You’re listening to the Marketing Attractions podcast.
Conversations on how nonprofit attractions
are increasing attendance
and sharing their missions through marketing.
Your hosts are Ryan Dick and Jenny Williams of Attended Media.
– Jenny, today we’ve got a spotlight episode
and you know what, I’m really excited about this one
because we’re gonna be talking to somebody
who does a podcast.
– Like, can you do your spirits?
– It’s the new marketing channel for cultural attractions.
So happy to get into this.
– Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Super excited to be sharing notes.
So we’ve got Madeline Walden.
She is the social media manager
at Aquarium of the Pacific Madeline.
Welcome to the podcast.
– Hello, thanks so much for having me.
I’m so excited.
– Yes, like I already said, I’m very excited as well.
All right, so tell us your journey.
How did you get into the cultural attraction space?
– Yeah, so really, I have a full marketing background
social media specifically just being chronically
online my entire life and growing up at Long Beach,
the Aquarium of the Pacific has always been such a highlight
of my childhood.
And so before I started working at the Aquarium,
I was commuting from Long Beach to down 10 LA every day
and just, you know, not enjoying that side of life.
And got the job here in 2018 when they were hiring,
sorry, 2016, when they were hiring
for a social media specific role at the time
for the first time.
And I’ve been here ever since.
It’s been nine and a half years.
It’s been wonderful.
I think it’s really cool that the Aquarium invested
in a social specific role so early.
And prior to that, my manager needs a,
she had been managing and created
all of our social media accounts from the get-go.
So it’s been awesome to kind of take her lead
and run with everything in all the different directions
that we go on social, including podcasting.
Mm-hmm.
Well, tell us about a little bit more about the day
and the life in your role.
So you’re coming in as the first person
for social media.
Does that mean you’re stepping into a small team overall
or you just have all these people
that you’re a bank and go on waiting to help you out?
And nonprofit life.
So we do have a pretty large marketing team here
at the Aquarium, but our social media team specifically
is just myself in, like I said, my manager in ETSA.
So her and I run our entire social media presence.
It’s an audience growing over a 3.5 million people,
3.5 million followers, which is really wonderful.
I love our audience.
And yeah, so day to day, it’s a lot, it’s always different.
It’s always different, I’m sure everybody says that,
but it really is.
I could be in the sea line habitat one day
and running around with, you know,
paying one poop all over my shoes the next
and then the next day just plugged into my desk
and, you know, just full, you know,
Facebook met a business suite
at the fourth with our wonderful followers all day.
So it’s really different from day to day,
but I have a lot of fun in my role.
It’s really, really a blast.
And so I’m doing full time,
content creation for our channels, hosting livestreams,
hosting our podcast, aquarium of the pod-sific
and managing our entire social media presence.
– I have a few questions about your role in general here.
So I think a lot of people that we talk to
are in this role or similar roles are,
or maybe just in the marketing team in general,
or when we think about getting content,
it’s, which is as conversation with someone,
it’s like interviewing your experts,
which I think we’re gonna talk about a little bit
when we get more into the podcast,
but are you the person who’s wearing that hat
and going around and talking to you the staff,
whether it’s on animal care, guest service,
like is that your role,
or are you kinda split and divide that across the marketing team?
– Yeah, I’m kind of that in between,
I guess, between the marketing department
and our other teams across the aquarium,
which I really enjoy that role.
I learn so much from my colleagues,
and especially in our husband,
or your department, who oversee all the animal care
at the aquarium.
So those are kind of usually the main focus
of our social media videos and those interviews
of getting to know like what happens in animal care
and what does the day to day of that look like.
And so yeah, I’m the one having those conversations mostly.
– And then how about, so with three and a half million followers,
you’re across assuming pretty much every single social platform,
what’s been kind of a standout lately for you
or what a channel you find specifically impactful
for aquarium of the Pacific?
