2. About Me
Chief Marketing Technology
Officer
Content Marketing Institute
Consultant
Dad, BBQ Fan
Featured in Gourmet
Magazine
@willdavis
@rightsource
#MDSG
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7. The Game Has Changed
Buyers are educating themselves
Corporate Executive Board - 60% of a buyer’s decision-making
process in B2B is complete before they even talk to a
salesperson
Sirius Decisions cites that number at 70%
IDG Research: Enterprise organizations download an average
of 10 informational assets during the purchase process.
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8. The Game Has Changed
78%
$987,417
58%
24%
82%
78% of chief marketing officers think custom content is
the future of marketing. (Source: Hanley-Wood Business
Media)
The average, annual spend on branded content
outsourcing was a $371,364, and $987,417 for
companies that exclusively outsource. (Source: Custom
Content Council)
58% of consumers trust editorial content.
(Source: Nielsen)
Companies with over 1,000 employees typically
allocate 24% of their marketing budget to content.
(Source: Content Marketing Institute and Marketing
Profs)
82% of consumers like reading content from brands
when it’s relevant. (Source: The CMA)
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9. Content Marketing Planning
Only 44% of B2B Marketers have a written content marketing
strategy
Only 11% of companies that rate content marketing as ineffective
have a written strategy
B2B Marketers with a content marketing strategy are 600% more
likely to be effective
2/3 of B2B Marketers without a content marketing strategy are
creating more content now than they did in the previous year
View full CMI Research
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11. What is Content Marketing?
Content marketing is a marketing
technique of creating and distributing
relevant and valuable content to
attract, acquire, and engage a clearly
defined and understood target
audience – with the objective of
driving profitable customer action.
Image Source: Content Marketing Institute
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12. The Content Marketer’s Mindset
Content marketing is not
another tactic
Content marketing is not
another line item
Content marketing impacts
marketing AND customer
service, public relations,
recruiting and more
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13. How Do I Attack Content Marketing?
First, understand that content creation is merely one, isolated,
basic step.
Content Planning
Content Creation
Content Optimization
Content Distribution
Content Reporting and Analysis
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14. Why Are We Doing This?
“Brands have to become publishers”
…but brands have different business models and
business goals than publishers.
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15. Content Supports Business Objectives
Yours probably isn’t selling ad impressions
How does your content marketing strategy fit
in with the business strategy to drive business
results?
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16. Content Supports Business Objectives
Business Objectives
Business Strategy
Marketing Objectives
Marketing Strategy
Content Objectives
Content Strategy
Credit: Jay Baer/CMI
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Content
Tactics
Content
Metrics
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17. Content Strategy Comes From:
Business objectives
(business plan)
Marketing objectives
(marketing plan)
Content objectives
(content plan)
Business Objectives
Business Strategy
Marketing Objectives
Marketing Strategy
Content Objectives
Content Strategy
Content
Tactics
Content
Metrics
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18. Answer these 12 questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Why are we doing this?
What’s the goal?
What is our unique story?
Who is our audience?
Who is on our team? What is
everyone’s role?
6. Who will handle each piece
of content marketing?
7. What are our primary
themes?
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8. What types of content should
we create?
9. When will each piece of
content get published?
10. How will we distribute each
piece of content?
11. How will we report on the
content marketing effort?
12. What’s the budget?
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19. Understanding Your Audience
Who are your buyers and influencers?
What do they care about?
What problems do
VP
they face?
Marketing
How can you help
solve them?
What are their
IT
CFO
objections?
Director
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20. Example: Consulting Firm
Helps clients solve complex challenges across the
industry spectrum
From public companies to private companies to
investors
A nimble, experienced, unique team of expert
advisors, analyzers and problem solvers
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21. Buyers/Influencers
Large Company BD (VP Strategy or BD)
Smaller Firm C-Level Exec (CEO, COO)
Investors, VCs (Managing Partner)
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Medical Officer
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22. What Are Their Questions? Address
Who can help us commercialize our tech?
Who can we acquire that does XYZ?
What is their background?
Who have they worked with that’s like me?
What are their specialties?
How do they understand my company’s unique
challenges?
How do they work?
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23. …And So Many More From:
Talking with your clients
Talking with your prospects
Talking with your got-aways
Talking with your sales team
Reviewing analytics
Reviewing industry trends
Online research
RFP Questions
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26. Address Questions With Content
Different content topics for different buyers
Different content topics for different stages
Different content types for different buyers
Different content types for different stages
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31. The Content Creation Challenge
Goal for each piece of content
– In line with overall marketing goal?
Stick to the plan
– If you wander, the audience wanders
Dedicated content staff
– Content creation duties can’t be shoehorned into existing
jobs
– Hire dedicated staff or outsource
– Writers should be great, not just good
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32. The Content Creation Challenge
Provide writers (internal or outsourced) with:
–
–
–
–
Background
Story framework
Access to experts
“Garbage in, garbage out”
Have content ready as back-up for emergencies
Enlist staff for content ideas
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33. The Content Creation Challenge
Keep the pipeline full of ideas
–
–
–
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Brainstorm
What questions are customers/prospects asking?
Spin off new topics from a successful idea
Create series
Make sure enough content is in progress at all times
Edit
– Anything less than remarkable will be lost in the sea of
mediocrity
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34. Make It Remarkable
2,000,000 blog posts
294,000,000,000 emails
864,000 hours of video
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35. Content Optimization
Not just for search engines (the robots) but buyers
(the humans) too
What do you want them to do?
What calls to action (CTAs)
should you include?
AKA – “Uh, Now what?”
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36. Content Optimization - Lead Capture
“Forms are the enemy of spread” – but…
“You can’t have a prospect if you don’t know who
they are”
Determine what information is worth a “gate” (fewer,
but known readers) and what isn’t
Determine follow-up process – be helpful but not
creepy
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37. Content Distribution
Where does your target audience live, online and off
(Google, Compete, Alexa)
Write down 5 sites right now!
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Social media as part of your content strategy
Guest blogging
Co-branded webinars, seminars, events
Email (don’t miss out on this one)
Print
Mobile
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38. Email: The Oldest Social Network
1-Offs and Group Newsletters
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39. Content Distribution: A Story
July 25, 2013: Shared/viewed by 100s
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40. Content Distribution: A Story
July 26, 2013: Shared/viewed by 10,000s
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41. Content Distribution: A Story
August 2, 2013: Shared/viewed by 100,000s
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42. Content Distribution: A Story
August 2, 2013: Shared/viewed by 1,000,000s?
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43. Content Marketing vs. Social Media
Don’t let the social media tail wag the
content marketing dog!
Image Source: Pew Internet
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44. Set Up Conversion Opportunities
eBook
Guide
Webinar
(live or recorded)
Email Newsletter
White Paper
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45. Content Reporting & Analysis
Measure everything that you possibly can
But - report very few, very business-focused KPIs
Discard vanity metrics wherever possible
How do KPIs align with business objectives?
Consumption
• Traffic
• Page views
• Downloads
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Sharing
• LinkedIn shares
• Tweets
• Emails
Lead Generation
• Lead forms
• Phone calls
Revenue
• $$$$
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47. Track And Manage Prospects
Leverage your best content for your best leads
Use technology to nurture your leads
Do everything you can to track activities to revenue
generated
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52. Thank You!
Will Davis
Right Source Marketing
@willdavis
will@rightsourcemarketing.com
www.rightsourcemarketing.com
www.marketingtrenches.com
Free eBook:
How to Grow Your Business
with Content Marketing
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