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Hey, what is up?
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Welcome to this episode of the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur podcast.
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As always, I'm your host, brian Lofermento, and all of you listeners know that I am super biased to one topic above all the others, and that is marketing.
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Well, today's guest, when we came across her business, I was delighted to see that not only is she obsessed about marketing, but she puts a very important emphasis on performance marketing.
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We're going to say that term a bunch together here today because Lindsay today's guest, she loves focusing on marketing that actually delivers tangible business results.
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So, no matter where you are in your business journey and you're thinking to yourself my marketing is just not working, then you're in for a treat, because today we're joined by the amazing Lindsay Stockall.
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Lindsay is the founder and creative director of Stockall Company.
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With more than a decade of marketing experience, lindsay knows what it takes to transform businesses through targeted performance marketing strategies.
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Inspired by the vibrancy of the entrepreneurial community in her hometown in Nova Scotia, canada, lindsay launched Stockall Company to deliver an approach that marries partnership, expertise and experience to deliver results.
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Now I'm going to tell you this before we dive into my interview with Lindsay is that I love the fact that her client portfolio is so diverse.
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We're talking different industries, different business models.
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She's got clients in wellness and beauty, food and beverage, travel and tourism, nonprofits, retail, healthcare, professional services, you name it.
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So if you ever have that thought of, well, my business is different, so this marketing isn't going to work for me.
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Lindsay's going to lift the lid off of all of that.
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I'm not going to say anything else.
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Let's dive straight into my interview with Lindsay Stockall.
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I'm not going to say anything else.
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Let's dive straight into my interview with Lindsay Stockall.
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All right, lindsay, I'm so excited that you're here with us today.
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First things first.
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Welcome to the show.
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Thank you, that was a killer intro.
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I was sitting here just like thanks, that's nice, nailed it.
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You got it.
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Honestly, it's because you hooked me in.
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Like I said, I love marketing, but I really love your emphasis on performance marketing, which we're going to get into.
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That for sure.
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But before we do take us beyond the bio who's Lindsay?
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How'd you start doing all these cool things?
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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So I have a degree in PR from my university days, which I will not share the year because that will date me and I'm 30 plus, so we do not do that.
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But I started off in PR.
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I worked in retail for a little bit as a fashion buyer and then got back into my roots, into PR and marketing.
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I worked for a property management company while I was running my own business on the side, so that's kind of where I dabbled my fingers into entrepreneurism.
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I ran the Hanger Boutique, which was a pop-up in e-commerce store.
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Right around the time Shopify was like getting going, so I was early stages there and launched the e-com store through organic social media no ads, which is bananas, because that's when you were able to do it.
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I then worked for a regional salon, spa and mini spa company in Canada where I oversaw the marketing and communications for five brands, 21 locations, 11 franchises all across Atlantic Canada, and I got to work with some pretty awesome brands like Dermalogica, redken and Kerastase, just to name a few.
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And then from there, as you know, covid kind of changed the landscape for everybody and during that time I launched my business, started off as just a freelancer, as a bit of a means to an end in between the layoffs of corporate and trying to get through COVID and the entrepreneur bug just like really bit me again quite hard and I just leaned into it and here we are about three and a half years later.
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My business went from a one-off of me and now I've scaled it to a global clientele, as you mentioned some of the industries we now work with, and we have a team of 12.
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Yes, I love that overview, lindsay.
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I think it so exemplifies your commitment and your drive towards growth, and huge kudos to you for all the things that you've built and all the things that you're continuing to build.
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I absolutely love that.
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But what really stands out to me is someone who.
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I started my first business back in 2008 and it was a soccer blog that grew beyond my wildest dreams.
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So when you talk about, the game has changed back then.
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I also.
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I never ran a single dollar in paid ads, but it was possible to grow that way.
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Seo was like the easiest game to win back in 2008.
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Obviously, things have changed, but I do think that gives people like you and I an unfair advantage.
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We've got different perspectives.
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We've got tools in our arsenal that people may not have if they just get started today.
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So, with all of that in mind, paint that landscape for us.