– Yeah, the majority of our audiences on TikTok,
that’s 2.8 million, and we really, that’s our newest platform.
I guess I shouldn’t say newest blue sky,
it’s technically our newest, but TikTok,
the growth on there was unlike any other,
I feel like many other institutions feel the same way.
We started there in January 2020,
and then the world fell apart,
and we were there providing cute animal videos
and showing people all of the amazing work
that the aquarium was still doing,
despite being closed to the public.
And it really just grew our audience monumentally.
Like I think by the end of the year,
we had a million followers,
and that was more than anywhere else we had ever been.
So it’s a lot of fun on there.
Obviously, ties are changing,
and like our growth there has kind of been
a little stagnant since probably the past year or so,
but still a really fun place to create.
The audience is really engaging and positive,
and we have a lot of fun on our live streams over there too.
– How about any like standout content
that you’ve been able to work on our creators
or something that sticks out in mind?
That was very successful.
– Yeah, anything with our sea lions tends to be very impactful,
and I can’t help but feel it’s because they’re my favorite animal.
But they’re just so engaging and so charismatic,
and I think people really enjoy seeing the care
that goes into a 600 pound sea lion,
and the fact that we are hand feeding it every single day,
and they have these amazing personalities.
I think it’s just very, very exciting for our audience
to see those connections that our staff and the animals have.
– So a little bit of an unfair advantage
because you’ve got sea lions, right?
– But our audience kind of goes beyond just animal based institutions,
like for maybe a botanical garden or a history museum.
I mean, those numbers that you’re talking about,
and especially being on TikTok,
those are like mind blowing for some of the other,
kind of in the cultural attraction space,
how did you do it?
I mean, you’ve got the sea lion advantage,
you talked about kind of launching during COVID,
but could you, this question is coming from,
there are some smaller, once again,
botanical gardens or museums that don’t even really have
a TikTok presence whatsoever.
Could you kind of give them a TikTok 101?
– Yeah, of course.
I think number one, edgy entertainment on there goes so far,
and so I see amazing botanical gardens
or other institutions, even places that have a much more serious,
or maybe even somber message, a lot of nonprofits,
you know, focus in different spaces.
Getting, creating content that is not only engaging,
but educating is taking us really, really far
across our entire social media presence.
So we’re able to have fun a little bit, you know,
with our animals, a little bit of humor in our videos,
but really we’re tricking you into learning something,
and that’s always the goal with everything that we post.
There might be some fluff here in there,
who might follow a trend as well.
Those trends always help boost a little bit of engagement,
you know, like we can play along too,
but really they’re meant to hook you
and get you to care about all of the amazing work
that the aquarium does and as a part of our mission.
So I think lead with your, you know,
lead with what you wanna teach people
and lead with what, you know, you would find,
and you would find valuable as, you know,
an outsider to your institution,
and just create content around that,
and your audience will find you.
We’ve had a lot of fun basically just teaching,
and like I said, tricking people into learning something.
Okay, I’m writing that down.
Trick people.
– Trick people.
– No, no, no, no, no.
– Okay.
– Create another Pacific, trick people into it.
– We’ll edit that out.
But actually, we’re gonna roll that.
– It’s my whole job.
– And just kind of curious, are you doing any type of,
you know, with those type of numbers,
are you doing any just kind of,
here like promotional type of messaging?
Like, hey, we’ve got this great event coming up,
or is it always that edgy, jame, type of feel?
Because our audience has kind of grown to a global status
at this point, we don’t spend, especially on TikTok,
we don’t spend a lot of time on content that is visit specific.
That’s really for more, more for other platforms,
and we’re reaching a more local audience.
But it’s cool because we’re reaching people who, you know,
are in Australia and are having us to their future travel
bucket list, which is really, really fun.
But when it comes to like more overarching things,
like we have this amazing event called Night Dive,
it’s adults only, we have about eight, six to eight events a year.
