410 Social Media Plan 2
410 Social Media Plan 2
410 Social Media Plan 2
Marketing
Plan
December 2021-December 2022
Prepared for National Park Trust
MEET THE TEAM
My name is Avery Elmore, and I was born and raised in Newburyport,
Massachusetts. I grew up in this small coastal city north of Boston with my 3
siblings, parents, and dogs. I'm finishing my BBA in Marketing with a
concentration in Digital Marketing, as I am a senior at James Madison
University. I am a hardworking, passionate student that strives in fast paced
work environments. Outside of class I am a Social Media Manager for a small
company in my hometown, PEAK College Consulting. I run all social medias and
work closely with the CEO to assist in creating her brand vision.
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Situation Analysis
Internal Environment...................................................................4
External Environment...................................................................5
Social Media Audit/ Presence.....................................................9
SWOT analysis...............................................................................13
Objectives & Budget
S.M.A.R.T. Objectives .................................................................14
Target Audiences
Target Audience #1....................................................................16
Target Audience #2....................................................................19
Social Zones
Zones and Platforms...................................................................22
Creative Strategy
Organic Campaigns.....................................................................25
Influencer Marketing Campaign...............................................36
Activation Plan
Plan.................................................................................................42
Content Calendar........................................................................44
Manage/Measure
Measuring Success.....................................................................45
Appendix ......................................................................................48
Works Cited...............................................................................50
SITUATIONAL 4
ANALYSIS
Internal Environment
Opportunities
The National Park Trust has several opportunities that can be leveraged for social media marketing as
well as help them differentiate them from competitors. For example, outlining the goals for growth
through month-to-month communication strategies will help keep The National Park Trust’s goals
specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time based. Further, keeping social media posts,
newsletters and advertising consistent will help attract and engage followers. By using storytelling in
the social media posts, it allows the followers to form a connection with the nonprofit organization and
feel more inclined to contribute to their cause. The National Park Trust has also implemented a call to
action through their social media posts and promoted their business through sales promotions to
incentivize their followers to engage.
Culture
The corporate culture of The National Park Trust is very supportive of the transparent and
decentralized norms of social media. For instance, the nonprofit organization employs many college
ambassadors, interns, and full time workers to utilize their ideas and perspectives. The National Park
Trust’s culture of adventure and overall activism for land and the outdoors, ultimately helps attract
customers and grow their social media following.
Resources
The National Park Trust has many tangible and intangible resources that can be leveraged to
implement social media activities. For instance, free advertising money on Facebook, Google
Advertising, Free Canva Premium, Networks with PR Firms, as well as the key employees that help the
company grow. The National Park Trust also has a budget of $3,500 per month in addition to grant
management and a variety of programming in education and online learning. Further, The National Park
Trust already has over 1,500 followers on both instagram and twitter as well as a rating of 4.8/5 on their
Facebook page. Seeing that the nonprofit organization already has a big following base, there is an
opportunity for them to attract more followers in addition to improving their networking ability.
Additionally, their mascot and employees make up important resources that they have access to and
can create a presence on their social media.
Preparedness
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The National Park Trust already utilizes multiple social media platforms Including: Instagram, Twitter,
Facebook, Linkedin, Monthly Newsletters, and TikTok. They also engage in social media activities
including photo sharing, video sharing, blogs on websites and press releases. The National Park Trust
has already implemented multiple social media activities that will help engage their followers. On
instagram for example, they have already included many highlights under their account, as well as their
website link in the biography and multiple posts involving nature and other activities. These things
demonstrate National Park Trust’s existing knowledge of social media that can be applied to future
campaigns and social media use.
External Environment
Current Customers
After analyzing data provided by National Park Trust we found that their current customers consist
mostly of women, aged 35-44, with a broader range of 25-54. Their top location for customers who are
interacting with them is New York, followed by Los Angeles and Washington D.C.. As far as their
customers’ use of social media, they have a moderate amount of following on social media, but their
customers’ appear to not be interacting as much, which could be because of the customers’ low social
media usage or a general lack of incentive or motivation to interact with the page.