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You've been in the marketing game for quite some time.
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How has it changed?
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What's different?
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Because people love to fear monger and say you're too late, the tide has already passed.
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Talk to us about how it's changed.
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Absolutely.
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The tide has never passed.
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As long as you have a great product, a great service, you have already some organic sales.
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All you need is a very strong marketing partner who can come in and build a strategy and I mean strategies can look different for every business, every vertical, as they should.
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Your strategy that you receive from a marketing agency should never be a cut and paste that looks very generic.
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It should be completely custom to your business and meeting your operational goals.
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I know we're going to dove into performance marketing and metrics there, because that's something that I'm very, very, very passionate about.
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Every marketing dollar that we spend for our clients is very thoughtful.
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We want to make sure that with every day, every dollar we spend whether that's through organic or paid we are reaching those operational goals.
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Now, when you say how the landscape has changed, it is very different.
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As you said, you can no longer just post once on Instagram and you're going to go completely viral.
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Organic content is a marathon.
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It is not a race, and same with search engine optimization, as you said, with SEO on top of leveraging AI and what that looks like.
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So, and we could go down like so many wormholes here, but I guess my biggest piece here is it's strategy and intent right.
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Everything that you're doing should be strategic.
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Posting on Instagram is no longer a strategy.
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That is a tactic that is incorporated into your marketing plan.
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So that's what we really like to focus on.
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When we are, you know, just doing organic social or just content creation, where we're not doing multiple pillars of services for our clients to generate results, we always want to make sure that those are always connected back to the operational goals and we're not just posting to make a post.
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Yeah, lindsay, I'll tell you what I love the fact that you're injecting into our conversation this early the difference between strategy and tactics.
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I'm going to kick that back your way, but first I want to share an anecdote from Chess that when I would tune into business podcasts when I was just starting out, I always I couldn't tell the difference between strategies and tactics.
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Then, when I picked up chess, I saw a quote from a grandmaster who said strategy is knowing what to do when there's nothing to do.
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Tactics is knowing what to do when there's something to do, and that gave me so much clarity on the chessboard.
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If there's a free piece to take, take it.
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That's a very simple tactic, but knowing what to do in that longer term, that is building a chess strategy, which is probably the hardest part about chess, and I think you hit the nail on the head.
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It's probably the same in your world where anyone can post on Instagram, but having that be part of a cohesive strategy is the hard part.
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Talk to us about that.
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And also, I want to interject one more variable into this, because I want to get inside your head here, which is I'm going to throw you all the loaded questions today because we're talking marketing.
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But that is, tell us what's on the menu.
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Because when we think about tactics, everyone loves to talk about posting on Instagram.
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Everyone loves to talk about TikTok's new algorithm and how that works.
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So differently from all the other platforms, what are all the different things in your marketing mix that create those tactics?
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So take us away, however you want to Strategy and tactics, the marketing mix.
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We're here for it.
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You just asked me so many questions.
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I feel like I should have written them all down so that I could answer all of them.
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I guess the first thing that I want to comment on is you're right, anyone can post on social media and that's to where you'll see to with uh, where it comes to service providers and how they're adapting right, there is such a spike in quote, unquote social media managers and content creators because it is so accessible for anyone just to post on social media, onto it, onto Tik TOK, onto Instagram.
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Whatever your platform of choice is right, it's very accessible, it's a click of a button.
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If you are running your own personal Instagram account, I can see how someone might think that, okay, now, I'm a social media manager.
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That is completely untrue and what we really do, and the difference between a strategy and a tactic, which is simply just posting, is connecting it to a KPI right, a key performance indicator.
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So we have, with our clients, key metrics that we like to measure to make sure that we know that our content.
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Every week.
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We're in our clients accounts every day, collecting data every week, summarizing that data and then, at the end of every month, looking at that data and identifying trends and then leveraging those trends that are then going to influence the content calendars going into the next month.
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So that's the biggest thing is identifying those KPIs, those key performance indicators that are going to drive those strategies and drive those tactics.
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So, for organic social, for example, there's, you know, a few top KPIs that we like to look at, which is, you know, probably number one is website traffic.
