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How to Create Dynamic Content on Instagram – PART 1

DimNiko | How to Create Dynamic Content on Instagram

Dynamic content makes you stop while scrolling – and after all, that’s the ultimate goal. 

You have 4 options on Instagram posting dynamic content: simple video posts, Reels, Stories, and IGTV. 

Today, we will speak about the Video posts and Stories and give you many new ideas for your content creation! 

Read More: How to Build an Instagram Plan – Part 2 

If you want to create a video post, upload your pre-recorded video from your mobile device’s media library, or film an immediate video right during posting. Don’t overthink it, just record something interesting, which you think resonates well with your audience. 

If you run a business, there are plenty of ideas that can help you provide information about your product – and still look like easy native content. 

Here is a quick summary about the content which will convert the best:

  • Brand awareness / Lifestyle: record a video while someone is using your product, in different situations!
  • Behind the scenes: show your warehouse – walk around the shelves with your camera, film how the goods arrive, how you or your colleagues prepare the tons of orders for delivery.
  • Educational: explain in detail, and also show how your product is being used! 
  • Tips & tricks: Share your best insider tips – who could give better suggestions if not the brand itself? You can create a separate video per tip – so you have content for a weekly post routine.
  • Influencer or user-generated content: you can repost videos made by influencers or customers – User-generated content is always the best!
  • Something funny: just light & entertaining content, a funny moment, or a challenge – if you are lucky, this can go viral, and your brand awareness can grow a lot. Don’t forget the hashtags!
  • Promotional: If you are running a sale, or promotion –  feel free to post a video about it! You will increase your conversion rate a lot!
  • FAQ: reply to frequently asked questions in a video!

Don’t forget, your IG feed posts can be found on search result pages, on Explore & hashtag pages as well. This is how new followers will find you! As the posts will stay on your feed, try to create “long-term” valid content – keep the very light videos for your story!

Instagram Stories

When it comes to Stories, you have to think even more about building a sustainable strategy. As the Stories disappear after 24 hours, you can go towards a lighter thematic here and can even follow a bit more ad-hoc content creation. Besides, with a bit of planning, you can complete your normal posts with quality content stories, which worths being thematically saved on your account. 

What kind of content is the best choice for Stories?

  • The story surface is great to get more personal. You can create stories based on your IG feed posts, and you can complete the shared information there.
  • Activate your follower base! Ask an open question or start voting about colors, styles, improvements of your product. 
  • You can create a weekly routine, like a “Sweepstake – Sunday”, or a “Tell-your-story Tuesday” or even a “Flash-sale Friday” –  your followers will wait for these events and will be more and more active every week!
  • You can also feature a follower’s post or story, showing your people how often your customers mention you and showcase positive customer reviews. 
  • You can answer customer questions – and save the post into a FAQ / Q&A story collection.
  • Interact & involve – In the morning, ask people what they plan for the day, share your plans and in the evening you can inform them about the week’s schedule you are planning. (promotion, sweepstake, live, etc)
  • Use location stickers, date & time stickers, and insert poll stickers to get your followers involved. Ask questions about the content your followers want and create that content the day after!
  • “Ask me anything” day –  you can get valuable input about the topics your customers are interested in. Replying to these questions will increase brand awareness, and will make your brand likable. 
  • Promote your fresh content: New blog posts, new events, upcoming promotions – or a countdown until the new product arrives.

If you start implementing these tips, you will easily fill with content your IG Story. Try to post at least 3x a week, but if you can build a thematic plan – even every day! Your customers will like that you provide value – without repeating yourself. 

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The importance of Knowing Your Buyer Persona In-Depth

DimNiko | The importance of Knowing Your Buyer Persona In-Depth

When we own a business, we tend to only think about the product, and often leave aside who’s it actually aimed at and whether it’s the solution that solves their problems or needs.

This is why it’s so important to have a well defined ‘buyer persona’, to know what their needs and interests are, and to connect in a more direct way.

Read More: How to Build Broad Audience Pools to Effectively Test a Product

What is a Buyer Persona?

Buyer personas are those who have a series of common characteristics and specific needs, pains or desires to be solved by a product or service offered by the company. It’s an ideal customer who defines the group of people that the product is addressed to.

For example, let’s say we sell women’s mountain sports shoes.

In this case, we will have to find out what specific characteristics this ideal customer has and ask ourselves a series of questions to find out what they’re looking for in our product:

  • what do they value in a pair of mountain shoes?
  • Is the design important or are they only looking for comfort?
  • What average price are they willing to pay?
  • What are the biggest problems they’ve had with previous shoes?

