Lean Marketing
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I've been thinking a lot recently about how we apply 'The Lean Startup' principles to marketing projects. We find success in tight feedback loops - where we get feedback on content or marketing tactics and then improve through iteration. This presentation shares some of the tools, tactics and approaches that have been used on successful campaigns.
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- 1. Lean Marketing Rob Ousbey – Distilled @RobOusbey
- 3. Agile Marketing Whiteboard Friday with @jcolman http://www.seomoz.org/blog/agile-marketing-whiteboard-friday Excellent 6 minute video showing how to apply the Agile principles to marketing teams.
- 5. Iterative feedback loops will have a bigger impact than PREDETERMINED PLANS
- 6. Image – and applications of the Lean Startup principles to non-profits – at: But don’t consider this as just a loop to keep going around, it’s also principle: always think about whether you’ve validated enough to move on. Early iterations will be fast, tight & numerous.
- 7. Ideas In Build Measure & LearnValidating marketing is hard, but incredibly effective. These tactics can help small companies and start-ups outplay the ‘big boys’, but smart teams inside big companies can do it too!
- 8. IDEAS IN You can collect ton of ideas when you’re lean. It’s like one massive brainstorm, where volume at the top is fine.
- 9. BRAINSTORMS
- 10. Come prepared Give your brainstorm attendees all the necessary information in advance and make them come along with a bunch of ideas.
- 11. Read more: http://dis.tl/YXnnKS Every story at The Onion begins with headlines. The writers begin brainstorms by writing hundreds of headlines, the whittling them down to the best few. Only then do they write articles.
- 12. Iteration A great technique to develop ideas.
- 13. Ideas Machine @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey The ‘Ideas Machine’ was built in minutes using Google Forms and had a $300 budget – every submitted idea got a coffee reward. Starbucks B2B cards can be recharged remotely: www.starbuckscardb2b.com
- 14. Private Trello @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey A Kanban board that works great for managing the marketing process, but also great for capturing ideas from the team.
- 15. Public Trello @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey We list our content plans publicly on Trello. Customers can add their suggestions and vote on the content they’d like to see.
- 16. BUILD
- 17. Wireframes Wireframing is also an appropriate technique for content planning. It’s useful internally or to share with experts for feedback and buy-in.
- 18. POP Balsamiq Two tools I’ve been using recently.
- 19. Launchrock @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey Launchrock is an incredible tool for marketers. Read about how this page allowed us to launch Distilled U in one day – for free – and got a 43% conversion rate: http://dis.tl/wZHIwh
- 20. Ship Day Not a hack day where you get started on something. Focus on having something finished and shipped in 8 hours. Collaboration under these circumstances can give tight feedback loops.
- 21. Ship Day @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey One thing we delivered on a ship-day was 50 short videos, generating thousands of views. www.youtube.com/user/DistilledSEO
- 22. Build ‘Part 1’ Don’t create all the content immediately; launch something something as an MVP and collect feedback.
- 23. Create a Series The first part worked out, so let’s pretend we always intended to run a long series.
- 24. Build ‘Part 1’ Classic ad, obviously.
- 25. Create a Series When it became clear how successful the campaign was, they were ready to jump on a follow up.
- 26. Your Team @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey Make sure your team is ready to iterate fast – including both getting the feedback and responding to that.
- 27. Other ToolsSome other tools that help me create MVPs quickly.
- 28. Measure & Learn The whole purpose is to validate as you go.
- 29. Example: AppSumo @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey 20% of AppSumo’s time is spent testing. 14% of tests give ROI – these get unlimited budget. Big tests are necessary to big learnings, and can bring big returns.
- 30. What are we measuring? @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey Sales conversions Lead generation Social visibility Engaged visits If you track/monitor/optimize for engagement then you focus on earning attention, rather than just the underlying numbers. Will Critchlow created a GA custom report to help track engaged visits.
- 31. Zynga’s Testing Begin testing content, concepts, UX ideas, etc with your existing audience – they’re predisposed to be supportive of you trying things. Zynga’s ghetto testing process: create a short pitch, post it on the site for 5 minutes and monitor how many people click it. http://dis.tl/11dr4J0
- 32. Audience Feedback @RobOusbeyRob Ousbey Mass-marketing paperback publishers will ask audience members to give direct feedback on content before it’s released.
- 34. Starbucks Test Solicit feedback from people in public places; offer to buy them a coffee / beer in return for 5-10 minutes of their time. For example: http://dis.tl/197Y8tz
- 35. Paid Sources Even those marketers who don’t deal with paid traffic sources in general should look at paying for small numbers of visitors to new content in order to test it quickly.
- 36. Paid Sources Tim Ferris bought Google Ads to test different titles for his book: http://dis.tl/11dtUNW
- 37. Email Test content ideas or pitches by including them in your emails: newsletters, alerts, updates & lifecycle emails.
- 38. Pre Outreach Before you send in the Outreach Army….
- 39. Pre Outreach … go an do reconnaissance on your ideas & approach.
- 40. Typical Outreach Process Research Content Publish Content Create Content Push on social networks Promote to appropriate sites
- 41. Pre-Outreach Feedback Loop Research Content Publish Content Create Content Talk to those sites again Promote on social Talk to relevant sites & individuals
- 42. Pre-Outreach Feedback Loop Talk to relevant sites & individuals Ask these people to: give their feedback on content / draft “what do you think of this?” give their feedback on the idea / concept “would you be interested in this?” suggest resources or data “what should we include?”
- 43. Pre-Outreach Feedback Loop Use the phone for lots of this. It’s way faster and you might just make some great relationships this way.
- 44. Co-learning Learnings from one test – such as email a/b tests on subject lines – can be used elsewhere, such as in your Tweets.
- 46. Thank you! Rob Ousbey COO, Distilled @RobOusbey