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Digital Marketing and Social Media
Digital Marketing and Social Media
CBE 6215
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Abstract
The aim of the present project is to create a digital marketing and social
media strategy for Exallo company. In order to achieve that first we are going to
evaluate Exallo’s present strategies and competition and identify its strengths and
weaknesses using SWOT analysis. Then we will define the objectives and the
proposed digital marketing and social media strategy according to the POEM the
model. Finally, we will define the social media metrics that will be used to watch
and evaluate the strategy’s performance.
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Table of Contents
Abstract...............................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction: About Exallo..................................................................................4
2. Exallo’s Present Digital Marketing Strategy and Competition......4
Website............................................................................................................................4
Social Media..................................................................................................................6
Competition.................................................................................................................10
Swot Analysis.............................................................................................................10
3. Digital Marketing Strategy and Objectives.............................................11
Objectives....................................................................................................................11
Digital Marketing Strategy.................................................................................12
4. Influencer Marketing............................................................................................17
5. Paid Media..................................................................................................................19
6. Earned Media............................................................................................................22
7. Social Media Monitor and Optimize.............................................................23
8. Evaluation...................................................................................................................25
9. Conclusion..................................................................................................................25
References.......................................................................................................................26
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1. Introduction: About Exallo
Eco-friendly and reusable products are part of the global Green Marketing
Strategy and a huge trend the last few years. For this reason, Exallo can exploit
significant opportunities in the global market by creating a strong digital
marketing strategy.
Website
Starting our evaluation from the company’s website we can see that the
company has chosen a simple design for its the website with the homepage
referring to its new collection. Scrolling down the costumer can view the new
products, the history of the company and the latest news as well. Furthermore,
the company has some strategic key-points in the website that create advantages
in terms of product sales, marketing and user’s experience. Specifically:
At the home page and in a very clear spot there is message which
encourages customers to submit their e-mail so they will be the first to hear
about new product releases and sales. This tactic is extremely helpful to email
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marketing, which according to Alan et.al., (2010) is a very powerful and effective
marketing technique.
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The website is only in English language, which is very important since
the company is targeting the global market and has only six main categories:
“Home-page”, “Our Story”, “Shop”, “Wedding Package”, “Press” and “Blog”.
Social Media buttons are both at the top and the bottom of the website,
something that encourages customers to connect with the company in any social
platform they wish and especially on Instagram. Also, very important
information like payment methods and private terms are easy to find by
customers as they are available all the time at the bottom of the website.
Finally, a very important positive factor is that the company has created a
unique blog which as it states is a deep sight into company’s philosophy, travels,
inspiration and products. In this category customers can find photos, videos and
other useful information for the company and its products.
Even though we can find very important key-factors that increase the
effectiveness of Exallo’s website we have identified some missing factors that
could further increase the effectiveness of the website like: α real time
communication chat that allows customers to have a conversation with
customer support at a real time,
the site, absence of video content at the home page which is a very powerful
tool to increase brand awareness (Hemann and Burbary, 2013) and not good
promotion of a very important asset company has: eco-friendly and recycle
materials for its product which is a huge trend at the moment (Young, 2018).
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Social Media
Exallo uses social media as a basic tool of its present digital marketing
strategy. The platforms Exallo uses to promote its product and generally the
brand are: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram. Even though
Exallo has a very strong presence in some of these platforms as part of its social
media strategy, in others there is a lack of consistency and content sharing. More
specifically:
On Twitter, Exallo has create an account which has only 498 followers
despite the 505 in total tweets. Even though the company has created and share
great content (quality photos, videos, press releases, etc.) company’s tweet has
very low engagement (likes, retweets, etc.) and a very negative factor is also that
Exallo hasn’t post anything since December 2017 which adversely affects the
company's digital strategy and image (www.twitter.com/exallo).
On Facebook Exallo has created an official Facebook page with more than
10.000 followers and also a Facebook shop with a call-to-action button “Buy Now”
which directs users to the official website. Facebook shop is a very powerful took
for businesses who want to increase their sales and their brand awareness as well
(Wong, 2017). But despite the popularity of the Facebook page, like Twitter Exallo
has been inactive (no updates) on Facebook since December 2017 while the
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engagement rate in previous posts is also very law (likes, comments, shares, etc.)
(www.facebook.com/exallo).
On YouTube Exallo has created a channel four years ago and until today
the channel has only 16 subscribers and 5 uploaded videos. Even though YouTube
nowadays is a very powerful social platform Exallo hasn’t focus on developing its
channel and all the advantages can arise from it (www.youtube.com/c/ExalloGr).
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“pins”. After four years since the Exallo’s profile was created on Pinterest the
company is followed only by 14 users and there is no new post since 2017
(www.pinterest.com/exallo/).