These and many more questions are important to ask to understand the messaging to convey when advertising directly to your ideal customer.

If our buyer persona are women between 30 and 40 years of age, who like mountain sports, are looking for comfortable shoes but also for a nice design and want them for frequent excursions with friends. We agree that by creating an ad with the image of a woman (30-40 years old), walking in the mountains, surrounded by a group of people in the background and a headline stating “Comfort and style for walking in the mountains”.

This will create a stronger connection, than if we put the image of a couple in their 20s, saying “The best sneakers to do sports with your partner”.

There must be a prior investigation to collect all that information. Having a technical sheet of the buyer persona helps greatly segment our target audience, to create the copy and creativities of the ads.

Buyer persona information sheet

Demographic

Age
Gender
Civil situation
Country or countries
City or cities (more specific if is necessary)

More concrete profile

Level of studies
Job position
Salary range
They have children?
Civil status
Do they buy online?

Interests and behaviors

Interests
Influencers or referents
Movies, TV series, TV shows

Magazine or books

Wishes, pains, what do they value

What do they value most in a purchase?
Customer issues
Dreams and wishes
Objections to the purchase
Tried before without success?

*The more extensive the information, the more you will have for the content creation.

Ways to research the ideal customer:

  • Reviews are testimonials of the customer who have already tested the product. If you don’t have a lot of reviews, you can check out your competition and see what their customers are saying.

With reviews we know the reasons why they have consumed the product, the expectations they had before consuming the product and what they value about that product.

Reviews from Google, website, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube are the biggest source of information.

  • Surveys are a very good way to extract information. Google Forms allows us to  easily create surveys to send to all those friends, acquaintances or trusted customers who fit the ideal customer profile to get information.
  • Forums and blogs that talk about the same product you sell. There is a lot of valuable information out there. The writer goes into detail about his opinion, the pros, cons, and sometimes even what you can do better.

Without researching your ideal customer, it’s difficult to properly understand our ideal customer leaving a gap in your advertising.

Understanding the buyer persona is crucial for selling more effectively.

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Top 3 Copywriting Hacks Nobody Will Tell You About

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Let’s hope this copywriting blog post will find you as well as your favorite new dish in your neighborhood. Yummy!

Does this whet your appetite?

Be honest! Your brain has just started thinking of the favorite dishes and your palate has started reminiscing about the taste of it. Feelings are getting stronger and we haven’t even started yet. The power of words is getting in!

Read more: How to Write Great Ad Copy!

Well, hello everyone! Tatev here from the DimNiko Agency. As a copywriter, I am going to share some super straightforward facts about copywriting.

Copywriting is a new-age specialty that has risen to its potential when the armageddon of social media has emerged directly into our lives. Honestly, life without social media is hard to imagine. And that Armageddon scene as well! Jeez!

Could you even count how many copies you read per day? Social media posts, ad copies, blog captions, if not the whole blog, and many more.

We are getting more and more personal and open about what we write. And yes! That’s life-changing!

Let’s jump on the number 1 trick of copywriting:

1. I call this EMOTIONAL COPY.

Here is a quick Q&A:

  • What is the number 1 goal of a copywriter?
  • To connect to the audience. Right!

Copywriting is pretty modern as I’ve mentioned above, but writing is old-school and for millennia writers put every word to get the most impact on the reader. The emotional impact!

If you don’t feel my words and don’t hit your heart, can we connect on the copywriting level? The answer is NO! The names can be changed but still copywriting is writing and still, your commercial copy should involve the emotional factor.

You can’t sell any product without actually feeling the product.

Think of copywriting from the perspective of physics. Everything we have in life is energy. To master your copy, think of the vibes; your words transform the energy. Whatever you write is affecting the reader subconsciously. Well, now we get into psychology but let’s talk about the psychological aspect of copywriting in our next blog.

Meanwhile, you may want to subscribe to our blog. That would be nice of you. Thank you! 🙂

2. The next important aspect of copywriting is to KEEP IT SHORT.

Okay! a bit of controversy here: I am advising you to keep your writing short in a long blog post, but I’m just breaking it down for you.

Remember the last scene of Armageddon? the no time factor. This is it! Do we have much time? Can people afford to read long sentences? The answer is NOT NOW.

Times have changed and there is much buzz and competition everywhere, but don’t let it get close to your heart. You can always bring something different to the table. Just make sure you are doing it and it’s pretty accessible for everyone. Copywriting should directly involve the considerations of readers. Be flexible and to the point!

