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1. Introduction: TikTok works because
it's so interactive, it's so fun and
you get to create shareable content
with the people that you're marketing to. It's not a one-way broadcast
like marketing used to be. It gives your content
much more life way beyond your campaign. Hi, my name is Sue
Keogh and I run an award-winning digital
marketing agency in UK and people know me as an
expert in digital content. In this class, we're looking at how to use TikTok as part of your marketing strategy [MUSIC]. TikTok is particularly
good for fashion, retail, leisure, gaming, sports,
all of those sectors. The platform is growing
at a phenomenal pace. You've got around 28 percent
of users being under 19 and then about 35 percent
up to 29 years of age. You can see how that's a very attractive option for brands who are trying to
reach that younger audience. This class is ideal
for marketing teams, If you want to get
started with TikTok but you're not really
sure where to start. I'll be talking through
the three pillars of your TikTok strategy, that's building an
organic community, using paid campaigns, and working with influencers
to get you faster results. Once you've decided
on the best way to use TikTok for your brand, you'll want to know
if the activity is working out for you. I'll be explaining
what TikTok algorithm, the best hashtags to use, and what you need to know about TikTok analytics so you're
all set to measure results. I've got loads of
case studies as we go to give you lots
of inspiration. There will be activities
at the end of each lesson, and we've got a worksheet that you'll be filling in and this is where you'll be noting down all your thoughts
from each activity, which will help you
build a framework for your TikTok strategy
and at the end, there is a project where
you can put it all together and if you upload this
into the project gallery, I can give you loads
of helpful feedback as well and this is
your chance to build a community through fresh and
exciting and fun content. All set, let's dive in.
2. Using TikTok For Marketing Success: I'm going to kick off
with some inspiration showing you a brand
who's used TikTok for multi-channel marketing
success just to get us all in the
mood of how you can use this channel so well. Like a lot of businesses, MAC Cosmetics has spent years, billions of dollars building up all these social
media communities on places like Facebook
and Twitter and Instagram, which would be fine, except those users
start growing up, so all these Facebook users
were posting pictures of their babies on Facebook
in the earlier years. Now they're older, and they
don't want to be seen on these social media
platforms as their parents. All of these younger people
are starting to use TikTok. There's such a strong case for these very established
brands to be going to these platforms where the
younger audience is starting to come through, so enter TikTok. What I'm going to show you
is a really strong example from MAC Cosmetics to show you how they've used TikTok as part of their existing
marketing strategy. As we look through their feed, you'll see beauty hacks. You'll see loads of attention grabbing before and
after transitions. They've got lots of
tutorials on primers and foundation and blushes,
all that stuff. There's also lots of
influencer content. You can really see
this diverse mix with people that they feature. It gives a nod to them being
a bit of an inclusive brand, which is something that
they know is going to appeal to that younger audience. But no social media
channel is in isolation, and they know that younger people are skipping
backwards and forwards from
TikTok to Snapchat, to WhatsApp messages, all the time without
really skipping a beat. The campaign I'm going
to show you for Mac, really builds upon
that and recognizes the typical behavior
patterns of the audience. I'm just going to walk you through the campaign
they did for Love Me Liquid Lipcolour [LAUGHTER] which is
a fun one to say. They did this thing
that was really clever, which was mixing TikTok
with Snapchat and Spotify. It wasn't even just all on social media, they
went beyond that. There's a lens on Snapchat
that allowed you to use 20 different shapes of this lip color and match
it with your outfit. TikTok, they stripped
it back a little bit, so they just had four
different shades. But you could layer them over
your face and your outfit, so it's like filters, so you can match the product with
what you are wearing. But then lovely thing they did, they also tied it
in with Spotify. They had all these
really feel good, fun playlists that got people
in this positive mood. It's really recognizing
this flighty behavior on people nowadays where they move from one
platform to the next. It had a really positive result in terms of sales for them. To really catapult it's success, they also use some
really popular hashtags, so that meant that the content got seen
more widely and also enabled people to be a bit more in on the act
as well themselves, so they would create some posts and they'd use these hashtags. Then also they bought
into the offline world, so they had special QR codes. It wasn't just about
buying makeup online, it also meant that if
you went into the store, you could use this QR code and you could take that
lip color that matched your outfit when you're
looking at it online and then actually go into the store
and buy it there and then. Why is it so effective? Well, first of all,
it was really simple. It was fun for users
to create content, but they also wanted to as well. There was this seamless flow from digital platform
to digital platform, which was really effective
and really powerful. But then they also took
that step further, so it was this mix between
online and offline. Users were involved and also buying products in all
these different areas. What were the results?
