In a digital marketing class, my teammates and I put together and ran a Pay Per Click campaign for a small Denver coffee seller to learn how Google's advertising tool worked, and what it could do for our client.
2. AGENDA
1. Baroness Overview
2. Competition and Target Market
3. Keyword and Content Research
4. Results from PPC Campaigns
5. Analytics Recommendation
6. Social Media Strategy
3. Company Background
Founded in 1995 by Daily James
Inspired by failed business plan
Office Coffee Supplier
Denver Coffee Shops
Coffee Carts/ Kiosks
4. Strengths
• Unique Services
• Local/Small Business
• Loyal Clients
Weakness
• High Employee Turnover Rate
• Lack of Marketing
• Out of Date website
• Unwilling / hesitant to change
Opportunities
• Growing their roast business
• Expand website, offer online shopping
• Catering business with Denver
Convention Center
Threats
• Kureg
• Growing competition
• Economy, cutting unnecessary costs
• No mission statement or vision
9. Group 2:
Keurig
Gourmet office coffee
First choice coffee
Starbucks
Group 1:
Baroness coffee
360officecoffee
Competition
Starbucks
360office
coffee
First
choice
coffee
Gourmet
office coffee
Keurig
10. KEYWORDS
We included - 234 keywords
The most successful - beans coffee
Only 30 % of our keywords really worked
We used mostly used broad match type
14. Results from PPC Campaigns
• 1 campaign with 3 ad groups
• 49 clicks in 2.5 weeks
15. Results from PPC Campaigns
Ad group Coffee beans Catering Office coffee
Impressions 17,031 641 3,822
Clicks 34 6 9
Click-through-rate 0.20% 0.94% 0.24%
Conversions 0 0 0
16. Analytics Recommendation
• Google Analytics
- To see results of campaign on website
- Track actions on website
- Track conversions
• Facebook Insights
- Track page likes, post reach and engagement
• Ad Manager (Facebook)
- See ad performance
21. Ending Remarks
Increase Brand Awareness: creditability, usability, usefulness
Follow peer B2B marketing strategies examples
Quality keywords fit together with landing page, relevance
Remember the human element of B2B
Baroness Coffee is located in Denver and that’s why the main business is based in the Denver area.
The business attaches importance to quality coffee, wherefore they only offer premium beans and high quality machines. That’s where Tom Smith one of our potential customers comes into play.
Tom Smith is in his mid-40’s making $52,000 a year.
He’s a family guy with two young children and he supports them at his average size office job where he works as an office manager.
But Tom would rather be home with his family in the suburbs outside of Denver where he enjoys playing sports and practicing photography around his two kids.
One weird thing about Tom though, is that he belt buckle to the side because Tom is both fashionable and functional. Although some question whether he is really functional.
Since Tom is an active person, he is serious about his coffee fix.
He gets his coffee before he heads to work because he knows he can find better coffee outside of the office.
The office just uses boring Folger’s grinds in a drip coffee machine but Tom particularly coffee from Starbucks and Caribou (because he is a Mainstreamer).
Tom recently celebrated his ten-year anniversary with his wife. He is a committed and loyal person, who wants to personally know everyone that walks in his office doors.
Tom wants the best for not only his family, but also his work family.
He is committed to quality and that includes the quality of the coffee his employees have available.
Just last month, Tom was awarded “best office manager in the west region” for his corporation, because he is a Succeeded.
He wants to keep that reputation up so he spent the last week researching coffee suppliers to make sure he’s made the best choice for his office.
It’s important to him that not only his employees will like the taste of the new coffee, but also that the company will find it affordable.
Because Tom avoids surprises, he also wants to find a machine that will last a long time and does not break down often.
During his research he visited the Baroness website and read a lot about their expertise on coffee beans and about their commitment to quality coffee and quality coffee machines.
So one can say that Tom Smith and Baroness coffee are a good fit, because both value the importance of quality.
When researching competitors in the coffee industry, the first competitor, who comes to ones mind, is Starbucks.
Starbucks is globally established and so has not just an up to date website with a good online and mobile appearance, but also a great social media appearance
Starbucks can be found on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Other competitors, who are also acting more local like Baroness Coffee, are 360officecoffee, First choice coffee, gourmet office coffee and Keurig.
Here just a few of them already jumped on board of the social media train.
Baroness Coffee as well as 360officecoffee just have a website, which also should be updated.
Whereas First choice coffee, gourmet office coffee and Keurig already started to interact with their customers not just through their website but through social media channels.
First choice coffee can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Gourmet office coffee can be found on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.
Keurig is active on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
So one can group them, where Baroness coffee and 360officecoffee are in group one and have a lot of potential to improve their internet appearance
group 2 are the competitors, who already have a decent internet appearance and can be role models for our business partner as well as 360officecoffee.
When talking about role models, one should also look whether the role model has a similar business model.
Starbucks is a great competitor in the coffee sector, but it has a totally different business model.
The company does not concentrate on office coffee solutions, but more on the B2C than B2B market, where Baroness coffee operates.
So that although Starbucks social media marketing is exceptional, Baroness coffee should take closer looks to gourmet office coffee and first choice coffee, who also focus more on the B2B market.
Monitor sentiment of Baroness online. Set up a Google alert. Stay on top of negative posts to resolve problems. Boost positive posts.
Google to know what everyone else is doing. Buy a high quality camera and take pictures of everything. Grow library of content and schedule out. Make sure content library is accessible for everyone involved.
Practice posting with a/b testing. Figure out what kind of content works best with Baroness fans, and when to post it so that they see it.