It's 2016, and it's clear that content is no longer only in the marketer's domain — it fulfills the entire buyer journey from engagement and lead generation all the way through to sales and customer retention.
As such, the marketing technology landscape has exploded with content marketing software options. While this explosion of solutions is exciting, it can also be confusing and difficult to navigate. Should you seek a platform or point solutions? How do you avoid "software silos"? What kind of software do you actually need to crush your B2B marketing goals?
In this presentation, Uberflip Co-Founder and CEO Yoav Schwartz provides an authentic framework through which content marketing software should be evaluated to build a powerful marketing technology stack.
You’ll learn:
- How to navigate the marketing technology landscape and assess different content marketing software solutions
- How to avoid software silos and ensure your content marketing software is fully integrated with your marketing technology stack
- How to audit your marketing technology and build a lean, mean content marketing machine for your organization
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marketplace management social analytics
There are many buckets in each pillar
ideation engagement organic scoring
curation lead generation email ROI
sales
enablement
reportingworkflow paid
CREATION DISTRIBUTION INSIGHTSEXPERIENCE
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PLATFORM VS POINT SOLUTION
A platform is a major piece of software, as an
operating system, an operating environment, or a
database, under which various smaller application
programs can be designed to run.
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A point solution is a product or service that addresses
one very specific need in a marketing organization. It
specializes in solving that one particular problem really,
really well.
PLATFORM VS POINT SOLUTION
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CREATION
marketplace Do you outsource or buy content?
ideation
Do you need help spurring up ideas on
what content to create?
curation
Do you pepper in content from other
sources?
workflow
Is Excel no longer cutting it for
managing your army of writers?
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EXPERIENCE
How do you manage your content
experiences at scale?Management
What software do you use to manage
the user experience of lead gen?Lead Gen
What software do you use to increase
engagement with your content?Engagement
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EXPERIENCE
How do you manage your content
experiences at scale?Management
How do you leverage content within
your sales and success teams?
Sales
Enablement
What software do you use to manage
the user experience of lead gen?Lead Gen
What software do you use to increase
engagement with your content?Engagement
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DISTRIBUTION
How do you manage social channels?Social
What software do you use for SEO?Organic
What software(s) do you use for email
distribution? Probably a few…Email
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DISTRIBUTION
How do you manage social channels?Social
What software do you use for SEO?Organic
What software(s) do you use for email
distribution? Probably a few…Email
Are you leveraging content syndication?
Paid
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INSIGHTS
Analytics How do you measure basic metrics?
ROI
Are you measuring the ROI of your
content?
Reporting
How are you bubbling this info up to
the c-suite?
Scoring
Are you scoring your content?
Your leads?
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ideation engagement organic scoring
curation lead generation email ROI
sales enablement reportingworkflow paid
CREATION DISTRIBUTION INSIGHTSEXPERIENCE
YOSTAR’S FRAMEWORK
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ideation engagement organic scoring
curation lead generation email ROI
sales enablement reportingworkflow paid
CREATION DISTRIBUTION INSIGHTSEXPERIENCE
UBERFLIP’S STACK
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ideation engagement organic scoring
curation lead generation email ROI
sales enablement reportingworkflow paid
CREATION DISTRIBUTION INSIGHTSEXPERIENCE
UBERFLIP’S STACK IN YOSTAR’S FRAMEWORK
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1. Audit your technology
2. Identify platforms vs point solutions
3. Map out your tech on the framework
4. Answer the 3-G-Q’s
5. Avoid software silos
TAKEAWAYS