The Fintech Scotland 2016 Conference explores technological innovation across the financial services sector, providing a unique forum for innovators, technologists and senior managers to share, discuss and expand their networks across the financial services industry in Scotland.
Ray Bugg, Director of Scot-Tech and the organizer of Fintech Scotland 2016, reached out to us for help in promoting the event:
“The Social Effect’s Personalized Social Sharing Solution seemed very viable for us and provided an opportunity to garner more data and communicate our message in a multi-channel fashion”
Using our social sharing solution, we ran a campaign of 1500 shares and targeted these to top Fintech professionals in the United Kingdom.
The result was a click-through rate of 8% by day 3 of the campaign. We weren’t happy with the result, as we regularly achieve a CTR of 10-20% for similar campaigns. It was time to re-calibrate.
After reviewing reasons for this under performance (namely geographical distance and political complications between Scotland and the UK), we filtered down our targeted audience to focus primarily on locations defined as financial hubs within Scotland. More than half of the world’s top 20 financial organisations have operations in Scotland, with a substantial majority of Financial Services operations located in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow.
With this knowledge in mind, we launched a second share campaign of 550 new targets, who were located within these regions. This re-targeting resulted in a 22.5% click-through rate. The re-calibration proved to be far more successful, carrying the previously low click-through rate up to a generous 14.24%, overall.
Ray Bugg – Founder of Fintech 2016 further stated:
“Being a regular user of LinkedIn I engaged with The Social Effect given their ability to provide defined targeting of key professionals we wanted to see at our events. It’s widely known that traditional methods of marketing, namely email, may hit the target but rarely travels any further. The concept of Social Sharing seemed logical given the methods business professionals have adopted in inter industry communication.”
Ray added, “Certain factors (being in the school holidays and the fact we were mid campaign after an aggressive email process) cast doubt on how effective this would be. I was astounded by the traction we received, more importantly, the amount of bookings that we took over a short period, these defined professionals. As such we plan to use The Social Effect on a major global event planned for 2017. Highly recommended as a disruptive marketing tool that hits the target audience in a minimally invasive and informative manner.”
Our Social Sharing Solution has been used to very powerful effect to successfully promote a variety of events. There are however other applications for this marketing technique:
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