Creating good marketing content that endures is a significant challenge for most modern marketers. In a practical presentation with scores of examples, René outlined how you can put your expertise and experience at the centre of your marketing effort with 15 tips you can implement the very next day after the conference.
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Help - I'm a content marketer! On the Edge digital conference Sept, 2013
1. Help I’m a content marketer
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15 easy to implement
content tips you can
start using tomorrow
with
René Power
Digital & Business
Development Director,
BDB
Help – I’m a content marketer!
2. The challenge of contentThe challenge of content
The challenge of content
3. Running before you
can walk?
Not cool.
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4. Being seduced by
the dark side of
technology?
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6. You’re not alone
Whilst 56% saw content marketing have
an impact on sales:
15% said they saw 'little or no increase’
29% simply did not know the impact of
content marketing
Half of marketers (46%) find
demonstrating content ROI a key
challenge.
2013 Content Marketing Benchmarking Repo
You’re not alone
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8. ‘Old’ marketing doesn’t work any
more
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9. There’s too much noise
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10. And too much competition…and too much competition
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11. Tomorrow:
Rethink how you
push material
out to customers
and consider it
from their
perspective
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14. Visit watering holesVisit watering holes
Tomorrow:
Check out one
media site,
Linkedin group,
portal or trade
association to
identify
opportunities
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15. Map content to buyers
Map content to buyers – Establish
your value add
Tomorrow:
Establish what
the absolute
benefit you
provide?
Access your media everywhere
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16. Audit what you haveAudit what you have
Tomorrow: Ask
everyone in the
organisation for
one highlight
from the last
twelve months
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17. Content audit template
Tomorrow:
Match what
customers are
looking for in
groups to what
you offer
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19. Curate
Curator
[Cu-ra-tor]
Noun: A keeper or custodian of a museum or
other collection
Curate
Tomorrow: Use
ONE of the
following cool
‘curation’
tools….
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20. Source content with Feedly
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23. Create new content
Create new content
Tomorrow:
Repackage
existing content
> release to blog
to newsletter to
case study to
whitepaper
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24. PR is the bedrock of content marketing
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Most used >> Most effective
Press releases Case study
Blog posts Whitepaper
Case studies Video
PR: the bedrock of content
marketing
25. Evernote case study marketing
Tomorrow:
Check out the
case study
http://bit.ly/181fhoo
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Using case studies
26. Ten things you could blog tomorrow
Repurpose a press release, upload a presentation,
manual and more
Comment on a news story affecting your industry
Comment on latest research / data
Write a round up once a week of your industry
Provide an industry resource list
Report on an event – this event?
Write up a customer case study
Offer a guest post (and reciprocate)
Solve an industry problem
Take a provocative stance on something that
needs to change
Tomorrow: Put a
blog post (or
news story) on
your website
and tell people
about it!
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Ten things you could blog tomorrow
29. Packaging sector whitepapers
• See ebook – Bosch, Toledo in packaging
Using whitepapers
Tomorrow:
Establish one
industry
problem you can
write a guide
about
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30. Zendesk using video
Tomorrow:
Check out
http://www.zendesk.com
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Using video
32. Create a calendarCreate a calendar
Tomorrow: Plan &
be realistic. Start out
with one post, one
news story a week,
one piece of lead
gen content a
quarter, one eshot a
quarter
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33. Never miss an idea with Evernote
Tomorrow: Sign
up to Evernote
for free and try
it out – great for
those long
commutes!
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Never miss an idea with Evernote
34. Define what success will look likeDefine what success will look like
Tomorrow:
What does
success look like
to you? Build
activity to
achieve it
whether vanity
or sanity
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35. Your one-a-day prescription for the
next 3 weeks!
1. Customer
perspective
2. Contributors
3. Watering holes
7. Curation tool
8. Repackage one
element as blog
9. Case study
4. Absolute USP
benefit
5. Highlights
6.Match propositions
& requirements
10. One news story
11. One industry
problem
12. Video
Extras:
16. Subscribe to my
blog
17. Buy my book from
Amazon (or ask nicely for a
free review copy)
13. Plan / calendar
14. Ideas capture
15. Success
metrics
Your one-a-day prescription for the
next 3 weeks!
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36. Image / reference credits
1 – Devices http://www.geekazine.com/special/pressreader-electronic-newspapers-ces-2013/
3 – Runner http://www.marksdailyapple.com/physical-effects-poor-training-marathon/#axzz2exskx4Nr
4 – Apple Death Star http://geardiary.com/2012/10/05/my-journey-to-the-dark-side-er-apple-is-complete/
5 – Paul Lambert http://images.football365.com/13/01/800x600/Aston-Villa-v-Southampton-Paul-Lambert-pa_2884893.jpg
6 – Animation
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oHmrz8xVAH8/TSU7L9Jz9dI/AAAAAAAAAQw/I9PutMsyVTo/s200/dans-poor-performance-lg-14402296.jpg
7 – People http://www.noexcuseshr.com/2013_04_01_archive.html
8 - Marketing http://mkt4pontozero.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/conversa-novo-marketing-30.html
9 – An Internet minute http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/internet-minute_b38168
11 – Service http://debbielaskey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tale-of-marketing-and-customer-service.html
13 - Batman http://communicatebetterblog.com/root/
15 - Added value http://www.creativ.com.au/ipad-application-developers/
16 – Content audit http://www.madhavighare.com/web-writing/what-is-a-content-audit
17 – Content audit template http://johnmccrory.com/2011/10/the-handy-dandy-content-audit-template/
23 – B2b content types http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2013/10888/how-b2b-content-impacts-buying-decisions-infographic
27 – Intercom blog http://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/
29 – Screen grabs from www.packworld.com
32 – Calendar http://carmencollins.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/content-calendar.jpg
33 – Evernote http://www.macstories.net/news/evernote-announces-major-redesign-of-ios-app/
Additional resources: Hubspot
Image credits
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