Content 2017 - Content Marketing and the Customer Experience - Full Presentation

Your host and moderator
Mark Emond, Founder and President
Demand Spring
@Mark_DSpring
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About Demand Spring
For change agents, hand raisers, and
marketing rebels with a cause, Demand Spring
is the secret weapon in your heroic journey of
revenue marketing transformation.
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Clients committed to transformation
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Enabling the revenue marketing cycle
Leverage MarTech
to drive scale and
relevance
Facilitate Marketing
and Sales alignment
Enable Deep Buyer
and Customer
Journey Insights
Develop hyper-relevant
messaging & content
Fill the Top of the Funnel
(TOFU) with strategy and
implementation support
Turn customers into
advocates
Enable multi-channel
nurturing to improve
conversion
Assess and optimize the 6
components of a healthy
Demand System
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Thank you to our partners
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Agenda
• Awareness: Lightning roundtable
• Consideration: Better customer experiences through content marketing
• Decision: Your next steps
• Closing remarks
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Four things you’ll learn today
• The three core elements of a best-in-class customer experience
• How and why content can help you improve your customer experience
• Innovative content marketing strategies to help you get started
• How to answer the ROI question
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What is “customer experience”?
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What is customer experience?
Customer experience (CX) is a customer’s emotional and
rational response to your company’s name. It encompasses
what customers feel and know about you.
CX stems from customers’ accumulated experiences with your
company across every touchpoint in every channel, and can
change positively or negatively over time.

How do you create great ones?
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 Identify the audience
 Define their journey
 Build their story
 Engage their emotions
 Deliver the experience
 Report on results
Consistent journeys, stories, and experiences drive best-in-class results
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Content and Customer Experience
Content is the vessel by which you tell your
story. It shapes the grand narrative of your
brand and creates the small moments of value
you provide along the way.

Why customer experience now?
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Your CEO demands it
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Two-thirds of CMOs see developing
deeper, richer customer experiences as
their top marketing priority.
IBM CMO Study
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Your customers expect it
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90% of B2B companies are
likely to switch partners after a
single bad experience.
CMO.com
90%

And they reward it, too
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Buyers that report having great
customer experiences are 5.2X
more likely to purchase more
from that company.
Temkin Group
5.2X

Why you need to respond...and lead
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Your role has changed
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Deeply understand
buyer personas and
the buyer journey.
Play a critical role in
initiating new opportunities
and driving conversion to
revenue.
Engage and inspire
prospects and
customers in a hyper-
relevant manner.
Drive marketing and sales
alignment to enable a
unified go-to-market
approach.
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Buyers are in control
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Buyers are 90% of the way
through their purchase paths
before they talk to you.
Forrester
90%

It’s a crowded landscape
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Vendors can expect a
maximum of 12% of a buyer’s
total mindshare throughout
their purchase path.
Corporate Executive Board
12%

Accountability is coming
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73% of marketers now have
P&L responsibilities; 18 percent
expect to have them in the next
24 months.
Gartner
73%

The best are already doing it
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High-performing B2B marketing teams
are 7.8 times more likely to be leading
customer experience initiatives across
their organizations.
Salesforce
7.8X

There’s still a skills gap
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Top 3 skills gaps as identified by marketing leaders.
2016 CMO Survey
1 Digital Marketing
Marketing Innovation
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3
Customer Development &
Management

There’s a lot of work to do
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Only 7% of marketers say they
exceed their customers’
expectations.
Accenture
7%

But the opportunities are there...
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To infinity...and beyond
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Every day, marketing
must now engage buyers
throughout the customer
lifecycle.
Even small improvements
in one area can bring
significant results.

Customers respond if it’s done right
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61% of customers are more
likely to buy from companies
that deliver custom content.
McKinsey
61%

Content marketing is growing up
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62% of B2B marketers rate their
content marketing as either
“somewhat” or “much more”
successful than one year ago.
Content Marketing Institute
62%

Budgets are getting bigger
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Spending on digital marketing is
projected to rise 14% for B2B
products and 20% for B2B services
in 2017.
CMO Survey
14%

Content marketing pros are “all in”
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Best-in-class companies allocate an
average of 39% of their budget to
content marketing.
Content Marketing Institute
39%

Awareness: Ligntning roundtable
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Topics
• Content and the customer journey
• Staffing and skills for success
• Managing the content tech stack
• The ROI question
• Vision 2017
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To infinity...and beyond
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Every day, marketing
must now engage buyers
throughout the customer
lifecycle.
Even small improvements
in one area can bring
significant results.
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Content and the customer journey
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In the past few years, how have buyer
expectations changed with respect to the
content they engage with throughout
their buyer journey and customer
lifecycle?
Q
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Content and the customer journey
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Can you share tangible examples of
organizations that have aligned their
content to the customer lifecycle well?
What kind of impact did it have?
Q
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Staffing and skills for success
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Marketing leaders must:
• Invest in strategic skills such as change
management and analytics
• Learn and practice the fundamentals of
storytelling
• Elevate the role of content strategist
• Strike a balance between internal and
external resources
OUR
POV

