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This document synthesizes practical, proven lessons from Dan Kennedy's No BS Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing. Kennedy, a pioneer of direct marketing, focuses on actionable sales-driving strategies rather than brand-building or vanity metrics. The following comprehensive insights and frameworks are essential for anyone aiming to convert social media presence into real sales.
1. Core Philosophy: Direct Response Focus
Key Idea:
- Ultimate goal: The sale — direct response marketing is designed to trigger immediate customer behavior leading to purchases.
- Unlike traditional content marketing, brand content is secondary; content’s purpose is not to build brand awareness mainly but to create conversions.
Performance Metrics to Prioritize:
- Cost per client acquisition
- Conversion rates (e.g., free leads to paid subscriptions)
- Number of responses to lead magnets
- Profitability over vanity metrics like likes, shares, or views (which can be inflated or irrelevant).
“Content is not king; the sale is king.”
2. Realities of Social Media Virality and Content Sharing
- Average social media posts get a 3% share rate.
- Of shares, about 25% get clicked – meaning effective clicks are fractions of fractions.
- Result: Virality is difficult to achieve.
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