You are in marketing, you are a strategist, you want to get
results article list. TikTok is fun, of
course it's fun, but at the end of the day, it's got to generate some
return on investment. This campaign
really did for Mac. There were 1.8 million users reached and the
174,000 video views. The engagement rate was
around six percent and there was a lift
in purchase intent of nearly four percent. It really generated a solid
return for the brand. It's time to go to
your worksheet, and I've got an
activity for you. We've just been talking
about how TikTok fits in alongside your established
marketing platforms. I'd love you to put some
thought to the role that TikTok is going to play for you. Maybe you use
LinkedIn already and Twitter for these more
sensible newsy updates, and over on TikTok, that's where you're going
to have a bit of fun, or maybe you do lots of events. Then TikTok could be a
brilliant platform for you to help people show a bit more of their
creative side. Just think about the role
that TikTok is going to play in your own
marketing strategy.
3. Understanding the Three TikTok Pillars: In this lesson, we're
going to break down the three pillars of
your TikTok strategy, and that's organic beats, paid peaks, and
creator partnerships. I don't know about
you, but I love these fresh phrases
that are coming in. It all of a sudden makes the
other social media platforms feel a bit old hat. TikTok, they call it, they're always on strategy, and this is a way of thinking. It's a slightly
different mindset. You need to be creating this
content that's continually going strong and continually
keeping people interested. I'm going to give
you a quick overview of these three pillars, and in the next few lessons, we'll really break it
down in more detail, so you'll get a full overview of the different tactics
that you can use. Organic beats. Once you've got your business account setup, you've got all of those
usual elements like your profile picture and your bio and all of
that information, then you can set about
creating content. Let's not forget here that it's a slightly
younger audience, they want that steady stream
of content coming out. I love this phrase,
organic beats, because it's like this
regular drumbeat of interesting content that's going to be keeping people engaged. While you're doing this,
you're also building up a really good picture
of your audience giving you loads of data and information about
their interests, their behavior, this
content they want from you, which means that then you're
ready for paid peaks. This is another
lovely TikTok phrase, it's a paid campaign activity. One of the thing that I
find interesting about TikTok is that it
really encourages you to do the organic
stuff first before diving straight in to the
paid campaign activity. The third component part of your TikTok strategy is
creator partnerships. TikTok is hugely
creative and there's a whole bunch of
people out there that you can collaborate with, so that you're instantly in
sync with their communities. The best thing is that there's this creative marketplace on
TikTok to help you connect. As you scroll through,
you'll quickly see that the most popular categories
are things like gaming, like beauty, fashion, comedy, all these sorts of things, and so if you are a brand that taps into these categories, then you'll instantly
you're going to become much more visible and you find that the content
that's tailored to these audiences is going to scale very naturally on TikTok. If you base your TikTok strategy on this three-part framework, you're going to find that you
are much more successful, much more quickly than
if you just try to do the same old thing
that you've been doing already on Facebook
and LinkedIn, and all these other
social media platforms. Now it's time to pause for thought and go to your worksheet and note down your own brand
objectives in using TikTok. Are you going to focus
on organic peaks? Is it going to be paid peaks, all of those amazing
paid campaigns, or are you going to
go straight in there and go for creator partnerships, which will really
get you connecting with a whole new audience?
