After the 2020 epidemic, the trend of private domain traffic began to sweep across various industries, but most companies have not yet built their own private domain models.
Haodong suggested that instead of spending a lot of effort on studying how to do a good job in private domain, it is better to think about operating the most basic traffic group first. By mastering the operation method of initial traffic, you can also produce stable and continuous results.
A traffic group is a type of community with a relatively low or even zero entry threshold . Many companies usually use it to save traffic in order to better reach customers. If used only as a contact tool, 80% of the communities will usually die quickly. No matter how they are activated, the reach will not be effective. Although there may seem to be thousands of community users, the actual conversion effect is very low!
So how should we operate the traffic group to continuously create results and long-term effects?
Share a tried and tested guide to building a TOC community for high-priced products, which can 100% increase product sales
Below I will use adult vocational education as an example to apply the methodology
1. User positioning and traffic diversion
The purpose of building a group is definitely to sell their own products, so the first factor for operators is to start with the product and match a relatively accurate customer group . Only by attracting potential customers at the front end can the later operation effect be greatly improved.
Here we take adult programming courses as an example: a JAVA full-stack development course, the main selling point is "helping programming novices to achieve high-paying employment by learning JAVA, and recommending employment after graduation", then the corresponding point should be to find the target group, so before that, we need to analyze the user portrait in more detail
After market research and user research, we concluded that the current profile of people who are matched with course products is as follows:
Age: 20-28 years old
Crowd segmentation: College students, those who have just entered the workplace for 1-5 years
Target user description: Currently considering changing careers, entering a new industry, or wanting to improve additional personal skills, interested in learning JAVA programming, have a desire to learn, somewhat confused about work, may be hesitant, hope to find a group with common goals to work together, want to learn the basics first and then further clarify their next direction (whether to continue learning, how to learn?)
Purpose of user joining the group:
1. Want to experience JAVA for the first time and master the basics to see if it is suitable for you
2. Want to clarify the direction of study/career by learning JAVA and get on the fast track of career
3. Solve some other confusions (such as whether you can learn English if you have no English foundation, whether you have time to learn while working, etc.)
Here we have analyzed and understood the background and purpose of the user group. The growth team will attract new users based on this portrait (I will not go into details about the new user acquisition method here, and will continue to share it later)
2. Conversion Path Construction
Community operation is not just about keeping users in the group, but about establishing more touch points with users, and ultimately using the community as a scenario for stratification/conversion to achieve sales goals.
Therefore, it is necessary to plan a sales conversion path based on the community in order to design the user journey in a targeted manner and carry out conversion and long-term effects.
As you can see, the first step for users to enter is to screen high-intent users for quick transactions, and then the rest of the users need to enter the communityIn addition to the social network, we have designed many additional touchpoints to maximize customer connections, prevent customer churn, and use different scenarios and roles to enhance customer awareness of the brand and products, thereby increasing trust and intention. In the pre-sales process, there are usually the following roles and responsibilities
Course consultant: career planning, course introduction, screening intention, customer closing
Operation service account: community operation, pre-sales service, user cultivation, intention output, continuous diversion to traffic pool
Service account: user cultivation, layered traffic diversion, fission and new users
IP number (basically a lecturer in the education and training industry): professional content production, circle of friends operation, and trust enhancement
The deeper the user reaches, the higher the stickiness and conversion probability are. After designing the conversion path above, the scenarios where we can finally interact with users frequently, obtain feedback and output instantly are still based on social networks and Moments. So we need to start designing a content matrix. What kind of content can allow users to continue to pay attention to community information, while not rejecting it and minimizing loss?
3. Content Marketing, Continuous Output
First of all, let’s go back to user positioning, analyze needs and pain points, design good content in a targeted manner, and continuously output it. Just now we mentioned that the purpose of users joining the group may be
1. Want to experience JAVA for the first time and master the basics to see if it is suitable for you
2. Want to clarify the direction of study/career by learning JAVA and get on the fast track of career
3. Solve some other confusions (such as whether you can learn English if you have no English foundation, whether you have time to learn while working, etc.)
