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TRENDS IN
ONLINE MARKETING


   CASSIE ROBERTS
SIT BACK AND RELAX

Give us your business card at the
    end of the presentation;
    We’ll send you our slides

AND a chance at this gift basket!
CAN’T GET ENOUGH SAFFIRE?
   Come by our booth: L301
Another chance at the gift basket
         AND a chance
        to meet Kendra!

  Social Media @ Cyber Café
MARKETING YOUR EVENT
What do you spend the most money
on?

How does it work for you?

Is it getting you the best results?

Is it helping you to grow?
RODEO HOUSTON STATISTICS
“How did you hear about the event?”

Newspaper – 2%
Rodeo Advertising – 4%
Radio – 9%
TV – 10%
Website – 46%
INTERNET WINS POPULARITY CONTEST
A STEP FURTHER




                 Source: Morgan Stanley Research
ARE YOU FOLLOWING THESE TRENDS?

     ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS?
PRESENTER

        Cassie
        Roberts
• Received BS Public
  Relations, & Masters Sport
  Management, The
  University of Texas
• Born in Central City, NE
• United States Olympic
  Committee
• Rodeo Austin
HISTORY
SAFFIRE CLIENTS
SAFFIRE CLIENTS
PALAMINO FEST
SAFFIRE ASSOCIATION PARTNERS
our goal is to elevate the festival
 industry by enhancing its most
  important virtual front door –
      its online presence.
OUR AGENDA TODAY
Your to do list for when you get home
Prioritize how to make your website better
Statistics to watch and what to do with the info
The latest trends and what to do about them
Maximize your mobile presence
How to make more money with email
Tools to market your event from at your event
Specific online marketing ideas
MAKE A GAME PLAN
WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

1. determine your
  target audiences
WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

2. get your team together -
  make sure to include all
         audiences
WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

3. brainstorm all the reasons
  people come to your event
WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

4. come up with topics
  for all these reasons
CONSIDER THE “RULE OF THIRDS”
1/3 about yourself and your brand

1/3 about things people might be interested
in that aren’t self-promotional

1/3 interact with people
WHERE WILL YOU SAY IT?
Website
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Flickr
YouTube
Pinterest
Blog
CREATE AN EDITORIAL CALENDAR
YOUR WEBSITE
HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR SITE?
YOUR WEB GUY
YOUR WEB GUY
YOUR WEB GUY
THE GOAL

       you must be able to
market your event on your website
           in real time
THE REALITY

98% of anonymous online
prospects enter a website
  looking for something,
yet still leave anonymous
MAKE INFO INTERACTIVE & QUICK TO FIND
 Keep navigation organized.
 Have something to draw people to another page.




                     SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATION
      Use categories and supcategories to organize
                your event information.
besides your homepage, where do
   people go on your website?

        (do you know?)
MAKE EVENT PAGES INTERACTIVE
MAKE EVENT PAGES INTERACTIVE
MAKE EVENT PAGES INTERACTIVE
MAXIMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook or Tweet your FESTIVAL
MAXIMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook/Tweet a festival EVENT/FEATURE
MAXIMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook or Tweet a PHOTO of an event/feature
WHY DO ECOMMERCE?
ECOMMERCE=INSURANCE POLICY
ECOMMERCE=INCREMENTAL REVENUE
DETERMINING PRICE
80/20 rule
   • Approximately 80% of the tickets you sell
      online will be redeemed
   • Offer 20% discount
   • Come out even

Free shipping or print at home
   • ESPECIALLY when cheap
      to ship
SELL MORE NOW
•   Make your tickets easy to find.
•   Have minimum clicks to get to the shopping cart.
•   Integrate the design of your website with the
    design of your cart so that the “look” doesn’t
    change at the buying moment.
ANALYTICS
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH
           • Low visits?
  site       Improve SEO or
             online marketing
 visits      of your site
4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

bounce    • High bounce rate?
            Improve your
 rate       homepage
4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

 actions/    • Not enough action?
               Make your website
conversion     more compelling
   rate        (good rate: 2%)
4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

 time     • Low time? Add
            interactivity and
on site     other “stickiness”
TRGETING TRENDS
what is the fastest growing website
             of all time?
PINTEREST
Pinterest was the first site to get 10 million
unique visitors in a month.

