1. COMPETITIVE CONTENT
How to use competitive intelligence &
personalization to elevate your
content marketing
@BrightInfoBuzz
www.BrightInfo.com www.SimilarWeb.com
@SimilarWeb
www.HubSpot.com
@HubSpot
2. Moderated By
2
Jeff Bullas
#1 global "Digital Marketing Influencer" 2016
A social media marketing blogger, keynote speaker, digital strategist,
consultant and bestselling author.
blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn
4. Agenda
Nailing the right audience
â Audience - where is your audience?
â Intent - what does your audience want?
â Content - what does your audience consume?
Converting your traffic
â The power of content personalization
â How to use intelligence gathered to personalize your website experience
â How to make the most of the content you create
Nurturing your leads
â Personalization: how to use it in your lead nurturing activities
â What are SmartLists & how they are used for audience segmentation
â Dedicated email sends, smart/dynamic content in emails/onsite
Q&A session
5. How to use competitive intelligence
to get to know your audience
Part 1 | Audience
Where are they?
12. 12
NerdWallet.com is catching everyoneâs attention
â $100m annual revenue
â 200 employees
â 59th largest site (according to
traffic) in the Finance category
and one of the biggest affiliates
in the industry
25. In fact, their blog is their most valuable and popular asset
as they build integrity with their consumers
51% of NerdWalletâs traffic
goes to their blog
36. Shortening the Distance to Your Content
â Most of your content is âhiddenâ in
Resources or Blog
â Selected content is promoted statically
â How do you use ALL of your content?
â How do you match each visitor with the
most relevant content for them?
47. Enhance the Intelligence Gathered with Machine
Learning
Personalization at scale
takes into account massive data:
â Crowd behavior
â Text analytics
â All content assets
â Ongoing web/content updates
49. Putting it all to work - Summary
Information the user arrives with:
Geography, Search Query, Referring
Source, IP (ABM)
Onsite behavior:
Engagement Level, New vs. Returning
Content Consumed, Pages Visited,
Time on Topic, Scrolling & Movements
Using ALL your content
Machine Learning
52. Lead nurturing: the practice of developing a series of communications
(emails, social media messages, etc.) that seek to qualify a lead, keep it
engaged, and gradually push it down the sales funnel.
Marketers see an average
20% increase in sales
opportunities from nurtured
vs non-nurtured leads
Companies that excel at lead
nurturing generate 50%
more sales at a 33% lower
cost
54. First: Getting the right information
First conversion:
â Draw the right people to you
â Learn information about prospect
â Deliver them something of value to
build trust
Future conversion(s):
â Progressively offer content that moves
along the buyerâs journey
â Ask for some new information each
time to learn more
â Open the door for them to reach out to
you
59. Where to use smart content for nurturing?
â Website
â Landing Pages
â Thank You pages
â Blog/Article CTAs
â Email content
60. Start with lists
Build the right lists:
â Lifecycle Stage ***
â Referral Source ***
â CRM data
â Demographic information
â Interests
â Site behavior
â Page view
â Other Lists
â Email behavior
61. Do an audit of your content - can you match each stage?
â Analyst Reports
â Research
Reports
â Ebooks
â Editorial Content
â Whitepapers
â Educational
Content
â Expert guides
â Live interactions
â Webcast
â Podcast
â Video
â Comparison
â Whitepapers
â Vendor
comparison
â Product
comparison
â Case studies
â Trial download
â Product literature
â Live demo
62. Do an audit of your content - can you match each stage?
Awareness
Consideration
Decision
Customer
63. Go a step further > Automate (and understand)
Automate: Marketing automation refers to the software that exists
with the goal of automating marketing actions. Many marketing
departments have to automate repetitive tasks such as emails, social
media, and other website actions. The technology of marketing
automation makes these tasks easier.
