Slide 1 – CBD Paid Media High-level strategies for your business
Slide 2 – The Rundown
- Google ad strategy
- Paid social ad strategy
- Email marketing strategy
- Recap
Slide 3 – Google Ad Strategy
Slide 4 – Google ads and unapproved CBD products
- Currently, CBD is on Google’s unapproved pharmaceuticals and supplements list in their Advertising Policy
- Google removes most CBD ads in less than two weeks. They may also:
- Flag your billing information
- Permanently suspend your account
- Flag your domain to prevent you from advertising CBD with a new account
Slide 5 – So what can you do?
- To combat the stringent advertising rules, and protect your account and website, focus on running top-of-funnel advertising
- The goal is driving email sign-ups, then sending transactional email drip campaigns to sell your products
Slide 6 – Google ad Do’s and Don’ts 6
Do
- Use brand-centric messaging
- Use dedicated landing page with different domain name as main website (ex. Instapage)
- Drive traffic to gain email leads
Don’t
- Mention cannabinoid, cannabidiol, CBD
- Mention full spectrum or THC
- Ads promoting specific CBD products
- Mention medical claims (ex. good for dry skin, headaches, etc)
Slide 7 – Paid Social Ad Strategy
Slide 8 – Using paid social ads
- Create an email-based lookalike audience list of your most engaged customers
- Focus on lead generation ads with educational content about CBD without mentioning by name
Slide 9 – Using paid social ads (Con’t)
- Create landing pages with educational content that touches the topic, and includes expandable related product lists below the fold
- Create a new funnel with these captured emails, & leverage transactional drip sequences to retarget visitors with CBD-specific content
- PRO-TIP: While your LinkedIn ad can direct to pages that feature topical CBD and ingestible hemp, your Facebook ad can only feature topical products
Slide 10 – Target audiences in LinkedIn by groups and interests
- LinkedIn provides audiences in the health and wellness space who may resonate with CBD as a therapy for their patients or as part of their consultations
- Targeting these audiences with long-form editorial messaging can create a network of advocates
- You can also leverage Lead Ads to compile an email list you can market to directly through drip campaigns
Slide 11 – Build Lookalike Audiences in LinkedIn
Lookalike audiences are identified using an existing Matched Audiences segment, such as:
- Website audiences
- Video ad audiences
- Lead-gen form audiences
- Company lists
- Contact lists
- Third-party data audiences
Slide 12 – Email Marketing Strategy
Slide 13 – Use email marketing to nurture conversions
- Segment and generate personalized email messaging to drive product sales & re-engage inactive customers
- Connect signup form to email marketing webhook, or upload emails to marketing hub
- Send personalized emails to potential and current customers and drive product sales
Slide 14 – Recap
Do
- Use brand-centric messaging
- Use dedicated landing page with different domain name as main website (ex. Instapage)
- Drive traffic to gain email leads
Don’t
- Mention cannabinoid, cannabidiol, CBD
- Mention full spectrum or THC
- Ads promoting specific CBD products
- Mention medical claims (ex. good for dry skin, headaches, etc)
Slide 16 – Paid social ads
- Create an email-based lookalike audience list of your most engaged customers
- Focus on lead generation ads with educational content about CBD without mentioning by name
- Create landing pages with educational content that touches the topic, and includes expandable related product lists below the fold
- Create a new funnel with these captured emails, & leverage transactional drip sequences to retarget visitors with CBD-specific content
- PRO-TIP: While your LinkedIn ad can direct to pages that feature topical CBD and ingestible hemp, your Facebook ad can only feature topical products
Slide 17 – Email marketing
- Segment and generate personalized email messaging to drive product sales & re-engage inactive customers
- Connect signup form to email marketing webhook, or upload emails to marketing hub
- Send personalized emails to potential and current customers and drive product sales
Slide 18 – Thanks! ANY QUESTIONS? You can find me at: Email – rob@crunchylinks