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Ads are Coming to Facebook Live

Posted on March 2, 2017
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by Blake Sunshine
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Does your camp love Facebook Live? I have seen some amazing use cases where camps are using Facebook Live to introduce staff, give a virtual tour of camp or just chat with prospective and current camp families. We've enjoyed great live video now, but ads are coming to this fantastic Facebook product. According to USA Today: "The company Thursday announced new initiatives to put more TV commercial-style ad breaks in live videos, and will begin testing ad breaks in traditional News Feed...

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Share Multiple Photos in One Instagram Post

Posted on February 22, 2017
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by Blake Sunshine
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If you have ever felt like you might be over-posting on Instagram, this update will be very helpful for you! According to Instagram: "Starting today, you can share multiple photos and videos in one post on Instagram. With this update, you no longer have to choose the single best photo or video from an experience you want to remember. Now, you can combine up to 10 photos and videos in one post and swipe through to see them all." When you upload a...

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Saving Our Summer Camp Clients Money

Posted on October 18, 2016
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by Blake Sunshine
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A lot of people think that when you hire a camp consultant you are going to spend a lot of money. While this may be true (you do spend money on ads and consulting), I've found that most of my clients do end up saving money in some way or another while working with Social Summer Camp. Recently, I took on a new client who was running AdWords by himself. He hired us because he wanted to be more efficient with...

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5 Changes Facebook Made to Your Business Page

Posted on August 24, 2016
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by altadmin
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You may have noticed a few notable changes on your business page over the summer. Facebook rolled out a number of new features in July, causing the way business pages look, feel and function to be different. Here’s some highlights from those changes: 1. Cover Photos If you designed your cover photo to accommodate for the square where your Facebook profile photo once lived, it’s probably time for an update. Your profile photo no longer sits on the bottom left portion...

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Google Expanded Ads for Summer Camps

Posted on August 18, 2016
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Back in April, Google Started testing out an expanded ad unit for AdWords that gave customers twice as much text as previously for their ads. The test fully rolled out in May and now all advertisers have access to fully expanded ads within their account. You can see in the picture below how big of a difference it makes when you have much more text space! You now have 140 characters to get your point across in your advertising. Photo provided by...

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Updates to Facebook Lead Form Ad

Posted on March 15, 2016
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by Blake Sunshine
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Facebook Lead Form Ads have been an incredible marketing solution for summer camps and this past week Facebook made some really useful changes. These changes should help make these ads even more powerful. According to Facebook you can now:  Save time with duplicate forms "In order to save time and effort, advertisers can now duplicate lead ad forms and edit specific fields across ad sets and campaigns. For example, if an advertiser is running a global lead ad campaign that requires specific...

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Join Our Team This Spring as a Community Manager Intern

Posted on October 22, 2015
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by Blake Sunshine
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We’re looking for a community manager intern to join us this Spring in Austin! You’ll gain hands-on experience that will prepare you for a future in social media marketing industry. Your days will be filled with content writing, image creation, analytics reporting and paid advertising for summer camps across the country. Community Management Intern This position requires an enthusiastic self-starter that is interested in social media marketing, advertising or public relations. You’ll gain essential skills related to social media, community management and...

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Using Instagram Ads to Sign Up New Campers

Posted on October 20, 2015
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by Blake Sunshine
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We are absolutely loving Instagram ads over here at Social Summer Camp! In addition to being a brand new advertising platform for us, they have some unique advantages that we really enjoy: 1. Targeting: The targeting of Instagram ads is exactly the same as targeting of Facebook ads. Facebook's targeting is some of the best in the business, so we were absolutely thrilled to see so many great targeting options for Instagram. 2. Creative: In addition to doing one photo, you can also use...

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Signing Up New Campers: A Social Summer Camp Case Study

Posted on September 17, 2015
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by Blake Sunshine
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Our number one focus at Social Summer Camp is helping our customers sign up new campers. Today I am so excited to present some anonymous results from one of our clients. All of their leads came directly from Facebook Ads and Google AdWords. This camp was able to sign up 9 families at a cost per customer of just over $1,000. These are fantastic results for camps, who have a lifetime value of MUCH larger than $1,000 a camper. If you aren't...

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