I am going to highlight a few innovative and interesting ways to leverage new marketing technology over the course of the next few posts. We have seen a recent influx of buzz around the importance of a Facebook Fan and how much a Fan is potentially valued at. The importance of the Facebook Fan count, makeup and engagement level is undeniably going to be a large concern for digital marketers in 2010 and beyond. An interesting mashup (if I may) of technologies to increase not only the number of fans but also the number of engaged fans is to combine both Fan ReTargeting with hyper targeted emails from Flowtown. This is how it would work:
1) Load all of your company’s email contacts into Flowtown.
2) Create an email campaign only to those people in your list who are on Facebook. Yes, Flowtown allows you do this. Amazing.
3) Before you hit send, sign up for Fan ReTargeting.
4) Take the code from Fan ReTargeting and place it into the footer of your HTML Flowtown email.
5) Now when you send out that blast, not only are folks going to potentially become a fan through the message in your email but they will also be tagged for Fan ReTargeting.
6) The folks who open the email (and only those folks) will see ads encouraging them to become fans of your brand.
7) Increase your fan count dramatically!
Look for more in the Marketing 2.0 series from ReTargeter in the coming weeks.