In response to the above content, we started to output community seeding content in a targeted manner
1. Industry prospects: articles on real-time industry hot spots, development prospects, etc.
2. Trust enhancement: successful cases of students changing careers, students’ positive feedback on their studies, and employment reports
4. Practical sharing: live open classes, basic Q&A services, short videos, etc.
As long as the content provided is helpful and valuable to users, they will continue to pay attention. In this era where content is king, everything needs to be carried out with user experience as the core. After confirming the seeding content, I started to design the content delivery schedule. I don’t have an output format for the social media SOP because different product groups have different methods and contents. But in addition to the social group schedule, you also need to design the WeChat Moments operation schedule. As mentioned earlier, try not to miss any opportunity to contact users. At the same time, the group operator should be a real person, not a robot that posts things. Therefore, design the corresponding time to send the circle of friends according to the customer's daily behavior and create an operator's IP As community operators are the ones who interact most closely with customers, the above two points are one of the most important links in user cultivation! The content has been explained, but how do we measure whether customers are retained? How to determine activity? If customers rarely talk in the group, does it mean that the operation effect is not good?
4. Community activity = activity participation rate
I am sure that most companies use the so-called daily/monthly activity to measure whether users are active. First of all, I do not deny that more active groups can indeed improve the overall atmosphere, especially community discussions on topics related to product courses can incubate some potential customers. However, the activeness of the drainage group usually has the following problems: 1. The quality of users is uneven, and they are easily led by group members, resulting in unclear group positioning and user loss. 2. High management costs. Usually, there are many traffic-generating groups, and community operations cannot be managed well. When I first started working on a community, I was obsessed with how to activate community users. I thought that as long as users were active, sales would grow, so I designed a lot of column-based operation content. After operating for a while, I found that although the daily active users could be maintained at around 10%-15%, the sales output did not increase. On the contrary, group members often left because of ineffective discussions. It was not until I adopted a new operating method later that I changed the standard for measuring community activity to "activity participation rate" How do you measure this? I conducted a marketing open class activity for 4 traffic-generating groups that maintained operations. The total number of group members was 1,000, and the actual number of participants was 232. The activity participation rate was 23.2%. In other words, in this activity, it can be measured that 23.2% of the people in the community are active. The activity rate not only exceeds the original method, but can even directly convert marketing activities. Most small and medium-sized enterprises have multiple roles in community operations. Using this method can not only save manpower, but also provide room for continuous iteration. If there are enough people, it can be done more finely.
5. Marketing Conversion
Next comes the conversion phase. Since the customer orders for programming course products are basically around 10,000 yuan, it is difficult to directly complete the transaction and pay through the event. The final phase still requires sales to conduct 1V1 transactions. We have already explained the user attributes, products, seeding, and measuring user activity. Therefore, the marketing conversion process also needs to be carried out rhythmically to continuously produce results. The following methods are usually used
1. Training camp: The existing low-priced training camp uses 3-5 courses and services to let students experience the course content, feel the value-added service, and feel a sense of progress, achievement, and group atmosphere, so that they can constantly gain learning aha moments and thus achieve conversion.
2. Marketing class: Continuously use marketing live classes to magnify the value of course products, show successful cases, and finally use course promotion activities to close orders. Follow up on the same night for the best results
3. Community form: Daily surveys in the community can obtain user feedback and understand user needs, thereby screening out potential customers.
4. Promotional activities: Carry out promotional activities with the help of solar terms, use flash sales, flash groups, group buying and other methods to screen high-intent customers and close deals
5. Daily output: Continuously generate potential customers through WeChat Moments operations, community promotion, etc.
Then, you can schedule activities every month according to this table to achieve a streamlined operation process, which is convenient for later review and iteration. Finally, I would like to share a community building thinking framework that I have been using. First, think clearly about what you want to do so that you can accurately implement it.
Final Words
I am an online education operator, so the examples I give are all activities of the course products I have managed.
However, the methodology and way of thinking can be refined and applied to other products.
The summary is actually the following points
1. Output products through market research, or locate target groups through products
2. Design user conversion paths to prevent loss, activate, plant seeds, enhance trust, and increase touchpoints
3. Analyze the pain points of the target group, design a targeted content matrix, and instill brand and product concepts
4. Measure user activity based on product attributes (what counts as true activity)
5. Design the transaction process in a rhythmic and planned manner
Every position should understand the entire business process so that they can look at their own business from a global perspective. Even if it is a community execution position, it can better play a connecting role.