Prepared by Green Dot Advertising — November 22nd, 2016
Promote awareness and drive qualified traffic to the Hard Asset Management website to generate leads for the client’s sales staff, and nurture existing prospects with content and email communications.
Using digital marketing, video content and editorial ads Green Dot will drive qualified traffic to the client’s website to generate awareness and leads at a predictable cost. Once engaged, both the client’s sales team and Green Dot will nurture existing customers and prospects with valuable content educating them as to the benefits of investing in hard assets.
Search – To step in front of existing demand, Green Dot will use Google Adwords to target consumers searching online for rare coins, gold and silver, as well as platinum and other precious metals. Green Dot will carefully track BOTH inquiries via the website contact forms, as well as incoming phone calls to monitor and optimize the cost per lead from search engine marketing efforts.
Video Advertising – Using supplied video content, Green Dot will run video ad campaigns on social media channels, as well as YouTube. In addition, special live sessions can be delivered via Facebook LIVE and YouTube LIVE directly from the client’s studio for added impact and visibility. Video can be used both as advertising content, as well as nurture content to re-engage existing customers and reluctant prospects alike.
Social Media – Growing the audience for social media channels and email lists will allow the client to engage a continually expanding audience with the premium content being produced. Green Dot administers and manages social media ad campaigns, as well as the content for social media channels and ensures that messaging is integrated with email communications to promote the video releases and continually drive prospects and clients back to the client’s website – from where they can inquire.
Retargeting ads – Once a prospect leaves the client website without inquiring, Green Dot will retarget them with banner ads throughs the internet. This tactic provides the client with a 2nd and 3rd opportunity to re-engage the prospect and link them back to the website.
Content Ads – In addition to search and social media marketing, Green Dot recommends running ads on the Taboola and Outbrain advertiser networks will ensure additional traffic is directed to the site from all of the web. These ads are inserted at the bottom of popular news articles and link prospects directly to your site. These ads can be accurately tracked and optimized.
Email Marketing – Green Dot suggests using email marketing to nurture existing prospects and customers alike. By segmenting email lists, we can send relevant content to a variety of different targets, depending on where they are in the sales funnel. Monthly newsletters linking to video content and relevant blog posts is sure to keep prospects and clients alike engaged and coming back to the site regularly for relevant information.
Hubspot – This optional technology platform allows the client and the agency to custom tailor content on the website and in email communications to prospects and clients alike. First time visitors to your site see different content that repeat visitors. We can set the language (English / Spanish) to the visitors preferred settings, and deliver powerful email drip campaigns that are contextual depending on the recipients action, or lack thereof.
Tracking, Analytics and Reporting – Green Dot prides itself on carefully tracking all inquiries, whether via the website’s contact forms or incoming phone calls. We provide powerful call tracking software that allows us to determine the keyword or ad a prospect engaged with, as well as which page of your site generated the inquiry. We provide detailed, months reports and recommendations as to the optimization of your ad campaigns, content and website landing pages.
Website & Design – Currently, there is no Spanish version of the website, or Spanish content. Green Dot has expertise at creating multi-lingual websites and landing pages, as well as video and multimedia content. When the time comes, we are ready and able to develop digital content for Hard Asset Management.
Google AdWords allows your website or landing pages to be listed prominently on Google when people search for relevant keywords. A Google AdWords certified marketer can help you write targeted ads that cost less than your competitors are paying by optimizing each part of your campaign.
Green Dot recommends using search engine marketing to target keywords relating to rare coins, gold, silver and precious metals, as well as hard assets and the like. We include powerful phone call tracking software to ensure campaigns can be optimized based on which ads are outperforming, to achieve the lowest possible cost per lead.
Digital display ads are used to retarget all prospects who visited your website but did not complete the desired action. These display ads can be shown to visitors from all traffic sources. The retargeting ads run on a wide network of websites that support display advertising and “follow” your prospects from site to site as the browse the net, giving you a second and third opportunity to close the deal.
Reaching prospects beyond search and social media using digital channels involves running ads throughout the internet where your prospects can find them.
Both Outbrain and Taboola provide ad platforms allowing you to reach readers on popular news and entertainment sites with content that you control. Green Dot can manage these insertions, test a variety of headlines and content, and optimize the corresponding landing page on your website to ensure conversions are triggered at the highest possible rate.
Engaging and original content is vital to the success of every advertising campaign. Content can be shared via email and social media while helping to drive SEO rankings and free traffic for important long-tail keywords. Proprietary content in the form of well researched blog posts, and branded social media graphics engage visitors who are researching brands and evaluating the competition.
This service provides clients with individually researched and well written blog posts, as well as customized social media graphics on an ongoing basis.
Green Dot ensures you know how your campaigns are performing at all times. Clients have direct access to the marketers working on their campaigns as well as to reporting platforms like Google Analytics (website performance), RavenTools (campaign performance) and Call Tracking Metrics (phone call lead tracking).
How much you spend on media every month is totally up to you. The more you spend, the greater your reach and frequency. Green Dot provides recommendations and guidance based on campaign performance and objectives, while allowing clients to adjust their budgets as needed.
Green Dot does not bill clients for media insertion, or require a minimum budget. Instead, we only invoice for media planning and campaign management. We manage and execute the media buys, create all ads, a/b test the ads, optimize your monthly spend (we may suggest increasing / decreasing the budget allocation depending on a channel’s performance) and report on the results.
All media expenditures are the responsibility of the client and are billed directly to the client by the media vendor or advertising platform. This approach creates pricing transparency and trust, while allowing media budgets to be adjusted as needed.
Green Dot includes these media management services at no additional charge with your marketing retainer up to the specified monthly threshold. Scaling the media buy beyond this baseline triggers a media management fee of 12% applied only to the net new spend above the included monthly threshold.
One-time campaign setup fee includes:
$4,500
Your marketing services package includes the following:
$4,000 p/m
You set the budget
Search: $5,000 – $8,500 p/m
Social: $3,000 – $4,000 p/m
Video Ads: $2,000 – $3,000 p/m
Taboola: $5,000 p/m
Retargeting: $500 p/m
Monthly content generation includes the following:
$2,000
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campaign Setup | $4,500 | |||||
| Digital Marketing | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | |
| Content Marketing | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | |
| Media | $19,000 | $19,000 | $19,000 | $19,000 | $19,000 | |
| Monthly Totals | $4,500 | $25,000 | $25,000 | $25,000 | $25,000 | $25,000 |
Social Advertising & Management
Social Advertising
Green Dot recommends advertising on Facebook and YouTube to laser target and reach those people most likely to find your product or service relevant, interesting and valuable. Placing ads on social channels is the best way to grow your followers and reach targets that find the content on your site and in your social channel relevant and compelling.
Green Dot runs a series of different social campaigns, including “like campaigns” to grow the number of followers for your social channels, as well as newsfeed ad campaigns and boosted posts using premium content. We carefully target your ads and A/B test the images and messaging for maximum impact.
Social Media Management
Posting relevant content on Facebook, allows you to engage directly with your social community on a daily basis. We recommend Facebook over Instagram and Twitter due to your audience demographics (skews older) and the capabilities of the Facebook platform. Green Dot writes, posts, tracks and manages your social media content as agreed during monthly calls and as dictated by the approved content calendar.
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