To be successful in content marketing you need a strategic approach, you need buy-in from above and below to apply a successful content transformation. This will show you how to apply a strategic content marketing approach to your company to ensure you are maximising the opportunities to reach the right audience at the right time. This methodology is for small, to SMB to enterprise level business.
3. Your customers don’t care about you,
your products, your services … they
care about themselves, their wants and
their needs.
Content marketing is about creating
interesting information buyers are
passionate about so they actually pay
attention to you.
Joe Pulizzi,
Content Marketing Institute founder
4. CONTENT MARKETING – from push to pull
AUDIENCE
CUTOMERS’
GOALS
Needs
Pain points
Challenges
THE
SWEET
SPOT!
RELEVANT CONTENT MARKETING
YOUR GOALS
Brand
Sales
Marketing
Product
BRAND
5. Griffith
University
Building a Brand Purpose
5 | King Content Credentials 2016
Know More In Sixty Seconds is a video
content hub built to bring personality to the
university’s content marketing approach. It
is a tool to tell the story of the university in
a way that positions Griffith as the
champion of knowledge and land the
institution’s mantra of ‘know more, do
more’.
www.knowmoreinsixtyseconds.com
The Solution
• Data-driven video content to
maximise interest, views and
engagement.
• Creative social media campaigns
to drive further views and
engagement.
Results (4 months)
• 7,000 new Facebook fans.
• 1.5 million social impressions.
• 252k video views
• 2.8k likes, comments and shares
6. 6
Griffith University Open Day
Facebook Live and Snapchat broadcast
Challenge
Griffith University tasked King Content with creating a fun and innovative online experience for
prospective students who would be unable to attend the university’s Open Day on 24 July 2016.
Results
Between 19 and 28 July, the following results were achieved:
• 1.85 million impressions (achieved from both images and live video, pre-event and during the
event)
• 57,000 Facebook Live video views on the day
• 21,114 total minutes watched on Facebook Live
• Organically increased GU’s Facebook community by 1,000+ in a week
• CPV of live videos as low as $0.02 to relevant targeted audiences
• 9,000 engagements on images and videos
• 4 competitions run on Snapchat across the day with over 400+ views each
9. CONTENT MARKETING
Volume and frequency
ATL,
SOCIAL,
NATIVE
INFOGRAPHICS,
SNACKABLE
SHAREABLE CONTENT
SHORT-FORM ARTICLES/BLOGS
VIDEOS AND PODCASTS
LONGER-FORM ARTICLES/EXPLAINER VIDEOS/RESEARCH
PAPERS/PUBLICATIONS
VOLUME
10. CONTENT MARKETING
Educational content
Informational content
Informational content
Educational content
Emotional, entertaining content
Emotional, entertaining contentA W A R E N E S S
C O N S I D E R A T I O N
E V A L U A T I O N
C O N V E R S I O N
R E T E N T I O N
ADVOCACY
BUYER JOURNEY TYPES OF CONTENT
12. Hans Oliving
Redefining brand
perceptions through mass-
appeal, video-led content
Objectives
• Maximise impressions to drive brand
awareness.
• Generate organic sharing.
• Associate Hans Oliving with a
lifestyle, rather than a product.
What we delivered
• Microsite featuring tennis star Lleyton
Hewitt and his family.
• Key video pieces featuring Bec &
Lleyton, supported by broader lifestyle
content.
• Diversified amplification program
across social and native channels.
1-month results
• 1m+ views of the hero videos.
• 20k+ likes, comments & shares across
Facebook & Instagram.
• 36.2m total impressions.
• Facebook cost-per-view 94% below
projections ($0.01).
olivingthelife.com.au/
13. Nurture leads through
the buyer funnel
Allow you to target
customer segments
rather than spray and
pray push marketing
CONTENT MARKETING
Acquires new customers and retains existing customers
Shifts your
marketing efforts
from push marketing
to pull.
14. So how can you get buy-in
for a content marketing program?
15. Sources: Content Marketing Institute
68%
of Australian
Marketers say they
are going to
produce more
content marketing in
2017.
82%
of Australian
marketers are
already using
content marketing.
