The convergence of search, social and content marketing has meant that the silos that once separated marketers have virtually merged. In this session, Brad Mattick will discuss how to transition from search practitioners to organizational leaders in a content marketing industry that is forecast to grow to $300 billion in the next four years. Key takeaways will focus around building a community framework to evangelize search and content as a leading performance channel. Marketers will learn how to integrate search, social and content into wider digital campaigns and develop internal conversations that resonate with key c-level executives.
SMX West 2016 - Search, Content and Digital Marketing Maturity Frameworks
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How To Shift From Practitioners To Organizational Leaders
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Removing the barriers to search, content and digital
marketing success
Search, Social and Content Marketing Maturity
Structuring For Digital Marketing Success
Search, Social and
Content Marketing
Maturity
Structuring For Digital
Marketing Success
Brad Mattick,VP of
Marketing and Products
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More than 2.7 zettabytes of digital data exists today
The growth of data is fueling this convergence
Over 92% of global data has been produced by YOU - search, social
and content marketers - in the last 2 years
Search, social and content channels have converged
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Awareness Consideration Intent Decision
The majority of the buying process is happening online
3.2 billion internet users
44% of the population is online
67% of the buyers journey is online
75% of budget is spent on digital
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The opportunity
Organicis the key driver of digital success
5%
10%
34%
51%• Email
• Display
• Referred
• Other
Organic
search
Paid
Social
51%
Traffic
Sources
In a content marketing industry forecast
to become $300+ billion industry in
the next 4 years (PQ media)
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Mind your language
Practitioner Leader
SEO Organic
Organic Search Organic Channel
Keyword Topic and Content
How you rank Where your content performs online
Optimize for SEO Optimize to attract and convert more customers
Traffic Attract customers
Blended Rank / Universal
Listings
If you do a search on Google, and see that some of the
results are images, video, and more than text
SERP The sequence of results that show up for an Internet search
query
Engagement , Conversion, Revenue, Business Impact
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
The Maturity Curve - Structuring for digital marketing success
Maturity models are being developed across multiple disciplines
utilizing;
Search success – As the key driver
Content – As the catalyst
Digital transformation – As the key outcome
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
Search - random optimization of assets, paid search
testing and technical focus on site building
Social - limited to individuals Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn accounts, no distinction between personal
and business accounts
Content- focus on offline and traditional publishing,
content is used for sales support activity
The Maturity Curve – Emerging level
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
Search –technical driven, algorithmic responsive SEO,
paid search centric with organic channel benchmarking
Social – business social accounts set up,
experimentation and amplification of basic content
Content- online content produced by individual
contributors, limited to one channel
The Maturity Curve – Foundational level
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
The Maturity Curve – Scaling level
Search – organic and paid search
strategies run in synergy, testing and
refinement, organic takes the lead
Social – utilized to amplify search and
content marketing initiatives,
monitoring and listening functions
established
Content- optimized at point of
creation, performance and
measurement becomes priority
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
The Maturity Curve – High performing level
Search – organic positioned at the
center of all online marketing efforts,
search (inc paid) intelligence utilized
to fuel cross channel digital activity
Social –informing search and content
strategies, utilized cross functionally
(PR, customer service, recruitment)
Content- optimized and mapped to
the customer journey, distributed
effectively, performance attributed
and measured
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
Search – driving product, PR, customer
and sales strategies, digital strategy
Social – driving meaningful interactions
with customers, prospects and
influencers
Content- driving hyper personalized
content that performs across omni
channels, fully integrated into all digital
channels
The Maturity Curve - Innovative level
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Case Study 1: Microsoft - Search maturation journey
Understood organic channel value
Invested in this core team
Identified revenue opportunities and
evangelized the results
Synergized content and social efforts
Presented the successes of the program
at their internal digital marketing
summit
Business units bought into the process
Integrated search across the
whole Microsoft digital business
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Case Study 2: Tiffany & Co – Content performance and global
scaling maturation
Standardized how they reported performance
across their digital marketing channels
Content performance became the key metric of
success
Drove significant impact across their core categories in
the US. The story of growth was shared across the
organization using reports measuring business impact
Multiple Global markets decided to mirror the model
and standardize on the same reporting and workflow
Tiffany & Co. now has multiple international
properties supported by their core team
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Case Study 3: Marriott – Integrated digital marketing campaign
maturation
Transformation of their enterprise from
“just a hotel company” into “the world’s
favorite travel company.”
