Early in 2012, Luke Jamieson our Director of Online Marketing gave a Master Class presentation on online marketing.
The 'workbook' style presentation covered many different aspects over 3 hours including how to create online marketing goals, classifying your audience, basics of SEO, social media & paid advertising.
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Synergy
Two or more things functioning together to produce a result not
independently obtainable.
The term synergy comes from the Greek word synergia meaning
"working together“.
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Why are we talking about Synergy?
• Online Marketing / Digital Strategy relies on a
mix of elements for best results.
• Use of various tools in sync to achieve your
business & marketing goals.
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Business Goals
Paid Advertising Competitor Research
Social Media
Marketing Strategy
Search Engine Optimisation Your Website
Company Blog
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Bieber knows how!
20,000,000 Twitter followers (2nd behind Lady GaGa - more than Barack
Obama, YouTube and Twitter itself!)
42,000,000 Facebook fans
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Online Marketing / Digital Strategy Landscape
• Your digital strategy encompasses your
business, marketing, communications plans &
target audience.
• Results achieved using a range of online tools
to connect with your customers (audience).
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Online Marketing / Digital Strategy Process
• Objectives
• Audience
• Strategy
• Implementation
• Measurement
• Refinement
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Online Marketing / Digital Strategy Process
• Objectives – What are we trying to do?
• Audience – Who are we trying to reach?
• Strategy – How are we going to reach them?
• Implementation – Lets get started!
• Measurement – How did we go?
• Refinement – What adjustments to make?
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Online Marketing / Digital Strategy Process
What tools are we going to use to do this?
• Website & Blog – Your online marketing mothership!
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube)
• Paid Advertising (Google AdWords, Bing, Yahoo)
• Google Analytics (Set Goals & Measure)
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Workbook Exercise One (Objectives):
• What is your main business objective?
(Provide professional services/advice, sell products, educate, other?)
• Do you have a marketing strategy?
(Online marketing is another channel arm not a sole solution)
Your online objectives should reflect your offline business & marketing goals.
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Workbook Exercise One (Objectives):
• What is the main objective of your online
marketing?
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Online Marketing Objectives
Some common examples:
• Increase visitors – Bit short sighted
• Increase leads – Better!
• Build brand awareness
• Engage with your audience / customer support
• Capture details & build relationships
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The strategy used to
market this business
website is very
different to
professional services
15-20yr old girls
Time online spent on
Facebook & Twitter
Tech savvy, high share-
ability, low income –
will enter competitions
to win. Highly mobile.
Impulse buyers.
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Professional Legal
Services
Mature audience
Need problem solved.
Don’t spend much time
online, use search to find
help, low likelihood of
sharing or use of social
media. Need facts before
making decisions.
Financial.
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Workbook Exercise Two (Audience):
• Who is your target audience?
• Have you created personas for each type of
customer? I.e. Do you know you you’re talking to?
• Do you know what information they want and
where they get it?
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Creating a Digital Strategy
Goals + Audience + Platforms = Start of Strategy!
• Create a strategy to achieve your goals!
• Fish where the fish are!
• Who to target & how to target them!
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So how do we do it?
• We know our objectives
• We know who we’re targeting
• We know where they spend their time online
• How are we going to get in front of them?
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Your Website (& Blog)
• Your content home – your main vehicle
• Transaction machine – convert to leads / sales
• All roads lead to Rome! – centre of your
strategy
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What is a Website?
• An Investment!
• A 24/7 lead generating
machine. Right?
• Or an empty house in an internet ghost town?
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What is a Website?
• Your website is your most important salesperson
• 81% of customers research a business online
before contacting.
• What does your website say about your
business?
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Workbook Exercise Three (Your Website):
• Does your website give a good first impression of
your business?
• Is it clear what action you want a user to perform
on your site?
• Can you measure visitor behaviour?
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Workbook Exercise Three (Your Website):
• When was the last time you updated your
website content?
• Do you have a blog?
• If so, when was the last time you updated?
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Your Website (& Blog)
• Size DOES matter!
• In December 2011 – Google announced that sites
with frequently added content will be a priority
for search rankings.
• Note – frequently added not frequently updated
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Lets review a website!
• Who’s willing to volunteer their site?
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• Your website is ready to convert visitors into
customers
• Measurement is in place to monitor website
usage
• Its time to open the doors and let some
people in and see what happens.
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• From Wikipedia SEO is…
• “…the process of improving the visibility of a
website or webpage in search engines via the
‘natural’, ‘organic’ or ‘algorithmic’ search
results…”
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• SEO is a Verb – A doing word
• SEO is ongoing – not once off
• You get out what you put in – like eating
vegies!
• Not a magic pill
• Long term strategy, no quick results
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• From Luke, SEO is…
• “…creating great content so that people
looking for your stuff, find and share your
stuff…”
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• All about optimised content
• Not just text – images, video, audio
• Be engaging, be remarkable, be shareable
• The more you give, the more you get
• If you want to be the top of Google – you have to
provide the best content.
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
Example of creative content:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
l7FLwfTUJ0
• This video could be included on a product
page, or accompany a text review on your
website, or blog.
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
Compare to this:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmeqI8pc
sMI
• Who would you rather buy from?