4. Creating Organic Engagement: In this lesson, we're
going to talk about organic engagement on TikTok. This is so important as part of your TikTok marketing strategy, because it's this
continual drumbeat of content that keeps you front
of mind with your audience. It's a similar mindset
to how a lot of brands use Instagram
stories so in a way that feels
more spontaneous to the content they
put on the main grid. So, it's more off the
curve, it's more authentic. Quite often they go
behind the scenes, so it's more rough and ready. It's that similar feel and it allows you to
come across as a brand. It's got this slightly
more authentic side to the more polished presence that you might have
on other platforms. This is the activity
that's going to keep your followers
interested and excited and engaged and
hopefully sharing your content, so amplifies the reach as well. I'm going to give
you an example of Lululemon, the fitness brand, to show you what
they do on TikTok to give you a few examples
of all this in practice. As you can see, they have this really steady
stream of content. There's a lot of
organic activity going on and they
show off products, they share fitness tips as well, so it's this mix
of the commercial and the useful, all in one. There's lots of interaction
in the comments as well and they take
time to respond, which is really,
really important. Otherwise, customers, users, followers, they don't
feel listened to. They frequently use hashtags
like, the sweat life, and so because they came
up with this hashtag, they need to use it quite a lot before people become familiar. But because they use
it so much then they are and people start
using it themselves. They are also very
good at jumping on popular hashtag trends, so you've got yoga
pose challenge. Don't do what a
friend of mine did. She did a TikTok
handstand challenge, and fell over, broke her toe. [LAUGHTER] So, do take caution when
you try these things. They've also got a
good awareness of memes and music choices as well. [MUSIC] Wow, I'm
so proud of you. It's not a bad thing on TikTok
to look for a bit and to see what the trends
are before you start creating your own
organic content. Let me give you some tips for
organic success on TikTok. The first one, can't
stress this enough, you need to grab
people's attention in the opening seconds in
your video content. Otherwise, they'll
just scroll onto the next video and they
won't stick around. This is really important
for the TikTok algorithm, which I'll be coming
to, later on. The next thing is about building a connection
with the audience. If people reply in comments, then try and respond back.
It's really important. Try and plan for content
ideas that will run and run, so not just one TikTok
that you will make once, and then that's the end of
that, everyone goes home. Try and come up with
something that you can really build upon over time. Then lastly, think
about resources. What I see happening
quite a lot with TikTok is that one person
in the team really gets it and nobody else
is really sure what they're up to and
then that person moves on, so make sure you've got some
brand guidelines in place, some content plan, so that your TikTok success
once it started rolling, then you can continue on and on, even if you've got
changes in the team. In the spirit of coming up with content ideas for TikTok
which will run and run, I've got another
activity for you. What are those opportunities
that you've got right under your nose to come up with
good content for TikTok? It could be about people. Maybe you can get
your team involved. It could be about place, so maybe you've got an
amazing venue or workplace. Or it could be about products. What fun can you have with
the products that you sell, that will lead to
a brilliant series of content on TikTok?
