Internet Marketing Lecture 3

Internet MarketingLecture 3

Building an engaged audience

I’ve written some posts… now what?

Grow your audience…!

Getting your message further afield…Facebook

Linked In

Twitter

Getting the message further afield… Use instant messenger tools to interact with your

audience in real time: have conversations, ask them for their opinions, ideas and feedback…

Connect your blog to Twitter – use a plug-in or Twitterfeed or tweet it from the blog. Use hashtags.

Have a YouTube account if you are uploading video content.

Facebook – create a blog page and paste in links or use your personal feed. Use instant messenger.

Other social media accounts relating to country, topic, pictures, etc.

Use Google+ to spread the word…

Understand your audience Use Google Analytics to look at page views, visitor

engagement, where visitors came from, how traffic is growing… Search traffic =

natural and paid search (Google Adwords)

Referral traffic = traffic from other sites with direct links to your site

Direct traffic = using bookmarks, non-tracked referrals from social media, type-ins

Other = affiliates, display ads, email campaigns.

Let the search engines find you! SEO (search engine optimisation) is the process of

explaining to search engines that your site is relevant to specific queries which are defined by the keywords people use. (White & Biggs, 2012)

Google Adwords Keyword Planner helps you to understand the best search terms.

Aims to get the highest ranking in the natural listings of the search engine.

Use links from other sites that are indexed to help the ‘bots’ find you.

Paid search marketing – PPC (pay per click)

SEO Task

You provide a ‘professional service’ in a country of your choice and would like to promote this using SEO.

Go to Google Adwords Keyword Planner tool and set a geographical target and work out the most effective search terms to market your particular service.

Task

On-page Optimisation If a search term is popular and it is covered by many

websites, it may be hard to find your content. Facilitate spiders’ crawling through your content. For off-page optimisation, Google treats websites

more favourably that have lots of links to them.

This post is about RETAIL, BRANDING, STARBUCKS and CUSTOMER VALUE if you’re

interested?

Online PR Leverage the networking effect! Identify companies and individuals with a strong

online following. Online reputation management. Press releases and influencing media owners. Brand engagement activities: polls, user-generated

content, audience research. Buzz-building: campaigns/events, share content,

viral marketing, etc

Online PR Disaster Daisy Smith, Senior Stylist at Future Lengths has asked for your advice on how to

deal with this online PR issue. The owner of the salon was particularly abusive towards a customer who complained online.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2599680/Kindly-f-PRIZE-Go-psych-manager-SLAG-Astonishing-foul-mouthed-rant-hairdresser-customer-posted-negative-review-Facebook-botched-extensions.html

Task

The Internet Marketing Strategy Segmentation-Targeting-Positioning – who are we

targeting? How are we positioning ourselves against the competition and what’s our value-add (online value proposition)?

What do our potential customers want? Have we found this out?

How will they use and move through our site? What kinds of different customers do we have? How will I get them to stay on my site and come

back for more?

Define social media communications strategy

Plan – management of social media marketing, reputation management and defining the content strategy

Reach – how to increase reach of content Act – encouraging interaction and participation within

own blogs, sites and social media Convert – transition from customer brand

engagement with social media to generating more leads / sales

Engage – ongoing communications with consumers.

Source: Chaffey & Smith, 2013

Key Principles for Content Marketing

1. Content must have intrinsic value2. Understand what content customers do value3. Content marketing strategy may completely or

partially replace traditional advertising and marketing

4. Get your customers to participate5. Make it easy to buy!

Source: Pulizzi & Barrett, 2010

Leibtag’s Valuable Content Checklist

5 benchmarks for designing valuable content:

1. Findable2. Readable3. Understandable4. Actionable5. Shareable http://

contentmarketinginstitute.com/2011/04/valuable-content-checklist/

Content Campfires?!

Source: Content Rules, Anne Handley 2010

Major Content Formats Video – animated, how to guides… E-books / guides – PDFs, white papers… Podcast Webinars – recorded / streamed Infographics / images – explain a concept or statistics Q&As / FAQs News updates Opinion pieces Longer expert guidance pieces Surveys and polls

Adapted from Chaffey & Smith, 2013

Content Marketing Strategy Outline your strategy (STP, OVP, etc) and plan for

the content on your blog, considering the type of content, the amount of each element and the subject matter.

How is online content read? Skimming & scanning F pattern of reading text online Web users spend 80% of time above the fold 69% read the left but only 30% the right Won’t read more than 20% during average visit High literacy = scanning Low literacy = ploughing

Source: http://nichcy.org/dissemination/tools/webwriting/reading

Grabbing attention Get to the point… Most important information first… Capture your audience’s attention and fulfil their

needs! Keep headers to the left margin

Don’t centre text! Make text easy to scan Use bold headingsUse bullets (especially unusual ones)

Who are you writing for?

Your Target Audience The Subject Matter Your Objectives The Context & Style The Literacy Level The Level of Expertise