Think of it as a message to your friend. You don’t make it complicated. You just say everything straight without going overboard.

Last but not least, we have reached my N3 and the most favorite tip of copywriting.

3. I call this THE BITTER TRUTH.

If you don’t have writing skills from nature, don’t fall for it. You may spend years of studies to master your craft, but still, you will struggle with the writing process and the so-called writer’s block. This happens too, but when you are gifted with writing, the process comes naturally and is enjoyable. You don’t put extra pressure on yourself, you don’t overload yourself.

Ask yourself: Am I a writer?

If your heart signals back with an extra beat, you are on the right track.

Writing is mental. If you are just starting your career as a copywriter, I hope this is helpful for you. If you are not happy with it, please move on. You are not a tree. You are free. Every single person on earth is gifted with a talent. Find yours and pursue your passion.

Grab your life by the horns and create your own bold statements. Trust your gut; it will show your true purpose.

If you need support and assistance from E-commerce professionals, here at DimNiko agency we help clients scale their business and support them with their strategies.

If you’re spending over $500 a day, book a call below: https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

Stay in peace and life-blessed!

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$120K A MONTH IN REVENUE BUT SUPER UNPROFITABLE TO COLD TRAFFIC…. SOUND FAMILIAR?

DimNiko | $120K a Month In Revenue BUT Super Unprofitable to Cold Traffic…. Sound Familiar?
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$120K a Month In Revenue BUT Super Unprofitable to Cold Traffic…. Sound Familiar?

We just brought on a new client this week that runs a supplement brand doing about $120K in monthly revenue. 

They have a phenomenal brand, a product their customers absolutely love, a website that is converting high, and a repeat customer rate of around 80% BUT they are not profitable to cold traffic.

Which puts a huge roadblock in front of them when it comes to scaling their brand. Furthermore explaining why they have never been able to break through to multi 6 figure revenue months.

Read More: Squeezing Revenue Out of Q2 eCom Holidays

Their retargeting ads are very profitable but they are nowhere near breakeven when it comes to prospecting or cold traffic ads. To the point, they had fully turned off ALL prospecting ads as they struggled to make any sales.

After a 2 hour call with myself, we identified the major reasons their cold traffic ads were struggling and we put together a clear action plan to get prospecting profitable that will allow them to really scale the brand up.

Here were the major problems:

  1. Their prospecting ad creatives did not speak to any problems or pain points their customers were experiencing that would make them want to buy their product
  2. Their prospecting ads did not highlight the key benefits the product would deliver to the customer
  3. Their top-of-funnel ads did not build any trust with these new potential customers – there were no elements of social proof, reviews, or authority.
  4. The messaging of the prospecting ads did not align with the people seeing the ads
  5. They are running the exact same ads to retargeting as their top cold traffic ads. 

When we had a close look at their ads library I said these exact words to them.

“You are literally ONLY showing your product to people and expecting them to buy. Have a look at this ad right here, would you buy from this ad if you came across it for the first time? There is nothing about it that gives someone a REASON TO BUY the product, hence why no one does buy from these cold traffic ads”

The extraordinary thing about this brand is that they have such good retention and loyalty from their customers that when they do bring on new customers they are very profitable because these customers buy from them again and again and they have a great lifetime value.

They are simply lacking an effective top of the funnel / prospecting / cold traffic strategy to bring on new customers profitability. This is an all too common problem I see with brands. 

I want you to remember this statement and engrave it in your brain.

“If you are unprofitable to cold traffic you cannot scale your Business” 

We are not starting with this client for a few more weeks as we currently have a waitlist to get started with us BUT once we fix their cold traffic issues… the sky’s the limit to how far we can scale their brand.

If you guys reading this have a great product, a great brand, very solid retention, and repeat business BUT cannot get profitable to cold traffic, let’s book in a chat and I will walk you through exactly how your brand can become profitable and scale to the moon.

You can book here: https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

Additional Resources

eCommerce Titans Podcast

eCommerce Titans by Dim Niko is the industry-leading podcast that brings together the cutting edge growth strategy, tips, and approaches of 8-9 figure eCommerce Entrepreneurs, Founders, CMOs and CEOs.

EPOCH Facebook Community

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Daily Scale Newsletter

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Why You Need To Change Your Strategies Based On Your Target Country

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Why You Need to Change Your Strategies Based on Your Target Country

If you’re running international campaigns or targeting widely different countries, you’re probably struggling trying to get the same performance out of each country. 