Competitors
Competitor: Social Channels:
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National Park Foundation Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
Linkedin
Audience Size: Overview of Social Presence:
Instagram: 241.2k followers Across all the foundation’s social media accounts,
Facebook: 690k followers they use a very informative, formal tone. It is clear
Twitter: 141.3k followers their main goal of being on social media is to
Linkedin: 30k followers spread awareness about their cause while also
Youtube: 1.4k subscribers highlighting different events happening
throughout the parks and staying up to date on
major events happening in the country and world.
Strengths: Weaknesses:
They have high quality One weakness appears to be that they do not
pictures and videos to share, cater their posts to fit the specific social media
as well as well thought out channel with which they are communicating -
captions to spread their posts are generally the same among
information. They also have a channels. While they have a high following, their
high following on most of engagement is low on most channels.
their channels. Additionally, their posts are slightly wordy which
isn’t always optimal depending on the channel.
Strengths: Weaknesses:
Their informational posts and They are lacking in engagement and might
strong calls to action are benefit from a break up of strictly informational
strengths, as well as their posts. They could also do a better job of
high number of followers. catering their posts to fit the channel.
Publicity
On their main website page (https://parktrust.org/about-
us/) there is a link to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
However, it is hard to find and requires the user to scroll
down. Instagram has a link in the bio that takes the user to a
page of all links relevant to the organization however it does
not contain a link to other social media platforms.
(https://www.instagram.com/nationalparktrust/ ) On
Facebook there is a link that brings users to the
organization's website but no links for other social media
platforms. (https://www.facebook.com/nationalparktrust/?
ref=page_internal ) Twitter follows the same pattern as
Instagram and Facebook. All three platforms have very
similar posts if not the same. All pages are consistent and
post almost everyday. Overall they are not driving traffic
between the different platforms. The only way users can
access the platforms is through the main website.
Conversation Analysis
Sentiment Analysis on each Platform:
In the last 4 months Twitter activity has been very similar to both Instagram
and Facebook. On average, tweets get 0 to 2 replies and 0 to 1 retweets. 164
tweets have been made since June first to October first. Only 42 comments
have been made collectively throughout all of these posts. Out of these 42
comments 11 of them were actual comments while the other 31 comments are
national park trust replying to themselves. However, all 11 comments are
positive about the content.
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OBJECTIVES &
BUDGET
Objective 1:
Increase average engagement on Instagram and Facebook by 200%
within the next 6 months using more interactive content such as: polls,
questionnaires, and giveaways. This would increase their average
engagements per post on Instagram from 106 comments and likes to 306
and on Facebook from 19 to 57.
After analyzing National Park Trust’s social media, one of the main areas
of improvement we noticed was the opportunity to raise follower
engagement, especially on Instagram and Facebook. Their current
engagement is, on average per post, 106 comments and likes on
Instagram and 19 comments and likes on Facebook. We believe this does
not appropriately reflect their large following of 11k on Instagram and 18k
on Facebook. Reaching our objective of increasing those numbers of
engagement by 200% in the next 6 months will include activities such as
posting more interactive content like polls, questionnaires, and
giveaways, the details of which will be specified later on. This 200%
increase will put average engagement per post on Instagram at 306 and
on Facebook at 57. This increase in engagement will allow for more
meaningful interactions between the brand and consumers and will help
to increase overall reach as there is opportunity for more people to be
exposed to the content.
Objective 2:
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Create a National Park Trust TikTok account that creates posts catered
towards their target market, reaching 1,000 followers within the year.
Objective 3:
Increase Linkedin followers by 15% within the next year, by creating a
call-to-action through sales promotions, lead nurturing and social sharing
through paid advertisements to incentivize people to follow the National
Park Trust.
Psychographics
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Target Audience 1 Cont.
Social Media
Justification
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Persona #1
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Target Audience 2
Demographics/Geographicsd
Psychographics
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Target Audience 2 Cont.
Social Media
Justification
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Persona #2
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Social Zones and Social
Media Platforms
Social community
One of our objectives is to increase engagement on National Park Trusts social media
platforms which is an important aspect to the social community zone. Being able to connect
our followers to our brand is very important regarding our ideas for National Park Trust's new
social media image. One of our goals is to create that connection between their audience
and themselves on an intimate level and create a sense of trust between the audience and
brand. Since people crave connection so much, our thought is that the National Park Trust
can use their platform to create this connection through their programs and social media.
