eMarketer Webinar: Maximizing your B2B Content Marketing ROI

2. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Today’s Agenda:  The Evolving B2B Content Marketing Landscape  Thinking Long-Term: Nurturing Leads  Laying the Groundwork for Maximum Return  Creation, Dissemination and Optimization  The Cost-Effective Flywheel

5. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. The Changing Digital Ad Landscape  Traditional digital streams are oversaturated and too expensive  Concerns like ad blindness, viewability and ad blocking make it harder to reach B2B buyers  Digital ad campaigns are a one-shot strategy  Content provides a permanent “home.” Unlike an ad, it doesn’t disappear if an action doesn’t occur straight away

6. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Content can create an authentic story and relationship with the customer “Content marketing allows for a two-way exchange, and a meaningful, authentic dialogue and conversation with the customer.” —Steve Chadwick, Director, Marketing Communications, Verizon Enterprise Solutions “Content marketing facilitates a long-term value exchange between brands and buyers, creating customers who stay longer and buy more.” —Joe Pulizzi, Founder and CEO, The Content Marketing Institute

11. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. The number of leads is no longer content marketing’s leading performance metric. Sales conversions is the top consideration, with lead quality and cost savings rising in importance, too

13. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Generating leads isn’t enough to show success; leads are people and need to be nurtured “When a lead enters the funnel, they need to have consumed enough content from you that they’re ready to make a purchase.” —Annette Barnes Promes, CMO, Moz “Buyers want to understand how different vendors see the world. The more content they read, the more they get a sense of what a company offers.” —Tomasz Tunguz, venture capitalist, Redpoint Ventures

15. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Content marketing can feel like a waiting game “In order for content marketing to work, we’ve got to create value before we extract that value. Extracting value too soon kills the relationship with the customer, and that’s why, in a lot of cases, content marketing doesn’t work.” —Joe Pulizzi, Founder and CEO, The Content Marketing Institute “The No. 1 cardinal sin is that B2B marketers do not stick with content marketing long enough. They are quick to say, ‘It’s underperforming. Let’s not do content marketing anymore.’ And no matter the challenges, that is the worst thing to do.” —Jeremy Goldman, CEO and Founder, Firebrand Group

17. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Some B2Bs have problems with the basics 38% of B2B marketers have “no content strategy that tracks to business.” Source: CMO Council, Content ROI Center and NetLine, Q2 2015 92% of B2B marketers have trouble meeting content deadlines, and 90% felt that redundant content creation was inefficient. Source: Gleanster in association with Kapost, April 2015

18. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Building a content marketing engine takes time “Looking back, it was an incredibly hard journey. Even just getting the right people in place and getting all of marketing to take content seriously as an organization, it was difficult, like herding cats.” —Amrita Thapar, Content Leader, Genpact

19. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Know your audience and their buyer journey  Content becomes irrelevant if individual assets are designed for more than a single audience  Generic content can be a wasted effort. It must be designed for a specific archetype and be audience-focused  Brands need to understand who they are speaking to: 1. Who the buyers are 2. Where they are in the buyer journey

20. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. B2Bs recognize the importance of audience 82% used buyer personas and buyer journey maps Source: Akoonu, August 2015 93% believed understanding the customer buying journey is important Source: Regalix, January 2016

21. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Developing buyer profiles: 62% of senior B2B marketing and sales professionals in North America used persona-based marketing to drive content creation. 58% modeled best customers and identified best audience segments. Common criteria to develop buyer personas included: job function, title, core buyer pain points, product interest, purchase authority, and size/revenue of the company. (Source: Dun & Bradstreet, December 2015)

23. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Audience research streamlines content marketing “After categorizing content based on parts of our customer’s journey, we realized that we were producing a lot more at the top of the funnel than we did mid- and post-sale.” —Loni Stark, Senior Director, Strategy and Product Marketing, Adobe “We talk to our current clients, to prospects, and we define what that customer lifecycle journey looks like, to find challenges and opportunities to answer their questions with our content.” —Ken Wincko, SVP, Marketing, PR Newswire

28. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Other B2B buyer attitudes on content marketing: 100% placed a higher emphasis on the trustworthiness of the source, and 95% were willing to consider vendor-related content trustworthy. Source: Demand Gen Report, January 2016 On-demand and mobile-optimized content were important factors for content consumption. 83% found themselves overwhelmed by the amount of content available.

30. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Utilizing the right channel to disseminate content isn’t a one-and-done deal  Two-thirds of US B2B enterprise marketers delivered content via five or more different marketing tactics

35. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Testing enhances performance and provides insight “We’re looking at content consumption to understand what’s top of mind for the market so that we can then double-down in those areas, whether it’s through additional content or specific campaigns that are tied to those topics.” —Andy Hilton, Vice President of Communications, Content and Brand, ADP “When content was underperforming, we studied the variables—the title, summary, the site’s structure, the location on the landing page—and we tested, optimized it. We saw a double-digit lift in conversion.” —Ken Wincko, SVP, Marketing, PR Newswire

36. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Repurposing existing assets maximizes effort “We produce in-depth content about specific business challenges. Then we make derivative content for our audience who may not want to commit to reading a 20-page report.” —Loni Stark, Senior Director, Strategy and Product Marketing, Adobe “We deconstruct our content into more relevant, snackable, consumable pieces along the buying journey rather than pushing full reports out and hoping somebody reads it.” —Steve Chadwick, Director, Marketing Communications, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

39. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Content marketing’s long tail provides “compounding returns”  The freshest content usually doesn’t see the most traffic  As content is shared, linked to and indexed by search engines, it gets more traffic over time  Evergreen content creates the flywheel, delivering increased results through its long tail

40. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Content marketing allows B2B companies to truly own their audience, rather than just rent it “Trying to rent an audience through media is getting more expensive, less effective. But if you own your audience through content, they keep coming back.” —Patricia Travaline, CMO, Skyword “By dealing more directly with your customer through your content, you have more data and a better understanding of your customer.” —Jeremy Goldman, CEO and Founder, Firebrand Group

42. © 2016 eMarketer Inc. Let’s recap:  Content marketing is effective; more content is being produced to create authenticity and value  B2B buyers are real people with a long decision-making process and marketers must think long-term and nurture leads  Pre-work must be done before starting to create content in order to maximize return  Effective content marketing strategies must incorporate a continual process of content creation, dissemination and optimization  As the flywheel spins, momentum allows for compounding returns and B2B marketers often begin to own their audience, thus maximizing cost-effectiveness over time

43. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Marketing Cloud Kaila Garrison Head of Product Marketing Oracle Marketing Cloud Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Winning with an Effective Content Marketing Strategy

44. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Everyone Believes Content is King of enterprise CMOs said that content marketing is important to their business in 2014. 91% indexed pages of content in Google. In 2008, only 1 trillion. 30TRILLION of marketers say they are producing more content than they did a year ago. 73% of content is wasted each day. 70% But it Fails to Deliver

45. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Content is Not Strategic of Marketers say they lack a consistent or integrated content strategy – Altimeter Group 70% Marketers employ the “spray & pray” approach instead of an overall strategy.

46. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. of customers are frustrated that web content doesn’t map to their interest 74% Mark Jones, 29 INETERESTS: Skiing, Grilling, Camping, Base Jumping There is a Broken Marketers Experience for Content Content is Not Personalized As a result we have a broken customer experience.

48. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Scale Relevant Content Across Customer Journey With Oracle’s Content Marketing solution, create personas and deliver your audience relevant, contextualized content throughout their journey

49. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Enterprise Ready Create large volumes of targeted content Why The Oracle Marketing Cloud? Deliver Personalized Experience Provide 1:1 messaging through content developed for specific personas and funnel stages Marketing Simplicity Provide central view of editorial schedule, content repository, and analytics

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