4 Best Practices for Social Advertising If a tree falls in the forest, it's debatable that anyone hears it. When your ad fails on Facebook, though, there's no confusion. It was a dud. A lack of interaction tells the tale. That doesn't have to be the case. 1. While we've established that an ad with no Likes is an embarrassing failure, it's also true that an ad with a lot of interaction from the wrong people is a waste of pixels. For instance, say you wanted to target all the feta cheese fans in New Jersey. As Peter Goodman, VP of Social.com at Salesforce.com, notes, a successful social media ad program relies on good customer data. How to do that? 2. Take a look at most advertising you see. There doesn't have to be. Jimmy Kimmel notwithstanding, creating a viral video, though, is nearly impossible Berkowitz says. 3. Facebook's Promoted Posts and Twitter's Promoted Tweets look more like communication with consumers than ads. Sometimes social ads don't even need to be ads. 4. Have something to add to this story?
The Perks of Being on Pinterest We’ve already learned that each of the top social media platforms must be used differently, but do you know which is the fastest growing? How about which one drives the highest revenue? Or are you curious about the timeline of content virality? Stumped? Well, let’s just say there are some serious perks to being on Pinterest. It Keeps Growing, and Growing, and Growing… Since it’s inception in 2010, Pinterest has been the fastest growing social media platform in the US. In Q1 of 2012 312 were on PinterestIn Q2 of 2012 403 were on PinterestIn Q3 of 2012 530 were on Pinterest Tailwind’s CEO, Danny Maloney, predicts that by the end of 2013, 90% of the top 1500 brands will be on Pinterest. They Spent How Much on Pinterest?! If you were a betting person, which social media platform would you say drove the most revenue? The reason for this is the inherent use of sharing on Pinterest. Content That Stays Viral quality of the content. Hyper-Targeting is Built in
Introducing Google Tag Manager for Mobile Apps & New Google Analytics Services SDK Mobile Apps pose a unique set of challenges for marketers and developers. On the web, you can iterate on content and features in near-real-time and deploy conversion tracking, Remarketing, analytics and other tags to measure the effects on your users. Apps, on the other hand, are effectively frozen at the point of user install. Making even the slightest change means waiting until your next update makes its way through the various app stores and even then, you can’t be sure that all of your users will update quickly, if at all. The surprisingly static nature of Mobile Apps creates significant problems. With Google Tag Manager for Mobile Apps, you instrument your app once and from then on, you can change configurations and add analytics, remarketing and conversion tracking later – without updating your app. Include the new Google Analytics Services SDK (Android, iOS) in your app. If you’re already a Google Tag Manager user, then there’s really nothing new for you to learn.
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