SOCIAL Advertising agency MANCHESTER
Social Media Advertising ManagementWe offer everything from asset creation, targeting, tracking & delivery. Generate the highest return on investment from your social ads.
KEEP TRACK OF YOUR BRAND ONLINE
Why invest in social media?
Social media is one of the core components of any business with a web presence. Over the last few years even established companies dealing in products far removed from the world of social media such as household cleaning companies and pain relief suppliers have focussed much of their online visibility onto their social channels. Social media sites are now the focal point for many customers looking to interact with, learn more about and even buy products from, a business or service provider.
The very public interaction visible on social channels can speak volumes about a business in the eyes of prospective customers. But beyond their use in customer relations, social media channels also offer businesses a great platform to communicate with new customers. Our social media ad management services are design to help businesses advertising on social media get more from their budgets by navigating the often complex settings and targeting options for best results.
WORKFLOWS
Why should I spend money on social media ads?
Over the last few years, speaking to your customers or fans via social media has become increasingly monetized. Once, it was easy to speak almost instantly with many thousands of people who had expressed an interest in a product or service. Social media companies recognised the power this could have in the hands of advertising companies and began to limit the ‘reach’ of messages posted and shared by businesses. Now, without some sort of advertising budget, social media channels on their own are almost certain to stagnate, growing extremely slowly or not at all. Posts and content may still be seen by some existing followers of an account or page, but will not be seen by the majority and certainly not get beyond the existing follower base.
Service details
How our Social media ad management services help
Whilst the key social platforms, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pintrest and FourSquare, continue to evolve their individual approaches, some have begun to develop mature and sophisticated advertising tools. Facebook and Twitter in particular offer some incredible targeting tools that are designed to get your business in front of new customers with specific interests that make them more likely to directly engage with it. Our social media ad management service takes care of all the administration of a campaign, defining the messaging, establishing the targeting and allocating the budget to achieve the results you’re looking for. Targeting can be remarkably specific, covering different age ranges, genders, interests, locations and hobbies. With the help of our designers we can create top quality on-brand image, video and written content specifically for your ad campaign. Our designers can also create or adapt customer banner and profile images to tie in with your campaign.
Detailed reporting
Monthly reporting on social media activity, follows, unfollows, interactions and Klout score on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube traffic.
Brand name mention monitoring
Brand mention monitor will report on reviews, blogs and social mentions of your brand across millions of websites. This report will be automatically sent daily, weekly or monthly for you to see the mentions that have been found
Brand reputation monitoring management
We will follow up on our software which generates reports of almost all the mentions of your business online, and then we can report and investigate these mentions of your business every month. Any press coverage, reviews or coverage will be reported back to you.
Social Ad Campaign Pricing
Spending over £2500 per month on ads? Please contact us for a custom quote.
One-time
Single Ad Campaign- Setup of ad account
- Creation of 1 campaign
- Setup of x1 advert with x3 variations
- Creation of image asset
- Creation of text copy
- 1 month summary report
Essential
Under £500 /month ad budget- Setup of initial campaign
- x2 adverts with x2 variations
- Creation of visual assets & copy
- Weekly checks on your account
- Monthly updates to ad copy
- Monthly summary reports
Standard
£500 - £2500 /month ad budget- As starter plan
- Weekly updates to ad copy
- Weekly optimisation of keywords
- Landing page recommendations
Strategy
Our social media approach
Create
Our talented team of copywriters and graphic designers can craft original, engaging content to form the foundations of your ad campaign. Stand out from the crowd and communicate the right message for your business. We will help you convey your brand as strongly as possible and help you identify the key USPs that give you your advantage over the competition.
Target
We draw on a vast range of experience and evidence when targeting your ads to the people who will be interested in what you are selling. Get more clicks and more engagement from your budget by having our team identify your target demographics and making sure your ads are displayed with laser precision.
Optimise
Our social media campaigns are not set and forget. As we gather more data, we can continue to make more and more refinements, making small tweaks, carrying out split testing and using the evidence to make the campaign increasingly efficient. Whether you want to target a super specific group of people or want to make savings on a big campaign, we can help you get the most from every pound spent and add clicked.
PAID SOCIAL Ads
Benefits of social media ads
The rewards of your campaign will vary depending on the specific goals of your business. Whether you’re looking for click-throughs to your website, increased followers or more interaction, your ad campaign will get more eyes on your business and lay the foundations for increased activity on your platforms. You’ll have complete access to the reporting for the results of the campaign so you can dig deeper into the interactions you get and discover more about your audience. We can use this information to guide other areas of your marketing and to inform future messaging. If you’re not sure how best to proceed with a social media ad campaign, what platforms would work best for you or what kind of growth would be most effective, our friendly team would be delighted to help. Just have a chat with us about your business and your goals and we’ll devise the best way to communicate them. Some of the services we have previously included in social media advertising campaigns are:
- Promoted posts directing users to a business website or specific page of the site
- Interaction focussed posts to attract more likes & followers
- Promotion of sales & discount messages
- Custom banner/profile artwork to tie in with ad campaigns
- Multiple simultaneous ads targeted to different demographics
- Co-ordinated announcements across multiple platforms
- Creation of original video/image assets
If you’re interested in getting started with social media or taking your existing presence further then reach out to the team today and tell us about your business.