Pin event photos (and more) and invite
your customers to follow your boards!
PINTEREST
PINTEREST
TEXT MARKETING
Your customers are texting.
Consider joining the conversation.
Judiciously text deals and special
announcements.


                    SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATION
  Start offering people the opportunity to sign up for
 text, even ifyou don’t know what you’ll do with them.
50% of all web content is…
YOUTUBE
 Customers exposed to videos
are 437% more likely to engage
        in your brand.
   Engagement = Purchases

                SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATION
 Make your videos raw and not too produced to
   help customers identify with your brand.
WHY TWEET?

 17% of the top 1,000
search terms on Twitter
   alternate hourly.
WHY TWEET?
Twitter is current on up-to-the minute
important news and cultural
happenings.

Ramp up your publishing
frequency, and make timely content
the focus of your Twitter activities in
order to satisfy information-hungry
users.
TRICKS & TIPS FOR TWEETS
For the highest click-through rates:
Tweet between 120-130 characters.
Write tweets containing “via,” “RT,” “please” and
“check.”
Post weird/human interest stories.
Tweet on the weekends.


      We don’t like to work on weekends either. Use:
   www.hootsuite.com to schedule social media in advance
THE ART OF THE HASHTAG
      A hashtag (#) is how Twitter
      users organize themselves:
       if everyone uses a certain
     hashtag to tweet about a topic,
 it becomes easier to find that topic in
search, and is more likely to appear in
       Twitter’s Trending Topics.
ENSURE ADOPTION OF A HASHTAG

           Sorry!

         You can't!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
POST it – relevant places on your
website/blog
PRINT it – event materials, signage,
scoreboards, etc.
PUBLICIZE it – Twitter feed, regularly and
consistently

          It is vital to make it easy and enticing for
    your customers to find, adopt and promote hashtags.
FUN ACTIVITY
Can you tweet from your phone or computer
right now?

Let’s start some buzz at the WFA
Convention…

Tweet: “Having a great time watching
<entertainer> with @SaffireEvents at the
@westernfairs convention #WFAConvention
MOVING MOBILE
MOBILE
APP OR MOBILE SITE?
                0%


   BlackBerry
      24%
                     Android
                      46%
       Apple
      iPhone
       30%
APP OR MOBILE SITE?
WHY MOBILE?
Customers use mobile search to
shop.

 • 95% of all mobile searches are for
   local products and services.

 • 61% of all local searches result in a
   purchase.
THE PERFECT STORM
MULTI-SCREEN MARKETING
MULTI-SCREEN MARKETING
WHAT LEADS TO MOBILE PURCHASE?
MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Update your content in real time!
MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Manage information about events
MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Edit a quick homepage message
EMAIL MARKETING
TARGET EMAILS FOR MOBILE

email opens on smartphones and
tablets have increased 80% over
        the last six months
WHEN WILL YOU SAY IT?
Statistics are clear
  • Day of week: Tuesday (try Friday for
    fun!)
  • Time of day: Mid-morning
Unless you’re big, don’t publicize
schedule
WHO WILL YOU SAY IT TO?
If you’re starting from scratch, GET
GOING!
  •   Outlook contacts
  •   Volunteers
  •   Sponsors
  •   Vendors
  •   Performers
  •   Past purchasers
  •   Etc.
EMAIL SIGNUPS ON EVERY PAGE
What will we say?
WHAT WILL WE SAY?
CONSIDER A PYRAMID

                one main
                  story



                  TEST
                 AGAINST
               EACH OTHER


 two smaller                two smaller
   features                   features
WHAT WILL WE SAY?

don’t tell the whole story.

     goal: CLICKS!
good content links to CLICKS, but
 a good subject line (sent at right
     time) leads to OPENS
WHAT MAKES A GOOD SUBJECT LINE?
Include something recognizable
Use action words
Not too spammy
50 characters or less
 • Turn into Tweet, with 120 characters, #
   and shortened URL
 • Turn into Facebook, with 150
   characters, graphic and no #
EMAIL ARTICLES: THE FORMULA
Headline
Image
Text (short, with links)
Call to action
  • Consider “Click here to enter now!”
MEASURE YOUR EMAILS
PER EMAIL
Open rate
Click-through rate (CTR)
Response rate – web visits, revenue