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Right, we're using Instagram, just for an example, to drive traffic to the website, to drive purchases, to drive opt-ins, whatever that operational goal is that that platform plays in your overarching holistic marketing strategy.
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We want to use that platform to drive that metric.
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So, when it comes to website traffic, what we like to look at is website conversion rate.
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So that's how many people visit your profile versus, of those, how many people then click through to your website.
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That is like very, very, very bottom of funnel when it comes to Instagram.
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Success For us, for the majority of our clients, is website traffic.
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Another one could potentially be lead generation, right, so driving to a landing page through an engagement, very, very, very heavy engagement strategy.
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So this is again why posting on social is just is a tactic, not a strategy.
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We're posting on social to generate engagement, to then leverage that engagement and pull those engaged audience members into your own platform, which we then send an email drip campaign out, or maybe we send retargeting emails out too.
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Do you kind of see how this is all kind of playing a picture in the overarching strategy?
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Just versus just posting to post.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah for sure To me.
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The word that comes to mind is intentionality, lindsay, where I'm just like.
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Everything you're doing has a purpose.
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A hundred percent.
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And it would be completely outside of my integrity to say we can absolutely guarantee results for your business, because if any agency or any service provider does say we can guarantee results, I can guarantee they cannot, because we have no control of what someone else does Right, unless we are driving bot traffic, if that makes sense.
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Yeah for sure.
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Here's the thing Hearing you talk about all these things.
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I think a lot of listeners will think to themselves well, yeah, I have posted and I have said you know, check my link in bio.
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People do all of these things because we see others doing it, and so we mirror them, whether we realize the the intentionality behind what we're doing or not.
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And so, with that in mind, what really I love about hearing you talk about these things is that not only does it have that layer of intention, but it just seems like you know what leads to what.
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It's almost as if you and I pop the hood of a car open and you know, okay, well, the windshield washer fluid it leads to here, so that one day, when you push this button, it comes out here, and so you have all these different tools in your arsenal and that understanding of how they all fit together.
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Take us there, because a lot of people, when they look at their possibilities from a marketing perspective, they're going to hear you talking about Instagram and say, okay, that's the takeaway I can post on Instagram.
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But you all obviously do meta ads, you do social media content, you also do social media management.
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As far as hey, here's the different platforms and here's how they all play together and here's how the content needs to be different on all of them.
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Talk to us about that marketing mix.
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Absolutely.
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Before I dive in, I do want to address what you mentioned about click the link in bio.
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So there are and this is a nice little freebie hot tip for the audience who's listening that engagement call to action can work.
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However, we have noticed across our accounts it drops further and further and further from a website conversion rating where really those profile visitors is what's driving your website conversions.
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What a really stellar call to action could be is testing a call to action engagement.
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So comment, yes, comment, grow in the comments below and I'll send you you my XYZ.
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Whatever that freebie is right, so you're generating engagement.
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You can then use many chat as an automation there to set up your triggers.
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That's then taking that Instagram engager and or follower and moving it into your own channel, and that's what we really like to focus here at Stockle and Company is driving every single follower, every single engager, into your own channel Because, as we know, Instagram has crashed a handful of times over the last couple of years and the amount of people that I see on my stories after the fact who just lose their marbles and blame Instagram.
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They had a sale, they had a launch, they had a promotion.
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The thing is, you don't own Instagram, you don't own your audience.
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Meta does, so you have to be super strategic in building the audience and then taking that audience and moving it into your own platform.
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So that's just one thing that I just wanted to cover there and again it kind of speaks to the strategy, right, Because you can have 10,000, 20,000, 100,000, a million followers and $ dollars in the bank.
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You can have 300 followers and a million dollars in the bank if all of those 300 followers are customers yeah, I'm gonna interject this.
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I think it needs to be called out because that's such a powerful point that you just gave us listeners.
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Followers do not equal money, they're lindsey.
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You've already talked about kpis, and it's something that I throw quite a bit of shade on is vanity metrics.
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Followers are vanity metrics.
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I Followers are vanity metrics.
