I’ve met Zuckerberg; I’ve known him in the beginning when he started Facebook. When they launched the platform, F8, we knew that data was going to be available to the apps and that you could grab friends’ of friends information to be able to play games. Zuckerberg told me he didn’t anticipate the kinds of things that developers like us …
The Power of One-Minute Videos
The Importance of One-Minute Videos A few weeks ago, Dennis and Logan attended SHARE Algarve, where they spoke about the importance of one-minute videos and challenged the audience to create more of them. Dennis mentioned that creating one-minute videos is all about authenticity and taking the first steps, even if they don’t look good. By not trying it, you’ll never …
Here are 7 tips on Facebook advertising from my and Logan Young’s speech at VendastaCon
1. Always start with the strategy, which is a combination of GCT (goals, content, and targeting). Goals break down into two parts: Your “why”, or the message you want to send – why you are doing what you do Metrics – your sales and ROI. Content should be a reflection of your “why”. Video performs well on Facebook. If you …
From Taco Bell To Social Media
by Joe Merkel As a young man of 20, I truly believed I was in my prime. I had a job at Taco Bell, a roof over my head, and enough friends to keep me perpetually occupied. Boy, was I living the life! The thing is, at the time, I was perfectly content with taking orders from both customers and …
The One Skill You Are Missing That Is Critical In 2017
We’ve heard that video is so key in mobile and social– especially when it comes to boosting posts on Facebook. And you know that short videos (under a minute long) create the light touches that are necessary for the multiple sequences you need to have a funnel. But guess what! Do you have a video editor? Do you have someone to …
Age Is Just A Number – Know What Counts
by Ben Dahl There are two commonly held misconceptions people have. Young people are on social media all the time. They’re naturally good at this stuff, and will get awesome results for my business. The reason my social media is failing is because I trusted a young person to manage it. They’re young and don’t understand what they’re doing. Often, …
What To Do With Results From Split Testing
Rather than using blunt force to completely cut off audiences that aren’t performing as well, consider that at the right price, nearly any audience can be profitable. That means bidding and budgeting can make “okay” audiences perform as well as any other audience, such that we allocate marginal dollars to where we get the most marginal return– a core microeconomics …
A great Corporate Stay in Vancouver
I’ve been to Vancouver half a dozen times– an easy 2 hour drive from Seattle or a short flight up from Portland, SF, or LA. My favorite experience was hiking Grouse Mountain with Brad Twohig, before he become a big-time venture capitalist and before I became 70 pounds in the obese category. This is Canada’s San Francisco, in my opinion– …
5 Tips to Make Facebook Your Lead Driving Machine
Facebook’s lead generation capabilities are powerful. With the right strategy, you can drive warm prospects to landing pages, registration forms, or checkouts for no more than $1. And yes… … it’s possible. Tip 1: Get your plumbing in place. What’s Plumbing? It’s the term we use for tracking. This includes analytics and tracking pixels aka “tags” that you can add …
Humanizing B2B: Connecting with real people in a machine-driven world – Interview with Kelsey Carroll of HPE.
One of our main goals at Content Factory is bringing out the human element in an otherwise machine and data-driven industry– to give it that human touch. Kelsey Carroll leads branded social content for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Prior to her current role, she ran PR for an independent film studio in Austin, TX and then got her start in marketing with …
How to get your audience to segment themselves
Today, a few members of the Content Factory team tuned into “4 Steps To Creating Personalized, Segmented Campaigns For Your Audience”, a Perpetual Traffic podcast featuring Ryan Levesque. Here’s our thoughts: Why is it that people won’t stop sending cold email blasts and spending countless ad dollars on broadly targeted, misfiring ads? We know ads are most effective when they …
12 Things I learned at SLC/SEM
Better to spend 5 minutes a day optimizing than one hour a week optimizing– frequent, lightweight touches are key with Facebook ads because of progressive boosting. Your Facebook paid metrics are undercounted– Facebook places the spillover effect of paid into organic, which can often be 10X bigger than the organic component. This is separate from cross-device and direct/none issues in Google …