about your brand is through Q&A threads that are relevant to your niche and topic. This does not mean going around the web and posting links about your brand. Rather, this means engaging in the current conversation, contributing to it in a meaningful way, and then adding a link to your website if it makes sense to do so. Step 4 Use social media to promote your content all over the web. This means encouraging participation, building buzz, and prompting others to get involved with your community.
- 45. www.gbox.com Page !44 How To Launch A Social Media Campaign Identify Your Goals & Target Audience Create Quality Videos That Engage Your Target Audience Convert To Buyer! Get Online and Join the Conversation In Forums, Q&A Threads and Social Media Be consistent and authentic with your engagement. Many of your prospective buyers will take time to trust you and feel comfortable with buying your videos. Be patient! Once you build rapport and trust with your target audience, they will turn into happy buyers! Host exclusive content, giveaways, surveys and contests.
- 46. www.gbox.com Page !45 Measure And Adjust This is where you look through all your data and decide whether your social media strategy is effective or not. Remember, the plan you create is only as effective as the results you produce. Set-‐up Google Analytics First, set a baseline for all your campaigns by creating analytics for your all your social networks. This way you know where you started and what your plans are for growing. You can learn more about setting up Google Analytics on your website here. In order to track the effectiveness of your social media campaigns, use these tools: Buffer Timely Hootsuite Tweetreach Twittermap Bit.ly Facebook Insights Intercom
- 47. www.gbox.com Page !46 Measure And Adjust Create shortened-‐URLs You want to track which campaigns are coming in from where. You will want to use Snip.ly to create shortened URLs to track your social media trafSic closely. A/B Testing campaigns Most landing page services such as Unbounce and LeadPages have tracking built into them. If you would like to use something more sophisticated, then setup Visual Website Optimizer to run on your current landing page. This will show you exactly how your customers are interacting with your landing pages. In the end, revert back to your KPIs (Key Performance Indicator) and decide what worked and take out what didn’t work.
- 48. www.gbox.com Page !47 Follow Best Practices Quality content works like a charm: If you want to really attract and grab the attention of your target audience then make sure you share items that they’d be interested in. In order to beneSit from your social media outreach, it is of the utmost importance to use engaging content while delivering your company’s message at the same time. Free Content: You will always want to give away a “taste” of your content. If your consumers are able to “sample” your content early on, then they will be more apt to purchasing other types of content from you. The other way about this is to use reviews as leverage to build a bigger consumer base. For example, Pattie has 500 reviews on her video about making the ultimate pumpkin pie. Now she doesn’t have a trafSic problem and she hardly ever promotes the video anymore. She gets traction to her video through her reviews. Comments and reviews work like a charm to gain trafSic and build a buzz around your video.
- 49. www.gbox.com Page !48 Follow Best Practices Engagement: The whole point of social media is to engage with your audience through a two-‐way conversation. Social networks are not made for self-‐promotion. Stop using social to promote your website in an un-‐engaging way. Instead, use social media to start conversations and put your consumers in the spotlight. Try featuring someone on your social networks every week. This way they feel exclusive and you are able to build rapport with your audience. Listen: When you listen to your audience you can learn and Sind out what they really want from you in terms of content. This means you should use these social networks to learn and listen to your audience and their needs. The main use of the social network should be to solve your consumers problems.
- 50. www.gbox.com Page !49 Glossary Word De;inition A/B Testing In marketing, A/B testing is jargon for a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B, which are the control and treatment in the controlled experiment. A/B testing can be used to test for conversion rates of different landing pages, newsletter content, or advertising copy/graphics. AIDA Process AIDA is an acronym used in marketing to describe a list of events that may occur when a prospective consumer engages with an advertisement. Attention: Attract the attention of the consumer; Interest: Interest of the consumer; Desire: convince the consumer that they want and desire the product or service to satisfy a need they have; Action: Lead customers towards taking action and/or purchasing. Call To Action (CTA) In marketing lingo, a call to action (CTA) is usually a button or an image that provokes a response and some sort of engagement from the audience. Email Autoresponder An autoresponder is a sequence of email marketing messages, sometimes referred to as a “newsletter”, that gets sent to the subscribers on your email list. The order and timing they are sent out in is set-‐up by you and functions on “auto-‐pilot”. Key Performance Indicator (KPI) A key performance indicator (KPI) is a business metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of an organization. KPIs differ based on the organization and their desired outcomes. A business might be interested in net revenue or customer loyalty, whereas an educational institute would maybe want to know how many of their graduates found employment in their Sield of study. Landing Page A landing page, also sometimes called a "lead capture page" is a single web page that appears in response to clicking on a search engine result or an online advertisement. Lead Capture A Lead Capture is another term for the contact information you acquire for prospective customers who “opt-‐in” to submitting their data to you. Any potential customer whose information you capture is considered a “lead” because they may “lead” to a sale in the future. Lead Magnet A lead magnet is something you use to encourage potential buyers to give you their information. It is an incentive (sometimes called an “ethical bribe”) that can come in many different forms (free report, discount, bonus material, etc.).
- 51. www.gbox.com Page !50 Glossary Word De;inition Lead Generation In marketing, lead generation is the generation of consumer instruct or inquiry into the products or services of a business. Leads can be created for purposes such as list building, e-‐ newsletter acquisition or for sales leads. Niche Market A niche market is the subset of the market on which a speciSic product is focused. The market niche deSines the product features aimed at satisfying speciSic market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to impact. It is also a small market segment. Organic Traf;ic Organic trafSic is trafSic that comes to your website as a result of unpaid search results. Sales Funnel The term “sales funnel” refers to the buying process that leads customers through to purchasing your products or services. A sales funnel is divided into several steps, which differ depending on the particular sales model. Social Media Social media refers to websites and applications that enable users to create and share content with their friends and networks, or to participate in social networking. Social Reach Social reach can be deSined as the total number of people you are able to reach across all various social media networks. Target Market The speciSic group of consumers at which a product or service is aimed. Traf;ic Web trafSic is most simply deSined as the number of visitors to your website or landing pages.
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