This can be achieved by increasing their social media presence, for example creating a Tik
Tok page, and increasing engagement on all social media platforms.
Social Publishing
We will be using social publishing to produce and issue content that is valuable and relevant to
drive profitable customer action. This content will include social networking sites such as
Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Linked In. The content will consist of memorable and
impactful objectives that make customers feel a personal connection towards it. Content type
will include visual content such as infographics and videos. These will convey a visual
representation of data, lists, ideas and stories. Our goal is to create content that has good
quality, is fun and creative, and contains transcripts for SEO. We also want to establish a
regular schedule for content to gain the most engagement.
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Platform Rationale Mission Statement
Facebook The National Park Trust currently maintains a Create a connection
large following of 18k Followers on Facebook. between our audience and
However, they only average 19 comments brand by increasing
and likes throughout their page. In July of
engagement and mutual
2021, Facebook was ranked as the most
trust.
popular social media platform worldwide
with 2,853 million users. (Statista, 2021). We
could use the wide user-base to reach more
consumers as well as Incentivize the target
audience to engage with the National Park
Trust through a variety of content and call-
to-actions. The National Park Trust also has
the opportunity to deliver advertisements
through Facebook.
To increase awareness,
LinkedIn LinkedIn also presents a unique
better develop how
opportunity for growth for the National
Park Trust. Because LinkedIn is the most
National Park Trust is
trusted social network in the U.S. viewed, and encourage
(Newberry, 2021), having a strong presence action among consumers.
on this social network will help assist
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Platform Rationale Mission Statement
Instagram .
Utilizing Instagram as a social media platform for Create a connection
The National Park Trust is imperative to satisfying between our audience
their short-term and long-term goals. The National
and brand by increasing
Park Trust currently has 11,000 followers on
Instagram. However, they lack the interactions and engagement and
impressions with their followers. Instagram already mutual trust.
contains multiple widgets for social media users to
engage with posts. For instance, The National Park
Trust could create interactive posts containing polls,
questionnaires, and giveaways to further expand
their reach and connect with more Instagram users.
Instagram currently provides pictures and videos for
over a billion current users with 32% of those users
in the age range of 25-34 (Statista, 2021). This is
imperative to The National Park Trust’s objectives as
a majority of their target market is within those
ages.
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ORGANIC CAMPAIGNS
Meet National Park Trust
Objective met with this campaign:
Create a National Park Trust Tik Tok account that creates posts catered
towards their target market, reaching 1,000 followers within the year.
What stage of the sales funnel does this campaign target (i.e., awareness, consideration, or conversion)?
This TikTok campaign will target the awareness stage of the sales funnel. This is because they
have no presence on TikTok as of right now and need to increase knowledge of their brand to this
app and its users.
This campaign is going to gain TikTok followers and let them know what their company is all about.
National Park Trust will be running weekly TikToks featuring a new program, activity, or resources that
they offer. Examples of these will include College Ambassador Program, Buddy Bison Program, Youth
Leadership etc. In these videos employees, college ambassadors, and youth leaders will participate in
the creation of the Tik Toks. We want to get as many people involved as we can and have multiple parts
of the brand represented. They will be using a combination of fun and trending sounds and music as
well as talking videos. A variety is important in this campaign so ultimately when followers are
increasing, they aren’t seeing the same videos over and over again. One specific example would be a
College Ambassador introducing the program to followers. They will do so by using a song such as
“Stay” by Justin Bieber that is popular on Tik Tok right now. They will write on the screen a brief
explanation of the program in an enticing manner. The words would be something such as, “ Are you a
college student who loves the outdoors?”, “Interested in getting involved? Free outings?”, “Join National
Park Trusts College Ambassador program”. In the caption we will direct them to our website to read
about more information. While the writing is being shown, the ambassador could add pictures and
videos from their experience to make it more personal. The National Park Trust should keep these
videos 15-30 seconds to get people's attention and get the information out as quickly as possible.
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Inspiration for this campaign
Since an objective of ours was to create an account and build followers we thought that introducing
the brand and programs was a good way to start. The followers they will be gaining should be because
it is a company that they believe in and want to follow so having more information on National Park
Trust will increase those true followers.