16. Sources: Content Marketing Institute
Your competitors are
already using content marketing
to grow their businesses
19. Site visits per month
Source: Eloqua/Kapost, 2014
Cost per lead
Content marketing is a long term approach
20. • Clicks to product pages
• eNewsletter sign-up
• Download of a gated
eBook/white paper
• Sign up to a trial
• Download a free app
• Purchase
CONVERSI
ON
• Awareness lift
• Sessions
• Unique visitors
• New visitors
• Reach (social channels)
• Content views
• Channel growth (social
channels)
• Impressions
• Brand mentions
AWARENESS
• Sentiment lift
• Return visitors
• Time on site
• Page depth
• Video completion rate
• Number of return visitors
• Comment sentiment (social)
• Frequency of interaction with
content
• Level of content engagement
• Unsubscribe rates
ENGAGEME
NT
21. Bupa
Shifting from a product-
centric to audience-centric
digital strategy.
Objectives
• Identify why Bupa’s digital strategy was
failing despite significant investment.
• Manage a large stakeholder group
through a significant change in digital
approach.
• Establish a sustainable, in-house
publishing program within Bupa.
What we delivered
• Extensive audit of existing digital
assets.
• In-depth strategy detailing the shift from
content around products to content
around life events.
• Management of content production &
amplification.
• Brand activations of content production
& amplification.
http://theblueroom.bupa.com.au/
Results highlights (first 3 months)
• 200k unique visitors.
• Produced 269 articles, 36 videos & 18
infographics.
22. 1. Trust in advertising is terrible
2. Content Marketing delivers quality lead generation
3. Content Marketing Fulfils a Desire for More
Information
4. Content Marketing improves SEO
5. Content Marketing will position your brand as a leader
6. Content Marketing will influence consumer decision
making
7. Content Marketing delivers strong ROI
8. Social media feeds on your Content Marketing
9. Consumers will love you
24. In a study, 97% of people who faced a life-changing
health event had been told in the 12 months prior
they needed to make some alterations to their
lifestyle, most people choose death over change.
“We choose death over change, and then we wonder
why our businesses don’t embrace digital
technology.” Lark
Change is HARD
26. Your audiences are everywhere, but we need to find the
most effective channels for creating a relationship...
Social
Content
Search
Content
Display Ads
27. Content marketing is a long term game and your
starting point is researching and developing a
content strategy
28. WHAT IS A CONTENT STRATEGY?
28
WHY
HOW
WHAT WHO
30. CONTENT MARKETING
Content on owned web properties that’s engaging and promotes the value proposition of the brand and its products.
Content affirms decision to seek further information and validates the brand.
Sales-focused information assets that include a strong call to action (CTA). Content is advertorial in nature with a
focus on the benefits of specific products and service.
Deliver targeted content to those customers who may be looking elsewhere. Remind them why they joined the category
in the first place. Potential to cross-sell. Validating product choice.
This content aims to keep the brand front of mind and provide assurance to customers that they have made the right
decision. Validating brand choice.
Brand awareness, integrated content across all channels including ATL advertising, sponsorships and amplification
through digital (native) and social. This content aims to engage and make the brand easy to remember at
consideration stage.
AWARENESS
CONSIDERATION
EVALUATION
CONVERSION
RETENTION
ADVOCACY
Content used to support purchase.
31. Lenovo
ThinkHub
Turning Lenovo into an
authority on enterprise IT.
Objectives
• Increase lead quality and value of
sales.
• Strengthen brand awareness and
demand for Lenovo products.
• Position Lenovo as a thought leader
in enterprise IT.
What we delivered
• Strategy developed for 8 European
markets.
• Launched 8 websites in 7 major
languages.
• LinkedIn amplification across 13
markets, using paid & organic tactics.