And I love focusing and highlighting that event
’cause it’s really, really fun, it’s after hours,
and there’s DJs, there’s live music,
it’s just a really fun way to see the aquarium.
And I think that kind of just performs well
across the board for us,
but there’s a lot of amazing events that we have
that we share on a pretty often basis
’cause it all goes back to support your mission
and get people here to learn about the animals,
and maybe something alongside of it,
do you like me a Santa breakfast coming up?
So there’s something for everybody.
– I’m gonna push you on this just a little bit more here
because I’m a little bit more of that ROI,
like what are we doing this for?
So is there any type of measurement,
and I get it, the mission is the mission,
and it’s always about the mission, right?
But how would you, if you do that,
like how do you consider like success?
Is it just purely like follower size, engagement?
Like what are your KPI’s?
You say, hey, that was a really good win for us.
– Yeah, I’m really lucky at my role.
We’re not so analytic forward.
I hate to bring it back to, it’s really just a vibe,
and I’m lucky my management understands it
and sees that as well.
We measure success by, what is the impact of this post
and are we hearing about it in external conversations?
Are we hearing about it from staff onsite?
Did this perform across platforms in different ways?
Really, yeah, that’s my biggest, my biggest goal
is to insight onsite conversations
where people are coming up to my coworkers
because they recognize them from a TikTok video
or, oh my gosh, you taught me that sea lions have black teeth
and it’s okay that they have black teeth
because the bacteria build up
and they’re supposed to have that, it helps protect their teeth.
So those kind of, in real life, conversions,
it’s hard to track specifically
that this video make you buy a ticket.
But if you show up onsite and you’re talking to my coworkers
about a video that you saw at our TikTok channel
or anywhere else online, then I think that’s a success.
So really creating those in real life conversations
is my number one goal.
But yeah, I mean, we know if a video performs
or doesn’t perform the way we want it to
and nothing’s a failure, we will look at it
and say, okay, what can we do different next time?
The message is always gonna be important
so how can we shift it in certain ways?
And yeah, we go from there and see what’ll work next time.
– And then going back to kind of the team structure.
So for someone listening who maybe
doesn’t have a dedicated social media manager,
like how much content are you actually putting out
on a weekly basis?
Do you have a, hey, we’re posting every single day on every channel
or do you have kind of a minimum benchmark
in terms of what you’re trying to hit in content?
– I wish we could post daily,
at one point we were posting daily or posting five,
at least five times a week.
My goal really is three to five times a week at this point.
We’re in the middle of a podcast season right now,
so that’s a little bit lower just based on my workload
and bandwidth.
But that’s always my goal, does it always happen?
No.
I feel very lucky that we have this library
of amazing content that we are utilizing for reposts
and just kind of being able to rely on some really great content
that we’ve created in the past
that our audience still responds to.
So that’s helpful during our podcast season
where I just have less time.
– We’re gonna keep peppering you with questions
’cause you’re doing great here.
– Okay.
(laughs)
– Is there kind of a formula that you find works better
on TikTok compared to Instagram?
Do you keep it light and fluffy on one platform
and everybody gets the same?
What’s kind of your outlook on that?
– Yeah, it’s relatively the same content across platforms.
If I have the time, then it’s repurposed in different ways.
But really, I think what it is is it’s a lot of transparency
into animal care and seeing us out of the aquarium
that you wouldn’t normally see just as a visitor.
That’s really valuable to me.
So you’re seeing a sea lion or a sea-alganese teeth brush
where you’re seeing an autorgate, it’s annual exam
or a penguin being scanned by a metal detector
to make sure he isn’t swallowed anything that he shouldn’t be.
So there’s these kind of glimpses into all of the amazing work
that the aquarium does in front of guests
and also behind the scenes.
That performs really, really well for us
and I think just allows this connection to go even further
as an animal care facility.
That work is so important to us.
Those are main priority and getting to show off
the amazing care that the animals receive is just,
it’s easy to do because they’re already doing it.
