7. TWEET TO US
We will be live tweeting from
@secondstreetlab!
Join the conversation on
#PromotionsSummit
#PromotionsSummit
8. TWITTER CONTESTS
• Best tweet of the day
• Best photo
• Most tweeting
• Best photo of you exploring St. Louis
• Best additional movie quote
#PromotionsSummit
9. My momma always said,
life was like a promotion.
You never know what
you’re gonna get.
Forrest Gump
11. TWITTER CONTESTS
• Best tweet of the day
• Best additional movie quote
• Best photo
• Most tweeting
• Best photo of you exploring St. Louis
#PromotionsSummit
Promotions…
12. TWITTER CONTESTS
• Best tweet of the day
• Best additional movie quote
• Best photo
• Most tweeting
• Best photo of you exploring St. Louis
#PromotionsSummit
Promotions…
…my precious.
13. TOP 5 THINGS ADVERTISERS WANT IN
2014
The Start of
Something Big
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23. TOP 5 THINGS ADVERTISERS WANT IN
2014
#PromotionsSummit
The Top 5 Things
Advertisers Want
24. SPEAKERS
Julie Foley
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
julie@secondstreet.com
@julie_foley
Matt Chaney
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
chaney@secondstreet.com
@mattchaney
#PromotionsSummit
25. 1. Generate Leads
2. Drive Engagement &
Foot Traffic
3. Grow Social
4. Grow Email Database
5. Collect Data
TOP PROMOTIONS BENEFITS
#PromotionsSummit
54. SECRET SAUCE
#PromotionsSummit
• Persistence – the seller established a
relationship with the merchant and spent
time crafting the deal.
• BND’s audience was better than other
sites the merchant had worked with.
55. Brandy Carter
Director of Integrated Sales
SmartReach Digital / Entercom
bccarter@smartreachdigital.com
@BrandyCCarter
#PromotionsSummit
SPEAKER
65. SECRET SAUCE
#PromotionsSummit
• Valuable insights for the advertiser and
lead generation.
• Mobile database, Facebook, and email
database growth.
• Proof through results.
70. Stage 7
Vote for wedding dress + reception site
Stage 6
Vote for honeymoon suite
Stage 4
Vote for wedding cake + rehearsal location
Stage 3
Vote for flowers; bonus sweeps for voting
Stage 2
Top 3 couples interviewed on air; vote for winner
Stage 1
Vote for Top 3 couples
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71. Results – media company
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$30,000
in revenue
74. SECRET SAUCE
#PromotionsSummit
• Contest with a valuable prize that engaged
the target audience.
• Live event at the resort.
• Integrated campaign with broad reach.
86. SECRET SAUCE
#PromotionsSummit
• Station-wide buy-in
• Internal team including multiple
departments, including marketing, creative
services, and sales.
• Email opt-in & Like-gate to grow
databases for future marketing
95. SPORTS CLIPS
Sports Clips is a hair salon that caters to men and
boys by providing hassle-free hairstyling in a
sports-themed environment.
Sports Clips has four locations in the market and is
opening a fifth location. They are looking for hot
leads, foot traffic and to build brand awareness.
The target demo for Sports Clips is Men 25-54 with
a secondary demo of female head of households.
#PromotionsSummit
96. STL REALTY
STL Realty is the oldest and biggest realty group in St.
Louis. They serve all areas of the market in a variety of
home styles and price points. Focusing on the customer
service experience and ease of the home buying process,
STL Realty turns most of their customers into lifelong
customers.
STL Realty is looking for first time home buyers. They
would also like to generate leads, expose people to their
huge library of listings and raise their overall brand
awareness. The typical age of a first time home buyer is
30.
#PromotionsSummit
97. ROOTS & BLOOMS GARDEN CENTER
Roots & Blooms Garden Center has enjoyed great success
with their single location garden center for 30 years. They
recognize that their retail business varies from season to
season so they are always working to create repeat/loyal
customers. They also added a landscaping division about
10 years ago that has seen tremendous success in the
residential landscaping category.
