Social Media Marketing for Franchises

Ready to invest in social media marketing for franchises? Blue Corona’s social media marketing specialists can assist with all aspects of your social media marketing—from account setup, to banner and ad design, to bid management, posting, tracking, and more.

We’ve worked with franchises on ensuring cohesive messaging across all franchise pages while also working to target the specific market of each.

Social media is growing at a rapid pace and plays an increasingly important role in how customers and businesses interact. Facebook alone has over 500 million active users spending over 700 billion minutes per month on the site. Franchise owners and managers would be insane not to market on this platform and other social media sites your customers just can’t seem to tear themselves away from.

Our Process for Franchise Social Media Marketing

Our process for social media marketing for franchises is similar to our approach to marketing in general: TRACK > TEST > TWEAK > REPEAT. Simply put, you can’t maximize what you fail to measure and track. Better data equals better results.

  • Completing a market analysis of your service areas and industry
  • Finding local competitors currently outperforming you in audience size and engagement
  • Analyzing content and messaging that performs well in your industry
  • Researching content that has high engagement with your audience
  • Posting and scheduling regular posts
  • Monitoring engagement and interaction
  • Creating custom audiences to best target your company and brand
  • Creating copy and imagery for high-performing social ads
  • Split-testing ad copy
  • Reporting and improving paid social ads
  • Tracking your audience and reach
  • Tracking engagement rates
  • Tracking click-through-rate and leads
  • Tracking your ROI on paid social campaigns
  • Managing and tweaking parameters for each campaign
  • Monitoring engagement and interaction from customer base
  • Monitoring engagement, leads, and sales from campaigns
  • Building your audience across appropriate social channels

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical
Problem

A prominent Nexstar member servicing the Phoenix Valley, Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical first came to Blue Corona in 2019 in search of a new digital marketing partner. A once well-established brand in the Valley community, Penguin was quickly losing rankings, visibility, and customers to competitors that outranked and outperformed them on search engines. Historically, Penguin grew top-line revenue nearly 40% each year until 2019. Owners Wade and Will were ready to make the leap from the “biggest small guy” in the Valley to big-time players.

Solutions

A digital competitive analysis of Penguin’s online presence revealed multiple areas of opportunity across their website, organic search presence (SEO) and paid media (PPC, specifically).

Our Results

$34M

Revenue generated from digital marketing

12%

Reduction in cost per validated lead from digital sources

54%

Of total revenue generated by digital marketing

American Vintage Home

American Vintage Home
Problem

American Vintage Home, an award-winning residential HVAC and plumbing company servicing Chicagoland’s North Shore area, knew they were up against tough competition online. With multiple, large home service companies dominating the first page of Google search results, the company had an uphill battle to outrank their competitors to generate more qualified leads from their website.

Solutions

The company turned to Blue Corona to improve the performance of its digital marketing campaigns, with an emphasis on search engine optimization (SEO). After an in-depth client intake and onboarding process, Blue Corona’s team got to work installing a custom tracking and analytics setup, optimizing existing web pages, publishing new, SEO-optimized content, and claiming and optimizing local director listings on behalf of American Vintage Home.

Our Results

500+

Keywords ranked on page one of Google search results

10%

Year-over-year increase in validated leads from SEO

77:1

ROI from their SEO investment

Arctic Air Conditioning

Arctic Air Conditioning
Problem

Arctic Air Conditioning’s customer service reps are top notch, but there was one problem—their CSRs simply couldn’t keep up with the high volume of calls generated by Blue Corona’s marketing strategies. The company was leaving thousands of dollars of revenue on the table each month because of it.

Solutions

Enter Blue Corona’s Lead Recovery service, which successfully books an average of 10% more appointments from our clients’ existing marketing budgets.

Our Results

29%

Of all phone calls flagged for recovery

100

Additional jobs booked throughout the year from Lead Recovery

14:1

ROI from Blue Corona's Lead Recovery services

Industry-Leading Franchise Social Media Marketing Services

Social Media Campaign Management From Blue Corona

Run specific social media campaigns to energize your fan-base, drive traffic to your Facebook page, or raise awareness around a new product, service, trend, or recent project! Sweepstakes, giveaways, and other contests are a proven way to generate new “Likes” to your page and buzz around your name. Best of all, they are relatively low-cost to run and can be specifically targeted to the audience that you want to reach!

Our social media specialists will develop baseline data to better determine which social media platforms are producing the lowest cost per lead and the highest return on ad spend. We can help you track and test paid social media campaigns on a variety of platforms.

Our Franchise Social Media Marketing Services Include

  • Facebook – Facebook allows for both text and photos to be displayed on your advertisement for maximum audience engagement. You’re able to target your audience based on interests, demographics, and geography, while also determining how much you want to pay per click or pay per mille (cost per 1000 impressions).
  • Twitter – Twitter allows you to choose the objective of your campaign, including tweet engagements (retweets, favorites, replies), website clicks, app installs or engagements, followers, or even leads, and it only charges you when your specified action occurs. Additionally, Twitter allows a maximum daily budget and maximum cost per action.
  • YouTube – YouTube is the second largest search engine and has a larger adult audience than any cable network. Unlike television, you can target your ad only to your target audience. Plus, advertising on YouTube is as easy as connecting it to your AdWords account.
  • LinkedIn – LinkedIn Ads allows you to engage with B2B customers. There are two paying options in LinkedIn Ads—cost per click or cost per mille (cost per 1000 impressions).
  • And more – We can also help you test ads on platforms like Google+ and Instagram. In competitive industries like franchise markets, we often find that the typical cost per interaction is cheaper than Google AdWords and Bing Ads!