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I know so many people especially having been in the game as long as I have that have hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram with no funnels to support that traffic, with no engagement.
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You've used that word a few times.
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You just, I feel like you revealed very quickly here on the air One of the tricks in your arsenal, which is ManyChat.
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Obviously, talk to us about that for listeners who have never actually supported their social efforts with a real strategy behind it.
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What's that stuff look like?
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Because I feel like you're alluding to it so clearly.
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Yeah, it's pretty awesome, especially if you are a small business or you have a limited resource marketing team.
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Manychat is depending on when this is going to air, I'm not 100% sure, so don't quote me on that it is the only approved Instagram partner for automation.
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So there are a lot of other, like third party bots, that you can integrate with Instagram, but it's not an approved partner, which then your account can potentially be flagged as spam and then shut down, and we all know that that is just like probably the worst thing that can happen to you, because getting an account back is extremely challenging.
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Now, there are ways that you can.
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There are steps that you can take to protect your account so that if it does get hacked or spammed, you can potentially have access back Granted sorry, granted back to you, but we can talk about that on another podcast on how to safely protect your Instagram account.
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But I'm sorry, I kind of lost my train of thought there.
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I started going down a rabbit hole.
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Oh, chat automation, yeah, yeah.
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And engagement, tying it back with engagement, yeah, because I think that that's that's the key thing.
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Is that what you're talking about?
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It's easy to just start making all of these rookie errors and we've all done it myself as well well, who has gotten my account banned from time to time?
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so, yeah, keep, let's keep going down that hole so many chat is the only approved dm automation partner.
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So I remember years ago we did a launch with a client and their account got shut down for literally just authentic um engagement, like literally just responding to their comments because we did such a killer job, and meta shut it down, which was absolutely bananas because it was authentic engagement.
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Now, with many chat, you can set up a many chat automation.
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So if someone comments on your posts, they send a certain you know keyword.
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You can then set up like a flow, kind of very similar to like an email flow, right, how you can take one person, move it to the next bucket and the next and the next and trigger different messages.
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That's what you can do with ManyChat.
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So it not only helps you avoid the risk of being marked as spam, but it also alleviates a lot of work on your agency from a budget perspective, resource perspective or your internal team as well, so that you actually don't need to sit there every five minutes OMG, did someone comment grow on my post?
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And then I have to send them a comment and then send them a DM.
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That's what ManyChat can do for you.
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So it is an absolutely fabulous tool to automate and save you more time in the long run, so you can work on your business and not in it.
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Yes, gosh, and it's fun for me having this conversation with you, because I feel like you're so good at structuring the strategic conversation with the tactical conversations, and here we are talking about a really clear tactic that people can take advantage of that they probably never had any idea.
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But, with that said, we're going to shift from tactics to strategy, because I want to zoom way out Because, as I said in the teaser to this episode, performance marketing.
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I've done many episodes and had many conversations within the world of marketing.
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I've never quite seen someone with such a strong emphasis on that term performance marketing, lindsay.
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Why is it so prevalent in everything that you do?
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Well, because we want to make sure that we're spending our clients' marketing dollars that are actually driving their operational goals, right?
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So when you usually think of how like an organization is set up, you have marketing, you have operations, and sometimes not all the time, they're siloed, right?
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So then, when you have your marketing team come to the table and be like, hey, we generated 2000 leads for you at $2 a lead.
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But the sales team come in're like we have no sales, right, it's identifying where that gap is.
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Maybe those leads weren't qualified, maybe there's a gap, maybe they were qualified, but there's a gap in your email funnel.
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Right, that's not working.
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Maybe there needs to be more personalization, maybe.
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If maybe it's an offer issue, right, so it's.
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It's bringing marketing and operations together so that we are driving.
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I'm using leads, for example.
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If you're like a sales, you're selling like an evergreen offer.
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We want to make sure we're not just bringing leads that are within your budget, but they're qualified leads that your sales team can then sell to.
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Yeah, lindsay, this is a hill I'm willing to die on and I want to go here with you, here in today's conversation.
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Yeah, because when what you just said there is, you pointed towards.
