The Secrets to Making Your Content Marketing Relevant, Melanie Deziel, Social Fresh Conference 2016

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The Secrets to Making Your Content Marketing

Relevant#

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS

“GOOD CONTENT” #socialfresh

“CON” + “TEXERE”together + to weave

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Prefer articles to ads

Content is valuable

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67%

companies that provide content want to build a good relationship with me

73%

78%

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But first…

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Identify TheirPOWER

Know YourPEOPLE

Find TheirPLACE

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IDENTIFY THEIR POWER

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What does the brand actually have the authority to speak about?

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Of people t rust educat ional content

from businesses in their area of

expertise

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PRODUCT & features

ROLE in consumers’ lives

EMOTIONS & thoughts provoked

PRE

FIND THE AREA OF AUTHORITY

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KNOW YOUR PEOPLE

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What is our target audience most interested in, and what do we know about the content they

consume?

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More visual focus

Higher lift in brand affinity

Higher purchase intent

CONTENT VS. STANDARD ADS

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• What questions do they have? Social comments, Customer service hotline/chat, Google autocomplete, Top FAQ pages, etc.

• What do they engage with most? Likes, Shares, Comments, Follows, Email, Engaged time, etc.

• Who do they trust? Sources, Influencers, Publications, etc.

• What are their content preferences? Preferred formats, Time of day, Day of the week, Device used, etc.

TARGET FIRST, AT EVERY STAGE

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FIND THEIR PLACE

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Where would this content fit best?How will people discover the

content?

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CONTENT WITHOUT DISTRIBUTION

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ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

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DISTRIBUTION AT (YOUR) SCALE

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of local independent news sites sell native

advertising

51%

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FORMAT#socialfresh

DETERMINESSTORY

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:CASE STUDY

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Streaming TV

Trends

Visually driven tech enthusiasts

Interactive Page

InteractiveScroll

Reported Piece

User Poll

LiveTickerWithClientData

Timeline

Prison Life (OITNB)

Streaming TV

Trends

Visually driven tech enthusiasts

Entertainment/humor seekers

Interactive Page GIF list

List Format

GIFs fromthe show

OITNBSocialFeeds

Playful, irreverent,conversatio

nal tone

Prison Life (OITNB)

Streaming TV

Trends

Visually driven tech enthusiasts

Entertainment/

humor seekers

Interactive Page GIF list

Fact-driven, politically

conscious skeptics

In-depth reporting

Interactivescrolling

page 1500-wordreported piece

(that’s me)Socialshare

buttons

Scrolling animations

Pull-quotesand stats

Three-part mini-

documentary

Audio intervie

ws

Photo Gallery

Infographics

Brandedbanner

Resources

INNOVATION HAPPENS AT THE INTERSECTION.

THAT’S WHERE NEW IDEAS COME FROM.

— Emilie Wapnick #AAN2016

@mdeziel

mdeziel.com

overlapleague.com

mdeziel@overlapleague.com #socialfresh