So getting to show our audience what’s going on
is it’s a privilege for me.
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Conversations on how nonprofit attractions are increasing
attendance and sharing their mission through marketing.
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Now back to Ryan and Jenny.
– Hi, Malin.
So let’s talk about this podcast thing you got going on.
– Yeah, my baby.
Tell us everything you know.
– Okay, so aquarium of the Pod Civic is our podcast.
I am a co-host with my Better Half-Airdrondi.
Aaron is our conservation, I always forget her job title.
Conservation Initiatives Manager, something like that.
She’s very important here at the aquarium.
She oversees a lot of the amazing conservation efforts
we do with birds and mammals and amphibians,
mostly actually, she’s a crazy frog lady.
But she’s really an expert on everything that happens
here at the aquarium.
And I play the role and really am the audience surrogate.
So I’m the non-expert.
I’m in there saying like, wait, you’re going too scientific.
Let’s bring it back a little bit.
And really what this podcast came out of was
these TikTok lives we were doing from 2021 to 2023
about where we were live streaming weekly
in partnership with TikTok.
And it would be myself behind the camera
and we would have an animal expert on screen.
A lot of the time it was Aaron
because her and I just worked so well together.
But we’ve streamed everything from our sea jellies to frogs,
to sea lions, to any animal you can name at the aquarium.
We’ve done specific live streams about.
So we were reaching an audience that was relatively new
for us. It was kind of like this, you know, 20 to 40 year old audience
that we were maybe kind of missing in other areas of the aquarium
where, you know, we reach families really well
and we reach young children really well,
but how are we educating adults that are plugs into the internet?
And so that’s kind of where the success was
with those TikTok lives.
And so we kind of were talking about,
okay, how can we continue these really great conversations
we’re having on TikTok that feel a little disposable
because there is a live stream and you kind of have to be there
to tune in and maybe you’ll catch a replay but not really.
And the podcast just felt like an easy place to go.
And so we’re really having these long form conversations there
which is really wonderful for me
because I learned so much and the audience learned so much alongside me.
But we’re able to talk about more in depth
versus, you know, a 15 second video
where postion TikTok talk about a really critical matter
versus getting a real deep dive an hour long conversation
with the person who oversees, you know,
our conservation efforts at the aquarium,
which I think is really valuable
and our audience has responded really well to.
– So this was born off of doing TikTok lives.
And I guess that kind of answers the question like,
why would an institution want to devote the time resources
to do something like this is because you’re doing these
kind of successful interviews,
but as you just mentioned, they disappear, right?
– Yeah, they kind of just don’t go anywhere.
– Right, right, right.
So what does a format, like a long reform format,
like podcasting, be able to do for you guys?
Like you kind of touched on it,
but give us a little bit more there.
– Yeah, once again, it’s really inciting
these real world conversations where people
who are already plugged into the work that the aquarium does
are just getting a deeper dive on,
it’s almost like the next step.
Like we got you with the cutesy line video,
so you tuned into a live stream
and now you’re listening to a podcast about oil spills.
Like it’s kind of like that trajectory.
So we’re really getting you in there
with all the amazing work that the aquarium is working on.
And the value, like I said, yeah,
is those in-re-life conversations and conversions
of teaching people what all the amazing work that we do.
– So our audience out there is going,
okay, I’m digging with this girl, Sam.
– Yes, an institution hasn’t already taken the dive
and done a podcast, could you help them out?
Like what would be some of your tips?
How do people get started?
What do you know?
– Yeah.
So we hit the ground running with 10 episodes
and we released them in a season in 2023.
We’re now in our fourth season
and it’s a little more sporadic based on, you know,
it’s not only myself recording and scheduling around,
but also my colleague, Erin.
And so based on, you know, her availability,
it’s kind of flexible, but I will say it’s,
it’s a lot of work to get the ground, to get it started
’cause you have to buy the equipment, find your setup,
all of that stuff.
