The document discusses content marketing strategies and tactics, defining content marketing as a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain an audience to ultimately drive profitable customer action. It provides tips for content marketers such as developing personas, creating an editorial calendar, conducting keyword research, optimizing content for search engines, and measuring performance metrics. The document is presented by Kindi Lantz who is a marketing catalyst focused on content marketing, video analytics, copywriting, and other related services.
2. • Marketing Catalyst
• Content Marketing, Video
Analytics, Video Optimization,
Copywriting, Mixing a Mean
Cocktail
• Love Metaphors, Despise Turkeys
• Vertically Efficient
• Portland, OR
Who am I???
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3. What is Content Marketing
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-Strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and
consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive
profitable customer action.
4. ADVERTISING
•Interrupts
•Is avoided
•Only holds attention for a short time
•Tends to be expensive
•Typically only big brands go viral (think
Always, Johnson & Johnson, &
Budweiser)
CONTENT MARKETING
•Answers questions
•Is searched for
•Keeps audience reading, watching,
sharing, & coming back for more
•Minimal expenditure
•Often goes viral
Welcomed bear hug.Slap in the face.
Old vs New Marketing
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6. • Keywords
• Recency
• Frequency
• Quality backlinks
• User Reviews, site reputation
• Page-level social metrics
• Engagement and traffic
Google Ranking Factors
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7. Content Types
Blog Posts
Ebooks/White Papers
Templates and other tools
Guides
Videos
Podcasts
Quality
Relevant
Consistent
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Social posts
Articles
Infographics
Reviews
Lists
….
8. Start with a goal!!
What’s the purpose of your content?
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9. • Multiple different groups
• Narrow Niche
• Who are they?
• What do they want?
• How do they like to get info?
• Personas
Target Audience
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22. Break into sections Compile sections Opposites Piece
Multiple content pieces from a
single idea
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23. Make a video Give a presentation Upload to SlideShare
Multiple content pieces from a
single idea
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Any questions?
It is decidedly so. My sources say no. Concentrate and ask me again. Signs point to yes. Very
doubtful. Ask again later. You may rely on it. Better not tell you now. Yes, definitely.
Notes de l'éditeur
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Hopefully you will get something of value that you can take back to your business.
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Marketing Catalyst- Head of marketing for FBX. Head of marketing doesn't get people asking questions and as a marketer, I know it's good to get ppl asking questions.
People often like to point out how short I am. It's true, but I prefer...
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Emphasis on valuable, relevant, consistent. Isn't what they want, when they want it, they won't engage.
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Basically, it's a great big hug for your audience.
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-other than time, CM only costs as much as you want to pay (PPC, PPI)
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-organic content often goes viral
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Google has over 200 ranking factors.
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-Keywords in title, tags, meta, H1 tags, copy, etc... don't go overboard (can hurt you)
-links to send trust signals to google
-So content marketing is very important to overall SEO
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-Curata
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surveyed a bunch of marketers and business owners
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As defined by Ardath Albee, a persona is a composite sketch of a key segment of your audience.
For content marketing purposes, you need personas to help you deliver content that will be most relevant and useful to your audience.
1.)Who is he/she? What is the job title? What kind of company does he or she work? What is a typical day like.
2.)What will alleviate some of that frustration? What phase of the purchase funnel are they in?
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Take inventory of current content
Branding, voice, guidelines
Onsite Content
Offsite content
Who's managing, contributing, etc...
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-search box self populate
-often used by scientists and journalists
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-Both B2B & B2C co's w/ 101-200 pgs of content generate 2.5x more leads than those with 50 or fewer pages
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Co's that blog 15x/mo (or more) get 5x more traffic then those that don't (small biz with 1-10 employeese see the biggest gains when they start blogging more
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-Blog posts withvideo attract 3x as many inbound links as those without.
-Landing pages experience 800% more conversion.
-92% of mobile video viewers share videos with others.
-The word “Video” in an email subject line boosts open rates 19%, click-through rates by 65% and reduces unsubscribes by 26%.
-Ecommerce visitors are 64% more likely to make a purchase after watching a video.