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• Expand website content
• Create a corporate Blog
• Share your collateral (PDFs, Graphics, Videos)
• Optimise for keywords & phrases
• Make it shareable (Facebook Likes, Tweets)
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• Example – Snowys.com.au
• Target demographic – Campers / Outdoor types,
passionate, willing to spend for right product.
• Lets look at their blog – live example.
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• Example – Snowys.com.au
• www.snowys.com.au
• http://blog.snowys.com.au
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Workbook Exercise Five (SEO):
• Is each of your page targeted to a specific
topic?
• Can you expand category / services pages into
individual topic pages to create more content?
• Can you add new content & pages to your site
easily? (CMS or Blog)
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Workbook Exercise Five (SEO):
• Think of 4 things, not currently on your site
that you customers could find useful or might
be searching for.
• Tip: Do this every month!
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• How do I know the right Keywords?
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• How do I know the right Keywords?
– Use Google keyword tool http://bit.ly/GW9QbA
– Look at your website stats
– Ask you current customers
– Ask your family & friends
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• What about links?
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
• What about links?
– Good content gets shared and linked to
– Use your social media profiles
– Local business & industry directories
– Other people blogs & forums
– Guest writing
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Local Links (SEO):
• Local Business directories
– Yellow Pages Online, Hotfrog, TrueLocal
• Niche / Industry directories
– Infolink.com.au for the building industry
– Urban Spoon, WebMenu.com.au for restaurants
– Ferret.com.au for manufacturing industry
• Government! www.sa.gov.au
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Workbook Exercise Six (Links):
• Do you sponsor any local charities?
• Make sure your website is listed in local
directories (Hotfrog, TrueLocal etc)
• Industry associations / directories
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Google Places (SEO):
• Most important business listing!
• Integrates with Google Maps & other third
party applications
• Complete, 100% accurate, include
images, videos and categories & reviews
• Shows ahead of organic SEO results
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Google Places (SEO):
• Lets look at a live example
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Workbook Exercise Seven (Google Places):
• Have you claimed your Google Places listing?
• Is it 100% complete? (Info, images, categories)
• Are you actively collecting reviews?
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Social Media:
• Building and engaging with your online
community!
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Social Media:
• Which platforms are most appropriate?
• Facebook? Twitter? LinkedIn? YouTube? Google+?
• Use your target audience to help determine
where to put your brand.
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Social Media:
• Who has LinkedIn? http://au.linkedin.com/in/lukej
• AICC LinkedIn for business workshop coming up:
Wednesday April 18th
• AICC Social Media for business workshop:
Wednesday July 11th.
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Social Media:
• Not a stand alone solution
• Avenue to push out website, blog content.
• Engage influencers to help share your content.
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Social Media:
• Requires constant attention
• Social media policies – who manages, what
actions need to be taken when.
• Build community / customer service rather than
direct sales leads.
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Workbook Exercise Eight (Social Media):
• What (if any) social media platforms do your
target audience spend their time on?
• Do you have a social media policy?
• What internal resources do you have to monitor
and maintain your profiles?
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Paid Search / Pay Per Click (PPC):
• You only pay when your ad is clicked
• Send visitors to an offer page
• Ensure tracking is enabled (web and phone)
• Measure your leads and sales for ROI
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Paid Search / Pay Per Click (PPC):
• Google AdWords “Adelaide Plumbers”
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Paid Search / Pay Per Click (PPC):
• Bing Ads “Adelaide Plumbers”
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Paid Search / Pay Per Click (PPC):
• Facebook Ads – They target You!
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Workbook Exercise Nine (Is PPC right for you?)
• Do you have pages on your site with unique
offers?
• Do you high value, high margin products.
• Do you offer seasonal specials.
• Can be good research for SEO to find which
keywords work well.
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Google Analytics (Website Statistics)
• “50% of my marketing is working, I just don’t
know which 50%!”
• Print, offline hard to guage.
• Online, everything is measured.
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Google Analytics (Website Statistics)
• Online marketing is highly measurable
• Ensure web analytics is set up correctly
• Measure everything!
– phone calls, clicks,
– form submissions, bookings,
– downloads, newsletter sign ups.
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Google Analytics (Website Statistics)
• What keywords are finding your site?
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Google Analytics (Website Statistics)
• What are they doing on your site?
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Google Analytics (Website Statistics)
• Where do they come from?
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Workbook Exercise Ten (Google Analytics)
• Do you know how customers find your site?
• Do you know your website conversion rate?
• Do you know which pages on your site are
most popular?
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Work Book Exercise Ten (Google Analytics)
• Do you know what keywords people are using
to find your site?
• Do you have Google Analytics on your site?
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Summary / Key Takeaways
• Define business & marketing goals.
• Define target audience.
• Work out where audience spends their time
online & what information they look for.
• Create a Digital Strategy to produce
information they need & share it where
customers are looking.
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Summary / Key Takeaways
• Clearly define website goals (and track them!)
• Content is King (marketing, sharing is Queen)
• Think social
• Think local
• Consistency is key, once off won’t cut it
• SEO is long term, Paid Ads are short term
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Summary / Key Takeaways
• Test & Measure EVERYTHING – no excuses
• Refine & focus on what's working.