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4 Tips for High Engagement on Digital Campaigns

posted by Kelly Jarvis
Vice President Digital Strategy – DC

We all want our advertising to be highly successful and send droves of people walking through the door, but we all know that doesn’t always happen. Millions of dollars are spent each year on advertisements that don’t work. Don’t be that guy. Use sound traditional marketing practices with solid knowledge of the digital world and create campaigns that work.

 

In a country where over 6 billion texts are sent each day, 68% of adult Americans are on Facebook, and there are 1.1 billion tablet users worldwide, it’s easy to argue that the place to find people these days is on their devices. You don’t need numbers to realize that. Just look around you in the grocery store line, the subway, or your own home.

 

Here are 4 tips for making your digital campaign worthwhile.

 

1. Know your goal.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? What defines success? Is it getting viewers to click to the website? Walk through the door with a coupon? Make a direct purchase? Download an app? You have to work toward a specific goal in order to create an effective campaign.
If you’re playing in the digital world, make sure your goals are digital in nature. And make sure you have digital follow up. For example, the next action should be just as easy as the first click. Have a good website. Make a short and easy form. Don’t lose the conversion after you got them to click.

 

2. Create good ads.
This seems obvious, but there are a lot of bad ones out there. Remember: You have two seconds to catch their attention. The old adage ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’ is true! Find pictures that tell your story. Always use a call to action.
To do that well, use the old who, what, when, where, and why. Keep all of these things in mind when choosing profile targeting, creative messaging, and tactics.
WHO are you talking to?
WHAT do you want them to do?
WHEN are they going to see this?
WHERE are they going to see this?
WHY should they care?
If you didn’t consider all of this when creating your ad, then you might just be yelling, ‘ME, ME, ME’ at them instead of asking what THEY want to see/hear from you.

 

3.  Use all available ad sizes.
It’s a bidding war out there on the internet and you’re fighting for every piece of available inventory within the specific group you’re trying to reach. If a user is on a specific website that only uses the 300 x 600 size and you just didn’t include that in your creative, that’s a missed opportunity.  Mobile typically has higher engagement than desktop so that 320 x 50 size better be in the mix. 300 x 250 is very standard and while it doesn’t have as high engagement as some other sizes, you’ll still miss out on some key inventory if you simply don’t provide it. Make all the sizes your digital team recommends…and if they’re not recommending them, find another digital team.
With that said, if high engagement is your goal (see #1) and you have a very large geography and profile, then maybe go all mobile.

 

4. Rotate your creative from the get-go…and regularly throughout.
This is a good plan overall, but especially true if you’re targeting a very specific group. For example, a retail location targeting parents within a 10 mile radius should know that their intended target may see their ad a few times. As you’d imagine, each time they see it, the likelihood of engaging with it goes down. Either they’ve seen it enough and they’re annoyed or they’ve already clicked on it. Make sure you show them something different. Choose a few messages you want to get across and let them tell the story. Maybe you have a generic branding message, one special event, and one special offer that, together, make up the story you want to tell.

 

In a 3 month campaign, make sure you’re switching out (or at least adding in) new creative each month.  And please, make the creative timely. Don’t be talking about snow blowers in May!

 

Lastly, pick a good digital team that can guide you through all of this, bring great experience to the table, and will optimize your campaign over time to make sure you’re getting what you want out of it.

 

kelly head shot in front of church (2) About Kelly:
Kelly’s focus is to use her knowledge of traditional marketing and passion for digital to help businesses learn how to navigate the digital world. She built her career in the DC area in promotions and sales at major broadcast groups, including ABC Radio, CBS Radio, and Clear Channel, then served over 2,000 radio stations across the country to help them evolve to HD Radio Technology. She most recently served as Director of Digital for a Baltimore radio station helping to diversify their digital offerings and was an Enradius client before she joined the team. Kelly’s philosophy is to approach every task with genuine passion and excitement and she thrives on the creativity of finding the perfect audience and perfect message to craft a killer digital campaign.
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