3. Marketing Communications Specialist,
Office of Graduate Programs,
University of Michigan-Flint
Previously Public Relations & Marketing
for Easter Seals
I really dig social media
4. Because they had already been doing it
To boost social media impact
Drive more people to our website
Liked the idea of such targeted exposure
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7. Facebook is my friend
Twitter could be my friend
LinkedIn has not yet been my friend
17. What do you ultimately want to achieve
with your ads…
Clicks? Registrations? Likes? Follows?
Comments? Retweets? Shares?
Conversions?
18. Inquiries, Inquiries, Inquiries!
(so usually clicks to website)
Sometimes, event registration
19. Know how much you have to work with
Over how much time do you want to use
this money?
How much is reaching a goal worth to
you?
20. Use overall Marketing Plan to determine
yearly budget
Divide by 12 for monthly budget
Determine how many programs, events
or campaigns need to run
Weight each according to need
Divide by weighted numbers
Budget for ad!
21. What platforms are you already on?
What platforms do you have success on?
Where are your audiences?
Where do you want to grow your
audience?
22. Currently on Facebook and Twitter
Biggest outside following and most
engagement on Facebook
Internal following on Twitter
Would like to grow on all three platforms
23. Do any other departments at your
institution already have ads running on
these platforms?
What is your competition up to?
Scroll through your own feed. What
catches your eye?
24. School of Management runs Google Ads
Competition is all over – not just on these
traditional three
› General Programming
Ads that seem local and authentic
25. Write your message and call to action
Write some more versions of your
message and call to action
Collect some images
Collect some more images
26. Usually Learn More or Register Now
Write at least three versions of every ad
At least three different images
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28. Your Options
› Newsfeed Ads
› Sidebar Ads
› Boost Post
› Paid Page Likes
50. Options:
› Paid Ad
› Sponsor an Update
› Other customized options not through self
serve
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55. Where are you spending the most
money
What is getting the most bang for your
buck?
Are goals being met?
Should anything be paused, added,
deleted?
Notas do Editor
-Already had Facebook and Google Ads which drove steady traffic to the website
-I love social and wanted to be able to make more of an impact there but what I was currently doing wasn’t getting the results I hoped for
-Website is the key marketing tool and I wanted to increase traffic for people to learn more
-Plus new website
-Love the targeting capabilities
Depends on:
If you are already using social
If social is part of your strategy
If your audience is on these platforms
Paused all ads because people were seeing them so often and our traffic from Facebook went down
Did an overhaul of the ads in October when the new website went live and our likes on Facebook have doubled
Top is how many people we are reaching – very small but there was some reach before
Increased engagement after October
-Proud to be teaching in the program, and alumni
-Dr. Furman
-Questions about program
-Criticism
-Current student
Said we were disgusting but had a discussion and decided to delete the comment
A few favorites and retweets – this campaign going better
One ad had no clicks – but I am trying again
Ran for a long time with very little interaction
Inquiries can be put into EMAS recruiting database and start the communication plan
Open Houses
Cost per inquiry – 47.50
Different audiences and different ways to target on each platform
Make sure you are competing against each other
Don’t use targeting as much
I always notice ads that don’t seem stock – bride-to-be example
Use consistent language with your website
Tell them what you want them to do
What authentically represents this
Logo isn’t always best
Paying for impressions but will show ads to optimize this and report by objective
Want to pay per click you have to do it in advanced settings
I always choose and size before hand
Add as many pictures as you can!
Make sure to size correctly
Can adjust right in the platform
Make sure you are posting from the page you would like to promote if you run multiple pages
Spend some time writing your ads – create a spreadsheet
Walk away and come back and read it out loud
Call to action button – usually learn more for me.
Havent decided if this gets more clicks or not
Facebook recently updated
Custom audiences – explain what these are
Location
Age
Gender
Languages
Education Level – yay!
Job titles
Behaviors – slow technology adapters, fast technology adaptors
Your Likers , who you don’t want