Understand: With each action someone takes, marketing automation
can help you also learn more to use later in the sales process, for
customer delight, to upsell, etcâŠ
64. What should trigger a workflow?
1. List membership
1. Date-based
1. On-site behavior
1. Email actions
Converts on a specific offer
Trial ends in 1 week
Visiting a pricing page
Opens/clicks specific email, or a
list of people who consistently
engage
65. How to set up an automation workflow?
1. Plan your steps and map it out
1. Choose starting list and goal list
1. Write series of emails for automation
1. Limitations: Consider a suppression list and sending criteria
1. Measure and adjust - constantly
Remember: Be helpful, not pushy!
68. Lead Nurturing Take-Aways
1. Understand the Buyerâs Journey
2. Learn As much as possible about your prospects
3. Understand good fit v. bad fit
4. Build the right list
5. Identify places for smart content
6. Use automation for a more active and touchless process
7. Measure and adjust!
69. So, what did we have?
Bringing the right audience - SimilarWeb
Converting your traffic - BrightInfo
Nurturing your leads - HubSpot
Boaz will introduce Jeff -
Jeff is a digital entrepreneur, marketing blogger, keynote speaker, digital strategist, consultant and best selling author.
He works with companies and executives to grow their online personal and businesses through social, digital and marketing automation.
His blog receives over 5 million vistors a year and is found at jeffbullas.com and has spent most of his business career involved with information technologies, telecommunications and the web.
Bragging rights include:
#1 Global "Digital Marketing Influencer" - 2016
#1 âȘâContent Marketing⏠Influencer from 6M+ daily web updates in 2015 by Appinions
Listed as the #1 Content Marketing Influencer by Onalytica - 2015 and 2016
Ranked #8 on Forbes" The World's Top 40 Social Marketing Talent" - 2014
World's #1 Business Blogger - 2015
Ranked #8 on Forbesâ The Worldâs Top 40 Social Marketing Talentâ â 2014
Ranked #1 Content Marketing Influencer Globally in 2014
Listed by Forbes as one of the "Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers" in 2013 - ranked #11
Huffington Post's "Top 100 Business, Leadership and Technology Twitter Accounts You Must Follow"
Published in the New York Times
480,000+ Twitter followers
Winner of the Social Media Examiner - "Top 10 Social Media Blogs - 2013"
Jeff will introduce the speakers and will allow each to present himself and shortly tell about their expertise
(Speakers: plz donât focus on your CV, but rather on your field of expertise)
Jeff - here you can give an overview of the entire scope of the webinar as listed in the 3 bullets above.
Please share your insights, knowledge, expertise, examples you have.
Invite the audience to tweet their questions during the presentation with @brightinfobuzz
Jeff to direct questions to the speakers and ask for examples (each can write Jeff what heâd like to be asked).
Jeff-
The 3 first bullets will be discussed by Ariel from SimilarWeb with actual examples.
The 3 following will be discussed by Boaz from BrightInfo
The last 3 will be discussed by Juliana from HubSpot.
We will leave time for Q&A session at the end of the webinar
Question for Jeff -
How do you gather information about the pains and needs of your target audience?
Invision Case study - Powerful tool for designers
I want to target designers as well - letâs analyse their audience
Invisionâs core market is designers outsourcing.
What are the top geographics worth targeting
Different languages to match the spread of the audience
Where is the audience online - Analysis of traffic sources
How users reach invision.com
50% Direct traffic- strong brand recognition, users are familiar with the brand
New traffic - Referrals, Social & Organic search
20% of the traffic is referrals - Which referrals? where can we find designers.
Good job with finding the web design blogs â sending big amounts of traffic
Good job with connecting with other design tools. Other platforms like productivity apps.
Find the audience through similar sites, where you can find the designers and what they are reading- high correlation with your audience
This is for desktop traffic only!