OVER TIME
House file size
Churn (percentage who leave your list)
Revenue/email
Cost/email
SAMPLE OPEN RATES
Varies by client
• 9-15% on low end
• 30-35% on high end

Who has the highest open rate?
• Good subject line
• Clients who sell online
• Clients with a strong brand
• Sent at right time/day (Tuesday mid-
  morning)
SAMPLE CLICK RATES
Around 10-20% (not as much
variance)
Depends on call to action, so use
action words
  •   Get More Info!
  •   Sign Up!
  •   Buy Now!
  •   More Photos!
REAL TIME MARKETING TOOLS
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
PINTEREST
YOUTUBE
SPECIFIC IDEAS

   Ask questions that get people
to talk about themselves in relation
           to your event
GRAB THEIR ATTENTION
 • Consider funny – tweets from
   mascot, etc.
 • Personal/human interest stories get a
   lot of hits

 • Posts with photos get more views!


Think about what YOU would want to click!
MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE INSIDERS
• Be the first to know about X via social
  media!
• See behind-the-scenes looks at our
  event!



     Your customers feel special,
and they are more likely to be long term
              followers.
MULTIMEDIA
• Photo contests on website and
  Facebook
• Caption that photo
• Funny video upload

          Photos and video are
naturally VIRAL and give you more event
                photos!
TAGGING IN FACEBOOK
Take pictures of the crowd at
concerts, post them and encourage
them to tag themselves


      Your photo appears in
       their Facebook feed!
GET PEOPLE TALKING
Show live tweets on concert side
screens
Have a vote or quiz
 • Answer on text, app, QR code, etc.
CONTESTS WITH PUBLICITY BONUS
Have a contest for front row
concert seats
  • Text, tweet or post on FB page NOW =
    publicity

Do giveaways with charitable tie-in
GETTING RETWEETS
Judiciously promote big sponsors
for retweet
Same with vendors and
entertainers
Post thanks to people/groups;
they’ll repost
BULLS EYE
Leave your business card, and we’ll send:
• These slides
• The Editorial Calendar template
• A free subscription to The Dirt
• Invitation to educational webinars
• Chance to win the gift basket!
SOURCES
http://www.insightera.com/blog/
http://heidicohen.com/mobile-marketing-research-chart/
http://www.business2community.com/online-marketing/11-statistics-to-
turbocharge-your-targeted-online-marketing-0235544

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Trends in Online Marketing - PA