Even with the same creatives, same audience, and strategies that seem to work for one country, it’s not for another 

A lot of brand’s struggle with this.

Scratching their head, wondering how they can fix this because something must be wrong. 

Good news is, nothing is broken. You just need to change things up a bit. 

Recently, with a new client, this was a very prominent problem they were having. 

The product is very niche specific, meaning typical targeting doesn’t work for all GEOs. 

Usually, accounts perform well with just a broad audience and couple interests to sum it up. 

This account was completely different from what we noticed trending with our other accounts. 

To help set the stage, this account focused on 2 countries with widely different cultures using landing pages on two separate domains – in this case, it was a good thing. 

We adjusted and followed our typical account strategy we use when we onboard clients and prep them for scale. 

Spoiler alert, we’re already scaling this account after only a few weeks… 

Anyways, we had to implement completely different campaign strategies to extract the performance for both target countries. 

Here’s what we implemented and why this is necessary. 

Read More: Best Practices: Introducing New Ads To Your Campaigns

CPM & CPC 

We all know the US probably has the most expensive CPM’s & CPC’s. This can make it very difficult for other countries to approach the US market. As an example in South Africa the CPC’s and CPM’s cost about a 10th compared to the US. 

For brands trying to break into different markets, they spend a lot more than expected at first just to gain reach to introduce themselves and create brand awareness. 

Same goes for businesses reaching cheaper markets. If you’re coming from the US and easily spending $100/day on one campaign, you’re probably overspending and getting bad quality traffic. 

Product Pricing 

Once you determine what your CPMs & CPCs are, it’s important to adjust your product pricing based on the country you’re targeting. 

It’s essential that a lot of research is done before jumping into a new market. 

Businesses need to ask themselves: what is the LSM of each market? Will customers pay at your price point? How does your price compare to direct competitors? 

Once these questions are answered, price your product and calculate the KPIs. 

Read More: 3 Ways to Increase Your AOV With No Additional Backend Costs

Budget Allocation 

To allocate budget, you need to look at your CPM, CPC, LPM, and KPI for each country. 

If pricing, CPM, and CPC are close enough, it’s not necessary to change the price. You can pair countries as long as the landing pages are the same. 

If this isn’t the case, use your metrics to calculate how to allocate your budget across GEOs. 

For example, if you’re targeting the USA and Mexico in one campaign, most of the traffic will go to Mexico because CPMs, CPCs, etc. are a lot cheaper. 

This is just how the algorithm is working.  

To prevent this, separate the GEOs with an ABO campaign or create different campaigns. The budget you allocate should be in conjunction with the CPA’s you’re trying to reach and based on the pricing. 

If your pricing is different in the other countries your KPIs will change, you can still calculate your pricing to extract the same ROAs for all price points. 

If you set the budget at your US spend for other countries with a lower CPC and CPM, you might waste your money. You’re spending a lot more than anyone else in that country and the ads will just go everywhere. 

Since you are paying less or more for the traffic, make sure that you set the budget for the total sales in order not to overspend or underspend on your campaigns. 

Creatives 

This might be an easy one, but this is an area that typically gets neglected by most accounts. 

Creatives are insanely important, especially when targeting multiple Geo’s. This is mainly why I prefer to separate countries with different campaigns. 

Most people resonate with what they see at home. This is true for creatives as well. 

We noticed once we included images of people from the same country as the geos we were targeting, we immediately started to see major improvements with CTR and conversion performance. 

Once these essential areas have been converted, you can implement your actual campaign and targeting strategies. 

You will get actual results and you can set yourself up for scaling the account.  

All you have to do is test, test, test and find your best audiences. 

As I mentioned above, the product is very niche specific and the interest audiences we had to use in the end was dramatically different for each country. 

You just have to get a little creative sometimes, or get an agency that can.

And this only works if you have the right agency partnered with you!

If you are spending over $500 a day and you want to scale your brand

Book a call below:

https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

And that’s a wrap! 

I’m Quintin, Media Buyer at DimNiko 



Additional Resources

eCommerce Titans Podcast

eCommerce Titans by Dim Niko is the industry-leading podcast that brings together the cutting edge growth strategy, tips, and approaches of 8-9 figure eCommerce Entrepreneurs, Founders, CMOs and CEOs.

EPOCH Facebook Community

A Facebook community for top-level marketers to discuss and share hyper-advanced online marketing strategies. Network and learn from the best in the industry.

Daily Scale Newsletter

The Daily Scale newsletter is delivered directly to your inbox discussing top insights and strategies our agency uses every single day on our 7 figure DTC brands. 