Amazing growth â they managed to figure out what people wants
SEO traffic - high quality traffic
KW are best understanding of intent
Their KW traffic is high volume & organic
Expert recommendation- thatâs the content users want
Recommendations and an answers
Old - little pieces of content
New - high level long content - engagement
Desktop vs mobile web â different content
Optimize your content based on your audience habits on each platform
Different folders on desktop and mobile
Discovery through desktop - People might be bookmarking specific sections
Mobile consumption of information - Trending stories, content buzz via social recommendation (assumption)
Jeff - Invite Boaz to present his slides
How do we know that personalization works? We have been A/B testing it constantly
We run all our trials in A/B test mode in order to provide the clearest indication of the positive impact Personalized Content Recommendations have on engagement and conversion rates.
It works every time - we can report on 200% and more increase in on-site conversions and upward of 300% increase in engagement for the traffic that is exposed to personalized content recommendations.
Miss Conception
Focus on the 95% that donât convert
Each visitor is different
Why treat everyone the same?
This is the logic:
If you are able to serve me relevant content according to the information you already have, you got my attention
Because if you serve me relevant content, it means you invested in getting to know me
I appreciate it and it makes me trust you more so I feel more comfortable in introducing myself
I may consume the content youâre offering, as it fits me more.
This is the core of personalization - getting to know your visitors and youâll be able relevant for them
To personalize we need the content + the data.
Weâve covered the data (and will continueâŠ)
now letâs talk for a second about the content
You invested a lot in creation, you donât want this investment to go to waste
but, you donât realize your content full potential, because:
Hidden in resource section
Disappears into the blogâs inner pages
The same âleadingâ content is being promoted over and over again
Now letâs see how it all comes together
Thereâs a lot you can learn from this - cultural background, market conditions, competitionâŠ
You Should: Localize
Highlights: language, proper format for date & time, currency, familiar layouts, style of graphics, content, content, content
Example:
Airbnb site - when entering from the US and from Israel - different weekend vacations are being offered
Question for Jeff -
Another good personalization examples you have come across with?
This is gold - by looking at the search query itself you can completely understand what aspect of your service/product the visitor is interested in
But, we canât always know the query
AdWords - always know the search query
Organic - sometimes Google tells, sometimes donât (depends if the user is logged in to Google or not)
You Should:
Suggest different content based on the search query
Create designated pages for the different terms and keywords searched
In the image - landing page âDynamic Textâ tool in Unbounce (a tool that matches the text that appears to the search query - in this case the user typed in Google âimprove PPC campaign ROIâ which is exactly what appear on the screen)
ABM - targeting specific âgroupsâ of IPs that are known to belong to a specific company
If you know which company your visitor is from, you can tailor a message especially for each company you are targeting
Using dynamic content
So far weâve covered some of the information gathered when or before your audience got to your site and how you can use it.
But, there is a lot to learn from the user behaviour within your site (all can be addressed by BrightInfo solution)
Returning visitor is still anonymous, but an interested one
Make sure not to treat him/her as a first-timer, and present ânext stageâ content
You Should: recommend introductory or in-depth content according to the funnel stage
How he is engaged
How long is the user engaged
The content that visitors consume on your site is the biggest tell
It indicates their interests, their needs, and, most importantly:
you can understand in what stage of the buyerâs journey they are and recommend the next content to guide them down the funnel
Example: suggest blog registration after reading 2 articles and not upon entering the blog on the first time
There are two implementations for personalized content recommendations: manual and automated.
Manual personalization is rule-based. You define visitor lists, select the specific content pieces that will be recommended to each list, and at which points during the browsing flow.
Automated personalization is algorithm-based. The algorithm continuously learns your website content assets and maps them. It then tracks visitors in real time, analyzes their behavior and the intelligence they arrive with and matches them with relevant content recommendations.
The biggest impact is on conversion. Website visitors, anonymous or not, that are served relevant content are more likely to convert than those who are served generic offers, like registering to a newsletter. More than that, the longer a visitor is spending on the website before converting, the higher quality lead he is.
Utilyze All your content
Typical content - decreasing marginal utility (for example, blog post, being âpushedâ to the bottom of the list
By personalization - You can use the right content at the right time to the right user and use ALL your content assets
Increase content ROI - This is a point worth emphasizing. Marketers devote considerable resources to content marketing. But after all the effort put into the creation, content disappears from view pretty quickly into the inner pages of the blog. With personalized content recommendations, you are able to extend your content shelf life and significantly increase your content ROI.