But really once you start creating
and putting podcasts out there,
I haven’t found that if we need to take a little bit
of a break, we lose an audience.
A podcast is more of like a passive thing
that you are not seeing in feed every single day.
So it’s more something like if you subscribe to it
and it pops up in your feed,
oh, this is a treat, you know,
versus like where is this next episode?
I hope our audience is eager for the next episode, of course.
– Me too.
– But it’s not punishable, I guess,
versus other platforms.
If we don’t post for, you know, a month,
if we haven’t posted a podcast for a month,
those are very two different things.
So it is low lift once you hit the ground running
and my only thing is like,
you’re never gonna run out of things to talk about.
We can always revisit topics and things
that we’ve already discussed in the past
and just find new ways to talk about them
or update the audience like our very first episode
is about sea otters.
We could do a different sea otter episode every single month
because we’re always doing amazing work with sea otters.
So there’s a lot of room for institutions
to just kind of maintain these conversations
and really look for these long form opportunities.
Like I said, it’s low lift.
It’s once you get it all set up
and you have somewhere to record
and you yourself are learning the, you know,
whatever it’s in Riverside or you know,
you’re editing in Premiere or audition.
That side of things is a little bit of a little,
a little bit of a lift, but once you got it, you got it.
You’re already creating content
for your social media platforms.
It’s pretty much the same thing.
– You’re speaking my love language here.
Yeah, absolutely.
10 episodes to get started, right?
Like that feels like the bare minimum
and you know, the first step is always the hardest step, right?
– Totally.
– If you can do 10, then you can do 50.
Is that up in the words in your heart?
– I think so.
No, I think so.
And really it’s just about believing in yourself too.
Like I was really dreading editing that first episode.
We actually re-recorded our first episode
because Aaron and I went into that first episode
with a colleague that we get along really well with
and we’re like, this is just gonna be like the TikTok lives.
We’re not gonna set any parameters where I have no outline.
And then we quickly realize like, oh, this is different.
It’s different if you don’t have an animal
engaging the audience right in front of you.
So I was like, this is not good.
We can’t release this.
We have to go back.
And we’ve had to re-record a couple where we just didn’t feel
like we had it, you know, had our groove.
But now we have it and now we’re locked into it.
And you know, we could go a couple weeks without recording
and kind of just hop back into it really quickly.
Are we’ve been complemented by our staff?
Because, you know, we work with animal people.
A lot of people don’t realize the like coolness factor
of the work that they do.
And coming into a room with your colleagues
and, you know, in a safe place, you’re not being livestreamed.
You’re not being, we don’t do video for our podcast yet.
But it’s really just like an open conversation
where they know like, oh, if I flood the line,
I can go back.
I know it’s not gonna come in the episode.
It’s a safe space for them to really talk about
all of the amazing work that they do here
and feel like it’s gonna be, it’s gonna make them look good
and it’s gonna make, you know, the work that they do
reach a wider audience.
So it’s really fun.
I really love doing it.
So I can hear some of the challenges in perhaps our audience’s
heads like, okay, how do I get the frog person
to create compelling content?
Or how do I get the botanist to talk about the seed?
You know, like, do you have any tips?
You know, okay, we’ve got the setup, we’ve done 10 up,
or, you know, we’re gonna do this.
You are the host, you’ve got to extract
this kind of cool information
that lives in your subject matter, experts heads.
But you also have to create some compelling content
where nobody’s gonna listen.
You have any like journalistic or interview tips
that you can share?
– Yeah, so we, ahead of time, will outline the episode
and we ask all of our guests to come into the episode
with just a story, whether it be
with their animal specifically, or a story they love
telling you about their animal career,
or just their career in general, really,
or connection they have with an animal, et cetera.
And so we kind of go through that.
We talk about their background.
We talk about what brought them to the aquarium,
how long they worked here, what their trajectory
at the aquarium has been, and then we kind of get into
the meat of the episode going back and forth.
