Branding Meets Social Media Strategy: Driving Traffic to the Website—Posting 3 Times Per Week, 4 Platforms
Client: Communication via Design
Project: Email Marketing
Role: Graphic Designer, Writing, Content Management, Analytics
Campaign Objectives
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Partnering with Communication via Design—a full-service marketing firm specializing in brand strategy and communications for non-profits and social enterprises—my role is to create visual and written social media content that reinforces the organization as a trusted marketing partner for non-profits and social enterprises.
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Posts focus on client success stories, project milestones, and industry thought leadership.
Project Scope
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Maintaining a social media presence across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn is accomplished by utilizing strategic digital marketing tools and techniques that align with the organization’s mission and vision.
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The social media strategy includes writing posts, developing ongoing campaign ideas, designing graphics and animations, maintaining a content calendar, scheduling on platforms, engaging with the audience, and analyzing performance metrics.
Strategic Approach
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Content Development: Crafts engaging written messages with the support of custom ChatGPT to maintain a consistent brand voice.
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Tagging: Conducts keyword and hashtag research, along with adding appropriate mentions to maximize reach.
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Content Management: Manages a proactive content calendar, scheduling posts 3x a week with Adobe Express, to ensure consistent delivery across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn.
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Targeted campaigns: The Creative Query series was created to spark engagement and education by asking an industry-related question in the visual and providing the answer in the written post with a strong CTA to encourage comments and reactions.
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Performance Analytics: Tracks key performance metrics (likes, comments, clicks, impressions, reach, views, etc) to evaluate content effectiveness and to optimize strategy.
Branding
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Each post aligns with Communication via Design’s established brand guidelines, messaging, and typography, ensuring consistent use of color, type styles, and brand voice throughout all written content.
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Branding is reinforced in written posts by use of opening headlines, consistent formatting of emojis, repeated keywords, confident and positive messaging, incorporating brand values, adding custom-branded hashtags, and including CTA's.
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Video content and custom animations are leveraged to increase engagement and grow an audience.
Marketing Results
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Achieved notable increase in visibility and follower growth on all platforms, especially LinkedIn.
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Enhanced overall digital brand presence, supporting business development and client retention by improving alignment of content with user interests and organizational goals.
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Beat the average cost per click (CPC) and cost per impression (CPM) for the paid No Limit. No Growth advertising on Instagram. Average CPC is $2-$3, and average CPM is $5-$8. The ad performed at $1.27 CPC, and the CPM was $3.27 with 90 landing page views.
SOCIAL MEDIA, BRANDING, CONTENT WRITING, CHAT GPT ANIMATION, ANALYTICS