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. We are going to give you lots of great info today you’ll be able to use to immediately increase revenue for your event. But you don’t need to take notes. Just come up afterwards and give us your business card, and we’ll send you a link to the slides right after the conference.
  2. We are going to give you lots of great info today you’ll be able to use to immediately increase revenue for your event. But you don’t need to take notes. Just come up afterwards and give us your business card, and we’ll send you a link to the slides right after the conference.
  3. They say put your money where your mouth is; let’s talk about these things.
  4. Five years ago, most of us probably felt like we were spending a ton of time online. But internet usage has more than DOUBLED since then! The amount of time people spend overall on the Internet has increased 121% over the past five years.In 2010, for the first time ever, Internet usage surpassed television usage.Even if we’re not personally following this trend, our customers are, and they are the ones we most need to reach in order to grow.Are we following this trend?Do we think our customers are?
  5. By 2014, more people will access your website via mobile devices than desktop computers. Based on the trajectory I’ve seen, I believe it!
  6. Saffire Events was founded by Kendra Wright, who has been building websites since 1995, when the internet began.In 2000, she joined forces with Aaron Pederson, Saffire Events’ technical director, and Jeremy Emerson, Saffire Events’ creative director.
  7. Besides their work in the event industry, their team does work for large consumer companies in a lot of industries. This gives a breadth of experience that they bring to marketing events online.
  8. Cassie does website, mobile and social networking.
  9. Blog – you update and customers commentThe rest, both you and your customers can contribute.
  10. This is a format I’ve loved and used for years. It’s super simple (and I can send it to you – just request it). Just put the dates down the left and the mediums across the top. Then start filling in things from your brainstorming session.
  11. Sometimes, however, your guy isn’t available.
  12. #1 we all know nothing sells an event like photos. Photos are also an EXTREMELY personal way to share an event, especially if the photo is of them. This is one of the great things about localized eventsAbout half of young Americans find their news through Facebook. Do you make it easy for people to share content and articles?
  13. Selling advanced tickets to your event is like an insurance policy against all these things. Things happen. People get busy. They use up all the money from their current paycheck. But if they have a ticket to your event, they will probably come. But not all of them will. People will spend incremental revenue.And because redemption won’t be 100%, you can even afford to discount tickets and/or offer free shipping off the gate price, and still make more than you would have.
  14. Selling advanced tickets to your event is like an insurance policy against all these things. Things happen. People get busy. They use up all the money from their current paycheck. But if they have a ticket to your event, they will probably come. But not all of them will. People will spend incremental revenue.And because redemption won’t be 100%, you can even afford to discount tickets and/or offer free shipping off the gate price, and still make more than you would have.
  15. Videos account for 50% of all online traffic as of January 2012
  16. Videos account for 50% of all online traffic as of January 2012
  17. http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/12-ways-to-market-your-event-with-social-media/http://www.commscorner.com/2010/04/live-events-need-twitter-hastags-built.html Source Mashable.
  18. http://www.commscorner.com/2010/04/live-events-need-twitter-hastags-built.html
  19. http://www.commscorner.com/2010/04/live-events-need-twitter-hastags-built.htmlPost - media section, event section, etc
  20. So you know you need to be on Mobile, but what should you do- an app or a mobile site? And do you know the difference? App: Downloadable interface that installs Mobile site- DEFINITELY. You’ll reach MORE! That way you don’t have to guess which phone will “win!”The same technology you use to build mobile also works for tablets (no Flash)An app only reaches your most loyal followers while a mobile site reaches EVERYONEQR codes only go to mobile sites!
  21. If you’re doing it, so are your customers. Figure out ways to market that link different forms of technologyTablet/Laptop/Phone/TV: Pick two and link them
  22. Fascinating which things it doesn’t matter if it’s DURING the program even! Not just during commercials
  23. Therefore, the use of personalization, smart timing, and enticing calls to action are essential in making your content stand out and receive the desired attention. These best practices and much more are detailed in our free guide to email success
  24. Kendra – You can get statistics from your tool, so you should test, but Tuesdays mid-morning is the best time historically.Big events like Rodeo Austin can have a monthly newsletter, but especially for smaller events, we don’t recommend a publicized schedule. It’s the kiss of death for not having news at the moment you’re “supposed” to send it. Instead have an internal calendar.
  25. I’m always surprised that events don’t have email lists that they email on a regular basis. Does anyone here not email yet?
  26. The most important place to collect addresses on an ongoing basis is from your website. These people have self-selected that they like receiving information electronically.Don’t:LINK to an email signup (include it on the page)Put it on just the HOMEPAGE (put it on every page)
  27. Now you take your ideas you’ve put into your calendar, and pick the one(s) to send, and write your story – but don’t put the whole thing in your email. Put a few sentences, and link to your website or blog, where people might get “sucked in” to learn more. I love including more than one article, so you can test them against each other. Then have an office pool as to which one will get the most clicks – I bet you’re surprised!
  28. This is a format I’ve loved and used for years. It’s super simple (and I can send it to you – just request it). Just put the dates down the left and the mediums across the top. Then start filling in things from your brainstorming session.
  29. Now you take your ideas you’ve put into your calendar, and pick the one(s) to send, and write your story – but don’t put the whole thing in your email. Put a few sentences, and link to your website or blog, where people might get “sucked in” to learn more. I love including more than one article, so you can test them against each other. Then have an office pool as to which one will get the most clicks – I bet you’re surprised!
  30. Now you take your ideas you’ve put into your calendar, and pick the one(s) to send, and write your story – but don’t put the whole thing in your email. Put a few sentences, and link to your website or blog, where people might get “sucked in” to learn more. I love including more than one article, so you can test them against each other. Then have an office pool as to which one will get the most clicks – I bet you’re surprised!
  31. We talked about how your goal in your content is to get clicks to your website, blog or Facebook. But none of this means anything if people don’t open it in the first place! Make sure you have a good subject line!What is a good open rate?
  32. So what’s the format? Simple. You just need a headline, some imagery, text and a call to action. Some research shows that Click Here gets lots more clicks, but I’d include it not as the link – make the link be the actual action you want them to take.