What are some of the key
individual roles or broader team
structures you have seen within
some of your clients?
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Q
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What are some of the biggest content
marketing skills gaps today?
How are organizations filling them?
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Q
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Managing the content tech stack
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Marketing must align the experience it
provides through its technology stack to
buyers’ level engagement and stage in
their journey.
Nothing kills a great experience like a
lousy lead form.
OUR
POV

Managing the content tech stack
How can content marketers determine where
they have technology gaps?
How do you make the argument for increased
technology investments?
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Q
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The ROI question
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Align on the “why” before you ask the
“how.”
Complement quarterly pipeline reports
with longer-term CX performance
indicators that help you tell your own
success story.
OUR
POV

The ROI question
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What content marketing metrics
have been the most successful for
your clients?
How are they measuring the ROI
from their content?
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Vision 2017
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In 2017, content will be more:
• Buyer-centric
• Story-driven
• Visual
• Animated
• User-generated
• Virtual or augmented
• Personalized
• Emotional
• Widely distributed
And less trusted, if we don’t do it right
OUR
POV

Vision 2017
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Looking ahead to 2017, what
practices or trends do you see
emerging for content marketing?
Q
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Consideration: Better customer experiences through
content marketing
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Leveraging video throughout the buyer’s journey
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Tyler Lessard
CMO
Vidyard
Aisha Ghuman
Senior Channel and Regional
Marketing Manager
P2 Energy Solutions

Leveraging your advocates for user-generated content
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Jim Williams
VP, Marketing
Influitive
Davin Wilfrid
Sr. Manager, Customer Advocacy
Quickbase

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Leveraging your advocates
for user-generated content
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Engagement and enrichment: Intronis MSP Solutions
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Vanessa Porter
Director of Marketing
SnapApp
Anne Campbell
Senior Content Strategist
Intronis

Intronis MSP Solutions
B2B data protection
and security solutions
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100% channel-focused
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Our goals for interactive content
Database Enrichment
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Partner Engagement
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Database enrichment
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Promotion
• Blog posts
• CTAs
• Social media
• Dedicated resource center
• Email campaigns
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aPriori’s Uberflip Experience
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Shannon Dougall
VP of Marketing
Uberflip
Sandy Turcotte-Lim
Director of Advocate and
Content Marketing
aPriori
Uberflip and the Content Experience

Shannon Dougall
VP of Marketing
Uberflip
Sandy Turcotte-Lim
Director of Advocate and
Content Marketing
aPriori

But they still get thisBuyers expect this
An engaging, tailored and intuitive experience A generic, static and alphabetized experience

WE NOW LIVE IN THE NETFLIX ERA

ORGANIZATIONS HAVEN’T EVOLVED
Poor Buyer
Experience
Cumbersome
Processes
Lack of
Personalization

STATUS QUO
PAINFUL
PROCESSES
NOT
SCALABLE
HOMOGENOUS
EXPERIENCE
LIMITED
CONTENT ROI

EVOLVE & ADAPT
BECOME
AGILE
SCALE YOUR
CONTENT
CUSTOMIZE
EXPERIENCES
GAIN
CONTROL

About aPriori
aPriori helps discrete manufacturers’
global design & sourcing teams
collaborate more effectively to bring
innovative, cost-optimized products to
market faster.
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aPriori’s marketing story
What were we dealing with?
• Small marketing team, few
resources
• Invested in content strategy,
needed results
• Syndication difficult to attribute
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It was time to take a different approach to content.
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How did we benefit?
Increased engagement.
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Visitors are more engaged
• More time spent on site:
- 90% increase in pageviews first month after launch
- 162% increase in pageviews the next four months
• Reading more content:
- Pages per visit increased 137% since launch (from 2.61 to 6.18)
• Visitors engaged beyond the Hub:
- 32% of hub visitors are navigating to the main site
• Generating more leads:
- Doubled the monthly average
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Moving forward
Time to approach content
differently:
• Recycling and creating less
content
• Using data to influence
promotions
• Segmenting content and breaking
it down into easily digestible
chunks
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Takeaways
Using Uberflip to leverage content
and help create more engaging
user experiences and drive more
leads:
• Creating more personalized user
experiences
• Recycling and refreshing old
content that is converting
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Your next steps
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2017 headlines:
• Content marketing to evolve beyond lead
gen, branding
• What do you mean you don’t know?
Analytics everywhere
• Content Strategist: the first step to CMO?
Email: still effective after all these years
OUR
POV

Your next steps
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2017 headlines:
• Marketers to put static PDFs on life support
• Whither the lead form?
• Brand newsrooms need more space
• Mobile & app development: now more than
ever
OUR
POV

Your next steps
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What’s the most actionable thing
you’ve learned today that you will
share with your team?
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Great research to shape your strategy
1. Customer experience: Creating value through transforming customer journeys.
McKinsey & Company, No. 1, Winter 2016
2. Expectations vs. Experience: The Good, The Bad, The Opportunity. Forrester,
June 2016.
3. B2B Content Marketing: 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends - North
America. Content Marketing Institute, 2016.
4. From Promotion to Emotion: Connecting B2B Customers to Brands: CEB
Marketing Leadership Council, 2013.
5. Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2016-2017: Budgets Climb (Again!) as Marketers
Juggle More Demands. Gartner, 2016.
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No marketers were harmed in the making of this deck.
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