5. Turbocharging Your Results: In this lesson, we're
going to look at turbocharging your results
through paid peaks. As you'll know, social media is a brilliant way to build
communities over time. But quite often you
want to accelerate results and particularly on TikTok where you
might feel like, well, we've done all of that on Facebook and we've done
it all in Instagram, we've done it all on Twitter. Sometimes you want
faster results. What works on TikTok is real short bursts of
quite intense activity. In some of the campaigns
I'm going to show you, you'll see that
actually the campaign only last about six days. It really is quite a short, intense amount of
activity rather than this long-drawn-out campaign
over several months. Like Adidas for example, you look them up on TikTok and they're
hardly following anyone. There's hardly any
organic activity there. But what they do, do is take a whole big-budget throw it to TikTok for very short
amount of time, and then generate lots
and lots of activity. But it feels to me like they've done all the hard
work over the years, building up the communities. With TikTok, they're
going straight into the paid campaign activity. But thinking about
your own brand, maybe you don't feel
ready to do this yet or you've got budget tied
up in other platforms, you can still learn
some new approaches that other brands are taking and use some of these trends and techniques in your
organic activity. I'm going to use Samsung as
an example of how to run a paid campaign on TikTok using
the MakeMomEpic campaign, which ran for a
very short space of time in a runner
to Mother's Day. The advice from
TikTok themselves is don't make ads, make TikToks. As you can see with Samsung, they've really taken the idea
and run with it and it's such a brilliant way to
reshape your thinking. It instantly makes you
feel more creative, more fast-paced, more fun. It's a shift in
thinking from, say, nearly part of my career where ad campaigns with so
much more polished, so for example, if
you think about the big perfume campaigns
and run it to Christmas, huge big-budget affairs with these top models
and very polished, whereas the TikTok ad campaign is completely different in look, feel, tone, pace everything. Let's talk through some
of the paid features that Samsung used in the
MakeMomEpic campaign. First of all, they
used in-feed ads. This is where you can integrate the content into
users for you feed, which is the content
that comes up first when they open TikTok, and so you're thinking
about 60-second ad here. But as I said before, you need to really try and grab people's attention in
the opening seconds. They also did a branded
hashtag challenge. This is a brilliant
place to start if you do go into paid
campaigns on TikTok. Not least, because 35 percent of users say that they
take part in them. There's a real
opportunity here to get users to be very creative
and to engage with you. Hopefully to click through to a dedicated landing page where they'll go on
to buy your product. Then you've also got
branded takeovers. These are a little bit
more of a premium option. TikTok only allows one per day. As you can imagine, it takes quite a sizable chunk of budget, so I wouldn't recommend
that being a place to start when you're
first getting into it. Then you've got top view. A top view, it's like
a brand takeover, but it only appears
after three seconds, so it's still very powerful. It's going to grab
people's attention. They have just opened TikTok
and a couple of seconds in, then outcomes your
ad, your campaign. It's a really good way of
getting in there for you feed. The opening seconds and all
of these is really critical. But then you've also
got branded effects. Again, another chance for
everybody to have fun. You've got stickers,
you've got filters, you've got all sorts of
options for users to layer fun visuals over
their own video content. Samsung didn't use this in
the MakeMomEpic campaign, but they did use
it to great effect on their video snap challenge, which encouraged people to
use the different features of this new camera as part
of their video content. Because it is so
collaborative and fun then it really incentivizes
people to take part. Another nice thing
of branded effects is the way that it gets
around the language barrier. If you're quite a global brand, then they can skip over borders. People don't need
to be able to speak the language that you speak, to be able to be part of the fun and the action
and the campaign. What if you don't
have any budget and not every brand
starts with loads of budget to throw a
different platform or maybe you want to
try it a little bit cautiously at first. While TikTok really
encourages you to start organic and build
up lots of data. This means that when you do
decide to go for a page peak, then it means that
you're spending your money really
wisely and you've already studied the audience and their behavior and identified
what's going to work. The other way that
you can be part of these paid campaigns
is simply through learning and getting
inspiration, so keep your eyes open. Look around at the other
brands, see what they're doing, and see what ideas and
approaches you can use as part of your
organic activity. Let's have a little activity, and thinking about
the different options for paid campaigns, which ones would really bring
results for your brand? We've got in-feed ads, we've got hashtag challenges, we've got branded takeovers, we've got top view, we've got branded effects. There's so many options, so which ones would be
really effective for you?
