Noah Kagen (early member at Facebook and Mint and founder of AppSumo) has a great video about hiring employees.  Basically, he says that his goal was to hire good team members that needed to focus their skill set.  It’s more important to have a believer than a mercenary.

Let’s be honest… I don’t think the headhunter that is looking for their $5K bounty is going to be overly concerned about the long-term ramifications of your workplace environment.

The second tactic companies use is ads on Indeed.com.  It reminds me of the old days when the media buyer would default to print ads whenever there was a tough decision to be made in the marketing budget.  Everyone read the newspaper and it was comfortable… in the long run that didn’t work out.  The problem with putting ads in Indeed.com is that it attracts a less desirable employee.  In all likelihood, potential employees answering an Indeed.com ad has been let go of their job and doesn’t have any professional contacts.  If the employee was exemplary, they would have already been scooped up by a company; that hasn’t happened.  So, you are dealing with a pool of prospects that are not either team players but have good skills. Or maybe they are good team players but have extremely diminished skills with little upside.  Doesn’t sound like an ideal pool of job candidates I would like to be choosing from.

Quite frankly, another issue is employers are given control of the job search process to outside forces whose first priority is not to find a candidate that’s a good fit, but rather to bring in candidates for the sake of, well… bringing in candidates.

Copley Advertising has come up with a better way, one that will give a free flow of candidates to the employer and still retain control of the process at a fraction of the cost.

First, we sit with the client and find which positions need staffing.  Then, we select about 40 companies with current employees they believe would be a good fit for their company (skill and culture-wise).  We geofence the companies and tag all smartphones in the targeted company and play a :15-second video.  The video is of one of the company’s employees saying, “Hi, my name is Jane.  I like working at company X because of their corporate culture”.  Corporate culture is one of the four key points that workers -especially highly trained young workers-look for in a workplace.

Once the target sees the ad, we capture their device ID.  If they engage with the ad, we place their ID in a retargeting folder.  After the target clicks on the ad, they are taken to a landing page with a video. “Hi, my name is Jane and I’m a Systems Analyst at Company X.  We have a great company culture, work/life balance, promotion track and a good pay scale.  Below are some additional videos of friends of mine who also work here. If you leave your email, we can send you some updates concerning changes in the employment climate and pictures from outings we have had.  Hope to talk to you soon.”

You would have links to another video that will have other employees talking about the company and suggesting email sign up. If the target doesn’t sign up, that’s fine because now we have three ways to track the ID: the impression IDs, retargeting IDs and the Facebook pixel on the site.

We set up a Facebook retargeting campaign using the captured Facebook IDs. Running the impression IDs through a Facebook converter, we end up with a 30% conversion rate. Now you’ve essentially exchanged impression IDs for Facebook IDs. We then create a look-alike model with the Facebook IDs matching the main data points, identifying similar Facebook users in the US. We set the look-alike to 1% of the US population and will end up with about 2,250,000 Facebook IDs with similar data points.  You can start a campaign with the data and drill down to focus on specific location and behavior indicators; you can drill down further again using Facebook’s Audience Insights.  Once you have a critical mass of retargeting IDs, you can launch a campaign that receives on average 2X to 16X click rate.

And the great news is that you will now have a short-term and long-term funnel that you can draw from when need. You’ll be able to filter candidates that fit your company and those that don’t.

After the campaign is set up and running for about a month, there is a nominal maintenance fee needed to keep the captured IDs in place.

“We’ve found recruiting in its present form to be outdated and ineffective. Copley Advertising’s goal is to disrupt the space and introduce a clean, modern model that is beneficial to both the company and the candidate. Win-win means just that.”  John Flynn, CEO, Copley Advertising.

Or you can go back to someone who is going to charge you $5,000 per body or to place ads to non-networks, rusty-skilled candidates on Indeed.com. Good luck with that.

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Copley Advertising

Brookline, MA 02445

John Flynn

jflynn@copleyadvertising

617-595-0138

Facebook’s hot streak continued with a strong Q2 2017 earnings report. It earned $9.32 billion. Revenue growth was 44.7 percent year-over-year.

Mobile now accounts for 87 percent of ad revenue, or $8 billion, compared to 85 percent last quarter and 84 percent a year ago. Total ad revenue was $9.16 billion.