It just becomes very conversational right away.
I think just as someone who has done
these TikTok live streams, I’ve just learned
how to keep the conversation rolling,
and I would just practice that.
It just, all my conversations,
but if you’re watching this and you’re wondering
like how I could do that, just literally,
it’s just about being a social butterfly sometimes
and just kind of popping into people’s offices.
What are you working on?
And just training yourself to just keep the conversation moving.
But really, I’m very lucky because I have a co-host
who can help fill the gaps when I’m falling behind,
or we’re troubleshooting with our technology.
And then we also take audience questions
for every single episode too, so those kind of help
fill the space.
We post about them on social media the day that we’re recording,
so it feels very timely, and we collect those
via Instagram stories.
That’s a really fun way for the audience to be engaged
in the content as well as just keep that conversation
fully, that always have a list of things like,
okay, well, anyways, let’s get back to it
and it just helps keep things rolling.
– The podcast pro here, I mean, I couldn’t have said
in any better.
And going back to that first episode,
how about just listening to your voice and editing
as well? – That was rough at first.
– Sound like that?
– Yeah, that was rough at first.
I was really dreading the edit,
and then you just get over it,
and you’re like, this is a really valuable conversation.
And my colleagues are just so brilliant
and so well spoken, that it makes it easy to really sit back
and let them take the lead.
I haven’t felt the need to really have to hop in
and keep the conversation rolling,
but it’s free to have those audience questions just in case.
– Okay, so you got your first season done,
it’s in the can, if you will,
talk to me about promotion.
I mean, you’ve taken that big first step.
Now you want somebody to listen to it.
What are some of the things that work for you all?
– We’ve played around with it a lot
because it’s never something we’ve marketed before.
It’s never something I’ve marketed before.
And so really what, we had like, you know,
the little graphics with little tinker going up and down
with our voices, you know, whatever that thing’s called.
And that’s not very engaging for our social media audiences.
So really we are now leaning on videos
of the animals we’re talking about
or around the subject that we’re talking about
and putting voiceover really great clip from the episode
over some really beautiful B-roll that we have.
And that’s performing really well in its own.
So it’s kind of getting, you know,
checkmark in my contact creation box
and checkmark in my podcast box
because we’re reaching an audience already
with our content no matter what.
And then, oh, this is actually tied to a podcast episode.
I might want to learn more about this.
And yeah, it’s going really well.
It’s definitely still new for us
and we’re still trying out things.
We haven’t played around with a lot of like paid advertising
around the podcast quite yet.
But it’s doing really well in its own so far.
I would love to see you in, you know,
our audience grow and continue there.
I think partnering with more third parties like
we in our first season,
we partnered with OctoNation on an episode
whose the world’s largest Octopus fan club
on an episode surprised about Octopuses.
And so that performed really well
because we had buy in from another audience on top of ours.
So things like that, I think, really help promote
and get our podcast out there like to do that more.
– Yeah, that like the cross promotion,
that totally makes sense.
Okay, so let’s scare our audience out of this.
Like, and be real, like how much time,
how big is the lift, especially like getting going
in those first couple episodes?
– It’s really not that bad.
I am very critical of the content that we put out there.
So I will listen to an episode probably three or four times
before it goes out.
I’m the one editing it, making sure that, you know,
we’re removing all the little us and, and, and,
and likes and all of that.
And, you know, it doesn’t, we don’t sound like robots,
but I just wanna make sure that we’re getting
the information clearly out there.
So I’m very critical of that side of it.
If you are more disciplined in your conversation
and you’re recording in a way where, you know,
you wanna help yourself out at the end of the day,
I’m still not good at that.
I’m, I’m very still conversational in, in the room,
and then we’ll go back and make the edits after the fact.
So it really depends on how disciplined you are.
But I think that it’s, it’s up to you of how much time
you wanna dedicate to it.
