How UNICEF Mozambique reached 1million people with 1 post, with just 40k followers
1. How we reach 1m people with 1 post
by UNICEF Mozambique
2. Step 1 – learn about your followers
Head over to your Facebook Page Insights, Click “Posts” and then “Export”
3. Step 1 – learn about your followers
Set the “DATA RANGE” for last 180 days, Set the “DATA TYPE” to Post level
data, click “Download”
4. Step 1 – learn about your followers
Open the Excel file, and lets study your top 5 posts. Choose the “Sort & Filter”
option, and select “Custom Sort”, Set the Column option to “Lifetime Post Total
Reach” and the Order to “Largest to Smallest”
5. Step 1 – learn about your followers
You will now have the top posts on top by “total reach”, you should also
analyze the top 5 by “Total Engaged Users” (Column P), and the
“Lifetime Post reach by people who like your Page” (Column X), they usual are
the same.
On the second column from the left “Permalink” copy that link of the top 5
to your browser and lets analyze what your followers liked.
6. Step 1 – learn about your followers
Study the trends: Length of text, Type of language, and Most important the
photo type and time you posted. We found that embedding the text and
highlighting the action you want them to take was on all of our top posts,
also saw that high contrast photo and short text (<500chars) and Portuguese
was a common trend on them.
7. Step 2 – research online, follow key blogs
Besides your own trends and followers, you should aim to learn about the
online social media community who provide free reports on a weekly basis:
So join and read Socialbakers.com, blog.hubspot.com, Allfacebook.com,
socialmediaexaminer.com, etc.
We learned from them how our brain process information on a photo 60,000
times faster than simple text, and that emebedding the action on the photo
results in 5x more shares (we value shares more, followed by comments, and
at last likes)…
8. Step 3 – combined research and your followers
Combining the two pieces of information, and start crafting that killer post.
We already have 3 posts that surpassed 500,000 people reached. And we only
have 40,000 followers. And last month we got our first 1million with 1post.
9. Facebook: final thoughts
Facebook is all about learning, testing, and understanding your
community.
Its not about
It’s all about:
Your page
Your community/followers
Your community/followers
Your page