Finally, on Instagram Exallo has created an official account and has more
than 2000 followers and a good engagement rate in its posts. But as with the
previous social media platforms, Exallo hasn’t posted anything or has any
presence on Instagram since 2017 (www.instagram.com/exallo.concept).
As a conclusion we can say that Exallo has developed once a social media
strategy which included all the popular social platforms. But since 2017 the
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company is inactive in all social media which is a very negative factor in today's
digital age.
Competition
Swot Analysis
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Handmade Products Small Company - Low
Eco-friendly and reusable advertising Budget
products No use of social media
Online shop platforms the last two years
Quality Content on Social High price of the products
Media comaring to the competitors
Strengths Weeknesses
Increasing Competition
Global Market Economic crisis in Greece
Eco - friendly products is a Opportunities Threats Content creation is becoming
huge trend at the moment more demanding for
Social media busnesses
Brand Awareness
Objectives
Objectives are very important in a marketing strategy and for that reason
we have developed different objectives for Exallo’s web presence and Exallo’s
social media presence. For Exallo’s web presence these objectives are:
Increase online sales by 10% in 2019 and by 15% the next two years (2020-
2021)
Increase website traffic by 35% in 2019 and by 45% the next two years (2020-
2021)
Increase affiliates by 10% in 2019 and by 15% the next two years (2020-2021)
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Increase leads and registration by 10% (users who subscribe to the newsletter
from Exallo’s website)
Increase costumer’s loyalty by 20% for the next season (2019 - 2020)
For a small business like Exallo a successful digital marketing strategy can
rely on POEM model, meaning on Paid, Owned and Earned Media (Barman, 2018).
Paid media can be advertisements on Google or other platforms, or affiliate
marketing, Owned media can be the company’s website, blog, or social media
accounts and Earned media can be media that are recommended by customers
(hosted blog posts, influencers, etc.). So, for Exallo’s digital marketing strategy we
will be focusing on:
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2013). In order to achieve the objectives we set for Exallo’s web presence we
need to modify the website’s content by selecting key words and phrases to build
a high ranking in the search engines' results such as Google and Yahoo. Our
strategy will be focus both in On-page optimization (website content and
structure) and in off-page optimization (links and social media that bring more
traffic to the website).
Keywords that will be used also for our Google Ads strategy so we can
bring more traffic to Exallo’s website besides the organic results we will achieve
through content creating. In order to achieve our goals we need to use keywords
with a high competition in Google Ad Words for bring more brand awareness and
less competitive keywords to increase online sales (Jain, 2013). A very useful tool
to find the appropriate keywords is the “Google Ad Words Keyword Planner” using
words and phrases like: «wooden accessories”, “wooden bowties”, “wooden
cufflinks”, etc.
Mobile marketing can help a company build brand awareness, change their
brand image, increase their sales, enhance brand loyalty, build customer data-
bases and generate traffic to their website or social media platforms (Yankee
Group, 2017). Thus, we suggest that Exallo should make the content of the
website responsive for all devices and use all the available mobile marketing tools
(QR code, GPS for location marketing, apps, etc.), to allow direct communication
and interaction with its customers.
Social Media Strategy: Through Social Media businesses can reach the global
market, increase their market share, advertise their product and services, drive
traffic to their website or stores, connect with their customers and influence
people about their company or their brand (Mills and Plangger, 2015). We have
decided to use all social media platforms Exallo already uses and build a strong
social media strategy to achieve our goals. In order to do so we are going to use
all the available tools social media are offering nowadays (stories, live videos,
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ships, etc.) and we are going to create a solid monthly plan for Exallo’s social
media content. Specifically:
1-2 daily posts (photos of the products, inspirational quotes, videos, etc.)
Share a blog post weekly
Run a contest monthly
Create and weekly update of Facebook Shop
Daily Facebook Stories
Occasionally Facebook Live from company’s events
Weekly ads
Complete the all the info on Facebook Page and put links to all the other
social media platforms
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Instagram
1-2 daily posts (photos of the products, inspirational quotes, videos, etc.)
Use of targeting hashtags in every post
Run a contest monthly
Connect Instagram shop to Facebook catalogue so we can sell our
products through Instagram
Daily Instagram Stories
Instagram Live from company’s events and on new product releases
Interaction with other users in order to reach brand awareness.
Create unique hashtag for the company (ex, #exallo, #goexallo,
#iamexallo, etc.)
Promote other social media accounts of Exallo’s
Promote Official Website
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Promote Official Website
React and take advantage of retweets
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Picture 11. Exallo’s Pinterest Post Sample
You-Tube
Upload a new video monthly (behind the scenes, events, products, etc.)
