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Webinar: Spur Tourism Event Registrations using Facebook Advertising

by Kelly Kubrick on September 17, 2019

Upcoming Webinar: October 3rd, 2019 at 2PM EST

Please join me, Kelly Kubrick, online at eLearningU.com for a one-hour webinar:

Webinar title: Spur Tourism Event Registrations using Facebook Advertising

In this fast paced session Kelly Kubrick will show you, with real life examples, how to enhance the experience of attendees at live events by pairing it with a digital equivalent. Your advertising campaign objectives should include securing attendees to either or both events. In this real life case study, learn:

  • The inventory and necessary interplay of digital marketing assets – web, Facebook & email – you’ll need prior to your Facebook advertising campaign launch;
  • 3 critical audience segment you should organize your Facebook media spend by;
  • Key advance actions needed to coordinate the IRL (‘in-real-life’) and digital teams; and
  • How to put content to work to anticipate campaign impact prior to, during and post launch.

Creative for organic Facebook posts for the RCMP Horse Auction 2018

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If you are interested in learning more about Facebook advertising, contact Online Authority today.

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Dispel complexity with educational content using Google paid search advertising

by Kelly Kubrick on April 30, 2019

Campaign Objectives

The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) wanted to promote the availability of a new ebook developed to explain its government-to-government (G2G) offering to Canadian manufacturers.

The Plan

In advance of the paid traffic campaign, CCC developed landing pages in English and French, containing an offer to download the ebook in exchange for providing contact information.

Where Digital Fit

In addition to its regular organic social media and email newsletters, CCC approved a paid search media buy on Google Ads. Online Authority was tasked with advising the internal team with how to plan the campaign, including how to undertake keyword research and how to structure its Ad Groups.

Online Authority provided advisory services to the CCC team on creative – copy and image treatments, and recommended keyword bid adjustments after an initial period in market.

ebook search ads english and french

Results:

Within days of launch, significant insights into the strongest keywords – as well as those worth excluding as negative keywords – were identified for CCC providing critical insights into the opportunities available to CCC’s business development efforts going forward.

If you are interested in learning more about paid search advertising, contact Online Authority today.

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Kelly KubrickDispel complexity with educational content using Google paid search advertising

Target prospects in key industries with LinkedIn advertising

by Kelly Kubrick on April 30, 2019

Campaign Objectives

In its strategic plan, the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) identified key sectors of interest for expansion in its business development efforts. In addition to its significant trade show involvement, the CCC was executing a digital lead generation effort through content marketing.

The Plan:

To drive qualified traffic to its newly developed content marketing assets, the CCC approved a LinkedIn media buy, targeting industries that mapped to its sectors of interest.

In advance of the paid traffic campaign, the CCC developed blog post landing pages in English and French explaining its unique service offering to those particular industries.

Online Authority worked with CCC’s marketing team to set up the its LinkedIn Campaign Manager account, then identify and quantify potential ‘Audiences’ – narrowed by CCC’s targeting criteria – to pursue.

Next, Online Authority undertook the necessary technical implementation for a LinkedIn media buy for CCC, including:

  1. Generating the LinkedIn Campaign Manager Insight Tag;
  2. Installing and configuring the Insight Tag via the client’s content management systems account to ensure it was published to all templates;
  3. Setting up conversion tracking; and
  4. Advising on naming conventions for Google Analytics UTM tracking codes for use later in the campaign.

Online Authority provided advisory services to the CCC team on creative – copy and image treatments, activation and launch, and reporting throughout the duration of the campaign.

Aeroppace and Clean Tech ads

Results:

Within days of launch, the highest-performing audiences, by key sector, were identified for CCC providing critical insights into the opportunities available to CCC’s business development efforts going forward.

If you are interested in learning more about LinkedIn advertising, contact Online Authority today.

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Kelly KubrickTarget prospects in key industries with LinkedIn advertising

Webinar: DAA Thought Leader Conversation with June Li

by Kelly Kubrick on December 21, 2018

Webinar: January 23, 2019 at 12:00 pm ET

Please join me, Kelly Kubrick, online as I have a great time moderating the “ABCs of Establishing Credibility”, a Digital Analytics Association‘s (DAA) Thought Leader Conversation with June Li, brought to you by WiA (Women in Analytics).

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Webinar title: DAA Thought Leader Conversation with June Li brought to you by WiA: ABCs of Establishing Credibility

Join June Li, Founder & Managing Director of ClickInsight, for her thought leader conversation, ABCs of Establishing Credibility, facilitated by Kelly Kubrick, owner of Online Authority, open to all DAA members. A frequent frustration voiced by analysts and consultants is that their recommendations are ignored. Action is not taken. Although communication is part of the equation, even if you are crystal clear, if you do not have credibility, nothing will happen.

During this event, you will:

  1. See why credibility is more than credentials and experience.
  2. Understand how to establish credibility as an analyst, a leader and a consultant.
  3. Learn the simple rules for establishing, maintaining and growing credibility.

