Website traffic is a heady topic and consists of three separate parts: brand strategy, content strategy, and channel strategy. This talk looks at how to build a traffic machine that actually converts for any brand or website.
This talk was originally presented at the Converted Conference in October 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
10. Sales End With Traffic.
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11. # of Sales = CR% * Traffic
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12. This Talk Is About Traffic.
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13. • Leadpages/Drip team member
for two unforgettable years
• CEO & Co-founder of the first
brand measurement platform,
BrandishInsights.com
• Veteran digital marketer,
technologist and revenue guy
• Paradoxical love for both brand
and performance marketingJosh Braaten
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14. Traffic: Not Like This.
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15. How To Look @ Traffic
BRAND
STRATEGY
CONTENT
STRATEGY
CHANNEL
STRATEGY
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16. How To Look @ Traffic
A BRAND STRATEGY
A CONTENT STRATEGY
A CHANNEL STRATEGY
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18. Every Brand Needs A Framework.
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19. A Brand Framework
MISSION, VISION, VALUES
YOUR POSITIONING
YOUR ARCHETYPE
YOUR PERSONAS
YOUR VISUAL STYLE
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20. What Mission Are You On?
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21. Creating Your Mission, Vision & Values
Your Mission
This is why you exist.
Your Vision
This is the crazy idea you have for how the
future world should be.
Your Values
Make a list of 3-5 adjectives that describe
your defining characteristics and qualities
as a person or group of people working on
this mission and vision.
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22. Creating Your Mission, Vision & Values
Our Mission
To empower brands to achieve excellence.
Our Vision
We envision a world where your brand is as
easy to measure as your website is today.
Our Values
Wisdom
● We understand what worked in the past
● We understand what’s broken today
● We understand when to speak up
Clarity
● We see and feel your problems
● We see what will work in the future
● We see a way to simplify things
Passion
● We demand better tools
● We demand greater outcomes
● We demand brilliance
Initiative
● We insist on change
● We insist on helping
● We insist on being proactive
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23. What Stand Are You Taking?
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24. A Positioning Statement
For [your personas], [your brand]
is the [unique value proposition]
among all [competition] because
[reasons to believe].
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25. Our Position Statement
For [brand pioneers*], [Brandish
Insights] is the [best way to measure
your marketing] among all [SaaS
measurement tools] because [it’s the
only tool that measures your most
important asset: your brand].
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26. Who Are You, Really?
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27. Archetypes In Branding
Archetype
NOUN
1. The original pattern or model from which all
things of the same kind are copied or on
which they are based; a model or first form;
prototype.
1. (In Jungian psychology) a collectively
inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought,
image, etc., universally present in individual
psyches.
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28. Create Your Own Archetype.
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29. Step 1: Get Inspired.
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39. Personas For Brandish Insights
President
Paul
CEO
Needs marketing
to perform; wants
simplicity
Agency
Al
DIRECTOR OF
ACCOUNTS
Needs to put
more client dollars
to work in digital
CMO
Scott
CMO
Needs budget and
authority to
deliver on huge
goals
Search
Sam
DIRECTOR OF
SEO/PPC
Needs tools to
justify more
budgets/projects
Brand
Beth
DIRECTOR OF
BRAND
Needs tools to
justify more
budgets/projects
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41. Start Simple. Stay Consistent.
Our Style
Vivid, engaging imagery fuels Pioneers’
passion when reading or learning. Visuals
that maximize information-to-ink appeal to
the Sage’s sake of clarity.
FONTS:
Achivo Black
Tenor Sans
COLORS:
● Sage Blue: #1A2634
● Brandish Blue: #203E5F
● Brilliant Yellow: #EEC550
● Pioneer Yellow: #F9E3A3
● Brandish Black: #121212
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42. Write It All Down First...
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43. ...Then Scale From There.
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44. How To Look @ Traffic
BRAND
STRATEGY
CONTENT
STRATEGY
CHANNEL
STRATEGY
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45. What’s A Content Strategy?
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46. Content Strategy For The Web
Content Strategy
VERB
1. Planning for the creation, delivery, and
governance of useful, usable content.
- Kristina Halvorson
1. Figuring out how to get consumers to
associate your brand with relevant ideas in
your industry through content.
- Josh Braaten
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47. This Is Content Strategy.
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48. Let’s Build A Content Strategy.
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54. Step 2. Get SEO-Focused.
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55. Take Your Brand-Focused Keywords To AdWords.
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56. Get Data And Export It To Your Spreadsheet.
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57. Spend Time With Your Keywords. Love Them.
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58. Ok, That’s Too Much.
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59. But Seriously… Spend Time With Your Keywords.
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60. Step 3. Be More Relevant.
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61. Use Keywords To Inform Content Strategy.
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62. Google Tells You What It Wants. Every. Time.
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63. Make Something That’s Flat-Out Better.
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64. Make Something That’s Flat-Out Better.
By The Numbers:
● 6,268 words
● Quotes and images from two
dozen branding experts
● 24 researched brand awareness
tips across six different categories
of marketing
● 35-page illustrated guide included
● 8 months of effort and time
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65. Crush Your “Hallmark” Pieces. Add Variety.
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66. Remember: You Have To Make The Donuts.
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67. How To Look @ Traffic
BRAND
STRATEGY
CONTENT
STRATEGY
CHANNEL
STRATEGY
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