Post on 20-Aug-2015
Jai RawatCEO
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Mike EwingServices Program Manager
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Inbound Marketing SaaS founded in 2006
10,000+ customers in 52 countries
All-In-One Marketing Software Including Revenue and Order Management
Abandoned Cart & Pre-transactional E-Commerce Nurturing
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Comprehensive Social Commerce Platform
Started in 2010
150+ Brand name customers
Focused on generating ROI
LinkShareTechnology
Genius Award
Most promising private companies
2013
Featured in a recent Social Commerce
case study
Top StartupAward
Ask-a-Friend
Refer-a-Friend
Get-a-Fan
Social Connect
Social Login
Viral Offer Sharing
Viral Flash SaleShare-a-Purchase
Share-on-Mobile
Shopping Community
Product StoriesSocial SEO
Share-and-Win
Get-an-Email
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What is your role?1.E-Commerce Expert
(I carry out E-Commerce strategy)
2.Social Media Marketing Specialist (I run Social Media)
3.Boss (I make decisions)
4.Geek (I code)
5.Other
If you chose (2) and haven’t tweeted about our webinar yet, your vote will be invalid!
Source: http://geek-and-poke.com/
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Is Facebook Failing Marketers?
Why Marketers are Failing to Benefit from Facebook?
Seven Successful Strategies
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OrganicReach
Paid Reach
1 2
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Source: social@Ogilvy study
Organic reach of content published on brands’ Facebook Pages is down to 6%
For Pages with more than 500,000 Likes, organic reach is a dismal 2%
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Step 1. Spend money to acquire Facebook Fans
Step 2. Now spend more money to reach these fans
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OrganicReach
Paid Reach
1 2
Fewer than 15% of ads leverage social data
FB display ads are significantly less effective than display ads at other sites
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What has been your experience with Facebook ads?
a. Never tried
b. Tried but no longer running
c. Currently running but ROI is poor
d. Currently running and happy with ROI
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Chorus of angry rants from brands superbly led by this now-famous “Breakup Letter to Facebook” from Eat24
Relationship status between Facebook and Marketers:
It’s Complicated!!!
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Why are Marketers Failing to Leverage Facebook?
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Imagine you are a sports team. Who would you qualify as fans?
Like us to win a free ticket
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Like buying results in poor quality fans, worse many of these are simply fake
Lack of engagement from poor/fake fans brings down organic reach & makes promoted posts more expensive!
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Which country leads the Apple fanbase on Facebook?
a. USA
b. UK
c. China
d. Bangladesh
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Fake Likes originating from Like-Farm countries
Google (16M Likes), Apple (11M Likes) are most popular in DhakaSource: EDGERANKCHECKER study
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“I want to connect the world”: Mark Zuckerberg
Platform designed for C2C interaction
Newsfeed is private space of users; B2C push is less effective
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An average Facebook user has 1500 eligible posts in feed every day
For users with lots of friends, this number can go up to 15,000
Remember – average time spent daily on Facebook is 18 minutes!
Facebook’s algorithms rightfully pushes content which user would want to interact and engage with
Sources: TechCrunch, Statistic Brain
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SocialOutreach
Email Marketing
Registration
SEO Conversion
Customer Acquisition
Social Proof
Ads
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Section III
Strategies for Generating Positive ROI from Facebook
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SocialOutreach
1995: Email2014: Fans & Followers
Email Marketing
Registration
SEO
Conversion
Customer Acquisition
Social Proof
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Like us to win a free ticket
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Onsite Like-gated fan acquisition widget
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High quality fans : familiar with the brand, interested in their products
Onsite : users never leave the site
Higher conversion: ‘earning’ coupon makes it more valuable
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15,000+ real & high quality Facebook fans acquired in short span of time
33.28% sales conversion rate for Facebook fans
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Email Marketing
1995: Email Acquisition
2014: Profile Acquisition
Social
Registration
SEO
Conversion
Customer Acquisition
Social ProofOutreach
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Encouraging users to do a Facebook Connect
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Capture rich profile data e.g. name, email, b’day, interests & location
Pre-verified email address means coupon can be delivered inline rather than sending users away from the site to their inbox
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29.79% Sales conversion rate for users getting personalized communication
Overall revenue uplift of 8%
670% ROI
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Name
Birthday
Gender
Location
Friend Graph
Interests
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Registration
1996: User Id - Password2014: Social Login
SocialOutreach
Email Marketing
SEO
Conversion
Customer Acquisition
Social Proof
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By the end of 2015, 50% of new retail customer identities will be based on social network identities
Source: Gartner research
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88% of consumers have encountered social login before
51% of consumers using social login
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SEO
2005: backlinks, keywords
2014: social signals
SocialOutreach
Email Marketing
Registration Conversion
Customer Acquisition
Social Proof
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Source: searchmetrics
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Thenupdated
10/16/2012
Nowupdated
05/27/2013
Google has officially replaced ‘back links’with ‘sharing’ as the key SEO driver
Source: http://goo.gl/VxcHFR
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Conversion
1998: visitor -> buyer
2014: buyer -> brand ambassador
SocialOutreach
Email Marketing
Registration
SEO
Customer Acquisition
Social Proof
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Proactively encourage users to share their purchases from your site
Leverage points of highest customer delight in purchase flow:
• Completion of purchase
• Delivery of product
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Customers encouraged to showcase purchases just after online transaction
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Case Study: Beretta USA
Shoppers encouraged to take a ‘selfie’ and share it before exiting the physical store
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$19.15 revenue generated from each post
15% overall revenue uplift –measured through a rigorous A/B testing
How about Beretta AXR 100? Bought ityesterday. Feels great and amazing to shoot.Check my Facebook post?
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Customer Acquisition2005: Search
(demand fulfillment)2014: Social
(demand generation)
SocialOutreach
Email Marketing
Registration
SEO
Conversion
Social Proof
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User like the product and share it on Facebook with a comment
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Facebook post is shared with all friends – leading to social discovery
Each post drives 4-5 click-throughs and 10-15 view-throughs
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Gallery of user-comments facilitates social discovery and customer acquisition
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Social Proof2006: Product Review2014: Real time buzz, photomonials
SocialOutreach
Email Marketing
Registration
SEO
Conversion
Customer Acquisition
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Social Proof from Real People on Product Pages
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Real Time View of User Generated Photos Shared on Instagram, Twitter etc.
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SEO
2005: backlinks, keywords
2014: social signalsConversion
1998: visitor -> buyer
2014: buyer -> brand ambassador
Customer Acquisition2005: Search
(demand fulfillment)2014: Social
(demand generation)
Social Proof
2006: Product Review2014: Real time social buzz, photomonials
SocialOutreach
1995: Email2014: Fans & Followers
Email Marketing
1995: Email Acquisition2014: Profile
Acquisition
Registration
1996: User Id/ Password2014: Social Login
• 15-20% Increase in conversion rate• 7-10x ROI• 10-15% Incremental Traffic
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