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#CONTENTPROMO
How Content Promotion
Changed Digital Marketing
Forever
Chad Pollitt
VP of Audience & Co-Founder,
Relevance
VP of Audience, Co-founder
@chadpollitt
CHAD
POLLITT
1 Content Failure Fatigue
2 The Problem
3 The Solution
4 The Content Promotion Ecosystem
5 Success Stories
6 How it’s Done
7 How to Budget
AGENDA
#CONTENTPROMO
1 Content Failure Fatigue
#CONTENTPROMO
Great Content Goes
Unread Every Day
#CONTENTPROMO
Only 13
Unique
Views
#CONTENTPROMO
How Does It Make
You Feel?
#CONTENTPROMO
Some people
might feel
ANGRY
#CONTENTPROMO
Others might
just roll their
eyes in
FRUSTRATION
#CONTENTPROMO
A feeling of
DISGUST
would be
perfectly
normal, too
#CONTENTPROMO
Some people
might feel
DEMORALIZED or
EMBARRASSED
#CONTENTPROMO
…Or maybe
just THIS?
#CONTENTPROMO
2 The Problem
#CONTENTPROMO
Every Minute of Every Day
#CONTENTPROMO
- Mashable
Every Minute of Every Day
#CONTENTPROMO
- Mashable
571 websites are launched
Every Minute of Every Day
#CONTENTPROMO
- Mashable
571 websites are launched
350,000 tweets are tweeted
Every Minute of Every Day
#CONTENTPROMO
- Mashable
571 websites are launched
350,000 tweets are tweeted
48 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded
Every Minute of Every Day
#CONTENTPROMO
#CONTENTPROMO
2.73 million
blog posts are written and
published daily
The Content Promotion Manifesto
Over
#CONTENTPROMO
Many Industries
are Oversaturated
with Content
#CONTENTPROMO
Facebook’s organic reach is at 6% and dropping
- Ogilvy & Mather
#CONTENTPROMO
With other networks likely to follow suit
#CONTENTPROMO
42 of the top 50 SEO ranking factors are off-page
Including the top 12 factors overall
- Moz, 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors
#CONTENTPROMO
On-page content only has an indirect
impact on off-page signals
#CONTENTPROMO
SEO is not something you do anymore, it’s what
happens when you do everything else right
#CONTENTPROMO
The Internet is…
a VERY noisy place
for a brand to
stand out and be
found today
#CONTENTPROMO
37%
of marketers believe they’re
using their content effectively
CMI
Only
#CONTENTPROMO
This isn’t a
CONTENT PROBLEM
#CONTENTPROMO
It’s an AUDIENCE
PROBLEM
#CONTENTPROMO
So what should
marketers do
about it?
#CONTENTPROMO
Should they
produce more
content?
#CONTENTPROMO
How about
increasing its
quality?
#CONTENTPROMO
Brands can actually step down content
production and step up distribution
[promotion] to get better results
Ryan Skinner, Forrester
“
#CONTENTPROMO
Better distribution [promotion] improves
content’s quality, as the feedback cycle
accelerates
Ryan Skinner, Forrester
“
#CONTENTPROMO
3 The Solution:
Content Promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
Native Newsletter
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
Native Advertising
Native Newsletter
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
Native Advertising
Native Social
Native Newsletter
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Native Advertising
Native Social
Native Newsletter
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Native Advertising
Native Social
Native Newsletter
Press Releases
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Native Advertising
Native Social
Native Newsletter
Social Media
Press Releases
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Native Advertising
Native Social
Native Newsletter
Email
Social Media
Press Releases
#CONTENTPROMO
4 The Content Promotion
Ecosystem
#CONTENTPROMO
Content
Promotion
Tools
bit.ly/promotion-
ecosystem
#CONTENTPROMO
It has been found that the less an
advertisement looks like an advertisement
and the more it looks like an editorial, the
more readers stop, look and read
David Ogilvy, the “Father of Advertising”
“
#CONTENTPROMO
• Business 2 Blogger
• Blogsvertise
• Markerly
• GroupHigh
• Syndicateads.net
• Buysellads.com
• IZEA
• Adproval
• Web.Blogads.com
• BlogHer
• Triberr
Advertorial Networks
#CONTENTPROMO
5 Success Stories
#CONTENTPROMO
The Greatest
Hoodie Ever Made
#CONTENTPROMO
American
Giant
Earned coverage
from Slate.com
and Esquire
#CONTENTPROMO
15 to 20x
increase in production and
still barely met demand.
Inc.com
forced a
#CONTENTPROMO
American
Giant
Very difficult to
get media coverage
for a product, but
Bayard Winthrop
pulled it off
#CONTENTPROMO
Great product and
story with purposeful
promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
How Rodon Beats
Chinese Pricing
#CONTENTPROMO
The Rodon
Group
Earned coverage
from virtually every
major media outlet
“Cheaper than China” Ebook
#CONTENTPROMO
The Rodon
Group
…BECAUSE of
an in-person
endorsement
from the POTUS
#CONTENTPROMO
Great content with purposeful promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
Content that
Advanced an
Industry
#CONTENTPROMO
Slingshot SEO
Earned coverage
from academia,
media outlets and
industry influencers
around the world
#CONTENTPROMO
Even an onstage endorsement from Rand Fishkin at INBOUND 2012
#CONTENTPROMO
Slingshot SEO
Research and
media relations
enabled the study to
advance an industry
#CONTENTPROMO
Great content and
research with purposeful
promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
Content promotion
that drove eight-
digits of incremental
revenue
#CONTENTPROMO
Teradata
Earned coverage
from 46 media
outlets and trade
publications
“Big Data Marketing Hero” Ebook
#CONTENTPROMO
Over 3 million media impressions
25% landing page conversion rate
30 global brand prospect meetings
#CONTENTPROMO
Teradata
A full-on owned,
paid and earned
media blitz drove
36x return on
investment
#CONTENTPROMO
Great content and
promotion on all three
media channels
#CONTENTPROMO
The Bottom Line
for You?
#CONTENTPROMO
Start with GREAT
Content and
Promote It
#CONTENTPROMO
800+ incremental leads
in 14 days from one
mention on Inc.com
#CONTENTPROMO
6 How it’s Done
#CONTENTPROMO
Research
#CONTENTPROMO
Define Personas
Media Assessment
Audience Assessment
Content Assessment
Influencer Identification
Research
#CONTENTPROMO
Creative
#CONTENTPROMO
Create content and all
supporting assets
Creative
#CONTENTPROMO
Promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
Promotion
Finalize Pitch Angles
Editorial Outreach
Influencer Outreach
Paid Media
Email
Social Media
#CONTENTPROMO
Conversion
#CONTENTPROMO
A/B Testing
Retargeting
Marketing Automation
Conversion
#CONTENTPROMO
7 How to Budget for Content
Promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
Half the money I spend on advertising is
wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which
half
John Wanamaker, the “Father of the Modern
Department Store”
“
#CONTENTPROMO
63%
of marketers believe they’re NOT
using their content effectively
CMI
#CONTENTPROMO
2013 Spending on Content Promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
2013 Spending on Content Promotion
On average,
brands spent at least…
#CONTENTPROMO
15.2%
of content marketing budgets on
promotion
Content Promotion Manifesto
#CONTENTPROMO
This is a Recipe for
FAILURE
#CONTENTPROMO
DigitalRelevance Clients Spent
#CONTENTPROMO
DigitalRelevance Clients Spent
40% of their content
marketing budgets
on promotion
#CONTENTPROMO
This is a Recipe for
SUCCESS
#CONTENTPROMO
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