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The CMO’s Guide to Hiring for Content
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Some Facts: Content marketing job listings have grown 350% since 2011 (Fractl and Moz 2015).
In 2011, content marketing spend was $100 billion. In 2019 it’s expected to reach over $313 billion (PQ Media 2015).
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I. Trends II. Staffing for a Content Strategy III. Hiring Criteria per Role IV. Budget
Content Methodology: A Definition
What will we talk about today?
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i. Trends Late last year, Cisco laid off over 100 marketing staffers. The shift? A focus on storytelling. But what trends—across industries—do we see? And who are the primary adopters?
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Multimedia Newsrooms
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JPMorgan Chase In “Revitalizing Brownsville,” Chase examines the justice system, local entrepreneurship, and more in its documentary style videos and longform essays.
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Marriott
Dubbed “M Live,” Marriott’s content control room is run by a team of media veterans—two from Disney and one from CBS—who monitor nine screens that track Marriott’s social media campaigns, international bookings, and editorial calendar.
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athenaHealth While the B2C world might seem like a more natural fit for a multimedia newsroom, B2B brands are also following suit.
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Freelance Creative Teams Coca-Cola’s Audience Coca-Cola’s online magazine, Coca-Cola Journey, has amassed an audience of millions of readers each month and launched sites in 19 global markets including the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Arabia.
Coca-Cola’s Writers In the Coca-Cola Journey HQ in the U.S., the small editorial team taps sports, food, lifestyle, and business reporters from the Contently network. Globally, as the editorial operations expand, so too, do the publication’s freelance teams.
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We’ve really tried to carve out a beat system with our freelance writers. It’s nice to know who we can go to for certain stories. JAYS MOYE, COCA-COLA’S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR US JOURNEY
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AARP Freelance videographer to document a trip down the Pacific Coast Highway (part of a native advertising project with its car rental partner, Avis)
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Political and biomedical writers to cover shifts in health policy and medical advancements
The Trade Desk Consistent infographics with a freelance designer from Brazil
Better Weekdays Career services writers publish more than 100 stories on the company’s blog in one year
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I’m an okay writer, but I don’t have the time, and it’s not the same as people who do this for a living. The thing ROI doesn’t account for is time—and that’s the key point.” CHRIS MOTLEY, CEO BETTER WEEKDAYS
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II. Staffing for a Content Strategy One of the biggest mistakes a brand can make is to hire someone for a content role without first considering whether that person is equipped to execute within the company’s larger content strategy.
Here’s how to ensure you hire the right people for the job.
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Step 1: Identify you key inputs. Before companies dive into hiring, we recommend that they first identify the four key inputs of their content strategy.
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INTERNAL NEEDS
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EXTERNALFACTORS
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The inputs. Define objectives and KPIs. Clear objectives and KPIs are the foundation of any content marketing effort.
Conduct an audience definition and channel analysis.
Modern organizations need to identify where people spend their time, and create content accordingly.
Identify market opportunity. What are your competitors doing? What customer pain points can you help address?
Evaluate processes and resources. Smart organizations take a full inventory of their content resources before they begin the hiring process.
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Step 2: Staff your team.
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Hiring to Crawl
Internal Resources 0.5 FTE (full-time employees) (e.g., marketing manager)
External Resources 0.5 FTE (e.g., freelance writer or editor)
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Hiring to Walk
Internal Resources 1.5 FTE (e.g., director of marketing and content marketing manager)
External Resources 2.5 FTE (e.g., freelance writers, designers, strategists, and managing editor)
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Hiring to Run
Internal Resources 3.5+ FTE (e.g., director of marketing, head of content, content marketing manager, social media manager)
External Resources
5+ FTE (e.g., 7–10 freelance writers, designers, strategists, videographers, and managing editors)
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III. Hiring Criteria What are you looking for in each role?
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Writers The Golden Rule when hiring writers: Avoid the temptation of plucking a marketer from his department and forcing him to write. Tap experts and journalists who have the skill set to write stories your audience will actually read.
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It all comes down the the basics of journalism, which is curiosity, the ability to tell a story, general fluency with the language, and being able to interview and write. JOANNA WEISS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR ATHENAINSIGHT, ATHENAHEALTH’S DIGITAL PUBLICATION
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Editors The ideal brand editor has great storytelling instinct, demonstrates a keen understanding of the brand’s audience, and knows how to use content to help the brand reach its overall goals.
Like all good editors, brand editors know that brands have to give their audiences content worth consuming. What’s more, they have to have the spine and the latitude to provide a balance against the marketing team’s urge to push products. That’s a fine line to walk, but if they don’t, a brand’s content efforts will be over before they start. RYAN GALLOWAY, DIRECTOR OF BRAND SERVICES FOR CONTENTLY
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We realized it was time to think about how we could scale the content and be even more cost-effective. ADAM TANGUAY, HEAD OF ORGANIC GROWTH FOR WEEBLY
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Multimedia Multimedia producers within brands come from diverse backgrounds.
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The transition from public television to corporate isn’t necessarily obvious. The fact that we are all here is partly because of [senior leadership] and partly because we have freedom in terms of how we do things creatively. LAURA LONGSWORTH, ONE OF ATHENAHEALTH’S LEAD VIDEO PRODUCERS
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Strategists Content strategists need strong communication skills to be able to handle the frequently conflicting demands of editorial and marketing leaders.
The role of the content strategist is to be bilingual. ARI KEPNES, LEAD CONTENT STRATEGIST FOR CONTENTLY
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IV. Budget In our 2016 content marketing study, 73 percent of respondents said they produced more content in 2015 than in 2014.
However, two-thirds devoted less than a quarter of their marketing budgets to the production, management, and distribution of this content. And 63 percent of marketers spent less than one-tenth of their budgets on content marketing technology.
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We have to be thinking about business and sales and how we can bring something to those objectives. If you don’t know what business objectives are, ask. If you’re a CMO, print them out and put them on everyone’s wall. TRISHA WINTER, THE CMO FOR AMPLIFINITY
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Step 1: How to get buy-in A. Tie content strategy to specific goals.
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B. Pitch brand experience.
of customers feel more positive about a company after reading custom content82%are inspired to research a product after reading about it60%of millennials expect to engage directly with brands 80%
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It’s not as easy as dollar spent, dollar earned. As a CEO, what I’m interested in are broader principles. How will this impact brand? Relationship? How do I get the biggest gain? JEFF DAY, THE CEO OF BLUEWATER TECHNOLOGIES
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C. Present technology as a way to compete in disruptive markets and empower your team.
New technologies provide us with greater insights into customer behaviors and aspirations. BRIAN SOLIS, A PRINCIPAL ANALYST AT ALTIMETER GROUP
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D. Reinforce the compounding impact of content. When developed as part of a larger publication strategy, content meets these goals:
Awareness (top funnel)
Educational (mid funnel)
Conversion (bottom funnel)
And, when used as part of a customer-retention strategy, content can increase ROI up to 15x.
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Step 2: How to allocate your budget
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The CMO’s Guide to Hiring for Content SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
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