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3 Ways to Increase Your Average Order Value with NO Additional Backend Costs

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3 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR AVERAGE ORDER VALUE WITH NO ADDITIONAL BACKEND COSTS

Today, I’m going to discuss how we help our clients increase the average order value without increasing the actual product cost. 

And, no, I’m not talking about bundles or traditional cross / up-selling. 

To start, let’s discuss the client:

This brand works within the baby niche selling products that help parents / grandparents cure their infants easily. 

It’s quite popular in Australia and the products are displayed in many local pharmacies across the country. 

Read More: A Simple But Powerful Strategy to Make Your Products More Profitable

OUR AGENCY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR PRESENCE IN THE ONLINE ADVERTISING WORLD. 

We started with them 3 months ago. 

And, after a massive testing process, we understood the main issue with the ad account was not the actual campaign setup or creatives – it’s the average order value. 

Most of the campaigns were profitable throughout the testing periods, but not profitable enough to hit the desirable KPIs. 

Meaning, we needed to make changes to the offers on the website with a little disclaimer. 

The change worked! And, we managed to increase the AOV bringing in a higher ROAS on our campaigns across the board. 

SO HOW DID WE CHANGE THE OFFERS? 

Firstly, we suggested the client change the Free Shipping Offer… 

Now before you jump the gun, let me explain. 

The main product we’re focusing on costs $79.96, but the free shipping started for orders over $200. 

Obviously, this did not encourage people to order more products. 

Ideally, we would decrease the minimum order for free shipping to $100. 

This would mean the customer needs to purchase only $21 more in order to receive free shipping. 

The client didn’t want to go that low because of internal shipping and packaging costs, so we agreed to move it to $150. 

This encourages customers to buy 2 products and get free shipping. And, as previously mentioned – it worked! 

We are seeing massive increases in the amount of customers purchasing 2 products instead of 1. 

THE NEXT OFFER WE CHANGED AS A SMALL GIFT WITH PURCHASE. 

Our client was giving away 1 cheap product with each order. 

This offer was called a V.I.P. offer but didn’t actually make much sense. Because the giveaway product was of good quality and it was a pity just to give it away for free with each order.

So we suggested making it an actual V.I.P. offer and give it away to those customers who spent over $90 on the website.

Why $90? The logic behind this number is the same as with the Free Shipping offer. 

The customer has to spend just $11 more and gets a free gift. 

Who can say no to this combination? As we see now – most of the customers can’t, so again IT WORKED.

THE THIRD CHANGE WE MADE WAS ADDING AN EXTENDED GUARANTEE TO THE MAIN PRODUCT FOR $9.99.

Since the product is electronic, it comes with a 1-year guarantee. Based on historical data, there were just a few cases of the product return so almost nobody actually used the guarantee.

Our suggestion was to add an extended guarantee for the second year for $9.99. 

If the product is safe and doesn’t break often, this extended guarantee doesn’t cost the business anything but increases the AOV by almost $10 and gives more reassurance to the customers that the brand is responsible for their products.

And once again based on the current results we can see that this suggestion WORKED as well. There is a big percentage of customers who are choosing a 2-year guarantee instead of 1.

If you’re looking for new ways to switch up your offer and boost your AOV, try out the methods above and let us know if you saw an increase in your results! 

Or if you want to hear a bit more about how we can help you just like this client… 

Book a call to discuss how we can work together 

Additional Resources

eCommerce Titans Podcast

eCommerce Titans by Dim Niko is the industry-leading podcast that brings together the cutting edge growth strategy, tips, and approaches of 8-9 figure eCommerce Entrepreneurs, Founders, CMOs and CEOs.

EPOCH Facebook Community

A Facebook community for top-level marketers to discuss and share hyper-advanced online marketing strategies. Network and learn from the best in the industry.

Daily Scale Newsletter

The Daily Scale newsletter is delivered directly to your inbox discussing top insights and strategies our agency uses every single day on our 7 figure DTC brands. 

ARE YOU READY TO SCALE YOUR ECOMMERCE BRAND?

Want In On The Juiciest Brand Building Strategies? Subscribe to Our Daily Newsletter

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Unit 1102
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A Simple But Powerful Strategy to Make Your Products More Profitable

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A Simple But Powerful Strategy to Make Your Products More Profitable

Today I’m going to provide a different mindset. 

Take it as you will. 

Sometimes you just can’t see a different way to make your ads more profitable. 

You’re doing the same thing day in and day out. 

You’re used to it. 

You need to STOP what you’re doing and follow what I’m about to share.. 

