(JEMSU) a Social Media Advertising Agency

Consumers spend increasing amounts of time online each year, and a large majority of that time is spent on social media platforms. Between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Quora (we think you get the picture), it’s nearly impossible to run out of ways to reach your target audience where they spend their free time. Most social media platforms offer the opportunity to advertise in a number of ways, whether that be boosting engagement on their platform or serving ads that lead to you.

What is Social Media Advertising?

Social media advertising is paid online advertising on social networking platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and more. These ads show up when users of the platforms are scrolling or watching videos, which is why most of these platforms charge every time they show the ad, rather than every time someone clicks on it. Outside of search advertising, social media advertising is the most popular digital advertising channel available.

Social media advertising stands out, as it lets advertisers incorporate videos or images to create a more attractive offer for their audience. This makes it easier for relatively unestablished brands to make sales and scale quickly. With Facebook and its platforms seeing so much success from social advertising, it’s easy to see why many of the other social networking platforms have recently implemented their own advertising channels.

An added benefit of social media advertising is the ability to leverage incredibly detailed audience information from the platform. People tend to share a lot when they post to social media, and platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn are able to use that data to create audience segments to match your potential customer. If you know your target audience, you can easily craft a specific message for that person, which is more likely to convert.

Where can my Paid Social campaigns run?

Almost every social media platform makes money via advertising. Because of this, you can advertise wherever your potential client may be spending their time, whether that is on Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, or anywhere in between. It’s estimated that Facebook took in over $69 billion in revenue in 2019, with 98% of that coming from advertising. LinkedIn, one of the small social media companies to offer advertising, made over $6.8 billion in 2019. These numbers continue to increase year over year, as more companies find value in social media advertising.

Facebook Ads

Facebook advertising is the most common type of social media advertising. Facebook ads show up in the Facebook newsfeed, in other Facebook properties like Facebook Messenger & Facebook Marketplace, and on affiliated partner sites known as the Audience Network. Ads on Facebook are highly visual in nature, designed to feel native to the newsfeed. Because of this, Facebook ads can help build trust with a potential customer.

Twitter Ads

Twitter advertising is often an underutilized channel for social media advertising, but has a lot of potential! Twitter’s audience is very active and eager to discover new things. Users on Twitter are often engaged in online conversation, so ads can help your business be part of the conversation too. Twitter ads work best to help promote brand awareness and other top of funnel actions, as they can help promote your message and company.

Instagram Ads

Instagram advertising is the perfect blend of a visual, engaging ad platform with an active, converting audience. Run through Facebook’s Ads Manager, Instagram ads allow you to target specific audiences with advertising, and can help your business increase awareness, traffic, and sales. The best performing ads on Instagram incorporate elements of traditional Instagram posts, making for a seamless transition between the platform and your website.

LinkedIn Ads

LinkedIn advertising is the place to be for those in the B2B space. As the go-to destination for professionals looking to network, users share a lot of information about where they work and what activities they get involved in. Leveraging the same audience power of Facebook and Instagram, LinkedIn ads can be targeted to users based on where they work, what management level they are at, or different groups that they are members of on LinkedIn. If you have a product or service that businesses would need, LinkedIn ads are a great opportunity for you.

Pinterest Ads

The popular lifestyle platform, Pinterest, is a great advertising opportunity for companies focused on selling products or looking to get more attention on their brand. Much like the regular Pinterest experience, advertisers create pins and promote them via audience targeting. Ads can help increase the reach of your own Pinterest page, or can help drive traffic to a website and push sales.

Snapchat Ads

Snapchat advertising is a newer opportunity in social media advertising, and is great for businesses that want to hit a younger and socially active audience. JEMSU has found Snapchat ads to be best for companies looking to gain awareness with an under 30 audience, but the platform allows for ads to be tailored to different ages. Snapchat also boasts the ability to drive traffic to your site and help increase sales for your business.

Other Platforms (Reddit, Quora, etc.)

