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Finding Commonality�in a World of Individuals

Each member of your target audience is as unique as their own DNA, which is why Digital Niche Agency was founded in 2014 by a team of marketing experts that live and breathe digital marketing. Digital Niche Agency sets out to help its clients successfully reach their niche audiences across the complex global digital landscape and has worked with over 600 brands, including 300+ funding campaigns.

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Why Content For Investor Acquisition?

Why is Having a Marketing Strategy for a User and Investor Acquisition Campaign Important?

“Why spend on content when I can invest the same in ads?”

  • To prepare you for the marketing process! Failing to plan is planning to fail…

  • To have a deeper understanding of you business, especially in terms of:
    • Your target audience
    • Market trends

  • To set goals and clear KPI’s to be able to measure success or failures

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Why Content For Investor Acquisition?

Why the 8-Point Marketing Plan?

  • The 8-point plan is designed to be simple yet all-encompassing to create an actionable, algorithmic strategy that can be referenced during the campaign

  • It’s a perfect balance of micro and macro elements that should be apart of your strategy

  • Macro elements inform the microelements of the campaign:
    • Macro elements include:
      • Industry Analysis, Target Market profile, and Competitive Audit
    • Micro elements include:
      • Channels, Creative Audit/Development, Strategic Partners, and Projections

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Why Content For Investor Acquisition?

1. Industry Analysis

Why?

To study the attractiveness and the dynamics of your market. The industry analysis will help position your brand in the market. Your industry analysis should speak to:

  • Market trends
  • Size of your industry
  • Competitiveness of the industry
  • Potential threats to the industry
  • Why the market is attractive to investors and consumers

Helpful resources

  • Deloitte - Market surveys, census data
  • SpyFu - Competitor research
  • Statista - Industry stats
  • Ibis World - Aggregated industry reports
  • Quora / Reddit - Consumer trends
  • Social media - competitor research
  • Buzz Sumo - Content research / SEO
  • Old fashioned Google searches

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2. Competitor Audit

Why?

  • To understand what your competitors are successfully and unsuccessfully doing. To glean any insights or inspiration for your advertising and content campaign. Understanding what other brands are doing in this space can help you refine your messaging and value proposition to make you stand out.
  • If you don’t know what your competitors are doing, then you’re shooting in the dark. Your brand needs to play a role in the conversation with the other brands, and more importantly the audiences they’re speaking to already.

Pro Tip: Create a “learning” email address and sign up for all of your competitors:

  • Newsletters
  • Social media channels

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3. Target Market Profile

Why?

To understand your target audience at a macro level, then understand their needs on a micro-level through a specific advertising channel. The target market audience is largely determined by industry analysis and positioning.

Pro Tip: Create at least 3 different persona’s with one being the primary focus of the campaign, and the two others being specific to individual marketing channels.

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Why Content For Investor Acquisition?

4. Channel Strategy

Overview

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Why Content For Investor Acquisition?

4. Channel Strategy

Things to Include in Your Organic Marketing Strategy

Content Strategy Statement

Boil down your content strategy to a core statement that defines your content goals, target market, and audience needs. This is a great template to use.

Social Channels

What social media channels does your audience engage with? What channels are you already on and what channels can you expand your reach to? What hashtags will be beneficial for your reach and engagement

Community Channels

What does your email and SMS marketing initiatives look like?

Types of Content

Will you be creating more video, blogs, webinars, podcasts, infographics? Define what types of content will serve your business and audience needs.

Content Development Process

Who will be accountable for content creation, and what will that process look like?

Goal Benchmarks

What are your KPI’s (Reach, traffic, engagement) and what are your goals around your KPI’s?

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4. Channel Strategy

Things to Include in Your Content Distribution Strategy

Publishers

What 3rd party publishers can syndicate your content or accept a guest post?

Social Media Groups

What FB, LI, Quora, and Reddit groups can you join and post content to?

Press Releases

What press releases will you create to announce milestones of your campaign?

Influencers

What influencers can you reach out to for a paid shout out and promo?

Social Media Partners

What social media partners can you tag and reach out to for a social media share?

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4. Channel Strategy

Things to Include in Your Paid Media Strategy

Which Types of Ads Will You Leverage and Why:

  • Programmatic ads: Display, Video, Native
  • Social ads: FB, IG, LI, TW, Snap, Reddit, Pinterest
  • Search: Google, Yahoo, Bing

Online Advertising Channels:

  • Events
  • Radio
  • TV

Audience Targeting Per Channel

Daily Allocations Per Audience

Ad Optimization Strategy

Scaling Strategy

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4. Channel Strategy

Funnel Overview

Provide an overview of the entire user journey.

Show estimated conversion rates at each stage of the funnel.

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5. Creative Audit

What is a Creative Audit?

Analyzing your marketing funnels and looking for the pieces of content that you will need to create to fill the funnel.

Why?

Content IS the funnel. Without content you won’t have anything to attract, engage, and convert traffic.

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6. Finding Strategic Partnerships

Why are strategic partnerships important?

To help you leverage new audiences and distribution channels, develop a prospective map and messaging sequence

Pro Tip: For strategic partnership building focus on LinkedIn networking. Partnerships are all about relationships and building your network, which is ideal for a B2B platform like LI - where a 20% invitation acceptance and 10-20% reply rate are very common.

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Messaging Drip Sequence Exercise

Looking at statistics that show 5 - 12 contacts to produce optimal conversion rates and most groups fall short. Let’s create a 7 message funnel to walk your audiences through email submission to conversion and ongoing brand to consumer engagement

  • Build opening text in Brand Voice
  • Determine Call-to-Action for each stage
  • Use Target Audience Personas to anticipate response and draft to inspire action
  • Setup 3 versions to a/b/c test
  • Reformat for each audience target page

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7. Projections

Why is it important to lay out your budget?

  • To clearly see how your funds will be allocated to each channel and the associated goals into an algorithm, consisting of Impressions, Clicks, and Conversions (based on industry averages)�
  • To set budget metrics to track and measure. That way you can re-allocate budget to a better performing channel, optimize at the underperforming stage of the algorithm, and reduce/scale budget for each channel.

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8. Activation

Why Does Your Equity Crowdfunding Strategy Need a Timeline?

Everyday that passes in your campaign is an opportunity gained or an opportunity missed. By mapping out your campaign month to month and week to week, you’ll clearly set expectations and goals for the progress of your campaign

Pro Tip: Create a 1-2 page Executive Summary to refine the info in this document, while bringing any new parties to the campaign in a more accelerated, more effective process

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In Conclusion

“Failing to Plan

is Planning to Fail…”

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Any

Questions

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THANK YOU!