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Here we are having a conversation about marketing, you are bringing into the conversation your offer, your sales team, you're bringing into the conversation all these other things.
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It's probably the thing that bothers me the most when I talk to entrepreneurs where they say I'm going to pick on meta ads for a second Cause I know you and I are going to talk about that.
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When people say, oh, meta ads don't work and I asked them what didn't work about it and they say, well, I didn't get any sales.
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And for me, I'm just like is your offer any good?
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Was your copy any good?
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Was your follow-up sequence any good?
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All of these things are going to determine.
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It's not whether a platform works or it doesn't work.
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So give us that view, because I feel like it's obviously the trickiest thing about being successful, not just with marketing but in business, is all of these things concurrently have to be right.
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What?
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What are those puzzle pieces even look like?
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What are those different pieces that you look at before you can even succeed with marketing?
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A hundred percent.
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And I mean we see this all the time.
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I shouldn't say, see, we hear this all the time from you know, potential and new clients and like I've run meta ads and they don't work for me and I'm just like, okay, well, let's, you know, pull the cover off the car, the hood off the car.
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As you can see I'm kind of girly who has no mechanical skills whatsoever.
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You know, take the hood off the car and pull it back and see, was your meta ads manager actually set up properly?
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Do you have your conversion tracking set up properly on your backend to actually be able to showcase your return on ad spend from your ads?
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That's not always 100% possible, but was there at least an effort put into place?
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What does your sales funnel look like?
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Do have proof of organic, proof of concept already?
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So that's one thing we always like to talk with our clients when it comes to ads management is do you already have a solid offer or a solid product that you have successful organic sales already?
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If you do, if you, if, if that is the case, bringing in an ads manager and this is a very different thing between an ads manager and a media buyer.
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A media buyer is just buying space on the platform, where an ads manager is setting up your campaigns, your audiences, your ads and optimizing them every week, if not more frequently, depending on your sales cycle there.
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So there's so many pieces of the puzzle that come into play.
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Do you have a marketing offer or do you have a product offer?
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Right, what are your overarching goals?
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Can meta ads actually be profitable for you based on your average ticket, your conversion rate, your product margin and your cost per acquisition?
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So it's all of these pieces that we like to run through with new clients so that we can make sure that a like do you have a solid product and or service, organically, proof of concept, sold, perfect.
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And then we go through like a little bit of a profitability checklist so that we can say like, hey, this is, on average, what we think we can make you.
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Does that make sense for a return on ad spend, which, in marketing terms, is ROAS?
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So return on ad spend is for every dollar spent, how much are you making?
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Yeah, lindsay, I want to ask you this because, hearing you talk about this and in that strong emphasis, obviously, on someone's return on investment, I think it's so cool to think about the way that you get to experiment, you get to use these different forces to grow a business, which, again, I just want to call out and huge kudos to you that you're not only doing this for others, but you're growing your own business, so you understand these things as a fellow business owner.
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And when I think about that, we had a few weeks ago we had Tiff Quillen on the show, who she works within the architecture and construction industry and she focuses on Google ads and SEO, so a little bit different from you, but what I think is really cool about her approach is that she says, hey, no-transcript, way more powerful and, again, strategic approach 100%.
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And I will just just to clarify too we're full service, right.
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So we do website design and development, we do SEO, we do Google ads, we do email marketing.
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We're absolutely full service.
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So we have lots of experience creating SEO campaigns, audits and then profitable Google ads campaigns.
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We have one client from July I'm just going to preach what we speak here we were actually able to generate a 127 times return on ad spend just strictly through Google ads, and that solely.
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We were able to prove that because we have a jet data engineer who was able to get into their backend and set up all the links, so we could actually prove that concept.
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So I just wanted to clarify that, yes, we can do all of those things, and I'm sorry I for I lost track of the question there.
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Yeah, no, I'd love for you to talk about how organic and paid can play nicely together.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Yeah, so what you said, your past guests like absolutely stinking, nailed it, like she's obviously an expert, he, she or they is an expert in their field.
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Um, but we always like to ask our clients when they come.