Use relevant keywords relevant for each video
Answering at comments
Connect with other users and subscribe to relevant YouTube channels
Create a “video habit” by uploading a new video every week at the same
day with the same theme (ex, “Monday fashion” for showing how users
can wear or use the products)
4. Influencer Marketing
Influencer marketing can take its form in blog posts, videos or pictures on
the influencer’s social media channels, which means content cooperation, and it
can be content for the company’s marketing campaign (including influencer’s
name or picture) or the influencer can be operating as a brand ambassador,
creating competitions for the users, cooperate in different social media channels,
or involving in product development and testing. Influencer marketing can also be
events, trips and workshops, widgets and display advertising (Brown and Fiorella,
2013).
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In order to build a strong digital and social media strategy we decided to
use influencers in multiple forms such as social media cooperation’s, brand
ambassadors and event advertisers. To identify the appropriate influencers for
Exallo we are going to use an influencer marketing platform. By searching live
social data, we will search influencers in real-time, and ensure we engage the
ones that are relevant to Exallo today. What we are looking for are influencers
with high engagement rate on their social media platforms, who are also fit in
Exallo’s philosophy (eco-friendly products, etc.).
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5. Paid Media
Paid media are digital or social media / channels a company can use to
advertise its products or the brand in general (Barman, 2018). For Exallo company
we have decided to use the two big social media platforms Facebook and
Instagram to run weekly advertisements.
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Picture 14. Facebook Ad Campaign - Set up Ad Account
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Picture 16. Facebook Ad Campaign - Budget and Schedule
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Picture 17. Facebook Ad Campaign
6. Earned Media
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feedback, likes, mentions, shares, and various promotional efforts other than paid
media advertising or owned media branding (Flores, 2014).
From the analysis we did on Exallo’s present digital marketing and social
media strategy we noticed that there are is a very low engagement on every
social media platform Exallo uses (small number of likes, comments, shares,
views, etc.). So in order to take advantage of earned media we need to:
Create quality and engaging content for Exallo’s promotion (user must feel
that is share worthy)
Build online relationships (engage with other users on social media)
Share resources and content posted by other users that is relevant to
Exallo’s brand and give them feedback and reviews on their posts
Combine earned media with owned media (share any positive feedback
Exallo’s products or services received from third parties) (testimonials,
reviews, etc.)
Integrate earned media strategy with influencer marketing strategy
One of the most common tools for measuring a website traffic is Google
Analytics. For social media we can use Facebook’s Ad Manager (to evaluate our
ad’s performance, see the engagement, the organic or paid reach of our posts,
etc.). For Instagram we will use Instagram Insights and for Influencer marketing
we will use the same platform we used to identify our influencers, the
“Talkwalker’s Influencer One” platform.
Engagement
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Reach
Impressions
Referral Traffic
Likes and Follows
Video Engagement
Facebook Ad Metrics
CTR, CPC, CMM, CPA
Followers
Top posts
Engagement
Tagged hashtags
Organic and Promoted impressions
Pinterest
Pins from the site Views
Repins from the site Subscriptions
Engagement
Reach
Visitors and Visits
Most repined content
YouTube
Views
Subscriptions
Likes
Dislikes
Comments
Average view duration
Twitter
Average Tweet Performance
Engagement
Content performance
Hashtag performance
Impressions
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8. Evaluation
9. Conclusion
The present project was about Exallo’s digital marketing and social media
strategy. To create our strategy we used the POEM model starting with Exallo’s
present digital marketing and social media strategy and proceeding to set the
objectives and develop and implement specific strategies and tactics to achieve
them. Nowadays, businesses can achieve many more goals by incorporating in
their strategy all modern digital media and tools. For Exallo project we decided to
use some of them like social media, content marketing, SEO and keywords,
Influence marketing, Mobile marketing and social media Ads in order to achieve
brand awareness, sales raising, engagement raising, brand awareness and loyalty
with customers.
Furthermore more tools like social media metrics and analytics observation
especially of the paid media will be needed in order to evaluate the results of the
implemented strategy and the achievement of the goals we set.
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References
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Analysis, Journal of Advertising Research, 55(3): 232-236
Brown D., Fiorella S., (2013). Influence Marketing: How to create, manage, and
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Flores L., (2014). Measuring earned media: How to Measure Digital Marketing,
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Hemann C., Burbary K., (2013). Digital Marketing Analytics. Indiana, USA: Que
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Varnali K., Toker A., (2010). Mobile marketing research: the-state-of-the-art,
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Wong J., (2017). 3 Easy Way To Set Up a Facebook Store to Start Selling in 2017,
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Young A., (2018). The Rise of Green Consumerism: What do Brands Need to
Know?, Global Web Index, Available at: https://blog.globalwebindex.com/chart-of-
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www.exallo.co
www.twitter.com/Exallo
www.facebook.com/Exallo
www.youtube.com/c/ExalloGr
www.pinterest.com/Exallo
www.instagram.com/exallo.concept
www.talkwalker.com
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