Other Social Media Services

  • Social Media Analytics and Reporting – Our custom social media analytics provide clients with valuable insights into the communities around their brand. From overall community demographics to engagement reports that show how successful specific campaigns are playing out, our reports help plumbing business owners more specifically target their marketing message.
  • Brand Monitoring – If your customers are online, there’s a good chance they are talking about your plumbing business! Through review sites and social networks, customers are expressing their opinions of businesses both positively and negatively. Keep on top of what people are saying about your plumbing company through Blue Corona’s state of the art monitoring tools! We’ll continually monitor the web for any new mentions of your company on blogs, review sites, or social networks.
  • Reputation Management – Managing your online reputation is one of the most important marketing strategies you can employ! Negative comments and reviews can hurt your search engine rankings and they can be damaging to your ability to attract new clients. Actively engaging your customers and your reviews online will allow your business to stay ahead of the news and control how your company is perceived.

Will Social Media Improve Your Franchise’s SEO?

The social media debate has been raging for years in the search world. Matt Cutts, head of the Google Webspam team, has adamantly denied that they matter. On the flip side, smart people have done studies and basically said “nah, they do matter.” Below is a snippit from the Moz ranking factors survey that shows social media—especially Facebook—really correlates to search results.

Facebook likes and shares influence rankings—just not in the way we think of a traditional ranking. Simply getting more likes and shares isn’t going to make a direct result—but it means you’re attacking your web marketing strategy in a successful way. We know Bing has played around with Facebook influencing results—and they very much matter there, still. Eventually, with web personalization trends, Facebook and other social factors are going to play a major role in how we find things on the internet going forward. The time is now to get going on it.

What Makes Us Different

Blue Corona is much more than a franchise SEO or social media company—we truly see ourselves as a web marketing partner to your franchise business. We market your company as if it were our own—meaning we strive to truly understand your services, products, sales process, competitors, industry, and markets to effectively market your company on the web, all while tracking and measurably justifying your investment in our online marketing services.

Although we service all industries, we have extensive experience helping franchises just like you get more leads and sales from the web.

Get a Free Social Media Analysis for Your Franchise

Fill out a form for a free social media analysis from our team of franchise social media marketers.

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842% Increase In Facebook Page Likes

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What Makes Blue Corona Different

Our goal is to be the best analytical, data-driven online marketing and social media marketing company on the planet! Unlike other social marketing companies, we operate from the perspective of a business owner (our account managers have gotten to know more about business than most “social gurus” will ever know—call us and see).

We strive to provide superior service by offering the following to all our social media marketing clients:

  • A Dedicated Account Manager, someone that understands business and social media, to be your guide
  • Detailed Monthly Reports (you can actually understand) that connect social performance to your bottom line
  • A Support Team that includes an analyst, web designer/developer, and a dedicated professional copywriter
  • Access to Our Proprietary Analytics Software (better data drives better results)
// Testimonials

See What Our Clients Are Saying

"We struggled, marketing wise, in that we went through several marketing companies and all directing us in the wrong way. We spent a lot of money that we didn't really need to. It's been great since we joined [Blue Corona] and making marketing affordable for us. The name Blue Corona, to us, means leads...money! You should be called Green Corona."

Jay Kline

"I would 100% recommend Blue Corona to any new, aspiring HVAC, plumbing, electrical service, home services type business that is looking to expand the footprint of Internet marketing truly because the sense of, they're not like your every other internet marketing company. They're not going to sell you a bill of goods and over-promise and under-deliver. They're going to under-promise and over-deliver."

Ross Albert

"There's been plenty of times where we would sit back and look at things and go, "Hey, you know what? That's probably the best decision we made in a long time." I would definitely recommend [Blue Corona] to other service companies because I want to see how other people like me and my family here at work succeed."

Bill McManigal

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we build your strategy to help you outrank and outperform the competition

// Home Services Marketing

SEO (search engine optimization) and paid media are the two most effective ways to increase qualified visitors to your website. If your business doesn’t dominate the first page of search results, you’re losing business to your competition. We help you maximize your search engine real estate across both paid and organic listings on search engines like Google and Bing. This drives more qualified website traffic, calls, and leads to your business (and not your competitors’).

Elevate Your Brand Presence

with a new website

// Website Design & Development

At Blue Corona, we take care of your website for you—from start to finish. The best part? You own 100% of everything we create—the code, content, design—everything. Our websites capture the uniqueness of your brand, deliver a seamless user experience, and serve as the launchpad for your digital marketing campaigns. We provide:

  • Website design and development
  • Hosting
  • Security
  • Webmaster support

Capture & Convert More Leads

without spending a dollar more on marketing

// Maximize your marketing 

Marketing is only successful if your operations team does its job. At Blue Corona, we help your team capture and convert more leads by providing 24/7/365 call answering services and AI-powered website chat to help you:

  • Answer more calls
  • Increase your website conversion rate
  • Book more jobs
  • Provide best-in-class customer experience