Campaign message
The campaign message is for viewers and potential followers to gain knowledge of what National Park
Trust is. They want to be able to reach our target audience of 18 to 28 year old single women and be able
to attract followers who care about the environment and want to follow to learn more about what they
can do surrounding National Parks.
The tone of these videos will be informational. Though we do want to add fun sounds and videos, the
ultimate goal of this campaign will be for new followers to learn about the National Park Trust and what
they offer.
How will you make your audience care and what will you make them care about
We will make the audience care by adding in personalized snippets to the videos. The creator of the
video will add his/her own pictures and videos to show how much they care about the program that
is on display for that video. They will grab the attention with catchy sayings, short videos, and
trending sounds/videos.
If they are interested in any of the programs they will continue onto our website for more
information. If they are intrigued after our website they will give us a follow on TikTok. They will
share the video with other friends or families that could also resonate or be interested in one of the
programs.
They may not share or engage with the content/experience because:
They may not engage if they are disinterested in informational videos on TikTok. As soon as some
users see an informational ad, video, etc. they will scroll to the next video. Another obstacle
surrounding this may be that some are not interested in the outdoors, especially people who may be
sitting on TikTok all day.
Key people or organizations the are vital to making the campaign happen:
The National Park Trust needs employees, Ambassadors, and Youth Leaders to participate.
33-45 year old woman that enjoys both spending time with family and the outdoors
What stage of the sales funnel does this campaign target (i.e., awareness, consideration, or conversion)?
We are actively trying to get users to engage with
The sales funnel stage being targeted in conversion.
National Park Trusts social media to increase the conversion rate of interactions with the platforms.
The campaign will run continuously for the first week of every month for the entirety of the year
The campaign message is to get the target audience thinking about one of their favorite pictures
outdoors. This will involve them scrolling through their camera roll searching through all their outdoors
pictures to find one to post. It will make the audience think about nature and help them engage with an
organization that revolves all around the outdoors.
The audience will engage with the content to show their following what their favorite picture of
nature is. Instagram stories are a quick way to post, and show your followers a picture while
being more relaxed than a post. Once someone sees another person posting the stricker will
gain traction and people will be more likely to share their own pictures.
Key people or organizations the are vital to making the campaign happen:
Key people that are vital to making this campaign happen are the National Park trusts current
followers. Once the current followers repost the “Add Yours” sticker the campaign will begin to take
off and be seen by a much greater number of viewers.
Will you use any hashtags? Yes, #nationalparktrust on the sticker
Cost: $0
Metrics that can be used would be Instagram's analytics feature which shows the owner of the
account how many people viewed the story, how many users have clicked on the sticker bringing
them back to the National Park Trust account. By keeping track of the amount of sticker clicks,
page visits, and use of sticker will help National Park Trust in increasing engagement on the stories,
and hopefully trickle into their account engagements.
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CONTENT EXAMPLE
33-45 women with children who enjoy the outdoors and traveling.
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What stage of the sales funnel does this campaign target (i.e., awareness, consideration, or conversion)?
This campaign will target the conversion stage of
the sales funnel attempting to turn mere
impressions into active engagements.
The campaign will run over the course of two weeks, every other month, for the duration of 6 months.
This campaign’s objective is primarily to increase engagement on Instagram and Facebook, but may
also benefit the National Park Trust by increasing reach and potentially gaining new followers. This
campaign will include a post from National Park Trust on Instagram and Facebook, once a month,
every other month, for six months. The post will contain the following details concerning the
giveaway: that it will last 2 weeks, that each post counts as one entry into the giveaway, with an
unlimited number of entries, a name will be randomly drawn at the end of two weeks and that person
will receive a free Kids to Parks Day t-shirt and a stuffed animal Buddy Bison. All the followers will
need to do, should they choose to participate, is post a picture of their kids playing outside and tag
the National Park Trust Facebook page, along with the hashtag: #goplayoutside. This campaign will
raise awareness of the National Park Trust, specifically their programs for kids and Kids to Parks day
that happens in May. It also gives incentive for parents to encourage their kids to play outside and
spend less time on the screen. Additionally, it gives the National Park Trust the opportunity to make
Kids to Parks day more than just one day and support kids spending more time outdoors all year
round. Along with that, what parent doesn’t love to share pictures of their children to Facebook for all
of their friends and family to see. While it is important to convey all the logistical information about
the giveaway in the initial post, it is also important to use this as an opportunity to further convey the
National Park Trust brand, being sure to use the correct tone and voice that will help give the brand a
coherent image across all platforms.
