connecting social to lead generation
DESCRIPTION
This was presented at Dreamforce 2012. The topic was around how small businesses can appear larger and grow faster. This presentation covers social lead generation.TRANSCRIPT
Connecting Social to Lead Generation
Jennifer McNabb
Social Marketing Manager
Spredfast
@Jmc409
About Spredfast
• Social media management system (SMMS)
• Entire company is social
• Our customers are large enterprises and agencies
• Based in Austin, TX
• 100 full time employees
Social promo
Social promo
Landing page
Landing pageLanding
page
Blog3rd party
site
Social promo
3 Approaches to Social Lead Gen journey:
DIRECT CONVERSION
CONTENT INSIGHTS PAID &
EARNED
ORGANIC WORD OF
MOUTH
NETWORK SHARING AND CONVERSION
SpredfastGoogle
Analytics Marketo SFDC
Journey of a Single Social Lead
Metrics to track
2.5% of our leads in the last 8 months were from social
• 70% from Linkedin
Impressions
Actions
Conversion
Network growth • 169% growth Twitter• 265% growth on Facebook• Paid & organic
Social contest case study• 820 views of our blog • 40 submissions
7 Social Lead Gen Rules to Live By
Define a strategy
Include a call to action
Use power words to keep it interesting
Keep it retweetable
Tag early, tag often (people, companies, events)
Always include a link or multimedia
Embrace the channel
Next steps for small businesses
• Content gets clicks, clicks = conversion
• Think about social like you do search
• Don’t forget about assets you already have
• Connect the dots to your business metrics