Twitter Advertising – The Complete Guide

Before we jump into the nitty gritty of advertising on twitter we will like to throw in some facts for starters.

300 billion tweets are sent since the inception of Twitter
YouTube is the most followed brand with over 40 million followers
Monarch of Twitter Katy Perry has over 51 millions followers
Most retweeted tweet ever with over 800K retweets was the victory tweet of Barack Obama
Twitter is projected to make a total of $540 million in advertising revenue by 2014.

Mind = Blown

In just 8 years Twitter has become one of the most promising brand and invariably a favorite among the celebs. If twitter were to be a country it would be the Third Largest Country in the world. Just imagine the kind of potential this platform holds to transform your brand. How would you capitalize on this opportunity? Advertising you say, yes we thought so below is a quick guide which will help you setup and run your advertising campaign in no time.

Step 1

Open this link in your browser https://business.twitter.com/start-advertising and answer two simple questions

Where is your business located?
What is your estimated monthly budget for digital advertising?

Step 2

According to your objective select one option

New Promoted Account Campaign

Promoted Accounts are the best way to grow your audience on Twitter If your objective is to gain more followers this is the right option for you as you only pay when you add a follower via your Promoted Account.

New Promoted Tweets Campaign

If you already have audience but your engagement is not impressive then this is the option for you. Reach more people with your tweets and pay only when users engage — clicks on a Tweet, retweets, replies, favorites, and follows

Step 3

Give your campaign a name?
When do you want to run this campaign?

Step 4

Choose your primary method of targeting which are as follows:-

Interest and Followers

As the name suggests – reach people with specific interests or who are similar to followers of a specific account.
You can select interest based on your consumer traits this will optimize your campaign budget For Example: – A football manufacturer can select sports as interest.
You can also put in the @handle of twitter accounts that you think have similar followers and encash this opportunity.
For Example: – Brand X can put in Twitter@BrandY if he feels Brand Y has similar followers and he can benefit from targeting them.

Tailored audience

This option is used when you have your own data. Existing and prospective customers who have shown interest in your brand can be targeted again on twitter to drive ROI for your business. You can create an audience based on users’ web browsing behavior, based on email addresses and other CRM data, or based on lists of Twitter IDs. Once an audience is loaded into Twitter Ads, you can select that audience to include it in a campaign.

Choose your tailored audience source

Website visitors – People who have visited your website but not converted into an actual customer you can reach them on twitter.
Lists – You can also add a list of email and twitter IDs whom you want to target.

Keywords (You will see this option in case you selected New Promoted Tweets Campaign)

Keyword targeting allows you to reach Twitter users based on keywords in their search queries, recent Tweets, and Tweets they recently engaged with. As you can reach people for whom your message will be most relevant and top of mind in that moment, this targeting option puts you in a better position to drive engagements and as well as leads and conversions.

Television (You will see this option in case you selected New Promoted Tweets Campaign)

The idea behind integrating TV and Twitter in your marketing campaign is to create an additional touch point. You can show your promoted Tweets to people talking about specific TV shows, before, during and after a telecast. You just need to put the name of the TV show you want to target.

Step 5

Choose location
Choose gender
Choose languages
Choose specific devices and platforms you want to target. (You will see this option in case you selected New Promoted Tweets Campaign)

Step 6

Compose a tweet that you want to promote

Step 7

Set a total Budget

Once the budget is exhausted the campaign will stop running.

Set a daily budget limit

This can be derived by dividing total budget by number of days you want the campaign to run.

Enter maximum bid per follower

Once your daily budget is set you need to decide the maximum amount you are willing to pay per follower.