6. Forming Creator Partnerships: In this lesson, I'm going
to tell you how to use influences to target
new audiences. A big worry among
marketing people I speak to is getting
Tiktok wrong. There's this feeling that the
audience is very marketing, survey, slightly cynical, they'll spot fakery a mile off. Sometimes there's an age
difference between the people developing a strategy and
the consumers themselves. You don't want to get it wrong, you don't want to miss that, and you don't want
to end up going viral for all the wrong reasons. As a result, it means
a lot of brands are feeling bit hesitant
about using TikTok, which is a real shame because it means you're missing out on this huge potential impact
you could be making. This is where creative
partnerships come in, and it's another nice bit of TikTok terminology that they're
calling people creators, not just users or consumers. It's another part of this new terminology that TikTok uses, it just feels really
fresh and positive. This is your
opportunity to bring some natural authenticity
to your campaign. You're connecting up
with the people who speak the language of the community that you're
trying to reach. They understand the
memes, the dance moves, the ways of speaking, all these things
that are front of mind with the people that
you're trying to reach. Taking it to the
next logical step, It means that by forming
these partnerships, you're going to be on
your way to building that bigger community
and making more sales. The good news is the TikTok
makes it really easy for you. They've created this whole
Creator Marketplace where you can connect with
the right people who are going to be in
sync with your brand. We had a brief
walk-through earlier and let me just run through in
a little bit more depth. As you scroll through
the creator marketplace, then you can find creators, you can find out a little
bit more about them, you can invite them to
collaborate and you can look at their steps which is a really good thing
to be able to do. It really allows you
to dig into the data. It's such a big
shift forward from the earlier days of
influencer marketing, where maybe some of the
most switched on bloggers, they might have a little
press kit and they'll say, "This is our reach and
this is our impressions." But here on their
creator marketplace, it's all laid bare
for you to see, and because the data comes
from TikTok themselves, then you know that
it's authentic and that you can trust it. To give you an example of
how you can connect with creators to really get
results for your brand, I want to show you a campaign from
Converse as an example. Their campaign run for six days, just six days in total, and it was hugely successful. They had nearly 3,000
creators involved, which is quite incredible, and over this time it generated 24 million video views,
29.7 million impressions. That's not bad, is
it? 1.8 million clicks to the
challenge page itself, so that's a lot of traffic and they had an engagement
rates are around nine percent which is pretty impressive and lots of positive sentiment
in the comments, and a 75 percent uplift
in brand recall, which is really
impressive all round. Let's just recap what they did. First of all, they
kick things off by connecting with these
top TikTok creators. These guys have got
a lot of followers, 2.1 million followers, then another guy has
got 5.7 million, someone else has got 4 million. They connected with
these people who had really authentic
existing communities. It's such an effective
way for brand like Converse to get in
front of these people. When you put together
that authenticity and the user engagement, then you're going to
get massive reach. The nature of the
campaign was to get people to customize
their converse, starting off with a white shoe and then getting
creative with it. There was an incentive as well, which was exclusive
tickets to an event, they had their
Bespoke soundtrack, they had a special carousel which lead through
to the sales page, and then they blended in some different ad
campaign techniques, so they had in feed
ads and top view. Put all this together
and it generated massive reach and a
lot of money as well. Hopefully that's giving you
lots of food for thoughts, so it's time for
another activity, and what I want you
to do now is head on over to the
Creator Marketplace and try to pick out
three different creators that would be a really
good fit for your brand. What is it that makes
them such a good fit? How could you involve
them in a campaign? How would you go about
approaching them?