The Facebook numbers are crushing it; they hit all the projections and their main issue is that they are running out of space to advertise (a preview of my blog next year blog “It was the Instagram, stupid”). But the main takeaway for mobile marketers is that 87% of Facebook’s revenue is mobile. 87%! So, less than 13% of revenue is severed digital. Is Facebook’s reporting for the last three years a behavior limited to Facebook or is it a system shift in the way we are using the Internet?

Search Engine Land reported late in 2016 that, “It’s Official: Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop.” Google said that.

So here we are again: another milestone. Another indicator the mobile has and will continue to rule the world! With mobile-only apps like Instagram and Snapchat not hitting stride, there is a lot of room for revenue. Mobile marketing companies such as Copley Advertising have tapped into supply-side app platforms like MoPub, Rubicon, Smatto and others, providing an endless sea of impressions available through their network. In 2017, mobile marketing will continue to move at breakneck speed. If medium and large companies have not allocated enough of their marketing budget, they will find themselves playing catch up.

Everything is a learning curve and for companies just getting into mobile (or yet to do so, in the future), they’re going to pay a much higher price than early explorers. As with any advertising and marketing system, it takes time to understand which aspects of mobile marketing make the most sense. Maybe a DSP that delivers impressions at a high rate of speed? Or a platform with granular reporting? Low CPM with high frequency? App placement by 1,200 impressions and no clicks? Android or iOS? There are just so many questions that can only be answered by taking the program out for a drive.

Plus, client’s goal projections need to be aligned as mobile is not (for the most part) a CPA-driven media outlet. Things like email collection are short-sighted. “Email is fine, but the goal is to engage the target to such an extent that we will have a major influence on both their long-term and short-term decisions.” states John Flynn, CEO of Copley Advertising.

While spending on mobile advertising is taking a larger chunk of companies’ advertising budgets, many are not yet adopting the right tactics. When starting to run mobile advertising campaigns, a company should consider working with a proven mobile marketing agency; this will help you find your targeted demographic and help your company become an important influencer in that target’s decision-making process. Once that formula is found, a funnel of prospective customers can be sent to a landing page to capture their mobile ID and retarget it with offers and quality content. This will increase short-term action and longer-term influencers and will do so by not only 2X, but 10X!

Or… you can buy a newspaper ad.

Copley Advertising is a mobile marketing company that uses the tools of mobile targeting and their worldwide relationships to help clients reach and influence their demographic. Call (617) 651-2249 or email [email protected].

If you compare mobile advertising to newspaper, radio and out of home advertising the better outlet is clearly mobile. The three traditional outlets depend on collecting a huge amount of impression and hoping that the client’s demographic is in the mix. With mobile offering geotargeting, targeting by day and time, demographic and behavior targeting and being cheaper, the argument that mobile is a better media outlet is solid.

Recently retail accounts have been pushing for in-store traffic reporting. Changing the KPI to CPV (cost per visit). Programs like TrafficDrive (Copley Advertising) along with programs from NinthDecimal, Push Spring and Simpli.fi have the capability to track tagged smartphones back to the retail location.

Copley Advertising’s TrafficDrive program is unique. Copley Advertising will geofence retailer’s location. Tag smartphones in the geofence. The user doesn’t have to click on the ad. Once the user sees the ad the phone is retagged. Copley Advertising transforms the retailer into a Conversion Center. When then retagged user enters the Conversion Center their ID is counted. Copley Advertising can create a report showing store traffic directly generated by the mobile campaign.

The power of mobile continues to grow and the demands by clients are helping mobile DSPs to create programs to meet expectations. The great news is that mobile will continue to rise and meet different benchmarks for different sectors.

The biggest news was that mobile revenue was over $1 billion by the end of Black Friday. That was a 33% increase from last year.  The most optimistic projections had revenue over $1 billion by the end of Cyber Monday.

PayPal reported that one-third of all payments on Black Friday were from smartphones.

Walmart reported that on Black Friday 70% of their online traffic was mobile. Target stated on Black Friday 60% of their online traffic was mobile.

On Thanksgiving, mobile revenue accounted for 40% of all sales and 57% of traffic. (MediaPost)

Amazon reported that mobile revenue on Thanksgiving topped last year’s Cyber Monday.

A very impressive week for mobile commerce.    Companies will continue to develop their mobile commerce platform.  Mobile’s advantage is the online buying cycle.  The consumer already uses mobile first to compare prices and check reviews.  Companies need to take advantage of those habits and help the consumers take the next step.  Consumers have always been ahead of companies in the demand for easy to use mobile commerce platforms. Companies need to catch up to smartphone users requests for the simple reason there is over $1 billion on the table.