New social media platforms pop up every day, and almost all of them include opportunities to advertise. Platforms like Reddit, Quora, Tik Tok, and more have advertising options that can help improve brand awareness, traffic, and sales for your business. Many of these platforms share similar ad interfaces and targeting options, meaning businesses can incorporate them into their strategies with little added effort. As long as the audience matches your potential customers, the possibilities are endless!

Why should I do Social Media Advertising?

Social media advertising is the fastest growing advertising channel, with profits growing by millions each year. Many companies continue to work social ads into their marketing budgets, and increase spending year over year as they find success. There are plenty of reasons that your business should do social media advertising, but here are a few of the biggest reasons.

You can use detailed targeting.

A huge advantage social media advertising has compared to search-specific advertising is the ability to combine detailed geotargeting, behavioral targeting, socio-psychographic targeting and more to reach the most specific audiences on the internet. LinkedIn even gives you the ability to target based on job title. This gives businesses the ability to put their ad in front of someone who is interested and ready to buy even if they aren’t searching for it.

You’re on an even playing field.

In social media advertising, the ad is everything. As long as the ad is engaging enough to stop a user from scrolling through their timeline, most of the time that product/service is going to convert. This is very different from search advertising where the ad is taken into account, but ultimately the intent behind a user’s search, and the overall quality of the site are the determining factors. Social media advertising allows brands and products that are relatively unheard of to scale massively within a few weeks.

Have control over your creative.

The flexibility of social media ads are unmatched. From objectives to targeting to placements to creatives to CTAs to headlines and so on and so forth, everything can be customized to match a business’ needs.

Leverage retargeting capabilities.

With tools like the Facebook Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and other proprietary tracking codes, advertisers can track people who’ve been on their site, viewed a certain page, or taken a certain action to easily remarket their products and services to them.

Track every conversion on your site.

Social media advertising has the added benefit of being highly trackable. Know which ad leads to each conversion throughout the customer’s buying journey, and put value behind your advertising dollars.

Why should you do Social Media Advertising with JEMSU?

JEMSU has been working in digital marketing for over a decade, and our Digital Advertising team has worked with dozens of businesses over the years. After so many years of running advertising campaigns, we’ve gotten a good pulse on what works and what doesn’t for your industry. There are plenty of reasons that JEMSU should help you with your campaigns, but here are a few highlights of what makes us so great.

We learn about your industry and business.

We take the time to first understand everything there is to know about your business. From business processes, to revenue streams, winning products/services, and even your current marketing efforts. Much of social media advertising starts with understanding the audience. We’ll focus our marketing efforts around your customer persona(s) to guarantee the maximum return on your investment.

We are honest about what we think will work for your business.

Every social media site is different in the users they attract and the type of media shared. From the advertising perspective, LinkedIn is best for B2B products/services, Snapchat is best for teens and young adults, Instagram is best for visual products, and Twitter is best for personal brand and digital products/services. We’ll determine which social networks best complement your business objectives and implement an ad strategy from there.

We create custom strategies for each client we work with.

In our first few months together, we begin determining the most appropriate way to launch your ads. We’ll determine the best advertising objectives, develop strong audiences, implement pixel data (if any), all while working within your preferred budget. If you’ve previously dabbled in any social media advertising campaigns, this is where we would look at campaign history and determine how best to run your ads.

We make unique ads to complement your strategy.

Once we’ve strategized, JEMSU will begin working on the ad itself. We’ll hook your audience in with attention-grabbing headlines, compelling ad copy, and engaging creatives that will force your audience to stop scrolling and pay attention to your message.

We constantly test and improve our campaigns.

Once the ads are up, we will closely monitor them to duplicate the best performers based on what’s working (audience, copy, visuals), and turn off the ones that aren’t working while staying within your budget. Our goal is to get your ads working to their full potential, meaning a lot of testing will be going on.

We never leave your campaigns untouched.

We’ll continue to monitor your ads, making sure they’re performing as well as possible. JEMSU will also monitor the performance of your ads, making sure to track the key metrics and adjust as needed. Eventually, after your ads have been running and producing results for a few months, we’ll go in and refresh many of your visuals, headlines, descriptions, etc. to avoid ad fatigue and keep users engaged with fresh content.

Your success begins with us.

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