The main inspiration for this was Kids to Parks day that happens every May and the National Park Trust
t-shirt that says “Go Play Outside” on the back of it, combined with the knowledge of how much moms on
Facebook can’t resist a chance posting pictures of their children, this is the perfect opportunity to
combine those two things for the benefit of increasing engagement for National Park Trust.
Campaign message
This campaign is meant to encourage followers to spend more time outside with their children. This
campaign will send the message that the National Park Trust cares about you and your family’s health and
time outdoors. It will also open followers' eyes to the existing programs that National Park Trust has for
children.
The tone of this campaign will be playful and caring. With the theme/call to action of getting children
outside it is important that the National Park Trust does not appear to be informational with this
campaign. Additionally, because it is a giveaway, it is important that the posts from National Park Trust
are not too flashy or long, they should be short and conversational to avoid people scrolling through
without looking.
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How will you make your audience care and what will you make them care about
This campaign will elicit all sorts of positive, emotional thoughts that National Park Trust’s followers
associate with their family and children. By connecting these thoughts to the National Park Trust this
will create a new sense of caring for the non-profit and will help to transfer some of those positive
thoughts to the National Park Trust.
This target market enjoys sharing pictures of their children and families already and this will provide an
additional opportunity to do so. Other people will engage their posts when they see their friends and
family posting pictures of their kids.
Resources required: Instagram, Facebook, phones/computer, t-shirts, Buddy Bison stuffed animals
Key people or organizations the are vital to making the campaign happen:
The National Park Trust will be the initiator of the campaign, but other than that National Park Trust’s
followers on Facebook and Instagram will be the most vital to making this campaign happen and be
successful. Without the followers participating in the giveaway, it will be unable to succeed.
Will you use any hashtags? Yes, #goplayoutside primarily, as well as #NationalParkTrust and #kidstoparks
The success of this campaign will be measured first by the amount of entries that are received and how
many different people are entering into the giveaway. An additional metric will be the interactions (likes
and comments) with the National Park Trust’s initial post, but also with the followers' entries that are
posted. A final metric will be to see if there are any new followers gained from this campaign and how
many.
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CONTENT EXAMPLE
The National Park Trust Linkedin Campaign will typically appeal to women ages 33-45 who have an
established income and looking to explore new hobbies and interests
What stage of the sales funnel does this campaign target)?
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The Linkedin campaign would target the awareness
stage of the sales funnel as the campaign will
deliver new information about The National Park Trust every week.
The campaign will run every Friday throughout the whole year to be able to measure if the consistency is
appealing to the audience.
Describe the overall campaign and experience:
this campaign includes increasing followers and engagements on LinkedIn.
Our main objective for
National Park Trust’s LinkedIn account will post creative facts and pictures every Friday about National
Parks, nature and The National Park Trust in order to grow brand awareness. These facts will be about
National Park Trust as well as interesting facts about different National Parks. This creates a balance
between types of content followers want to see and gives more opportunity to run this campaign for a
long time. The friendly and likeable tone of the posts will help incentivize the customer to engage with
the post by liking, sharing and commenting. Further, the post will provide a link to the National Park
Trust’s homepage with links to donate and gain more information about the Non-profit organization.
Over the duration of the campaign, The National Park Trust will likely gain followers and see an increase
of impressions and engagement on their posts.
The inspiration for this campaign comes from our Linkedin Objectives for The National Park Trust. The
National Park Trust has no advertisements or creative posts currently on their linkedin page and lacks
engagement across the platform. Also, other companies using similar campaign tactics have had great
success in the past.
Campaign message
The National Park trust’s LinkedIn posts seek to make the followers think about the outdoors with their
numerous interesting facts as well as consider donating to the national park trust through the link to their
homepage
The tone of the campaign would be friendly, and likeable to show that The National Park Trust is a
company that they can be a part of. It is imperative for the National Park Trust to build rapport with their
prospects and try to help build a community.
