4.75 billion PIECE OF CONTENT ARE SHARED
1.8 billion PHOTOS ARE UPLOADED AND SHARED
500 million TWEETS ARE POSTED
700 million SNAPCHATS ARE SENT
THOUSANDS OF MARKETING MESSAGES
@BrennerMichael
“THE BUYER JOURNEY IS
NOTHING MORE THAN A SERIES
OF QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE
ANSWERED.
”
REACH AND ENGAGE THE RIGHT PEOPLE
EARLY-STAGE
SEARCHES
MIDDLE-STAGE
BRAND SEARCHES
SEARCH/SOCIALVOLUME
WHAT IS CONTENT
MARKETING?
(10-3000 X)
HOW TO BE EFFECTIVE
WITH CONTENT
MARKETING?
(2-10 X)
WHO IS THE BEST
CONTENT
MARKETING
PROVIDER?
@BrennerMichael
AWARENESS CONSIDERATION PREFERENCE
ONLINE COMMUNITIES
SEARCH ENGINES
EBOOKS
EMAIL NEWSLETTERS
EDITORIAL ARTICLES
WHITE PAPERS
PODCASTS
CASE STUDIES
ONLINE VIDEOS
WEBCASTS
VIRTUAL TRADE SHOWS
PRODUCT LITERATURE
TRIAL SOFTWARE
ONLINE VENDOR DEMOS
Begin
decision
process
Make
decision
Identify
business
problem Establish
requirements/
build RFP
Align IT with
business
objectives
Explore
technology
options
Research
solutions
Determine
solution
strategy Assess ROI
Research
products/
vendors
Build
short
list
@BrennerMichael
“TAKE YOUR BRAND OUT OF THE STORY. . .
. . .MAKE YOUR CUSTOMERS THE HERO.”
ANN HANDLEY
BUSINESS INSTINCT
CONTENT
MARKETING
WHAT
BUSINESSES
PRODUCE
WHAT
CUSTOMERS
WANT
CHARITYEMPATHY
@BrennerMichael
“Content marketing is the marketing and business process for 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.”
Content Marketing Institute
• Not advertising or PR
• It is continuous, not campaign-based
• Customer, not brand-focused
• Owned media = An Asset for your business with LTV and ROI
CONTENT MARKETING DEFINED
@BrennerMichael
PUBLISH ON YOUR OWN CONTENT
HUB.
@BrennerMichael
“DON’T BUILD YOUR HOUSE
ON RENTED LAND.
”
IF YOU GIVE A GOOD IDEA
TO A MEDIOCRE TEAM, THEY
WILL SCREW IT UP.
IF YOU GIVE A MEDIOCRE
IDEA TO A BRILLIANT TEAM,
THEY WILL EITHER FIX IT OR
THROW IT AWAY AND COME
UP WITH SOMETHING
BETTER.
”
“
@BrennerMichael
Were any of these “early-stage”
prospects finding us?
Business Innovation (launched March 27, 2012)
A“Content Hub” to earn traffic instead of buying it
To help business
pros see how
technology drives
innovation.
To reach and
convert leads we
would have never
seen!http://blogs.sap.com/innovation
THE FUTURE OF CONTENT MARKETING IS
PROVEN ROI
@BrennerMichael
CONTENT MARKETING ROI IS 4X OUR
TRADITIONAL MARKETING SPEND.
”
“
Julie Fleischer
Sr. Director, Kraft Foods
@BrennerMichael
WE SHIFTED INVESTMENT FROM
ADVERTISING TO CONTENT
MARKETING SO WE COULD
SHOUT LOUDER THAN WE SPEND.
Beth Comstock
CMO, GE
”
“
@BrennerMichael
CapGemini
Content-Loop.com
• Licensed content on Linked
Sponsored updates
• Drives to branded Content Loop
• Offers to deeper content
• Recommendations to connect with
experts
Results:
~1M visitors / year
+ 3K new LinkedIn followers / week
+ High Quality Leads
+ Sales / ROI
AMEX OpenForum
Mission: Help Small
Businesses Do More
Business.
Approach: Publish every
day, influencers and
community.
Outcome: The largest
source of inbound leads.
