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Mini golf marketing for the family package, the birthday party and the group booking

Mini golf marketing from MBI is local Meta awareness, family-package content and retargeting on Facebook and Instagram, and opt-in text messaging used for several things, among them time-sensitive promotions, birthday offers and group-booking reminders, put behind a mini golf course's family-package campaign, its birthday-party and group-booking campaign, and its seasonal school-break or limited-time offer campaign.

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The campaigns

What does a mini golf course advertise, and where?

The short answer

Mini golf marketing rests on three campaign concepts: a family-package campaign, a birthday-party and group-booking campaign, and a seasonal school-break or limited-time offer campaign. Facebook and Instagram carry local Meta awareness, family-package content and retargeting; opt-in text messaging carries time-sensitive promotions, birthday offers and group-booking reminders among its uses.

The three campaign concepts. The three researched campaign concepts for this vertical are a family-package campaign; a birthday-party and group-booking campaign; and a seasonal school-break / limited-time offer campaign.

One team. MBI is one company that plans, produces, and delivers the work that brings in the next customer, from a single team in DeLand, Florida, and has been in business since 1989.

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Meta ad · Facebook

Group-outing feed unit: your next group outing, sorted, under the course’s own lockup, with birthday parties, team events and group bookings as three marked rows, ask about party packages beneath them and book now across the foot.
Your next group outing, sorted.
Group-outing feed unit: your next group outing, sorted, under the course’s own lockup, with birthday parties, team events and group bookings as three marked rows, ask about party packages beneath them and book now across the foot.

Meta carousel · Facebook

Family-package carousel: your next family outing is this way, under the course’s own lockup, with an arrow into two photo circles and explore packages across the foot.
Your next family outing is this way
Family-package carousel: your next family outing is this way, under the course’s own lockup, with an arrow into two photo circles and explore packages across the foot.

Meta ad · Facebook

School-break feed unit: school break starts here, under the course’s own lockup, with a weekday family special marked beneath it, play together and stay awhile, and learn more across the foot.
School break starts here.
School-break feed unit: school break starts here, under the course’s own lockup, with a weekday family special marked beneath it, play together and stay awhile, and learn more across the foot.

Facebook and Instagram

What are mini golf Facebook ads built to do?

The short answer

For mini golf, Facebook and Instagram carry local Meta awareness, family-package content and retargeting, and what that set is built to do is build familiarity and drive bookings. MBI plans and produces a mini golf course's campaign, and Meta's Advertising Standards say advertisers are responsible for understanding and complying with all applicable laws and regulations.

What the channel note calls for. For mini golf, the channel note calls for local Meta awareness, family-package content, and retargeting to build familiarity and drive bookings; seasonal/event-tied promotions are documented.

Meta's Advertising Standards state that advertisers are responsible for understanding and complying with all applicable laws and regulations, and that ads must not promote products, services, schemes or offers using identified deceptive or misleading practices, including those meant to scam people out of money or personal information.

Meta, Advertising Standards

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Reel · Instagram

Course-experience Reel: eighteen holes of fun over the course’s own sign, a putt on the green with the waterfall and the lighthouse behind it, and play the course along the foot.
Course-experience Reel: eighteen holes of fun over the course’s own sign, a putt on the green with the waterfall and the lighthouse behind it, and play the course along the foot.

SMS

How does a mini golf birthday party promotion reach someone who has opted in?

The short answer

A birthday-party and group-booking campaign is one of the three campaign concepts behind a mini golf course, and birthday offers are one of the things opt-in text messaging carries. CTIA's messaging principles say messages should be sent only after the Consumer has opted-in to receive them, so the offer follows the opt-in.

What the channel note calls for. The channel note calls for opt-in SMS for time-sensitive promotions, event reminders, birthday offers, and group-booking reminders.

FTC advertising guidance for small business states three basic rules under the Federal Trade Commission Act - advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive; advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and advertisements cannot be unfair - and that an ad is deceptive if it contains a statement, or omits information, that is likely to mislead consumers acting reasonably under the circumstances and is material, that is, important to a consumer's decision to buy or use the product.

FTC, Advertising FAQ’s: A Guide for Small Business

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SMS

Offer thread: the course here, a school-break special, reply YES for the family package details, then the YES and the course’s own family link.
Offer thread: the course here, a school-break special, reply YES for the family package details, then the YES and the course’s own family link.

Consent

Which campaign does mini golf group booking marketing sit inside?

