Internet Marketing CHELSEA Week 9-11 Flashcards
What is blogging?
- Online equivalent to writing in physical journal
- News
- Thoughts
- Daily events
- Focus on particular theme
- Encourage social networking
- Mostly text based limited imagery
Differences between journals & blogs
Journal- A daily record of news and events of a personal nature; a diary.
Blogs- Public, blogs can be commented upon.
What are 2 Common Blogger Tools/Websites & what do they provide?
- Blogger
- WordPress
They provide:
- Simple interfaces for creating and publishing
- Free accounts (with optional paid add-ons)
What are the 7 steps to publish a blog?
- Open account
- Select design template
- Set-up blog roll & blog categories
- Load content:
- Written posts
- Pictures
- Videos
- Music - Create External links
- Proof read
- Post live
List and describe the 4 types of blogs.
- Media Blogs
- Closely related to news & current events
- Similar columns in major newspapers
- Often run by journalists (on mainstream media blog or personal blog to give their own commentary on current news)
- Other media blogs are run by individuals - Business blogs
- Run by companies or industry organisations
- Provide industry insight, advice & updates
- Establish company as an industry through leader or expert - Personal Blogs
- Maintained by individuals
- Typically record events from their day-to-day lives e.g. dating, current events, family news, travel.
- Don’t usually expect to gather large audience, written for family/friends - Micro blogs
- Shorter, snappier posts
- Typically only a line or two
- Quick glimpse into what the blogger is doing at that moment
Give an example of a blog search engine.
Technorati- Lets users scour the blogosphere for content.
What are the benefits of blogging?
- Inexpensive & easy to start
- Personal (human voice, conversational tone)
- Helps increase credibility
- Improve customer service
- Support marketing campaigns
- Expand/attract new audiences
- Sensing pulse of the market
- Increased visibility
- Increase web & blog traffic
How can you create a successful blog?
- Use great article titles
- Maintain a friendly but brand orientated voice
- Keep content relevant & focused
- Invite comments & stand by the content
- Don’t sell
- Promote the blog
- Don’t delete- once you write 21-54 blog posts your traffic increased by up to 30%
- Engage with others & cross promote
- Update content regularly
What are the pitfalls of blogging?
- Lying
- Ghost-writing
- Sub-standard execution
- Longevity
- Representation
How is Facebook beneficial to business marketers?
It is a cost effective tool for small business
It lets business owners:
- Expand their networks
- Communicate with friends and potential customers
- Share business information through status updated & noted, pictures and videos
- Join network categories (schools, employers, geographic regions)
- Add applications & surveys
What are the 15 ways to utilise Facebook?
- Build a Facebook page
- Status updates to the wall
- Post pictures & videos
- Post links
- Add notes
- Other apps available (e.g. promotions app) - Brand interaction
- People ‘like’ a fan page 4x a month
- Major brands experience a 0.01% interaction rate on their fan page - Add events to calendar
- Make page interesting
- Provide Info
- Include Images
- Engage with users
- Be available
- Mobile Friendly
- Provide a link
- Keep things positive
- Build a Facebook App
- Promote page offsite
- Give people rewards for liking page
- Use FB advertising
What are some advertising targeting tools?
- Location (based on IP address) up to 25 countries, but only 1 country at once
- Gender
- Age/Birthday
- Likes
- Interest
- Workplace
- Education
- Relationship
- Connections (MGM)
Explain CPC & CPM.
CPC= Cost Per Click.
- Specify the maximum per click cost
- Allocate daily budget
CPM=Cost Per Thousand Impression
-Set a cost for each 1,000 times your ad is shown
In terms of Twitter, what is Social Capital?
Social Capital= A measure of how influential a Twitter’s followers are. A high value indicates that most of the that Twitter’s followers have a lot of followers themselves.
What percentage of Tweets are from real people vs. businesses?
90% tweets by real people, 10% from businesses.
What are the 6 Twitter’s Ad Analytics metrics?
- Impressions
- Re-tweets
- Clicks
- Replies
- Followers
- Timeline
How many videos does the average person watch per month?
182
How long do consumers spend watching a video?
3 out of 5 people say 2mins.
How many people are less likely to return a product after viewing a video?
1 in 2 are less likely to return a product after viewing a video.