The document discusses strategies for creating smarter content marketing. It outlines five tactics: 1) Build your content base by optimizing existing content and prioritizing conversions. 2) Match values to connect with customers through shared passions and themes. 3) Disrupt to stand out by creating attention-grabbing "hero" content. 4) Facilitate the customer journey by considering mindset and intent. 5) Integrate across all channels to increase value and create a long-term strategy. The key is to cut through noise by making it easy to convert while differentiating the brand.
2. Think beyond your blog -
Creating a smarter strategy to benefit your business.
Alicja Sliwinska & Kelly Green
#4PsEDGE
@4PsMarketing
3. What’s the new challenge?
Five tactics
Build your base
Match values
Integrate all channels
Introduction
Facilitate the journey
Disrupt to stand out
Key Takeaways
4. DO YOU…
Regularly create content?
Have an editorial strategy & calendar?
Think your content strategy works?
5. EVERYONE’S DOING IT
UK content marketers say
producing engaging content is their top challenge
BUT
Are more confident about their effectiveness than Americans & Australians
*Statistics from Content Marketing Institute & DOMO
78% of UK marketers creating more content than in 2014
26% average of marketing budget spent on content
64% of organisations plan to increase budget within 12 months
In2015
1.8 billion+ photos
uploaded & shared
Day
58% of UK marketers
publish new content
Week
72 hours of video
uploaded to YouTube
MinuteEVERY:
10. BUILD YOUR BASE
MAKE IT EASY TO CONVERT BY GIVING THEM ALL THE INFORMATION
Optimise existing content first
Prioritise content that directly affects conversions
HYGIENE
CONTENT
11. MATCH VALUES
Create content hubs around values, themes & passions
HUB
CONTENT
SHARED VALUES
CONNECT WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS THROUGH SHARED VALUES
Differentiate your brand from competitors
12. DISRUPT TO STAND OUT
Think big to capture wider audiences
HERO
CONTENT
EXCITE CUSTOMERS & GRAB THEIR ATTENTION
Strategically distribute your content
13. FACILITATE THE JOURNEY
HERO
HUB
HYGIENE
Consider customer mind-set & intent
MAKE IT SO GOOD THEY DON’T WANT TO LEAVE
Use content to drive customers
through the journey
14. INTEGRATE ALL CHANNELS
INCREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR CONTENT
& CREATE A LONG-TERM STRATEGY
Bring content into overall marketing strategy
Connect with other on- and offline channels
Consider the different ways customers find your content
Collaborate across internal & external teams
15. KEY TAKEAWAYS
TO CREATE A SMARTER CONTENT STRATEGY:
2. Match values to set your brand apart and connect with customers
3. Disrupt to excite wider audiences
4. Facilitate the journey so they don’t want to leave
5. Integrate all channels to increase content’s value &
create a long-term strategy
1. Build your content base to make converting easy
Alicja
Questions as a introduction… we need a nice picture to go with…
Questions are: hands up who is this room…
Regularly creating content as a part of you marketing strategy?
Have an editorial calendar and strategy behind?
If you think your content strategy works for your business?
Alicja
How many blog posts/articles people create
How much brand invested in content last year… and compare it to year before and 2016…
How many people achieve their objectives with content…. And many people have been increasing their content marketing budged (2014 vs 2015)? To add vs !
Kelly
Obviously there is a lot of content out there… People are creating more and more content every day, the same brands… All this content creates a lot of noise …. So the Internet becomes saturated….
For that reason it’s important stand out of this noise but this could be challenging.
Kelly
But …. People won’t stop creating content, brands will create new content…. This is only be going to increase
Is cutting through the noise the real challenge for us or it’s the fact that human beings have only certain amount of willpower/ capacity/ energy to cut through that noise
… New challenge …
Kelly
How do you cut through the noise when you know people have only limited capacity /willpower /energy…?
Alicja
Vertical money note – build base
Question mark/heart -
Disruption – pencils with one up
Facilitation -??
Integration – flying in formation, rowing
Alicja
Kelly
Kelly
Kelly
Alicja
Structure of depts. – do they talk? How often? Have you made it easy for them to collaborate?
Kelly
Give the customer the cookie that they want!!
You’re relaunching your brand’s site tomorrow – what is your biggest fear? How can you turn that into an opportunity?