If you wanna do, you know, 15 minute episodes,
you wanna do an hour and a half long episodes.
If you wanna script everything out,
or if you wanted to just be conversational,
ours is working really well, it’s conversational.
We have a slight outline, like I said, but nothing scripted.
And it’s, it’s a low lift, like I said.
It’s, it’s something that, I get a lot of joy out of doing too,
so it feels very fulfilling.
If you want me to put an hour number on it,
I’d say, yeah, probably like, you know,
four to five hours in episode of work,
maybe more, maybe less depending on what it is,
but yeah, it’s doable, it’s totally doable.
– Any final words before we move off of the podcast stuff,
I can talk about this for another hour, but.
– Me too.
Listen to it, please.
(laughs)
– I’m sorry, that’s what App Podsific,
we’re at Accurian Pacific everywhere online.
The podcast itself has its own Instagram channel,
App Podsific.
I know where everywhere you can listen to podcasts,
so check it out.
– All right, so we talked a lot about podcasts,
so your answer could relate back to podcasts,
but one thing we like to ask everybody who joins this,
our podcast is, it’s a tool that you can’t live without
in your day to day life, so again,
could be related to the podcast,
maybe it’s your social media management,
day to day work, what’s your savior tool?
– Yeah, I feel like it’ll probably be the same for everybody,
but our social media tool is Sprout Social,
I love Sprout, I’m using that daily.
We’re recently, I kind of touched on it early in this episode,
but we are reusing a lot of old content as well,
and so I’m using Repurpose for that,
which has been really helpful.
It’s a great way to just quickly upload old content
across platforms, so between Sprout and Repurpose,
those are kind of my saving graces lately,
especially during a podcast season.
– And just to be crystal clear, Sprout Social and Repurpose
are two different platforms?
Two different platforms, Sprout Social is our scheduling
and reporting platform, and Repurpose is just literally
a program that allows you to repurpose content
across social media channels, and in a really easy way.
It’s fantastic.
– I feel like it’s a pretty good answer, Jenny.
I like that answer, I know.
– I was gonna say, I feel like we’ve gotta give a nod
to something for a podcast too for a tool,
so I’ll throw one out because since you guys said
that you’re not doing full video yet,
this platform we’re using Riverside is awesome
because it has a little AI tool in it
that’ll like snapshot things for you and give you a video
and you can go back and edit yourself.
So really give us some time-saving ways to get a podcast
but also generate video is an awesome platform.
– Yeah, we got it.
We got to upgrade a video, that’s great.
– All right, all right, here we go.
The famous last question.
I don’t know, I don’t know, Jenny,
I don’t know if she can handle this one.
Not on one.
What do you think marketing teams at Cultural Tractions
should be doing more or less of in terms of their marketing?
– I think across the board,
everybody needs to use the social media platforms
that they’re creating for on a regular basis as a user.
That’s really where we found the most success in spaces
is targeting the content around the audience
that you’re trying to reach on each platform
and really tailoring it
because the conversation is so different on every single space.
So using the platform as a user yourself,
getting into the conversations,
realizing how people talk on this platform
versus the other, how people create on this platform
versus the other has been a great model of success for us.
So I can’t recommend it enough.
I really don’t think you can create for a space
that you’re not a part of already.
And so I always say,
if you find out a new social media platform
and making its rounds, of course, secure your handles,
but use it like a user would
and get to know the ins and outs of it,
what do people like about it,
what do people not like about it?
What are features that are really easy for users
to create content around?
And then just dive in that way.
I think the conversation around TikTok is always hard
for institutions, especially now to hop on,
but if you’re just using it as a user already,
you know how to create for it.
You can easily get in there and create
and have a lot of success on that.
So that’s always my number one advice is use it like a user.
– Good stuff.
Madeline Walden, she is a social media manager
at the aquarium of the Pacific Madeline.
Thank you so much for joining us.
– Thank you for having me.
It was wonderful.
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