The short answer

Group-booking reminders, which are one of the things opt-in text messaging is used for at a mini golf course, inside the same birthday-party and group-booking campaign. CTIA's messaging principles say a Consumer opt-in should apply only to the campaign(s) and specific Message Sender for which it was intended or obtained.

CTIA's Messaging Principles and Best Practices state that Message Senders should support opt-in mechanisms, and messages should be sent only after the Consumer has opted-in to receive them, and list entering a telephone number through a website, clicking a button on a mobile webpage, sending a message from the Consumer's mobile device that contains an advertising keyword, initiating the text message exchange in which the Message Sender replies to the Consumer only with responsive information, signing up at a point-of-sale (POS) or other Message Sender on-site location, and opting-in over the phone using interactive voice response (IVR) technology among the mechanisms, including but not limited to those, by which a Consumer might demonstrate opt-in consent; Message Senders should also document opt-in consent by retaining seven kinds of data where applicable, among them the timestamp of consent acquisition and the consent acquisition medium. A Consumer opt-in should apply only to the campaign(s) and specific Message Sender for which it was intended or obtained.

CTIA Messaging Principles and Best Practices, May 2023, §§5.1.2, 5.1.2.2

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Opting in

SMS

Who agrees to mini golf text message marketing before the first message goes out?

The short answer

The customer does, by opting in first. CTIA's messaging principles say Message Senders should support opt-in mechanisms, and messages should be sent only after the Consumer has opted-in to receive them; clicking a button on a mobile webpage and signing up at a point-of-sale or other on-site location are among the mechanisms listed.

CTIA's Messaging Principles and Best Practices state that Message Senders should ensure that Consumers have the ability to opt-out of receiving Messages at any time, should support multiple mechanisms of opt-out, including phone call, email, or text, and should acknowledge and honor all Consumer opt-out requests by sending one final opt-out confirmation message per campaign; and that Message Senders should not use opt-in lists that have been rented, sold, or shared to send messages and should create and vet their own opt-in lists.

CTIA Messaging Principles and Best Practices, May 2023, §§5.1.3–5.1.4

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SMS

Offer thread, the second one: the course here, want this week’s family-play offer, reply YES and we’ll send the details, then the YES and the course’s own play link.
Offer thread, the second one: the course here, want this week’s family-play offer, reply YES and we’ll send the details, then the YES and the course’s own play link.

Questions

Questions a mini golf course asks before it advertises

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  1. What is a mini golf family-package campaign?

    One of the three campaign concepts behind a mini golf course, named for the family package it advertises. Family-package content is also one of the things a mini golf course's Facebook and Instagram advertising carries, with local Meta awareness and retargeting, and what they are used for is to build familiarity and drive bookings.

  2. What is a seasonal school-break campaign at a mini golf course?

    A seasonal school-break or limited-time offer campaign. That is one of the three campaign concepts behind a mini golf course, with the family-package campaign and the birthday-party and group-booking campaign, and one team plans, produces and delivers it.

  3. What does retargeting do for a mini golf course?

    Retargeting is one of the things a mini golf course's Facebook and Instagram advertising carries, with local Meta awareness and family-package content. What they are used for is to build familiarity and drive bookings, and MBI plans, produces and delivers the campaign it belongs to.

  4. Can a mini golf course text someone who has not opted in?

    Not under CTIA's messaging principles, which say Message Senders should support opt-in mechanisms, and messages should be sent only after the Consumer has opted-in to receive them. They also say Message Senders should not use opt-in lists that have been rented, sold, or shared to send messages, and should create and vet their own opt-in lists.

  5. How does someone stop a mini golf course's texts?

    By opting out of the mini golf course's messages. CTIA's messaging principles say Message Senders should ensure that Consumers have the ability to opt-out of receiving Messages at any time, should support multiple mechanisms of opt-out, including phone call, email, or text, and should acknowledge and honor all Consumer opt-out requests by sending one final opt-out confirmation message per campaign.

  6. What does a mini golf course have to be able to back up in an ad?

    Its claims, a mini golf course's family-package offer among them. FTC guidance for small business gives three basic rules under the Federal Trade Commission Act: advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive; advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and advertisements cannot be unfair.

  7. Which standards does Meta apply to a mini golf course's ads?

    Meta's Advertising Standards. They say advertisers are responsible for understanding and complying with all applicable laws and regulations, and that ads must not promote products, services, schemes or offers using identified deceptive or misleading practices, including those meant to scam people out of money or personal information.

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