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Brighten your content: taking a test-and-learn approach

Making content marketing a conversation. Content marketing conference, 16 April 2015

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Brighten your content:

taking a test-and-learn approach

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CONVENTIONAL CAMPAIGN MODEL

Message Content Activation

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CONVENTIONAL CAMPAIGN MODEL

Brand Public

Message Content Activation

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NEW ‘CAMPAIGN’ MODEL

Message Content

Activation

NEW CAMPAIGN ‘MODEL’

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NEW CAMPAIGN ‘MODEL’

Brand Public

Message Content

Activation

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UKCES (UK Commission on Employment and

Skills)

Youth Unemployment Digital Campaign

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UKCES is an executive non-departmental

public body, sponsored by the Department for

Business, Innovation & Skills.

It offers guidance on skills and employment

issues in the UK - produces research - runs

events

Its setup has an impact on its content

production, e.g.

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Issue:

- More career opportunities for young people

- More employers investing in the skills of their people

- Policy change

Brand / organisational ambitions:

- Position UKCES as the “go-to” authority for quality

employment insight and research

- Increased brand profile and awareness (outside of the skills

bubble) of UKCES

- Increased partnership working (e.g. British Chambers, LEPs)

- Interaction and action from business

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Background for project

- Recent success translating research into headlines, e.g. “Death of the

Saturday Job”

- Had tested ‘social’ content, e.g. #satjob - getting people to contribute

experiences

- A team keen to innovate

THE SETUP

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Project model

- Timescale: six months

- Initial research and planning + ‘pilot run’ + five subsequent phases

- Monthly pushes, around release of unemployment figures

THE SETUP

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Approach

- Multiple social media platforms + formats - avoiding reliance on the website

- Repurposing existing content + creating new (planned and responsive)

content

- Open to brand development

- A preselected theme for each month, e.g.

- apprenticeships

- graduate employment, and to start

- work experience

THE SETUP

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#notjustmakingtea

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#notjustmakingtea

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#notjustmakingtea

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#apprenticeswork

Lesson #1:

Pick an angle anyone

can engage with

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#apprenticeswork

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#apprenticeswork

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Lesson #2:

Serious content doesn’t

need to be dressed for

a funeral

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#xmasrecordbreaker

s

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#xmasrecordbreakers

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#xmasrecordbreakers

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#apprenticeswork

Lesson #3:

Failure’s part of the

deal

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#thanksforthebreak

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#thanksforthebreak

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#thanksforthebreak

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#thanksforthebreak

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Lessons #4, #5 & #6:

Use themes that resonate with

audience, not the ‘skills buckets’

Debranding creative

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#tomyyoungerself

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#tomyyoungerself

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- 25% increase in @UKCES Twitter followers during campaign

- including small & large businesses and prospective partners

- 50% increase by early 2015

- New relationships inside and outside the ‘skills bubble

- Engagement with major existing partners and wider government

- Skills, confidence & ‘social media leaders’ reputation for comms team

- Impact on more formal UKCES communications - e.g. research report

following year adopted ‘not just making tea’ as its headline.

- Youth unemployment continues to fall*

IMPACT

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Top three lessons for testing and learning with

content:

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1) Create the structure to learn

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2) Permission to fail

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2) Permission to fail (= permission to succeed

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3) Share success

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Thanks!

Charlie Peverett

Head of digital strategy, Neo

@cpev / @weareneo

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+44 (0)1273 600 500 [email protected]

Neo, 8 Beaconsfield Studios, 25 Ditchling Rise, Brighton. BN1 4QL United

Kingdom

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Flickr images reproduced under Creative Commons license

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Brighton Beach pic by Flickr user eyeview

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Cat fail pic by Flickr user tomomi https://flic.kr/p/aV6jGP

Queue by a wall by Garry Knight https://flic.kr/p/ksPKNd

Picture credits

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Content marketing: planning, creating and

distributing content that adds

value

Conference

16 April 2015

London

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