7. Beating the TikTok Algorithm: I'm now going to
share with you how to beat the TikTok algorithm. A big question that comes up, again and again, is how
does the algorithm work? When you put all
this effort into making your TikTok content, you really want
to make sure that people are going to see it. The thing you need
to remember is that the Tiktok algorithm is
built for discovery. If you think about Tiktok, you think about Facebook, you think about Instagram, all the content that
you see in your feed is based on people you follow
and what they're posting. But then when it
comes to TikTok, it's based on your interests
and your behavior. TikTok is going to see
if you're watching particular videos
all the way through, then it knows right
you like that content, so it's going to
give you more of it. The opportunity for you as a brand is that you
don't necessarily have to have that massive
community built up for people to
see your content. If you tap into the
right categories, the right interests,
the right audiences, then that content you're
making could spread very fast without you even needing to build up this
massive community first. But the platform is
still relatively new, so there still lots
of little niches that you could be tapping into. For example, I've seen recently the medics
are getting into TikTok and posting
bite-sized explainer videos, for example, about younger women's health that is reaching that audience in a way that other platforms are just not giving them the
opportunity to do so. Let me give you some tips for beating the TikTok algorithm. The first thing is to tailor your content to your audience. Really think about the
content that they like. Once you start getting
a positive response, then make note of
it and think about the kind of things that
are going to have appeal. The next thing is to post at peak times for your audience. You might be thinking, well, how do I know what
the peak times are? [LAUGHTER] Because it's a
new platform and we haven't been using it very much so far. But then this is where the metrics and the
data and all of the steps and information
that you've got from your other channels are
going to come in so useful. Something like Google
Analytics on your website. You can look at that and see when you get the
most engagement. Maybe you're the business
that gets a lot of activity around commuter times. Or maybe it's a younger
audience who are posting on social media
a bit more after-school. The key thing is to
experiment with the data, learn from your successes
on other platforms, and then see if you
can apply that to your TikTok activity as well. It's also really
important to try to keep people watching to the
end of your videos. If TikTok sees people
watch to the very end, then the algorithm
will think aha they want to see more
content like this, and serve your videos
again and again. For this reason,
sometimes if you make your videos actually
a little bit shorter, it can get you more results. The other thing to do is to get in this co-creation mindset. Always try and make your content as interactive as possible. Can you set a challenge
or can you do some branded filter that
really gets people playing, makes them feel playful, creative, and helps
them have a bit of fun. You'll find that that
gets some engaging with the content a
little bit more. It lasts way beyond your campaign
because people just want to keep on
having fun with it. Something that people
are often interested in is how to use the right
hashtags on TikTok. As in any social media platform, there's particular
ways of using them. What I'd recommend you do first is go to the discover tab. As you scroll through, you'll see the
different types of hashtags that are being
recommended that you use. You can leap on these, it's a really good
way of doing it. Then you can also look in
the search bar at the top. This is going to show you the hashtags that
are most common, most popular and often
quite seasonal as well. TikTok does work in its
very seasonal topical way. So you'll see that
there's particular hashtags around Halloween, around Christmas,
and all this thing. As you'll see when
you scroll through, you only really need one or two. It's not like Instagram
where you just [LAUGHTER] fill up the
screen with more bites. It's really good to jump
on a trending hashtag. If you do have
something that's quite interactive around
poses or dances, any of that stuff
that say lululemon is so good at then that's
a really good idea. Then also pay
attention to trends. As you've been
scrolling through, you'll see there's
particular jokes, particular memes, particular dance moves,
particular music choices. The other tip when it comes to the TikTok algorithm is to
really keep your eyes open, your ears open, and just
have a little look around, see what's trending, and see if you can get in
on the action as well. This leads us up nicely
to another activity. What I want you to
do is think about a campaign if run on
a different platform. Let's say Facebook or Twitter. Just think how you
could adapt it for a Tiktok audience to get a
similar level of success.