Jeff - Invite Juliana to present her slides
I am a Marketing Manager for HubSpot, the worldâs leading inbound marketing and sales platform, working specifically with our industry teams (education, media, and nonprofit) and HubSpot for Startups program.
In my current role, I manage marketing efforts across the top, middle, and bottom of the funnel from ideation through to execution. These tasks include, but are not limited to, overall program planning, blog editorial supervision, content offer creation and execution, SEO, sales enablement, event planning, and reporting.
Start with a little story - imagine first date.
Now imagine you went on 5 dates, and imagine you didnt just go on 5 dates, but also learned more about that partner each time and used that information to make stronger connections.
Thatâs what lead nurturing is for your business. Itâs starting with a handshake and then first datevs. proposal. or just saying buy-now.
Before we talk about lead nurturing, I first want to go over the buyer journey. This is the three stages a lead goes through when deciding to buy, sign up, etcâŠ
Your job w/ lead nurturing is to move people along this journey, and personalization can help you do this more effectively.
Awareness - often happens after first intro, blog post, downloads an ebook - not necessarily know they want your product/ service, but have a problem they want to solve.
Consideration - they know they need a solution to the problem, and that you might be that solution
Decision - vetting you against other options and want hard fact.
You job - message that resonates at each step, but also pushes someone toward the next. This is improved dramatically by incorporating the information you know about the customer.
But first, we need to cover how you get this information.
Now, thereâs a lot of information you can get without a user self-volunteering any info: device type: referral source, region, etcâŠ
Also opt- in to giving it to you for a price - offer education and get information
Not only does this first piece of information get you info about the new prospect in your database, it also can disqualify a lead >> lead scoring
So once you have the information you need from someone, and theyâre in your database - how do you begin to nurture them?
Just start firing emails to everyone who downloads? NO!
You could send a million different emails, and build a three times as many websites⊠or you could use Smart content and automation
âpassiveâ
A great example of smart content...
Think Amazon.com, for instance. When you visit that website, you see one set of purchase suggestions. Your friend, on the other hand, will see a completely different set of suggestions. It makes a lot of sense, right? You each have different identities, with your own preferences and needs. The website should adapt to match your browsing behavior, not the other way around.
Use smart content for lead nurturing anywhere that some form of value has been delivered or a user has engaged.
Huge ROI - set up once and it works for you
You need to tell your content when to show smart content and to whom
Use this information to build lists - for the purpose of building nurturing lists, lifecycle stage and referral source are best for creating contextual experiences
Your database should work for you to build lists of people based on the criteria choose from their actions and volunteered information so that you just have to worry about attracting and converting new people
Match what you know about them, with their stage in the journey - to create lists of people and content to match.
E.g. awareness + technology sector show ebook , Decision + technology, show case study
or Referred by ebook about social media + awareness, send social templates, or Decision + social referral, send product overview
Oh, and having all the information you need to make the lists doesn't matter if you donât have the right content to show them.
Smart content is great, but passive ,your can nurture faster with automation. Instead of waiting for people to take an action and then presenting them with smart content - push the content out to them automatically.
Understand: eg, did they open? what did they click on? what are they downloading?
Weâll focus on email workflows for the purpose of personalization and lead nurturing. So automating a series of emails based on an initial trigger. We call this a workflow.
Plan your steps
Map it out (hit the whiteboard!)
Build starting list
Chose a goal list
what do you want to happen? 1 action!
Write emails for automation
3-5 - space for one a week
Decide on some criteria
weekdays only? business hours
Consider a suppression list
Measure and adjust
Jeff- Recapping what weâve covered
Ari discussed how you can use Intelligence to bring the right audience
Boaz explained how you can turn the audience into leads using the intelligence and personalization
Juliana discussed how to nurture your leads through personalization