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Bootstrapping Your Content Marketing
StartUP@BlagoevgradMarch 30, 2013
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Meet Geralyn from LA
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She just launched Sammy&Claire.com
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Geralyn has...A yet unknown brand
Beautiful website design
An awesome product
Great customer service
A short cash runway
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She only needs...Social media presence
Blog
Organic traffic
Search rankings
Customers
Cash flow
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Traditional marketing is
out.
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Can I bootstrap this baby?
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Traditional marketing talks at people.Content marketing talks with them.
- Doug Kessler
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Isn’t this Social Media Marketing?
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And what about SEO?
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SEO has changed
2012 2013
Duplicate & low quality content
Manipulativelink-building
Earned endorsement to quality content
Process Outcome
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Courtesy of Scribe’s The Business Case for Agile Content Marketing
SEO Analyst
Content creator Outreach coordinator
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This is a huge amount of work...
Is it worth it?
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0
ROI
PPC
(manipulative)
SEO
CM
The long game
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Courtesy of HubSpot Marketing Benchmarks from 7,000+ Businesses
Content MarketingTipping Points
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400+
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10+
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50+
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500+
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200+
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The Strategy
Brandededitorial content
Editorial endorsements
Money page
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What to measureStage KPIs
Reach Social audience growthSearch impressions
EngagementSocial shares on contentEarned links to content
Organic search visitsSocial media referral visits
Conversion Conversions by channelReturn on Investment (ROI)
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Plan
Produce
PublishPromote
Prove
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[Planning]
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GA organic keywords
Tool used: Google Analytics (GA)
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Finding keyword traction
Tool used: Google Webmaster Tools (GWT)
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Drilling deeper into search demand
Tool used: Google AdWords keyword tool & Google Trends
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Anything getting social shares?
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[Production]
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Think like a publisher
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Define customer personas
What are their problems?
What keeps them up at night?
What are their goals?
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You’re not an artist, Peggy.You solve problems.
Leave some tools in your toolbox.
- Don Draper, Mad Men
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Content checklist• Who are we writing for (customer persona)?
• Does it provide a resource, evoke emotion or entertain?
• What keyword(s) are we targeting?
• What conversion page are we linking to?
• Does it have a great image?
• Is it original, or improve existing content on this subject?
• Is it shareable?
• Is it timely?
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Repurposing content
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Repurposing on Pinterest
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Repurposing via email marketing
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“ Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such
verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining
anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
- Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman
More on Authorship from SearchEngineLand
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[Promote]
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Need to have
Nice to have40
Core activities
Converse
@RT
#DM
ShareFollow
Growaudience
Gaininfluence
Buildrelationships
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Finding influencers
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Curate content
Hand-picked content -- shared with editorial flare -- naturally attracts quality followers/fans.
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Listen...
& talk it up
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Guest blog outreach
ID target customer
...1
Reach out to those sites
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ID common influencers
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Find sites influencers are
sharing
3 ...
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[Prove]
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Defining ROI
Incremental revenue increase
Lifetime value (LTV) creation
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Measuring LTV using cohort analysis
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Cohorts profitability over time
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Build
MeasureLearn
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Twitter : @parischildressLinkedIn: bg.linkedin.com/in/parischildress/
Google+: Skype: pchil9Email: paris@hop-online.com
Thanks for making it this far
StartUP@BlagoevgradMarch 30, 2013
Ques%ons?
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