8. Analyzing the Analytics: We've looked at the
different component parts of an effective TikTok strategy. We've looked at the TikTok
algorithm and how to beat it and now we're going to think about measuring
your results, because after all,
TikTok wants you to carry on using the
platform so it's going to give you lots
of data so you can continue to refine
your activity. TikTok is going to give
you a load of data for free once you've got
the business account, which groups into overview, content, and followers. You're going to find or
less in a Business Suite, which I'll just
scroll through now. In overview, this is where
you can find out about your follower
growth, video views, profile views, all
that sort stuff that you might get in any
social media analytics. Then the content, this allows
you to dig a bit deeper. You can look at the views, you can look at the likes, the comments, the shares, and it will help you really
identify the kind of content that's getting you
engagement from your audience. Then in a section on followers, this is where you'll find
insights about the community. Where your audience is from, the times of the day a
week that they're most busy and then the change in follower growth on
a previous period, which is of course, going
to be going up and up. Then if you were in
a paid campaign, then this will bring
you to ads manager, which is again going to give you even more data to look at. It offers you
easy-to-use tools to create and manage
ads on TikTok and it only takes a few minutes
to get set up and get started so you can get your hands on the
data straight away, which is something I
always really like. You've got data monitor, which is a dashboard again, where you can keep track
of your ads in real-time, which is really lovely. You've got the campaigns page. This is where you can see your
impressions, your clicks, lots of lovely conversions and a cost-per-click as
well so you can really keep an eye
on the budget. Then there's events. This is another
way of saying that any action that users can take, in old fashion terms we're
talking about conversions. Maybe you want them to come
through to your website and event is a way of
tracking all of that. Why should you look at the data? Well, the first reason is
that it's going to help guide you in deciding
when to post. People ask us about
this all the time. They say, well, when
is the best time to post on TikTok? But the answer is always going
to be, well, it depends. [LAUGHTER] What's right for you might be completely
different for somebody else. But once you've got your
hands on that data, then you can really decide when the best time is
going to be for you, which means you're going
to maximize chances of success with your content. For example, if you're
a big sporting brand, then you might find that
people are really engaged on social media ahead of a
big match at a weekend. But if you were in
fashion and beauty, it could be a completely
different time of the week. The answer is always
look at the data and that's where you'll find all the information
that you need. The next reason for looking
at the data is that it means you'll discover what
works and what doesn't. I can really recommend
not changing tack too frequently because you might find that seasonal
or topical things going on affects the success. What works one week
doesn't work the next, and you really need to give it a chance to build and to grow. A really good example of
this is this guy who tells snail jokes at the Carnegie
Museum of Natural History. On a surface, you wouldn't
think that an old guy telling snail jokes would
really go so far, but he's really popular
and as a result, it's led to increased
footfall in the museum. He's just keeping ongoing, he loves it and so do
all of his followers. Look at the data and really
give the content time to build and then you can really get an idea of what's
going to work for you. You can also decide when the
right time is for you to go into paid campaign
activity on TikTok. You've got all of that data from your organic beats and
then this means you can really start
to shape something effective using a bit of budget, which you know, is
going to work in a way that you can be more
confident about than if you'd have just
dived straight in and done it without any data
to back up your activity. You can also run a
retargeting campaign. You might be familiar with
Facebook pixel, for example. You've got a similar
function in TikTok. What this means is that
you're going back to people who already warm leads. People have shown interest already and you're going
back to them again. There's a real heightened
chance of success. Like all marketers,
you want to get a return on that
marketing activity. This is also going to get you results and keep
your CFO happy. The last reason I
want to share with you for looking at the data is that it's going
to help you shape the [inaudible] that
are right for you. Let's say Levi's for example, when the clothing stores were
closed during the pandemic, then they had a real
problem with sales. That became the focus of
their TikTok activity. Whereas if you're a
much newer brand, wanting to make a
name for yourself, then it could be all about
brand awareness, engagement, getting your name
out there and so your focus will be
completely different. Your indicators of success
will be different to Levi's, but that will be just
as important to you. Let's go back to our worksheet
for another activity and let's think about
results and measurements. What does success
look like to you? What's going to be
most important? Will you be using TikTok
for more engagement, for more sales, for more
leads to grow your community? What's it going to be for you? Why is it going to
be so important? Make a note in your worksheet, and then we're
well on our way to building that perfect strategy.
9. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for
following my class on TikTok. Hopefully, you are all
set to dive straight in and reach a whole
new audience and have a lot of fun along the way. The next step is to go back to the worksheet and just fill
it in in a bit more depth. Look out for the
project at the end. This is going to help you
wrap it all up together. I'd love you to upload it into the project gallery so I can give you some really
helpful feedback. I can't wait to see
what you come up with. I'll see you next time
for my next class.