Especially if you’re promoting multiple products that are mediocre. 

Use a One Product Mentality… 

Read More: Why Your ROAS Going Down While Scaling Can Be More Profitable

Focus on only one product during this test. 

This will help you understand how much it really takes to get a true winner. 

Some winners are just not ‘big big’ winners. 

But, we can make them pretty ‘cool’ winners 

A ‘cool’ winner for me is a B or C type winner. It’s doing okay, but hard to scale quickly. 

If you have 5-10 ‘cool’ winners, they can bring in the same revenue or more as one very ‘big big’

But you need to understand the concept of ‘one product’ mentality. 

If it will work for one product, then you can apply this strategy to all your products. 

PREPARATION

Overview your account for the last 90 days.

Pick one product that you see is outperforming all the others.

Here we aren’t looking for type A winners, but the ones that are always somehow around breakeven or 10% above.


Select 2 or 3 of the best creatives you have data for, where you see that CPC is below average, where CTR is more than 1.0, and where CPA is under your KPI (or breakeven).

Focus on this product and follow ROUND 1 – 7 as explained below.

Round 1 – Create 10 test campaigns.

Each campaign will have 3 adsets and one top creative you selected.


Dupe the creative so you have 2 for each adset and change the thumbnail.


So it’s one creative with 2 different thumbnails.


Upload a good pic for thumbnails if you can’t get it from the video.


On adset level, try all kinds of interests that you might think of. 


Think about your product and very obscure and usual buyers.


Do Google research. Find magazines, websites, online stores, etc. 

Make a list of different interests and then put them into adsets.

Only one interest per adset!

Don’t do LLAs yet, just interests.


Create 10 campaigns with just one pretty broad interest per adset.


Now duplicate all these test campaigns and test NARROW down interests.


Pick a more broad niche and narrow down with combined magazines, tv shows, websites, celebrities interests.

Try to get 10 campaigns with all sorts of interests narrowed down.


Put all campaigns budget to $20-40 if top 5 countries, and $10-20 if EUR and others.


Wait 3 days.


On day 3 select all campaigns and go to ADSET LEVEL. 


Turn off all interests where you see ROAS below your KPI.

Wait 2-5 more days.


Turn off all interests where you see ROAS below your KPI.

Go to ads level and turn off all ads with ROAS below your KPI.

SCALE budget 20-30% on best performing campaigns where ROAS is above your KPI.


You need to kill all campaigns with zero purchase and 2x your KPI spend!!!


Don’t wait for a miracle!

Check campaigns every 2-3 days and scale the budget by 20-30%.

If you see awesome performance, scale by 50% or 100%.



Round 2 – If you got at least 5 of 20 campaigns with ROAS better than your KPI (or breakeven), this is a success.

Work on them and slowly scale them.

At the same time repeat Phase one with no.2 creative of your winning product.

Dupe all 10 or 20 of your test campaigns and change ID to second best creative.

Round 3 – Now dupe all again and test ID no.3!

After all these tests, you will have at least 10 campaigns that will have ROAS above your KPI.

And you can find them in 7-10 days if you follow the above steps.


Round 4 – After you see success in one product, do the same thing for PRODUCT 2, PRODUCT 3 and PRODUCT 4.

Replicate the process of ROUND 2-4.

Round 5 – Dupe all successful campaigns and try CAROUSEL ADS!

Compare results with solo ads IDs.

Round 6 – Dupe again all best performers and try COLLECTION ADS!

Compare results with solo ads IDs and Carousel ads.

Round 7 – Scale what is working and create more INTERESTS campaigns.


If enough sales now, start testing PUR 30 LLA 1-2 OR 1-3%.

RETARGETING

MOF

Make a dynamic campaign for one PRODUCT and put 3-5 images and videos into ads.

Retarget 30 days engagers on FB+IG together.


You can also just dupe the TOFs and retarget with the same ads also FB+IG 7d.


Then create more TOFs for product 2, 3 and 4.


Try also Catalog sales campaigns here.

BOF

Do the same thing for BOF.


Plus Catalog Sale campaigns all product feed or just special sets.


It can perform very well.

NOTE: All retargeting campaigns you need to make on day 1 or 2!!!

Additional Resources

eCommerce Titans Podcast

eCommerce Titans by Dim Niko is the industry-leading podcast that brings together the cutting edge growth strategy, tips, and approaches of 8-9 figure eCommerce Entrepreneurs, Founders, CMOs and CEOs.

