I saw this in my Twitter ads this afternoon…$0.007 cost per engagement in the ad below– less than a penny.
40.4% engagement rate– meaning nearly half the people who saw it clicked ‘Like’, commented, or shared. Normally 1% is pretty good for an ad.
When you make one-minute selfie videos with someone well-known and target that person in your ads, your relevancy is sky-high. If you can’t meet them in person, get them on Zoom– perhaps via your podcast. If I made a video with Rich Schefren and targeted Rich Schefren on any network, my CTR and engagement will be off the charts. And then, if I choose lead generation or conversion as my campaign objective, I’m hacking the system to drive low-cost sales.
But if the person I’m co-creating content with doesn’t have much of an audience, there is not enough for the algo to work with.
But, they don’t have to be A-list celebrities. I’ve found that having 20,000 to a million is about the sweet spot– since it usually correlates to a niche but not so big that their audience is too diffuse (which then is better to sell potato chips).
I’ve spent a billion dollars on Dollar-a-Day ads– and it works in every industry, especially service businesses.
The key ingredient is one-minute videos with what we call LIGHTHOUSES— people respected by the clients you’d like to reach. And the best campaign objective to choose is leads, not sales– since it’s only a small step up to collect an email in exchange for some valuable guide or quiz result.
The #1 expert in local online lead gen for service providers is Welton Hong. Follow him here on Facebook and enjoy his one-minute gold nuggets.
I don’t endorse a lot of people, since few truly have current hands-on expertise at scale. And not just funeral homes- any local service business that has locations.
The TRUTH About Geofencing for Funeral Homes There's been a lot of talk recently about the benefits of adding geofencing to digital marketing campaigns for funeral homes. To that notion, I have a four-word reply: Don't believe the hype. In reality, the traditional type of geofencing administered by most agencies actually provides little-to-no ROI. I'm sorry to say, it's practically a complete waste of money. With that said, there are ways to use the location services on mobile devices to promote your funeral home (and get excellent ROI). They just don't fit into the limited scope and functionality of traditional geotargeting. So if you're pondering a geotargeting campaign or are currently using one (and wondering why it's not performing better), I strongly encourage you to watch a recording of a webinar that I did recently. I explained exactly why traditional geotargeting is expensive and inefficient, and I'll introduce you to a much more beneficial and cost-efficient alternative—one that's perfect for a funeral home.
Posted by Welton Hong on Monday, December 30, 2019
We can forgive the innocent B2B marketer for spamming their lists.
Euphemistically, we call it “blasting”– doesn’t sound like fun on the receiving end, does it?
And we can even forgive the aggressive conference badge scanner or telemarketer.
Remind me to never let exhibitors scan my badge either– since the 7 am wake-up calls cramp my style.
But this type of sin is particularly troublesome since it’s done by a company that claims expertise in lead gen:
This person appears to be asking for help, but really they’re using a canned sales message that continues to follow up incessantly.
In fact, their company admits it in their note “Our automated tools allow us to easily scale up your growth”.
They claim “push button” simplicity in lead gen– that we can sit back and watch the leads roll in.
We will get “thousands of highly-targeted leads and a laser-targeted email copy that converts”– their words, not mine.
Marketing is about truly caring for the customer, not viewing them as a wallet for raiding, which happens to have legs.
We’re all so busy and struggling to keep up that it’s tempting to want to resort to spamming shortcuts.
It’s for the same reason that people want to lose weight fast or get rich quickly.
Spam in the form of flyers on your windshield or knives peddled at your doorstep– it’s the same thing.
Be a marketer that attracts people with love, as opposed to carpet bombing cities with propaganda.
The outbound cold-calling and spamming sales approach must give way to authentic inbound marketing.
Today’s marketers are too smart for brute force approaches to work, especially as they educate themselves and bring functions like media buying in-house. The networks such as Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn are creating training and automation that will cut out middlemen over time.
Incidentally, this gentleman never replied to my email, though he seemed so urgent in wanting to talk to me.
