This "beginner's guide to content marketing" will:
- help you understand how rich content can boost to brand awareness and loyalty
- offers tips on including blogs, video, images, etc. in your marketing strategy
- includes ideas for finding the time and inspiration to generate quality content
Content Marketing: What’s all the fuss and why should I be bothered?
1. Leanne Wyvill
30 May 2014
www.presencecommunications.com.au
Business Enterprise Centre Ipswich Region
2. “creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent
content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience –
with the objective of driving profitable customer action…
… the belief that if we deliver consistent, ongoing valuable
information to buyers, they ultimately reward us
with their business and loyalty.”
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/what-is-content-marketing/
3. “…building familiarity, affinity and trust with prospective
and current customers by providing information that
resonates – in the right format, through the right
channel, at the right time.”
http://www.act-on.com/
4. You see a gorgeous girl at a party…
You go up to her and say, "I'm a great lover." That's Direct Marketing.
One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says, "He's a great lover." That's Advertising.
You get up, straighten your tie, walk over to her and pour her a drink. You open the door for her, pick
up her bag after she drops it, offer her a ride, and then say, "By the way, I'm a great lover." That's
Public Relations.
You go up to her and get her contact details. The next day you call and say "I'm a great lover." And
follow it up with an email. That's Telemarketing and E-marketing.
You take a selfie with her then post it on face book and tweet about it. That’s Social Media marketing.
The next day you write about meeting/encountering/talking to her/that girl/bride-to-be/ and what
that means to you/yourself/hunk/Channing Tatum, draw a diagram with funky fonts and illustrated
images, and turn the experience into a video clip. That’s Content Marketing.
She walks up to you and says, "I hear you're a great lover." That's Brand Recognition.
5. An understanding of how rich content can boost to
brand awareness and loyalty
Tips on including blogs, video, images, etc. in your
marketing strategy
Ideas for finding the time and inspiration to generate
quality content.
6. 1. Content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and
generates about 3x as many leads. (Demand Metric)
2. 61% of consumers say they are more likely to buy from a company that
delivers custom content. (Custom Content Council)
3. 90% of consumers find custom content useful (TMG Custom Media)
4. 78% believe that organizations providing custom content are interested
in building good relationships with them. (TMG Custom Media)
5. 27,000,000 pieces of content are shared each day. (AOL / Nielsen)
6. 50% of consumer time online is spent engaging with custom content.
(HubSpot)
7. Customers who receive email newsletters spend 82% more when they
buy from the company. (iContact)
8. 70% of consumers prefer to get to know a company through original
articles. (ContentPlus)
7. Tell a story
Solve a problem
Emotive
Relevant
Consistent
Call to action (feedback,
read more, sign up, buy)
Snack-able
Search-able
Share-able
Hard-to-resist
headline
Conversational
8. Twitter: I am eating a #donut
Facebook: I like donuts
Foursquare: This is where I eat donuts
Instagram: Here is a vintage photo of my donut
Snapchat: That was me eating a donut with my BFF
Youtube: Here’s how I eat a donut
LinkedIn: My skills include donut eating Pinterest: Here is a donut recipe
Google+: I eat donuts in circles Lead magnet: Click here for your free donut report
Website: Buy our donuts online Email: Here’s the latest update on donuts
Podcast: Hear me eat a donut
SlideShare: My presentation about donuts
Webinar: Let’s learn how to eat donuts at our desks
Blog: 47 ways to eat a donut Infographic:
9. Who is your customer?
Where do they snack
and what do they like to
taste?
What kind of questions
do they ask?
Key words and long tails
Where do we put our content so
customers will find us?
11. To get value you have
to give value.
Time
Strategy
Resource it – staff, software, outsource
Planning
Engage
Source it
Create it – the power of HOW
to/many/come/about/is it that…
Style it – brand personality
Connect it
Monitor and measure
13. Content marketing is an
ongoing conversation
with customers served up
they way they like it.
It has a role in an overall
marketing strategy and
business growth plan.
It’s cost effective.
It’s what customers
expect.
It has choices and
channels.
It should be able to be
snacked on, searched and
shared.
It’s about telling stories
and solving problems.
To be effective it has to
be consistent, regular,
resourced and deliberate.
There are many
numerous sources for
inspiration.