EPOCH Facebook Community

A Facebook community for top-level marketers to discuss and share hyper-advanced online marketing strategies. Network and learn from the best in the industry.

Daily Scale Newsletter

The Daily Scale newsletter is delivered directly to your inbox discussing top insights and strategies our agency uses every single day on our 7 figure DTC brands. 

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How to Build an Instagram Plan – Part 2

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Zsoka here from DimNiko Agency. 

As promised, I’m back with part 2 on building a stress-free instagram plan. 

If you haven’t read my first article, you already know the importance of creating a solid base for your content strategy. 

It takes time, but it’ll be the cornerstone of sustainable growth. 

From the first article, you already learned how to create a monthly instagram plan and what type of content to create to keep your feed interesting and engaging. 

Read More: FACEBOOK VS INSTAGRAM, What is best for your business?

In part 2, I’ll provide insight into the Instagram Algorithm and how it works. 

Not that anyone knows exactly how it works since it’s a well-guarded secret to keep the playing field even. 

After working with 100s of eCommerce brands, we’ve learned a thing or two about how the algorithm works. 

Let’s start with Hashtags

Hashtags: 

If you don’t have a significant follower base, it’s very important what hashtags you choose. 

Hashtags will help increase visibility and show your post to your target audience. 

How do you find the best ones to use? 

Research – research – research!

For example, let’s say you’re selling a digital course on painting. 

  1. Start typing your main keywords into the search field of Instagram. Make a list of the best ones. Select not only the big follower based hashtags (these will be the most competitive), but also the medium sized ones as well. Perhaps even less, this will depend on your niche.

    Save your selection into a note on your phone, so next time when you post it can be easily selected and choose a mix of relevant keywords for the day. 


Tip: Don’t forget to mix the hashtags. Use a mix of keywords so your content can be seen further. 

Never use hashtags like ‘follow4follow’, ‘like4like’, etc. These are red flags telling Instagram that you want to grow fast and not necessarily organically. 

  1. Look at your competitors, famous influencers, brands, or industry leaders who are working in your niche. Their top posts will have insight into hashtags to use and might allow you to reach their followers. 

  1. Build your own hashtag! Use your own keywords with all your posts. For example: #learn2paint – then encourage your followers to post with the hashtag for a chance to be featured in your stories. This is an easy way of spreading your main message. 

Now let’s say you followed everything above and your post was displayed to a bunch of people – who are your future customers. 

What’s next? 

These people can do a variety of things which will tell Instagram how good your content is. 

The more visitors engage, the better. 

They can like, comment, share, or save – all of these actions will tell the IG algorithm to show it to more people since it’s considered valuable content. 

And, if more engagement continues – IG will place your post at the top of similar hashtags or the explore page bringing a huge influx of followers. 

And what about content? 

Again, you already learned from our “Stress-free Instagram” post, which post types you can use to keep your Instagram feed fresh and diverse. 

Once you’ve started this strategy, you’ll want to start analyzing results. 

Check what posts received the most likes, comments, shares, and try to understand what caused the success. 

Was it the ‘behind the scenes’ post? ‘Tip of the week’ post? Personal Insight? 

Knowing what caused the engagement will help you create similar posts that your followers will resonate with to the same degree. 

The quality of your account will grow and will cause more publicity from the Instagram side. 

More followers = more business. 

Next time, I’ll share some tips on dynamic content, video posts, and will come back with some IGTV tips – stay tuned! 

If you followed our instagram plan outline, hit the reply button and let us know! 

 

Additional Resources

eCommerce Titans Podcast

eCommerce Titans by Dim Niko is the industry-leading podcast that brings together the cutting edge growth strategy, tips, and approaches of 8-9 figure eCommerce Entrepreneurs, Founders, CMOs and CEOs.

EPOCH Facebook Community

A Facebook community for top-level marketers to discuss and share hyper-advanced online marketing strategies. Network and learn from the best in the industry.

Daily Scale Newsletter

The Daily Scale newsletter is delivered directly to your inbox discussing top insights and strategies our agency uses every single day on our 7 figure DTC brands. 

ARE YOU READY TO SCALE YOUR ECOMMERCE BRAND?

Want In On The Juiciest Brand Building Strategies? Subscribe to Our Daily Newsletter

Hong Kong:
Unit 1102
11/F 29 Austin Rd
Tsim Sha Thui KL
Hong Kong

Pretoria:
60 Glenwood Road
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Launched an App – Now What?

DimNiko Marketing | Launched an App - Now What?

Garyth here from DimNiko Agency

Are you thinking of adding an eCommerce App to your brand? 

