9. Metrics – Social Can Convert to Users Redesign of blog increased conversion 3X
10. The Future Data – Become #1 Source of Consumer Spending Info Mint Answers – #1 Finance Q & A forum MintLife blog #1 Personal Finance Publication Content Syndication Publish Book
11. What You Can Learn From Mint Everything is Social – Even Personal Finance Content is social but the product is secure A Strong Content Strategy can bring Emotion and Context to your Product It is Essential to combine a Social Strategy with other Channels Let your Data go Free – It will come back to you in the form of Customers
0 to 2 million users in two yearsVirtually no advertising spend Kickstart from TechCrunch 40!Over 750,000 visits a month to MintLife blog, converting at ~1%#3 iPhone app in finance category20% of new users from SEO
Metrics driven – every dollar spent – including PR – must meet our CPA goals. You need to be driven by metrics in social media. Talk about how an article like this is coordinated with and drives PR, seo through embed codes, as well as social mediaLead with good content and virality in social media will be much more likelyWordpress, zoomerang, Google Analytics& Optimizer, Crazy Egg
Once we had established credibility in social media our visitors viewed more pages and signed up for mint.com. It become much easier to repeat our success with future pieces, giving us the confidence to develop more sophisticated content – videos for example.
Don’t re-invent the wheel – the people are already on digg, facebook, twitter, reddit, stumble. You don’t have to get them all to find your website. Produce great content for the community – participate before marketing and selling yourselfEnsure that you are in communities that contain potential customers for your company – right demographic
Search became a great way to generate a positive ROI for our social campaigns, and social increased our SEO rankings. It drove many inbound links to our content, embed codes allowed us to target keywords, and content on our blog raised our profile as a expert in the eyes of the search engines.It also drove partnerships – which our PR team would help facilitate like the Huff Post, where we fed our data and/or infographics to publishers in exchange for links back to Mint
Search became a great way to generate a positive ROI for our social campaigns, and social increase our SEO rankings
Data: What bloomberg did for wallst, we want to do for the consumer and the press – democratize consumer spending data
Revolution on the scale of the printing press. On the scale of SEO a decade ago. Here are examples on how we applied social to our marketing strategies