Marketing for Initial Coin Offerings: the power of remarketing
Marketing campaigns for ICO’s are mostly divided in different stages. The first phase is mainly focused on the tokensale. This means, during this period, there is a lot of investment in marketing and PR, aimed to reach potential investors.
During this phase of the campaign, there will be held a variety of marketing actions in different channels. Big part of these marketing actions are performance based advertising. This means that you will get measurable results and that you will be paying per click or per 1000 impressions for the achieved results. When you create an effective and well segmented campaign, you will be able to reduce the prices of your clicks and have a major click through rate.
A lot of cryptocurrency media offer advertising packages that are quite high in price and require minimum amounts of investment that are above a couple of thousand euros at least for not a huge amount of impressions. These websites do have the target you are looking for, but we believe that you can reach the same target without having to pay these high amounts, creating well segmented PPC campaigns and using after that remarketing tactics.
If you work with a PPC/SEM specialist with good knowledge of setting up segmentation structures and placement strategies, you can appear in the same cryptocurrency media by conventional using advertising platforms without having to pay huge amounts. You can also reach the same target through well-established and optimized segmentation structures for PPC campaigns.
One way to drive return of investment through higher up your CTR (click through rate) for — relatively — low costs per click is by implementing remarketing campaigns. Remarketing — also called retargeting — is a clever way to connect with people that already have visited your website but are not converted to lead.
WHAT IS REMARKETING ALL ABOUT?
With retargeting your ads will be shown on other websites or Apps but only to people that have visited your website before. It is recommendable to set up a minimum time spend on your website for these remarketing campaigns. For example, you can target these ads to people who have at least spend 30 seconds on your website and, for instance, have not signed up for your newsletter. Like this, your ad will only being showed to people who most likely have genuine interest in your ICO because they have spend a considerable time on your website, but have not taken any action.
There is quite some advertising saturation, so it is important to not overwhelm your target with too many ads. For this, we recommend you to set up a frequency limit of your ads. This way, your ads will only being shown the amount of times you indicate.
WAYS TO REMARKET
Whether you are looking to drive lead conversions or to promote awareness of your brand, remarketing is a great option.
STANDARD REMARKETING
This is great for brand building. Your ads (in this case, banners) will be showed to past visitors as they browse on other websites or apps with. You can create such campaigns on social media (by using the Facebook Pixel) or by using the Google Adwords platform.
TAILORED REMARKETING GOALS
Create retargeting lists that aims to achieve specific advertising goals. Let’s say, you want to gather data of potential investors and you have a blog. For example, if one of your articles is of high interest of potential investors, you can create an remarketing audience of people that have read that particular blog post, but have not converted into lead. Your goal here is to reach this person and drive them back to your website. In this case, you could create a campaign with banners that has a call to action to sign up for your newsletter telling them they will receive more content like the post they read.
Or, for example, you could create an campaign for people that have visted your website but did not download the whitepaper. In this case, advertising that drives people to a landing page in which they can download the white paper could give you significant results with low CPC’s.
If you are using the Google Adwords platform, the easiest way to create such audiences is by using Google Analytics and link your Adwords account to your Analytics account.
SEARCH REMARKETING
This type of remarketing is focussed on search engine advertising. You can create campaigns linked to your regular search campaigns. Within these campaigns, you target follow-up searches from people who have already searched within the last 90 days for that keyword. These users are most likely to be interested in your ICO or to convert, because they have shown to be actively seeking for your keywords.
FORMATS
There are multiple ways to do remarketing. You can do search remarketing, marketing by displaying banner ads on websites or Apps that users of your website visit, remarketing focussed on video (within YouTube or within other websites that allow video advertising) and on social media (there is a huge variety of formats that can be used within social media).
RETARGETING & QUALITY SCORES
Apart from being able to get a good return of investment, remarketing campaigns can help you boost your quality score on Google Adwords (or, if you are using Facebook’s advertising platform; relevance score). When you use these advertising platforms, the quality score of each individual campaign influences on the general score of your account. The higher the quality score, the lower the cost per clicks.
To conclude, we think a remarketing strategy can not miss within your ICO’s marketing plan. It is a great way to do branding, to drive people down the conversion funnel and to get a good return of investment.
