Managing the Instagram channel is no longer optional. It has become a strategic imperative for any brand or small business, and the urgency grows daily along with its user base. In this webinar you’re hear how brands such as The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, The Chive, JCPenney, and Disneyland Resort are utilizing this platform to connect with their customers in an authentic and relevant way.
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The Year of the Instagram Strategy
1. WEBINAR:
Year of the Instagram Strategy
Rob Reed, Founder of MomentFeed
August 12, 2014
DELIVERED BY
2. Overview
Rob Reed,
Founder of MomentFeed
Authenticity Matters
• Why Facebook Likes Don’t Matter Anymore
• New Marketing Asset: The Digital Identity of your Physical Locations
• The Year of the Instagram Strategy - How Marketers Should Approach the
Instagram Channel
• Optimizing for Search and Discovery in the Mobile Era
• Managing Social Media for Franchises - Maintaining Brand Integrity While
Empowering Franchisees
• How Mobile is Revolutionizing Shopper Marketing
2
5. Instagram by the Numbers
1.6B
Likes Daily
5
20B
Photos Shared
60M
Average
Photos Per Day
6. Instagram by the Numbers
6
The fastest growing
of all social media
sites worldwide
More than half (57%)
of Instagram users use the
app on a daily basis (63%
of Facebook) while 35% do
so multiple times a day
(40% for Facebook)
18x
more consumer
engagement than
Facebook
48x
more consumer
engagement than
Twitter
7. The Fastest Growing Social Site
7
-22.5 -11.25 0 11.25 22.5 33.75
Instagram
Reddit
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Tumblr
Quora
Google+
Twitter
YouTube
Facebook
myspace
8. Instagram Demographics
8
of US adult residents who live in
urban areas use Instagram
(compared to 11% in suburban and rural areas)
13% of Internet users use Instagram
50%
Android
50%
Apple
51%
high schoolers
68%
Female
17%
9. The 3 Principles of Instagram Strategy
9
1
Curate & Create
2
Listen
3
Respond
32. The Do’s and Don’ts of Instagram
32
Do
Represent your brand
as authentically as
possible
-
Have a specific focus
for your Instagram
strategy
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Involve your
customers in your
Instagram strategy
Don’t
Post over-
promotional and
salesy photos
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Make Instagram
everything about
your brand
-
Make it a one way
conversation
33. • Today consumers demand authentic,
locally relevant messages from
brands
• MomentFeed delivers on the promise
of authentic marketing, at scale
• MomentFeed provides the most
comprehensive and innovative set of
tools for managing the Instagram
channel at both the corporate and
local level
MomentFeed
42. • The explosion of mobile and how it has dramatically changed local search
• The importance of local search
• Optimizing the local search ecosystem (Google, Facebook, your website, etc.)
• How social influences search results
• Outdated mechanisms that are no longer viable
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Discovery in the Mobile Era
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Customer Engagement
Customers that are more engaged with a brand tend to be more loyal and spend more money. Social engagement is increasingly becoming a reliable signal and proxy for business performance, especially when measured at the store (POS) level.
Brand Awareness
Large-scale social networks can be tremendous sources of word-of-mouth promotion by a brand’s customers. Instagram’s visual focus makes it especially compelling for brands in the food, fashion, sports, and travel categories.
Sales
Instagram can drive sales through several mechan- isms, many of which have yet to be enabled. The pairing of Instagram’s visual medium with new methods of conducting transactions through mobile devices, both online and off, means that real commerce will soon flow through Instagram.
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Location is core to both the app and the vision of its founders. One of the long-term goals of Instagram as a company is that you’ll be able to visit any place in the world through Instagram photos and videos...in real time. You’ll be able to click on a map and see what’s happening there in that moment. This requires that a large percentage of the content be anchored to a specific place and time.
Instagram structures content locally through two methods:
Photo Map
Location tag
Brands can crowdsource much of their content for their local Facebook pages via Instagram
For context, see the wildly popular website The Chive, where its users take photos of themselves wearing Chive clothing or promoting the Chive brand and submit them for publication. In exchange The Chive posts these photos on its website, giving its users tremendous reach and exposure — a measure of fame in a fame-obsessed culture. The result is a virtuous cycle of customers promoting the brand and the brand promoting its customers. Everyone wins.
Non-Chive brands can borrow from this by encouraging similar methods of engagement i.e. taking a selfie that incorporates the brand and tagging it appropriately. For example, a Starbucks customer might take a selfie with their cup that clearly shows the Starbucks logo and tag it with #starbucksselfie. As a reward, Starbucks would repost the photo to Instagram, Facebook, and/or Twitter. The hashtag, per its design and intention, would constitute explicit permission from the customer.
Instagram recently announced that ads are coming. The social network enters the paid media space with native “Sponsored” products.
This will be a photo or video that brands publish with media spend to increase distribution. Which means users who do not follow the brand will see the photo or video in their feed, and it will be highlighted as an ad.
In addition to the personal data that Facebook uses to target its ads, Instagram knows the brands people follow uniquely on Instagram. It knows the hashtags people use on their photos and how frequently. Much more than Facebook
or even Twitter, though, Instagram knows precisely where people take their photos — where they eat, where they shop, where they vacation. It has a much richer set oflocal data and can target promoted photos and videos accordingly. This is one of the more exciting possibilities for Instagram’s forthcoming ad platform.