DATA driven marketing
Know what's going on with your marketing dashboard
Our clients often have limited budgets but big ambitions, so our work is based on the best quality data we can find. We implement website analytics and conversion tracking from day one and utilise this data to make informed recommendations for your campaign. You can keep tabs on your campaigns with us from our crystal clear live data dashboard from within your client portal.
What we're working on
See what we've completed in the past month and what we're planning on next month.
Business metrics
Traffic, referrals, leads from social/organic/paid alongside conversion data.
Insights & Advice
Insights and action points are recommended based on our extensive experience.
FAQs
Answers to your frequently asked questions about our social media marketing services.
Google were very clever to make the activation process for their PPC management software just easy enough for anyone to activate and start running a few ads. The problem is that the software is extremely powerful and poorly documented, it is very difficult for the average business owner to setup and maintain an account that performs well; and by “performs well” we mean several things:
- Poorly written text adverts will result in a low CTR (click through rate) which pushes down the quality score of your advert, and means you have to pay more for every click on your adverts.
- You may presume some keywords would be good to use to trigger your adverts, but people have different intentions when searching for things online so it can be difficult to always target customers with adverts based on their “intent to buy”. Lots of adverts targeting users who are not intending to buy, means lots of wasted money on clicks on your adverts from people who will never buy. For example they may be in another region of the country. With lots of experience using the PPC software, you learn to compensate for these factors and increase the targeting relevance.
- When the user clicks on one of your adverts they follow a link to your website, that you specify when setting up each advert. The PPC software sends a robot that follows the link to your website and runs an algorithm to test the relevancy of your page to the keyword you want to bid for. For example if you are bidding for the keyword “insurance” and your advert when clicked takes the use to a page about bank loans, this would be seen as a very low relevance landing page, and the cost for each click on your advert will continue to climb, whilst the costs your competitors are paying stays the same.
- If you take the example of a campaign with every click on your adverts costing £1, and your website converts 10% or 1 in every 10 visitors, this means your cost of acquisition is £10. Now imagine a poorly set up campaign that is performing at half of it’s full potential, so every click on your adverts might cost £150 which means your cost of acquisition becomes £15, and if you have a product or service with a tight margin this can be the difference between making a profit or a loss on the sale.
Why choose Alloy and what level of service do you need?
- We will setup and provide management of the account if requested, based on years of experience working with PPC advertising. Based on your Account ID, we will submit a request to gain “Agency Control” of your Adwords account, you simply login and accept this and we can update everything apart from billing details. At any point you can login and revoke our access.
- PPC and SEO work great together, they are the 2 sides of the coin in terms of getting maximum coverage on the Search results pages. As only 30% of people ever click on the PPC Adverts, PPC adverts can help you to get more clicks when your “Organic” result in the search results is too low down the page.
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“Optimisation” is the general term for lots of different types of work that make your ads perform better. This means you get more clicks and more sales for less money. This work may involve creating more copy for ads, spending more budget on the ads that are cheapest or highest converting, adding negative keywords to reduce the chance of your ads being shown to someone who won’t be interested in your ad or making improvements to the landing page to increase conversion. Whether you are new to ads, or want to start making more use of a large budget, we can help you optimise and improve.
The bounce rate of a website refers to the percentage of visitors who visit (or land) on the site then quickly leave the site (or bounce). It is used to give an idea of the quality of the site. Sites that have an easy to understand layout and are simple to navigate tend to have the lowest bounce rates.
Our experienced PPC managers identify any weak links in the chain, be it Click Through Rate, Cost Per Click or other areas. Then they put in place the changes to make it work better. As we collect more and more data, and carry out ongoing split testing, we can continue to make lots of small improvements that add up to big savings.
We help you collect and analyse all sorts of data, from the cost per click and click through rates of ads to relative keyword volume and other information from outside the platform. We will be on hand to make sense of the KPIs and explain the different between CPC and CTR. We can also provide a simplified dashboard, linking up your Google Ads with the analytics from your website so you get the full picture and see how many clicks become customers.
Of course! We can jump onboard with your existing ad campaign, to make improvements or add more ads. Our experienced team is fantastic at picking up on areas where we can make significant improvements, and our broad range of skills from copy writing and data analysis.
We can help you set up everything from scratch. Firstly, we will help you put together a plan. If you know exactly what products you want to sell, and who you need to target, then we will get you started on the platform that will work best for your goals, this might be Google, Facebook, Bing, Instagram or all of the above. Once these foundations are in place we can write original ads with engaging copy to give your campaign a launchpad. Once it’s up and running we will make ongoing improvements and tweaks to improve the cost and refine the targeting as the campaign continues.
This is a really good question and one that’s tricky to answer as it will depend on your situation. Sometimes it can be hard to know how much you should spend but ultimately the answer should determined by how much your customers are worth. We can help you collect and analyse the data to show much it costs to acquire each customer, if you know how much you make form each customer then we work out if it’s worth it. Even if you are already making a return on your ad campaign, we can help make further improvements. On large campaigns, even a tiny improvement in CPC or CTR can result in big savings, so get in touch to see what we can do for you.
For most platforms, such as Google Adwords, you pay the platform directly for the ads. You give us permission in the platform to act as a manager and we make sure that your ads are full operational and optimised.
Our Social Media Services
We offer a range of social media marketing services, click below to read more
Management
Boost reach, engagement and sales with creative, multi-channel campaigns