How will you make your audience care and what will you make them care about
The fun facts will gain traction with the followers and make them interested in what National Park Trust
does for National Parks. With a link to the organization's homepage as well as facts about the company
and the surrounding national parks, the audience will learn more about how they positively affect the
surround parks around the country.
They will share due to the positive tone and light heartedness of the campaign. They could tag friends
in the post, leave comments and reply to others comments and hopefully end up following the page.
They may not share or engage with the content/experience because:
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They may not engage if they do not find the facts or non-profit organization interesting. They may see
the post and scroll past it if it doesn't catch their attention, or read it and not find it interesting enough
to engage.
Resources required: LinkedIn, computer
Key people or organizations the are vital to making the campaign happen:
The 6 college ambassadors and 14
youth student ambassadors in addition to communications
coordinator in order to interact and post with the consumers on linkedin
Will you use any hashtags? Yes, #NationalParkTrust and #funfactfriday
Cost: $0
PARK PARTY
We will have the influencers post both Instagram stories and posts promoting
National Park Trust as well as Tik Toks and educating people on what they do. The
Campaign influencers will alternate between posting an Instagram story or post every month
for 6 months. On their stories they will be educating their followers on what
Brief
National Park is in their own words and how important park conservation is. They
will have a link to donate to National Park Trust on those stories and Tik Toks to
influence their followers to donate. For the Instagram posts it is going to increase
awareness and exposure of National Park Trust. They will travel to a National Park
and take pictures there, or use pictures from National Parks they have been to.
These posts are going to have a larger focus on the National Park that they visited
with a subtle mention of National Park Trust to increase exposure to the name.
# of Influencers 2
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Type of Influencer
Micro influencers from the travel industry. Micro influencers were selected because we
wanted an in between of very small influencers and ones that would be out of our price
range. Since we wanted to do multiple influencers posting multiple posts we wanted to
be able to afford that. We believe having an ongoing campaign with multiple influencers
and posts is going to be more affective than having a celebrity post once. This industry
is best because if their followers are also travelers then they will most likely want to
travel to these National parks or like the outdoors so they will be interested or
knowledgeable in land preservation.
Campaign Duration
May 1, 2023 - October 31, 2023
Channels
Instagram and Tik Tok
Target Audience
Married Woman with children (33-45)
Campaign Goals
Instagram influencer marketing campaign showing how national park trusts are great
places for familys
Key Objectives
Increase average engagement on Instagram and Facebook by 200% within the next 6
months using more interactive content such as: polls, questionnaires, and giveaways.
This would increase their average engagements per post on Instagram from 106
comments and likes to 306 and on Facebook from 19 to 57.
Campaign Message
For the influencers Instagram stories they will educate their followers on National
Park Trusts mission and focus on their park preservation projects and goals.
Influencers will include the donate button in their stories to educate followers how
their donations can help. Tik Tok will have similar content as their Instagram stories.
Their captions on their posts will consist of where they went and a brief description of
National Park Trust and what we do. The purpose of the posts is to give a nod to
different National Parks so people are inclined to visit them and learn more. National
Park Trust will be tagged in stories and posts and key words will be used, such as: park
preservation, donate, travel, parks.
Deliverables &Timeline
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6 IG Stories, 6 IG Posts and 6 Tik Toks; Each influencer will post a story every other
month and will publish a post every other month. The @Outofofficefamily will post every
second week of every month starting with an IG post in May 2022. The
@quenchyouradventure couple will post every fourth week of every month starting with
an IG story in May 2022. The @quenchyouradventure couple will post a Tik Tok every
month, since the @outofofficefamily does not have a Tik Tok account.