June-Li HeadshotJune Li is Founder and Managing Director of ClickInsight, a digital analytics specialist consultancy. A recognized expert in Digital Analytics and Certified Web Analyst, June has spoken at eMetrics, clickZ and Canadian Marketing Association conferences. An instructor at the University of Toronto, she has worked with DAA for over 10 years, helping create the online Digital Analytics Course Program with the University of British Columbia, and teaching DAA Essentials workshops. She has co-chaired the DAA’s Certification Board and helped found the DAA Toronto Local Chapter. In 2018, June was a finalist in the Difference Maker category for DAA’s Quantie Awards.

DAA Experience Level: All levels
Certified Web Analyst (CWA) Professional Development Units: 1

This event was made possible by the WiA sponsors Blast Analytics & Marketing and Tealium.

Previous DAA Thought Leader Conversations

Updated: This event is now available as a recording; register here to view it on GoToWebinar.

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Spur Event Registrations using Facebook advertising

by Kelly Kubrick on November 16, 2018

Campaign Objectives

The RCMP Foundation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police‘s charitable arm, sought registrants for its first-ever online horse auction. Those same registrants were also welcome to participate in a sister event, an in-person horse auction: “See inside the RCMP Foundation’s horse auction” from CBC News.

The Plan

In advance of the campaign launch, the RCMP Foundation developed English and French landing pages announcing details for each auctions, and encouraging visitors to register to bid on any of the 30+ magnificent Hanovarian horses available for sale.

Where digital fit

In addition to securing traditional media coverage including PR and advertising in horse industry magazines, see examples below:

and publishing organic social media content and distributing email newsletters, the RCMP Foundation approved a paid media advertising buy on Facebook.

While researching potential audiences to target on Facebook, Online Authority oversaw the technical implementation needed for a Facebook advertising campaign as undertaken by the RCMP Foundation’s agency:

Following that, in the client’s Facebook Ad account, Online Authority created targeted Website Custom Audiences (WCA) based on past buyer lists and website visitors. Online Authority also developed necessary naming conventions for Google Analytics UTM tracking codes to track the impact of email efforts vs the Facebook ad buy.

In its research, Online Authority identified 65 possible target audiences within Facebook for review and approval by the client. Those were narrowed to 23 optimal choices for launch. Online Authority created each as unique Facebook Ad Sets in order to monitor the performance of each audience against one another.

As the landing page continue to evolve, Online Authority finalized the paid media creative, including copy treatment, and the campaign was activated. Below are three sample placements of the creative that ran, and some of the response generated:

RCMP Foundation Horse Auction sample Facebook Ads

Campaign Results

All 23 ad sets launched simultaneously and performance of each was monitored on a daily basis. Within one week, the ad sets were narrowed to the top performers.

By the number of auction registrants, the approach proved so successful that the campaign was paused at the two-week of a planned six-week campaign. The best news for this fundraising effort? Further, all horses were sold with revenue targets exceeded.

If you are interested in learning more about Facebook advertising, contact Online Authority today.

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Email capture of critical potential customer segments with Facebook advertising

by Kelly Kubrick on December 1, 2016

Campaign Objectives

MyLiberty.life, a Canadian online retailer, wanted to increase the number of email subscribers interested in a particular category of products.

The Plan:

In advance of its Facebook media buy, MyLiberty.life developed an informative, long format blog post that spoke directly to the needs of the particular customer segment.

In addition to the relevant content provided in the post, MyLiberty.life created a highly-value downloadable product comparison chart – a lead magnet – which they offered to readers in exchange for signing up for their email newsletter.

The blog post acted as the paid traffic campaign landing page, with calls to download the comparison chart incorporated repeatedly throughout the text.

Where digital fit:

Given the profile of the customer segment, MyLiberty.life elected to focus its paid media efforts on Facebook. In addition to researching potential audiences on Facebook, Online Authority undertook the necessary technical implementation, including:

  1. Creating and configuring the client’s Facebook Business Manager Account;
  2. Creating the client’s Facebook ad account;
  3. Creating the client’s Facebook Pixel and installing it the ecommerce platform; and
  4. Setting up Website Custom Audiences (WCA) within the client’s Facebook Ad account, including a) Traffic to unique content sections of the website, b) An audience unique to its email subscriber list;
  5. Developing naming conventions for Google Analytics UTM tracking codes for use later in the campaign.

As the landing page evolved and the lead magnet was finalized, Online Authority developed the paid media creative with MyLiberty.life. This included identifying a theme, which in turn drove the copy treatment and three possible approaches to the imagery.

The campaign launched with alternative creative tested in weekly rotation:

Results:

As the most responsive target and custom audiences were identified, Online Authority expanded MyLiberty’s ad sets to include ‘lookalike’ audiences.

“A lookalike audience is where you give Facebook a seed audience and then it uses this to match people with very similar characteristics.” Source: AdEspresso

This service is offered to Facebook advertisers, and uses technology to ‘look for’ Facebook users who exhibit similar profile characteristics of your already-know-to-be-ideal users. This allows you to access a uniquely qualified audience that you might not otherwise be able to uncover.

The approached proved so successful for email capture that to this day, MyLiberty runs periodic flights of the campaign so as to continually boost subscriptions of this segment to its list.

Updated: MyLiberty has replicated the approach for additional customer segments and intends to continue rolling out new ones as they are identified:

Examples of Facebook creative for Digital Advertising campaign

 

To learn more about Facebook advertising, contact Online Authority today.

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Kelly KubrickEmail capture of critical potential customer segments with Facebook advertising