Roots & Blooms is looking for people that are in the market
to do a major, DIY landscape project (Avg. cost $3K). With
a secondary goal of finding customers that are doing
seasonal maintenance and purchasing shrubs, flowers,
pots, supplies, etc. They are looking for leads, foot traffic
and overall awareness.
The target demo for Roots & Blooms is female 35+.
#PromotionsSummit
98. PROMOTIONS AS A WINNING FORMULA:
STORIES FROM THE FIELD
#PromotionsSummit
The 4 Pillars of
Promotions
Success
99. SPEAKERS
#PromotionsSummit
Katie Wilson
Director of Digital
& Retail Advertising
The Quad-City Times
kwilson@qctimes.com
Tim Murphy
VP Digital Strategy
& Enterprise Platforms
Entercom
tmurphy@entercom.com
@tmurphdigimedia
104. Christmas in July
The Quad-City Times | Davenport, Iowa
Grew revenue by $5,000 in the second version of this SMB Facebook promotion.”
- Katie Wilson, Digital Sales Manager
$19,250 in Revenue
11 Sponsors
157 – 341 New
Facebook Likes per
Advertiser
“
105. THE BEST PROMOTIONS TOOLS YOUR
NOT USING
#PromotionsSummit
The Best Promotions
Tools You’re Not
Using
106. SPEAKERS
Matt Chaney
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
chaney@secondstreet.com
@mattchaney
Paul West
VP of Customer Relations
Second Street
paul@secondstreet.com
@pfwest
#PromotionsSummit
107. #PromotionsSummit
DEALS
REPORT CARD
Avg. Similar Your Data Avg. Similar Your Data
$23.17 $45.14 $662.70 $1,137.49
$31,849.67 28
Avg. Similar Your Data
27% 48%
6.50% 11.43%
1.00% 0.81%
Get Yours Free 81% Avg. Similar Your Avg. Data
Refer a Friend INACTIVE 10 28
Popover Enabled 432 8
# of Deal Groups 4 3 6
Credits Created 7 0 0
Average Revenue per
Deal
Average Price
Point
Length of Deal (days)
# of Contests / Month
Average Open Rate
Average Click-thru Rate
% of Total Audience that are Active Buyers
Number of Deals
Program Details - Monthly Averages for PeriodFeature Usage
# of Contests w/ Optin
Travel:
1%
Beauty:
30%
Restaura
nt:
23%
Event:
7%
Retail:
16%
Recrea o
n:
6%
Services:
12%
Other:
5%
Deal Mix
$1,899
$928
$1,871
$990 $1,014
$1,652
$1,281
$430
Average Revenue Per Deal by
Category
5,612
26,348
Email Database
Your Data Average Similar
51
288
Average Similar Your Data
Avg. Monthly Opt-ins
$37,591
$29,530 $28,428
August September October
Monthly Revenue
108. #PromotionsSummit
DEALS REPORT CARD
Avg. Similar Your Data Avg. Similar Your Data
$23.17 $45.14 $662.70 $1,137.49
$31,849.67 28
Average Revenue per
Deal
Average Price
Point
Travel:
1%
Beauty:
30%
Restaura
nt:
23%
Event:
7%
Retail:
16%
Recrea o
n:
6%
Services:
12%
Other:
5%
Deal Mix
$1,899
$928
$1,871
$990 $1,014
$1,652
$1,281
$430
Average Revenue Per Deal by
Category
26,348
Email Database
288
Avg. Monthly Opt-ins
$37,591
$29,530 $28,428
August September October
129. HOUSEKEEPING
TONIGHT
• Party at the Second Street Office
• Networking Dinners at 7:15pm
TOMORROW
• Group Activity for Day 2
• Team Breakfast at 7:30am
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HOUSEKEEPING
130. PICK UP YOUR RFP
#PromotionsSummit
Yellow
Green
Red Star
Pink
Black
Silver Star
Blue
Red
Purple
Gold Star
Notas do Editor
What are your most successful print issues?