S0urce, Marriott, Alex Edlund-Share15
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Case Study 4: Wiley – Digital transformation and organizational
innovation
Transformation from a 208 year old traditional
publishing company to a leading global
provider of content and content enabled
services
SHIFTING MINDSETS: executive commitment
to continuous digital performance
improvement
SHIFTING SKILLSETS: tiered search, social,
content and digital skills training (process &
tech)
FOCUSING: on marketing as a revenue center Digital products and services now represent
60% of its $1.82 billion (2015) revenue
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Mind set
Holistic, pro-active, aspirational, results
focused, left and right brained thinking
Skill set
Specialist and generalist, business acumen,
relationship management
Language
Do not under value what you do, talk
ahead of the curve ……
Top tips – Shifting from Practitioners to Leaders
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Emerging Foundational Scaling High Performing Innovative
Initial investments
in search, social
and contents
channel
Core teams scale
and align with exec
champion;
evangelism
beginning across
marketing org with
a few “BU” wins;
some common KPIs
launched;
technology
standardizing
Strong cross-org
support from execs
to front line;
consistent workflow
& execution across
org; “global”
standards for digital
metrics, technology
Dedicated
resource(s),
tracking basic
metrics and
delivered some
early successes
Integrated digital
departments and
strategy across
marketing disciplines
that affect core
revenue outcomes;
culture of testing and
innovation
Re-cap:The Maturity Process
Search – the driver of success
Content - the catalyst
DigitalTransformation – the outcome
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1. Benchmark where you are on the curve- organization, function,
individual
2. Evangelize your highest performing channels
3. Build relationships and process across all digital functions – break down
the silos
4. Secure executive sponsors – talk business
5. Drive transformation of your digital organization
5 key takeaways - stay ahead of the curve
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THANK YOU
Additional resources
Search Engine Land – The SEO Maturity Curve
http://brtedg.co/217bL6l
Marketing Land – Wiley and Digital Transformation
http://brtedg.co/1VkOf2
BrightEdge - Search needs better PR
http://brtedg.co/1OePXfN
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1,200+ customers
TheTrusted Leader in
Content Performance
Marketing
Offices in CA, NYC,
Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, London,
Sydney
Email: info@brightedge | Website: www.brightedge.com
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Sources - IBM and IDC
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More than 2.7 zettabytes of digital data exists today
The growth of data is fueling paid, owned and earned media convergence
Over 92% of global data has been produced by search, social and content marketers in the last 2 years
Sources
IDC
Adobe
Sources
BrightEdge
PQ Media
People – organizations lack executive sponsorship, no explicit budgets sets, resources limited to partial headcount, no formalized training, skills and knowledge are self taught
Process – no KPI’s set, no visibility in performance, zero synergy between search, social and content activity
People – executive sponsors are identified, full time resource established but with lack of support from adjacent functions, limited internal training, no certification programs
Process – basic search and social KPI’s established, tracked and shared within the marketing organizations, individuals and teams work in siloed processes
People – executive sponsorship drives cross departmental initiatives and collaboration, basic training and certification programs available
Process – standardized reporting on KPI’s; included in management and business reviews, processes standardized in parts of the organization
People – executive sponsorship exists across the whole organization, baseline support from the wider organization, standardized training and certification
Process – KPI’s shared broadly across the organization, processes standardized with some teams focusing on the customer journey
People – Executive sponsors become chief digital marketing evangelists at board room level, digital drives company revenue, advanced digital training and certification mandatory
Process – digital KPI’s shared broadly across the organization, processes standardized with all teams focusing on the customer journey