THE FUTURE OF CONTENT MARKETING IS
VISUAL
@BrennerMichael
• Turn Exec Presentations Into Slideshare
• Summarise the best parts of [bad?] videos
• Email experts
• Profile customers
• Ask influencers
• Create “What is, Why You Should, and How To,” “8 Steps
To Success In . . .” [Topic]
• What [Hot Topic] Means for [Your Issue]:
• “What the Scottish Referendum Can Teach Us About
Risk”
My Favorite Content Hacks
3 Tips For Killer B2B Content:
1. Stop Promoting. Create for real people.
2. Be the best answer on the internet.
3. Act like a human. Maybe even funny.
This is me at age 3. It’s 1974 and the ways that marketers used to reach their buyers was relatively simple. TV, radio, print, billboards. With the right Madison avenue agency and a decent size budget, any brand could reach their audience. But in 1974 something really important happened. The first barcode was scanned at a Marsh supermarket in Troy Ohio. It was a pak of Wrigley Juicy Fruit gum. In many ways, this started the beginning of the information age when brands could begin to understand the 4Ps: which place their products sold at what price and on what level of promotion. For me, this was also a big event. Both Marsh supermarkets and Wrigley gum would become clients of mine when I went to work at Nielsen selling and marketing scanner data.
This is me 20 pounds, I mean 20 years ago, at College Graduation. I went to school to study business but then changed my major to English Lit because I was fascinated by the art of storytelling. I still wanted to follow my career ambitions by working in the business field but felt even then that communications was the key to business success. It’s 1994 and a company named Mosaic changed it’s name to Netscape and released the first web browser. At this time, there were 1,000 connected computers in the early world wide web. In just a few short years, that number went from millions to the billions of connected devices we have today.
Fast forward to today. And it’s content and accessibility that is driving the world, not the Internet. Marketers, publishers and agencies are no longer in control. The consumer is…we have each become our own network hubs.
These are my children. The oldest there in the middle is Linkedin, to the left is my other daughter Facebook. To the right is my son Twitter and my youngest is G+. Aren’t they cute. I’m so proud of them. They have literally and drastically changed my world in just a few short years.
We’ve all asked the question, why content marketing?
To set the stage, there’s been a fundamental shift in the way we as consumers consume and share content. Momentous amount of content being created, consumed and shared. An amazing amount of content, the real question is how does a brand stand apart?
Ant that can be your brand
For you, it’s a customer behind every one of those content interactions. We need to keep in mind there’s a person, not an undefined entity of customers.
The secret to content marketing is that its not that hard. There are obstacles, but what we’re going to do is give you our secrets and let you know what’s worked for other brands to drive a content marketing strategy.
The secret, content marketing is relatively simple. The buyer journey is just a series of question to be answered and we as brands have a role to play. Its simply to answer the customer questions.
A more complex view, content marketing explained on a page. What types of different content we consume at different parts of the buyer journey.
Awareness, we’re wanting to learn, get our questions answered and read thought leadership.
Consideration, we want more types of content.
By Preference, there’s less thought leadership and learning, and more about what makes your brand different.
As a brand, our natural instinct is to talk about ourselves. Customers are asking questions, they want to be informed and entertained, but we can’t just do that because that’s just charity.
So the way we balance is make your customers the hero of the story.
Take your brand out. How do you do that? You solve their problems at every stage of the journey.
The formal definition of content marketing.
NOT advertising or PR – important
About helping your customers answer those questions in the journey they’re taking
Owned media – its specifically content that lives on a brand owned media.
Core components the way we need to think. We need to think different.
Organizationally, content is a complex problem to solve. So we teamed up with the SAP.com team, the SAP Newsroom (Global Communications) and the advertising and branding team who had been spending money every year or so building advertising landing pages that had no organic or social sharing and were discarded as each campaign ended. We built Business Innovation. Our mission was to deliver on the promise of Pull Marketing, to become a destination of business insights for early-stage buyers. We wanted to earn traffic instead of buying it. And for those visitors who came from paid advertising, we wanted to provide a learning experience that was consistent with our brand image. The hope was that they would like and share the content with their connections, thus achieving the benefits of an integrated paid, owned and earned media strategy.
Help your customers with something. Do their jobs better, become heroes. You need to fill in the blanks.