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In her 2011 presentation, Krista Nelson emphasizes effective marketing strategies using new media to promote The Benefit Bank's online services. Focusing on the POST methodology—People, Objectives, Strategy, Tools—she presents actionable steps for engaging audiences, setting clear marketing objectives, and utilizing social media platforms. Key tactics include identifying target audiences through listening and engagement, optimizing web content for SEO, and measuring performance with analytical tools. This comprehensive marketing approach aims to drive traffic and grow The Benefit Bank’s networks during critical times like tax season.
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If You Build it, Will They Come? Krista Nelson 2011
Presentation Highlights • Topic: Marketing through New Media • Goal of Presentation: Promote an understanding of how to market The Benefit Bank online service and grow TBB networks using email and social media • Critical question/case: Tax Season Case Study • Major Take Away: POST marketing methodology
The Post Method The steps move through the marketing cycle. • People • Objectives • Strategy • Tools
POST: P is for People • Discover, Determine, Define the Audience • Discover by listening • Who are they and what are they interested in? • Determine by aggregating • What categories are appropriate? • Define through engagement • What can we learn through conversation?
Determining and Defining an Audience in Twitter • Following - • Follow those who share the same audience • Mentioning • Mention those who share the same audience • Hashtags • # use them to search and archive
Mentioning and Following helped determine the tax season audience while hash tags were used to define.
Email subject lines define and audience.Subject line: South Carolina State Tax Filing Status
POST: O is for Objectives • Set a marketing objective • Drive traffic to web page • Set an objective for every message • Learn more on our web page • Tie message objectives to marketing objectives • Place links to web page in message
POST: S is for Strategy • SfP Communications Policies • TBB Style Guide • Register email client, web and social media • Optimize for search engines (SEO) • Plan communication around season, events and audience need
Tasks to Support Strategy • Optimize communications for Search (SEO) • Create templates and landing pages • Build an arsenal of content – monthly content, weekly content, daily social media messages, retweetable and FB sharing content • Determine objectives for each communication • Calendarize content • Collaborate with counselor training to encourage email reading • Establish posting rituals
POST: T is for Tools • Sending and Posting • Listening and Scanning for Content • Managing and Executing Strategy • Measuring Performance
Tools to Send and Post Messages • Email - Constant Contact • Dialogue - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn • Blogging - WordPress, Blogger
Tools to Listen & Scan for Content • Social Mention • listen for users, keywords and sentiment • Twitter Search • listen to tweets • Twazzup • Scan trending topics • Nutshell • Listen to specific twitter lists, facebook lists and key words
Tools to Manage and Execute the Strategy • Hootsuite • schedule and publish posts across networks • Involver.com • create social network pages • HTML • create web and Facebook pages • Photoshop, Illustrator • create graphics
Tools to Measure and Track Performance • Facebook Insights • measure interaction, user demographics, Likes • Constant Contact • open rates, clickthroughs, shares • Google Analytics • web traffic, facebook page traffic, twitter clicks • All Facebook Stats • view competitor’s performance • Addthis • track how your messages are being shared
TIPS • Don’t wait to be an expert to get started • Use POST throughout the marketing life cycle • Experiment with email subject lines • Experiment with posting dates and times
If You Build it, and use POST They Will Come
FAVORITES Counselor Recruitment
FAVORITES Facebook post gets shared….
FAVORITES …and re-shared
FAVORITES TBB gets mentioned to huge following.
FAVORITES Use trending topics to get retweets.
RESOURCES • www.thebenefitbank.com/Marketing_Center • knelson@solutionsforprogress.com • www.socialmediaexaminer.com • Social Media Summit – LinkedIn Group • The Benefit Bank Marketing – Facebook Group