There’s tons of benefits to having an App where your customers can go and purchase items from your online store. 

Everything from the ease of the customer journey, easily trackable, and in-app push notifications. 

Today we’re going to discuss app development in eCommerce and how to position it to build your customer base.

Read More: This Is What We’ve Learned from Launching a Brand New E-Commerce Brand and Store in Late 2020!

Developing, designing, and testing an app is a long journey, 

Your creative team has been put through the wringer, app updates are happening a lot more often than envisioned, you’re growing but it’s a slow process. 

At this stage many start-up founders and investors come to an impasse: 

Do you continue making things look and feel pretty or do you invest time and resources into building out your app community?

The answer: BOTH.

Developing your app is a journey that never stops. 

There’ll always be room for improvement, always a bug to squash, and the design and testing process itself can take months.

The question is, when do we focus our energy on building out a community that engages with our app?

The answer: RIGHT NOW!

An app is meaningless without an engaged user base, all of your monetization streams mean nothing without users. 

All that hard work, months of development, countless hours of testing is all in vain if you don’t have consumers using your tech.

At Dimniko, we advise our app clients to budget for acquisition early on. 

That way, while you’re grabbing attention, developing interest you’re also building our desire in your community, to ultimately attract ACTION.

An active, engaged user base means you have another platform to promote your eCommerce product and showcase the value of your brand. 

Testing, optimizing and scaling your customer acquisition strategy is fundamental to any business’ success, however, it’s paramount when developing an app!

Focus on adding value to your user base, just never forget that building out that user base, expanding to new territories and captivating market segments will become your primary objective.

If you’ve been building your app and have some customer acquisition tips, we’d love to hear them!

Until then, cheers!

Garyth

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Do You Know Your Customer’s Lifetime Value?

DimNiko Marketing | Customer Lifetime Value

Today we’re going to talk about Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). 

Even though it’s one of the most important metrics, most companies ignore it. 

I can’t stress enough how important it is to know your LTV. 

Some of you who aren’t newbies in business, you already know how important it is to keep track of your LTV. 

But, those who are just joining, can’t answer why it’s critical to know. 

Read More: 3 Ways of Increasing Your Revenue By Communicating With Your Customers

Your LTV helps you determine the worth of your customers and allows you to make the right decisions for KPIs – especially for acquisition since you’ll understand the real costs to acquire new customers. 

It helps with maximizing the value of existing customers, determining revenue generated from specific customers, and segmenting the categories of customers by identifying patterns that your most profitable customers have in common. 

And all of the above helps with better aligning your messaging to acquire more valuable customers. 

So how do you calculate your LTV? 

There are few metrics that contribute to the calculation of CLV: 

  • Average Order Value (AOV)
  • Purchase Frequency (PF)
  • Customer Value (CV)
  • Average Customer Lifespan (ACL)

You need to look at each metric individually to understand what ones need more attention to maximize profitability. 

Generally, when doing these calculations you look back 1 year or a lifetime, depending on how long you are running your business.

  1. AOV = Total Sales Revenue / Total Number of Orders
  2. PF = Total Number of Orders / Total Number of Unique Customers
  3. CV = Average purchase value * Average purchase frequency rate
  4. ACL = averaging the number of years a customer continues purchasing 
  5. CLV = Customers Value * Average customer lifespan

This will give you your revenue you can reasonably expect an average customer to generate for your company throughout their relationship with you.

Customers Lifetime Period

It’s also good to calculate the Customers Lifetime Period, however for this you’ll need to calculate the Churn Rate as well which is a bit more complicated, but taking the simple calculation it would be:

 Dividing the total customers beginning of x period – customers end of the x period/customers beginning of the x period. 

Customer Lifetime Period = 1/Churn Rate

Knowing your customers LTV is highly valuable on your acquisition strategy. You’ll know exactly how much you can spend to acquire a new customer. 

Once you’ve calculated your LTV, the next step is to improve the number. 

To improve, you need to look at your average order value and customer loyalty. 

Customer loyalty takes time to build and depends on the business model, but there are other ways to encourage customers to spend more. 

One is to increase AOV. A few ideas are: free shipping, bundles, upsell/cross-sell. 

While increasing repeat Customers Loyalty generally reward programs work well.

I hope this post was helpful for those who never calculated the Lifetime Value of their customers. I would love to hear your opinions on this post, or your input if you are already implementing the above so those who are missing out will hear more feedback on the true values of calculating LTV. 

If you are spending over $500 a day and want to scale your brand.

Book a call below https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

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