The tools and techniques that will lead you to your lightbulb moment(s) to create and seed content that will resonate with your audience. Starting with how to find and understand your audience - who are they, what are their interests, what content do they engage with? Next, different brainstorming techniques to help get the best ideas - in particular ways to get introverts involved. And finally, ways to test whether an idea is likely to work before investing too much time or money.
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Don’t talk about page views and users.
We’re marketing to people we need to think about them as such.
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Who are they
(demographics)?
Where do they ‘hang
out’ online?
What are they
interested in?
You want to find out the following about your audience:
Therefore, how do I reach and connect with them?
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Paid teams generally have the best audience data as they have to
make sure they’re paying to reach the right people
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Who are they
(demographics)?
• GA/Adwords
(Demographics)
• Facebook
(Demographics/
Household/Purchase)
• Crimson Hexagon
(People – Demographics)
• Media IQ
(Audience - Demographics)
Where do they
‘hang out’ online?
• Facebook
(Page Likes)
• Crimson Hexagon
(Metrics – Top Sites)
• Buzzsumo
(Most Shared / Content Analysis)
• Media IQ
(Context)
What are they
interested in?
• GA
(Affinity Category)
• Facebook
(Page Likes)
• Crimson Hexagon
(Metrics – Instagram / Explore –
Word Cloud / People – Affinities)
• Buzzsumo
(Most Shared / Content Analysis)
• Media IQ
(Audience – Interests)
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Combine all the insight together to give you the best view, rather
than relying on what one platform/tool tells you
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Use the knowledge from your audience / topic research to build
your seeding plan – which publications to target, which social
channels to spend on etc
This is the process we go through to come up with ideas
Too many people just focus on the brainstorm element though and don’t realise how important all the other elements are
Yes we want traffic, links etc but to get those we need to connect with people
So make friends with them
Sam did a great talk about the data you can get out of paid tools – watch the vid!
I’ll go into the ones we use most often, starting with FB
15th September – removed ability to target by job title/employer as it was being misused – don’t know if this will disappear from audience data
Let’s say I’m a fitness brand and I want to know where my fitness audience hangs out online / what they’re talking about
Some of the top sites from the audience research – looking at types of campaigns / topics from audience research and what gets featured most
This is looking at total number of indexed pages in Google then how many reference the above terms as a percentage
What usually happens is you gather everyone in a room like this, with a blank whiteboard (literal or metaphorical) and expect genius ideas to just come
What actually happens is everyone sits staring at each other, waiting for someone to come up with something until one person thinks they’ve had a stroke of genius and takes over brainstorm
How would you think of ideas in a different time period? What might the topic look like in 100 years? How was it changed in the last 100?
What might the topic look like in different places around the world? Or in other ‘universes’ – Star Wars
What are all the questions someone might have about your topic?
Perfect for getting introverts involved – they don’t have to say ideas out loud and time pressure gets people thinking faster and less precious about ideas