Payment
Send invoice on the last of every month to [email protected]
Influencer
@outofofficefamily
Overview Courtney, Stephan, Rowan, & Sully
Industry: Travel
How influential is @outofofficefamily
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Audience Demographic
Safety of Influencer
Audience Demographic
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Safety of Influencer
Campaign
Summary
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Activation Plan and Social
Media Content Calendar
How do you make the plan happen?
things to do in order to make this plan happen and be
There are several important
successful. First, it is extremely important that all details of the plan are understood
by all key people in the organization and that if something is not understood there is
provided clarification. Along with that, all key people involved in the organization
must approve of and sign off on the plan in order to put it into motion. We have laid
out a clear content calendar to ensure that the timing and planning of the plan is not
lost. It is also also important that all resources mentioned in the plan are gathered
before the plan is put into motion so as to not forget anything when the time comes.
All people mentioned and assigned to carry out the plan must be held accountable
for their part in executing the plan.
is consistent with the
How do you ensure the plan
client’s larger objectives?
The campaigns will run in a time frame that is consistent to the client's
objectives. Content will be posted gradually throughout the time frame
so that over time the objectives will gradually be reached by the
intended dates. The plan and specific campaigns will also help
contribute to the overall goal mentioned to increase engagement across
all platforms, this aligns with information we gleaned from our initial
meeting with the client. We believe this plan will also help to bring
awareness to National Park Trust’s other programs and offerings
translating to more engagement on and off social media.
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Content Calendar
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Managing &
Measuring
1. What metrics will allow you to assess effectiveness?
National Park Trust will use many metrics to assess effectiveness through their
organic campaigns as well as our influencer campaigns. The first they will be
assessing is the amount of followers that are gained from campaigns. This will be
tracked through all organic and influencer campaigns. It is especially important
regarding LinkedIn and TikTok. Another metric are engagements on posts such as
likes and comments. Increasing these on Facebook and Instagram is one of the
objectives of the campaigns. Monitoring these will determine how well the
campaign is doing and allows National Park Trust to evaluate if the campaign is
working for them or not. For the Add Yours campaign National Park Trust will be
able to track the amount of accounts that repost, which will be a useful measure to
see how many accounts are interacting with the sticker. Engagements are a key
aspect to any social media account, the more interactions an account is receiving
the better gauge the account has in understanding their followers. It creates a
sense of community instead of a brand or influencer putting content out and
getting no feedback or interactions from it. The last effectiveness measurement
will be the amount of entries for the giveaway. This will be easy to track and will be
vital in evaluating the success of the giveaway campaign. Since National Park
Trust will be doing 3 of them every other month for 6 months, they will be able to
evaluate what worked and what didn’t at the end of each giveaway and have time to
adjust things for the next one.
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2. How will you collect the data to assess? Are there
specific social media tools that will be used and if so, make
sure to factor these into your budget.
National Park Trust will be using the free analytics tools on all platforms. As far as TikTok
their main goal is to increase followers which is an easy measurement to track. LinkedIn’s
main goal is to also increase followers, but they will aslo track likes, comments, and
views, which all come from the business pages. For Instagram, they will use their free
analytics tools that come along with a business account. They will be able to see the
accounts that reuse their sticker very easily as well as who views their page from the
sticker. National Park Trust will use similar analytics on Facebook, as their objective is to
increase likes and comments on their posts.
It is very important that everything mentioned in the plan follows the values of the
National Park Trust brand. That is why it is important that all posts, including those in the
influencer campaign, include honest and transparent information related to the National
Park Trust. All information included in post captions or the posts themselves will include
accurate and conspicuous information about the National Park Trust. All posting and
communications on social media throughout this plan will portray ethical behavior in line
with National Park Trust values.
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4. Are there any disclosure requirements (i.e.,
transparency) that your client should be aware of?
There are various disclosure requirements that our client should be aware of specifically
for the influencer marketing campaign. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has created
various guidelines for influencers. Some of them to pay attention to are: that the
endorsement must reflect the honest opinion of the endorser and must not be
misleading; endorsers have a duty to disclose recommended products received for free,
at a discount, or for some other benefit that could bias objectivity; advertisers have
responsibility for their paid endorsers, they should train and monitor endorsers, define
what endorsers can/can’t say, they have a responsibility to disclose, and there should be
periodical monitoring. There are also several FTC Disclosure guidelines to be aware of:
only required to disclose the nature of the benefit, but not the details; disclosures in
social media posts should use something like #ad or #sponsored and be clear and
conspicuous; posting a picture of a product can be considered an endorsement; there is
no exact disclosure wording required.
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