How to Use and Track New Media - Marketing Schools, Programs & Kids Camps

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How can you use new media such as blogs, facebook and twitter to engage with moms and kids and market your programs, schools or summer camps? This presentation shows you how you can engage with parents during the various stages of their consideration funnel, and how to track your results with Google Analytics and social media tracking tools. Be the best at private school marketing, summer camp marketing or kids program marketing and selling to moms in Canada. Originally presented by wink11 founders Nadia Duriavig and Daniela Duriavig at the OUR KIDS Marketing Academy Lunch & Learn in Toronto on October 28th, 2014. More tools and resources available at http://www.ourkidsmedia.com/marketing

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MEDIA DISCUSSION USING NEW MEDIA TO MAKE MORE EFFECTIVE MARKETING CHOICES October 28th, 2014 – Our Kids Marketing Academy

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Nadia & Daniela Duriavig Partner, wink11

• Boutique consultancy • 25 + yrs marketing + engineering • digital media • marketing strategy • social media specialists

nadia@thisiswink.com | daniela@thisiswink.com

where you’re at

How do you make effective decisions How do you optimize your marketing mix

How do you leverage new opportunities

Do you have a plan?

Always start with your business

your target

How do you find them How are your parents making their decisions How are your parents doing their research What is the lifecycle of their decision making process

Prospect Funnel

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Prospect Funnel: Awareness

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I need to start thinking of schools, I’m looking around, what’s accessible

Prospect Funnel: Research + Familiarity

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RESEARCH/FAMILIARITY

what are the best, what is important to me, how

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Prospect Funnel: Shortlist

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like minded, good reputation, what do current/past parents

think

Prospect Funnel: Consideration

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research, questions, visits

Prospect Funnel: Decision + Purchase

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this is my top choice

Prospect Funnel: Advocate

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I love the experience, I am part of the community,

I love to tell stories and share with others

Key points of influence

PROSPECTS

current students/families

partners

RDB/USP

TIMING/ CYCLES

geographical/location

Community support/

interaction

Define Your Brand

Examine all your assets: •  Reputation – how can you seed, how can you capture •  Community involvement – are you affiliated with other business/

organizations in the community •  Teachers – they are the building blocks of your school – how can

you communicate their stories •  Your difference (RDB/USP) – strong, consistent, frequent •  Your families (WOM) – use SM/UCG to capture the stories and

celebrations of your current students •  how are you communicating your culture

Distill to 3 key points

why below the line?

Unique channel opportunities: •  optimize investment •  highly measurable •  ability to target • maximize messaging/rich content

How can you intersect with them? AWARENESS

RESEARCH + FAMILIARITY

DEVELOPING AN OPINION + SHORTLIST

CONSIDERATION

DECISION + PURCHASE

ADVOCATE

Web, targeted print, DM, SEO/SEM, mobile, decision making tools, partners, SM

Web, 3rd party advocates, decision making tools, SM

SM, Facebook, blogger, forums, WOM

Frontline CSR’s, web, Facebook, WOM

Lead management process, sign up

SM, WOM, UGC

Is your website working hard enough for you?

• Audit: ! Key destination for information gathering ! Lead generation ! Decision making tools ! CTA’s ! Immersive landing pages ! UX ! Communicate your brand ! Communicate your culture ! Email outreach/referral program

Your website MyschoolXXX.com

Expand web info/CTA/lead capture to other areas •  Online advertising, google adwords, PPC •  SEO/SEM •  Micro targeting •  Partnerships •  Content seeding

Online

Social Media, •  Create active fans •  Leverage passion and connection to your

community •  Leverage natural behaviors of parents and

students •  Document key moments of truth •  Authentic examples of your culture in action •  UGC and original content development can be a

key factor in the decision making process •  Visual search is gaining momentum •  Testimonials, alumni feedback

On site and virtual

•  Leverage existing events already happening

• Content opportunities, are you capturing

• Perfect fit for SM • Prospect opportunities

Lead management process

• Website • Online • What is your process • Email outreach • CSR approach •  Follow up/invitation • Evaluate effectiveness

Wrap-up

•  New media options are agile, flexible and measurable •  Evaluate regularly and identify holes •  Identify new areas to experiment •  Re-visit atleast 2/yr and tweak •  Leverage your staff •  Find good partners who get your business •  Re-examine social media strategy and decide how and where

to use •  Understand cycles of consideration and that you may have to

hit prospects at a couple of different places to ultimately influence

•  Consider expanding your web presence; look at the different content buckets you need to facilitate prospects at every point

QUANTIFYING BEHAVIOUR

Understanding Social Media Analytics And Tools

What are we trying to do?

QUANTIFY engagement DRIVE conversations CAPTURE prospects MEASURE influence UNLOCK value

Meaningful metrics:

Measure AWARENESS, ACQUISITION, RETENTION Connect social media activities to BUSINESS OBJECTIVES Evaluate your programs so you know WHAT’S WORKING AND WHAT’S NOT

ROI of social media AD VALUE •  brand recognition, impressions PR VALUE •  sharing success stories ACQUISITION •  referrals, new business, influence

CUSTOMER TOUCH POINT •  client support, information sharing

RESEARCH •  insights, what’s working for others

RELATIONSHIPS •  brand loyalty, networking, community building

Choose 3 to start: • Blog • Facebook • Twitter • Also: YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest

Primary social channels

Need to define:

How to measure acquisition?

increase in followers/likes more subscribers reach in new target audiences growth in traffic more leads, hand-raisers

How to measure engagement?

comments ratings reviews questions shares retweets direct messages visits hashtag tracking

Create content for the blog, then feed to Facebook and Twitter from there. Add social sharing buttons so others can share. Use tags and add links to optimize SEO and engagement. Encourage natural inbound links.

ToolKit: Leverage your blog content

Most people who are looking for you online will start with Google. How can you make sure they find you?

SEO

• Use targeted keywords and phrases to increase traffic

• Get the RIGHT visitors to your site • Write powerful SEO-rich headlines • Match the content of your blog to what people will be searching for in Google

Google Adwords is built on keywords, based on data that shows which keywords are popular for each industry and website. Use Keyword Planner to select the best keywords.

ToolKit: Google Keyword Planner

Monitor your brand Monitor competitors brands Monitor key words and phrases

• Organization name • Name of key staff • Program names • Campaign names • Events •  Local content

ToolKit: Google Alerts

Use event tracking in GA to assess your online programs. Add code to image, tab, button, graphic, or text link to track. Track THINGS rather than pages. How many people click on your subscribe button? What happens when you move it to another location?

ToolKit: Google Event Tracking

Measures Facebook reach and engagement

ToolKit: Facebook Insights

ToolKit: Facebook Insights

ToolKit: Twitter Metrics/Search

Track twitter activity and reach

ToolKit: Tweetreach

ToolKit: Tweetreach

Insight into your visitors’ behaviour

ToolKit: Google Analytics

ToolKit: Google Analytics

ToolKit: Google Analytics

ToolKit: Google Analytics

THANKS!

nadia@thisiswink.com

daniela@thisiswink.com

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