content marketing: an integrated approach
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Content marketing has become widely popular in 2013. But is content really King? Does content matter if it doesn't reach and convince your target audience? Read more on www.sociallyvisual.comTRANSCRIPT
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2013: The year of content?
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Today, consumers are savvier than ever
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Carrying out extensive research
… before making online purchase decisions
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Today’s consumer
Promotional messages
Traditional one-way communication
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Today’s consumer
Wants to be educated
Marketing that ‘does’ something
Information discovery and sharing
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Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing
talks with them.
(Doug Kessler, Creative Director & Co-founder of Velocity)
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Google Updates
! Genuinely ‘earn’ attention and visibility
! Adding value for your visitors = Google’s Golden Rule
! Highly relevant and useful content, that answers their problems/needs
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By helping your visitors meet their goals, engaging them in a way that they would be
happy to link to and share your content
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What happens online….
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Today’s Internet world
! Ever-growing amount of information
! Continuously increasing number of channels and technologies
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How do we attract and keep users’ attention?
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We need to…
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What is Content Marketing?
≠ simply creating more content
≠ not just another SEO tactic
≠ poorly informed blogger outreach
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What is Content Marketing?
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What is Content Marketing?
meaningful and customer-oriented information
useful and engaging for your specific audience groups
encourages them to consider you over a competitor
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Quality > quantity
Content marketing goes beyond writing a blog post and publishing…
How do you get anyone to read your content?
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What is ‘quality content’?
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To effectively reach your target groups, your content should be…
! Relevant and useful
! Add value
! Unique
! Have a clear business purpose
! Simple/easy-to-understand
! Engaging
! Personal
! Easy to find/share
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Content is an important part of every online campaign
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But is Content ‘King’?
Well, not exactly…
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Content is an important tool to tell your stories, reach your customers and
convince them of your
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But what is your content if nobody knows of it, if nobody is able to find it, or if they manage to find it also share it?
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Content isn’t the goal
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We need to tear down the Marketing Silos
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Reach and engage your target audience
https://twitter.com/kevgibbo
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An ‘Integrated Approach’
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Make sure all content is optimised for SEO
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Social Media
! To identify key influencers
! To identify content needs
! To increase reach of your content messages
! Set up Google Authorship
! Make all content shareable
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Focus on visually engaging content
“90% of information transmitted to the brain is
visual, and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in
the brain than text”
(source: 3M Corporation and Zabisco)
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PR
! Creative content is your best PR outreach
! Leverage PR agencies
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Analytics
! Identify your most popular content (liked, shared, traffic)
! Seasonality
! Social referrals
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Paid
Use paid search to drive traffic to a piece of content
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The Digital Team
An integrated whole is bigger than a simple sum of all its parts…
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