How can you align a contest with those?
What are your most successful print issues?
How can you align a contest with those?
What are your most successful print issues?
How can you align a contest with those?
What are your most successful print issues?
How can you align a contest with those?
They provided an incentive to opt-in – a Buy 1 Get 1 Free meal coupon – if you joined the email database
What are your most successful print issues?
How can you align a contest with those?
Foot Traffic – have run deals in the past with minimal success
Merchant has said no several times – persistence and GREAT customer service paid off and they ran a deal
Family owned busines
Advertiser was THRILLED with all of the ‘new faces they saw’
Great/qualified customers
Will run the deal again
Brandy
Growth was exponential
Emily
Big aspect of this campaign
Send out a newsletter called Common Cents
Gave them 562 new emails
Emily
They ran out of gift cards!
They sold 1000 gift cards
Emily
In Card Sales
That encouraged them to look at more promotions
Used power of new fans in first quarter promotion
Community Rewards program, had over 78k votes
They were floored
Emily
In Card Sales
That encouraged them to look at more promotions
Used power of new fans in first quarter promotion
Community Rewards program, had over 78k votes
They were floored
Emily
In Card Sales
That encouraged them to look at more promotions
Used power of new fans in first quarter promotion
Community Rewards program, had over 78k votes
They were floored
500+ submissions
15,375 users
19,248 votes
Emily
Big aspect of this campaign
Send out a newsletter called Common Cents
Gave them 562 new emails
Emily
Big aspect of this campaign
Send out a newsletter called Common Cents
Gave them 562 new emails
Emily
In Card Sales
That encouraged them to look at more promotions
Used power of new fans in first quarter promotion
Community Rewards program, had over 78k votes
They were floored
500+ submissions
15,375 users
19,248 votes
Emily
Big aspect of this campaign
Send out a newsletter called Common Cents
Gave them 562 new emails
Katie
This deal not only helped grow our database but because of our focus on deal quality, those who got the free deal have been actively buying. In fact, they’ve spent over $55K since we ran deal! That’s all new money we may have never gotten!
Background:
Why this advertiser?
How was it closed?
What did they get out of the deal?
Results
2,276 “purchased”
2,276 deals claimed
Approx. 1,144 new users
851 made subsequent purchases
Those who got deal have ended up buying two additional deals
Over $55K in new revenue
Katie
Specific onesheet and promotional package for each store
Value of every item included including total value
Great place to stress the reach of your entire audience based on the mix of this package
Key deadlines, dates, basic specs
Minimum requirements (ex. must be 50% off or more)
Keeps it simple and straightforward
So, welcome to promotions university
We listened to you
Based on feedback gathered by our Affiliate Success and Affiliate Support Teams
Based on interviews and interactions with dozens of partners
We created an online training program built from the ground up with our partners in mind
To give them the knowledge and insights to be as successful as possible with promotions
Here are a few of the things we learned
Need our help to supplement their own training
Get new hires up to speed quickly and out selling
Those who invest in training, do the best
It’s a common thread among our most successful partners
So, selected the top topics we get asked about to be our launch courses: contest sales planning, deal sales, and contest sales
Let’s take a look at some highlights from each of those
Creating Your Promotions Calendar
Promotions Team
3, 2, 1 Rules
Tips for Sales Team
Sample Packages by Media Type
Entire Sales Process
Bonus Module on Selling Cards
Keys to Prospecting
ROI Calculator Walk-thru
Merchant Center Overview
Prospecting by Contest Type
Merchant Benefits
Objection Handling
Contest Prizes
Post-Contest KPIs &Follow-up
To fit into the busy schedule of our partners and their reps –
Our Courses are made up of 7-8 modules, averaging around 10 minutes per module
So a learner can easily get in and get out
Each module has an assessment at the end to test the knowledge of the learner
This is something we’re offering exclusively for our partners