Social Necessities

The rise of social media is not a normal step in marketing evolution. It’s revolutionary! We’ve never seen such an enormous upheaval in the marketing mix. Data being reported here and other jaw-dropping performance indicators are the new-normal.

Conversion rates for Facebook Fan pages are four times higher than for regular display ads for goodness sake! (Source: Campalyst Social Analytics, October 2011)

The conversation with data is one best spent listening. It’s telling us something important. Social is important because it works better than anything else we’ve got!

The Content Rules

Our work revolves around content strategy and design. You connect with your consumers most effectively when you touch them with targeted words and images that create excitement and purpose, and when you form an experience that stokes their passion. This rules what we do. The consumer experience CAN be vastly improved.

The Tale of the Tape

 

    • Facebook is gaining on TV as the principle mass communications medium among all age groups
    • “Facebook is not necessarily a strategy anymore. It’s like Ground Zero in terms of reaching the 18 to 34 audience.”
    • Comparisons of Facebook page views with website page views show that Facebook consumers outperform. They:
      • Spend more
      • Visit more frequently
      • Visit longer
      • Are more loyal to the brand
  • Facebook marketing spend +258% in last 2 years
  • 48% of 18 to 34-year-olds check Facebook immediately upon waking up
  • 60% of Twitter users use Facebook 3+ hours per week (vs. 49% of Facebook users overall)
  • Twitter brand Followers (21% – and growing) are:
  • More loyal to their brands than non-Followers
  • More engaged with the brand after Following
  • Expecting unique content from those they Follow
  • More likely to recommend the brand than non-Followers
  • Search marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, email marketing, and social media will grow to 35% of ALL advertising spend within the next five years. – Forrester Interactive Forecast 2011 – 2016

Sources: eMarketer Daily October, 2011;
Syncapse Social Trac Report;
Web Business Facebook Demographics, 2011;
Constant Contact/Chadwick Bailey Consumer Pulse Study 2011

There is evidence to show the key value-add to social as a discrete medium is its ability to harness expressed and implied endorsement in simple, inexpensive ways. This is the elusive word-of-mouth that is critical to local marketing success.