No other influence was had more than 50% of responses. The closest was family and friends with 40%. 30% named TV as the LEAST effective and 20% saying radio was the LEAST effective.

In June of 2016 Points.com found that 50% of respondents wanted more relevant coupons and deals from retailers.

And a September 2016 survey of US millennial mother internet users by Roth Capital reveals that nearly 70% of them searched for or downloaded mobile coupons while on their smartphones and shopping. October research should dollar off coupons are the most popular.

Mobile users have welcomed and are now demanding that retailers geofence their locations and place coupons and discounts in their location. With mobile retargeting, after the customer leaves the store additional discounts and coupons can be delivered.  These offers can bring customers back to the retail location. Tracking methods can be used to see how many tagged users that opened up the coupon away from the retail location came back to the store.

Retailers using mobile geofencing to deliver discounts and coupons to the consumer in store will have an advantage over other retailers that are not geofencing. The consumer has signaled that they want more. If you are not using the tools of mobile geofencing to its fullest then you are losing business.

For more information and about setting up a mobile geofencing program that will deliver coupons and discounts to you customers in-store then tracking the tagged user and deliver additional offers to drive them back to the retail location click here.

First, it shows that mobile advertising agencies are getting smarter about how they use their data.  Data is the real currency of mobile marketing.  Increasing CTR and ROI are very important and drive business.  But collecting data that the client can use for a cross-platform online/offline campaign is almost as valuable as a sale.

A campaign can be set up where Macy’s geofences all their locations (lat-long).  Captures the ID of all smartphones in store.  Places ads in apps.  Then places IDs of users that clicked on the app in a retargeting folder.  This retargeting folder is key as a separate campaign can be run to the captured IDs only.  These users have already expressed an interested in the offer and are at least 2x more likely to act on a purchase then a user that has not clicked on the banner.

But with the data like the type that Urber Media provides, Macy’s can now run a campaign targeting all JC Penney locations and place Macy’s ads in mobile apps on smartphones in a JC Penney store.  Then collect all the IDs of smartphone users that clicked on the ad and place them in a separate retargeting folder.

Why JC Penny?  Because in a Urber Media study that compared other retailers JC Penny was the most likely retailer that Macy’s customers would shop.  In comparison, Macy’s customers were twice as likely to be at a JC Penny then a Kohl’s.

The ability to target smartphone users in a set location and drill down to demographic is important but we should not overlook that the data collected can be used for retargeting and making offline advertising more efficient and effective.

Retailers can tag the IDs of smartphone users within a five-mile radius of their locations and place a Pokemon Go “like” ads in mobile apps driving traffic to their locations.  They can drill down to demographic and behavioral qualifiers.  Increase in-store foot traffic is an important indicator for a successful mobile campaign.  Data from companies like Cuebiq is making tracking the holy grail of in-store traffic a lot easier and faster to track.

For consumer goods companies using the Pokemon Go like strategy of driving consumers to store locations that carry their product is a very effective plan.  With the increased ability to target by contextual, behavior and users individual selling habits, consumer goods companies have powerful marketing information on top of the ability to geo-target.

Pokemon Go has helped the mobile marketing movement go mainstream.  Retailers and consumer goods companies will now  realize that the capabilities of Pokemon Go have shown only a small part of what mobile marketing can do.

There are many factors to consider when trying to optimize a mobile campaign.  Drilling down to OS will show the break out between iOS and Android.  Copley Advertising has seen a three to one gap in click rate.  If this is the case then testing a cloned campaign and white listing the OS with the highest click rate may see a significant rise in CTR.

When we ran a test campaign which cloned the original campaign and then whitelisted the OS with the highest CTR. Copley Advertising found a 25% lift in the click rate across the board. By whitelisting the OS system, we increased net click rate by 20% for the entire campaign.

There is a movement to gear campaigns to iOS only.  We have seen 3 to 1 click rates in favor of iOS and some in favor of Android.  With Android impressions being cheaper finding Android skewed data may be a bonus.

If the advantage is 25% or less then looking at placement is a better way to go as you can choose which iOS and Android apps are working and which are not.

Copley Advertising uses a mobileDSP platforms to reach your mobile marketing goals.  We use programmatic buying but we believe that algorithms are good but knowing each campaign on a granular level is important.

Interested in mobile geofencing?  Email us at [email protected].