Results highlights
• 14.6k uniques per month
• LinkedIn CTR 3.5x target CTR (1.19%)
• $118m generated in sales over first 13
months.
think-progress.com
32. Conversion pixel
Campaign content
Retargeting
Constant improvement
Amplification channels
Headlines and images
Monitor user behaviours
Implement pixels and
monitor goals
Measure and
optimise
Website analytics
Audience analysis
Test and
Learn
Performance
Analysis
Lead
Generation
Won developed an idea that was not only a first for the university, but for the entire Australian education sector: Open Day via Facebook Live and Snapchat. The idea was to create a real-time experience for prospective students that was raw, authentic and showcased the best of Griffith. It tapped into the world of young higher-ed students by creating content they could identify with and enjoy through familiar channels. We promoted the activity in the weeks prior, streamed 7 live videos on the day and created Snapchat content and a Snapchat competition to engage and grow the platform – this way Griffith could continue to communicate with its target audience. We promoted the live videos to Queensland higher-ed students in the days following.
Traditional advertising and marketing is great when it comes to the second two steps. Content marketing taps into the first two stages of the buying process by raising awareness of solutions and educating consumers about a product they may have never considered before.
Earned Media
refers to media exposure you’ve earned through word-of-mouth. You can earn media by getting press mentions, positive reviews, reposts, recommendations, etc. You can also facilitate earned media by helping journalists and content writers author their articles, or contributing your own thought leadership content to industry publications.
So whether you're earning mentions on external sites or you've earned an opportunity to contribute to them regularly, this type of media helps to fuel the top of your funnel and introduce you to new leads.
Owned Media
Owned media is content you’re in full control of. Think of content for your company website, your blog, and your EDM
While owned media content can take on a variety of forms -- blog posts, case studies, whitepapers, etc. -- the primary goal of this content is to continue providing value to leads as they move down the funnel. These assets offer a more controlled -- but not overly promotional -- message about your company..
Paid Media
paid techniques you can use to amplify your owned media and help you win more earned media.
For example, social media platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Pinterest offer advertising options that can be leveraged to boost your exposure. We’ve found that LinkedIn and Twitter are the most effective promotion platform for our audience of B2B marketers, but you can utilize a similar strategy on Facebook or Pinterest. It all depends on where your target audience is the most active and engaged with your brand.
LF: Consumers today are bombarded with more adverts and messages than ever before, so the impact of more traditional channels is somewhat diluted. Content marketing has the capacity to resonate more powerfully with your customers because it’s carefully tailored to their needs and interests. It’s a way of conveying your brand’s personality and offering without being overtly promotional, which can go a long way toward building brand trust amongst your audience. More and more brands are recognising the impact of content marketing, so those who choose to ignore it will increasingly fall behind.
Proving ROI requires clear objectives and an understanding of the metrics that demonstrate success in those objectives.
Find out what the business and your marketing is trying to achieve
1. Trust in traditional advertising has plummeted. Audiences don't like nor trust the sales messages and are switching off.
2. Content Marketing delivers on the strategy of 'narrowcasting' where brands focus on a smaller, core group of potential, high quality consumers.
3. Customers are searching for information so they can make informed decisions
4. kill it on the SEO front, as search engines get smarter at delivering the right information to users, Content Marketing needs to be at the centre of any SEO strategy.5. position your brand as a leader in your category, pushing brand uplift and vital word-of-mouth recommendations.
6. Consumers are on average 60-90% of the way through the sales funnel before engaging directly with a brand.
7.Because good content will last a long time, your investment in content marketing will remain relevant for potentially many years. This is compared to a very expensive paid advertising campaign that may only last a few weeks, days or even minutes.
8. Content forms the basis of your social media strategy, without great content, your social media platforms are worthless and people will not follow or engage with your brand on Twitter, Facebook or any other social network.
9.Great Content Marketing is useful for the target audience, it aims to help, inform, inspire and entertain. Content marketing is never a sales pitch or highly disruptive.
Content transformation can disrupt your business from within.
Traditional advertising and marketing is great when it comes to the second two steps. Content marketing taps into the first two stages of the buying process by raising awareness of solutions and educating consumers about a product they may have never considered before.
Portable, fast, easy video
People are spending more and more time on smaller-screen devices, and they want content that is quick and easy to consumer.
They are rolling out of bed, they are on the train, they’re sitting in a slow meeting. They are listening to one thing, and multi-tasking with three or four others. Their attention span is approaching 0.6 seconds. If you want to hold their attention you need to make content accessible, quick and easy to consume on the go, and on their phone.