Having an active social presence is essential for engaging with your audience. Ads on the other hand, allow you to get extremely targeted with your messaging across both search and social. You can use ads to generate new leads fast, hone your messaging and targeting, or re-target contacts in order to nurture them.
Mailchimp’s social tool allows you to publish organically to Facebook and Instagram. Their ads tool let’s you manage your Facebook ads, as well as Google display ads. They also include a number of reports that tie your ad spend back to revenue. For Facebook, you need to have connected an ecommerce platform to your account, such as Shopify or WooCommerce. Targeting is limited on Mailchimp. For example, you cannot use contact lists for your Google ads to refine or exclude your audience, and you’re only able to target ads at all website visitors. There is no opportunity to specify a specific page, or group of pages.
If you’re looking for one tool to align your entire team around both your organic social and paid strategies, HubSpot is the tool for you. Start by connecting all your social accounts to HubSpot across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Schedule out posts across each network, and quickly report on your success on each channel. HubSpot will give you insight into your performance no matter where you publish, ensuring that posts published within HubSpot or directly within the network are tracked. You can also connect your YouTube account to HubSpot to see how your audience is engaging with your video content. With the social monitoring tool, you’re also able to keep tabs on specific trends and keyword phrases that are important to you and your brand, and also reply directly to comments on your social posts within HubSpot.
HubSpot’s ads tool lets you easily manage your Facebook, Instagram, Google, and LinkedIn ad campaigns from one central location. After connecting your account to HubSpot, adding tracking pixels to your site is a two click process -- no developer required. Any leads that are generated through a Facebook lead ad or LinkedIn lead gen form are automatically synced over into HubSpot. You can also get granular with your targeting -- using any CRM data point or an extremely specific grouping of pages to reach exactly who you intend to with your ads. And because HubSpot ads are closely tied to the CRM, you can report on exactly how much revenue can be attributed to your ads at various stages in the buyer’s journey.
