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![“Instead of the old
outbound marketing methods of
buying ads, buying email lists,
and praying for leads, inbound
marketing focuses on creating
quality content that pulls people
toward your [offering], where they
naturally want to be.”
Brian Halligan
CEO Hubspot
WHAT IS INBOUND MARKETING &
WHY SHOULD I CARE?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/thirdwundermarketinghubwordcamppresentationv07-150705110415-lva1-app6892/75/Turn-Your-WordPress-Website-Into-a-Marketing-Machine-6-2048.jpg)
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Turn Your WordPress Website Into a Marketing Machine
The document presents a comprehensive guide on transforming a WordPress site into a powerful marketing machine through inbound marketing strategies. It covers essential components such as content marketing, distribution channels, measurement, and the use of various tools like CTAs, landing pages, and email marketing to enhance audience engagement and capture leads. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of adapting and optimizing website content to meet marketing objectives and improve user experience.
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- 1. TURN YOUR WORDPRESSSITE INTO A MARKETING MACHINE Presented by Mohamed Hamad & Liesl Barrell WordCamp MTL (July 5, 2015)
- 2. Introduction Inbound Strategy Building YourMarketing Machine Tools/Assets • CTAs • Landing Pages • Leads • Blog Distribution/Channels • Measurement • Social Media • Email • Seeding • SEO Conclusion Table of Contents
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- 4. BIO Co-Founder & President@ThirdWunder #UserExperience & #Development CONTACT Tweet to @MohamedHamad Write to Mohamed@ThirdWunder.com Connect https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mohamedhamad Mohamed Hamad @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 5. BIO Co-Founder & CEO@ThirdWunder #Marketing, #Content & #SocialMedia #MTLGG Organizer CONTACT Tweet to @LieslBarrell Write to Liesl@ThirdWunder.com Connect https://ca.linkedin.com/in/lieslbarrell Liesl Barrell @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 6. “Instead of theold outbound marketing methods of buying ads, buying email lists, and praying for leads, inbound marketing focuses on creating quality content that pulls people toward your [offering], where they naturally want to be.” Brian Halligan CEO Hubspot WHAT IS INBOUND MARKETING & WHY SHOULD I CARE?
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- 8. Content Marketing • Videos •Blog posts • Articles • White Papers • eBooks • Webinars • Infographics • Presentations • …and more!! Content Distribution • Social Media • Email Marketing • Influencer Outreach • Partnerships • Guesting • Public Speaking • …and more!! A Tale of Two Contents @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 9. HOW DO YOUCHOOSE BETWEEN CREATING & PROMOTING CONTENT? To prioritize, schedule your pipeline, allocate resources & budget…
- 10. Marketing Objectives Audience Digital Ecosystem •Properties/Assets • Distribution/Channels Resources • Team • Budget Editorial Plan What to Include in Your Strategy @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 11. What Are YourMarketing Objectives? @ThirdWunder #WCMTL What to Measure Marketing Objectives Example 1. Protect market share to ensure brand remains top-of-mind for target audience Share of voice Blog/social mentions & media coverage 2. Develop industry thought leadership to become key resource for related content SEO rankings and referral traffic for dynamic content Average time on site, pageviews 3. Develop a new revenue stream by launching e- commerce platform Online sales and Average Order Value • How do content marketing and content distribution help you achieve your goals? • What will you be measuring to keep track of your goals?
- 12. WHO IS YOURAUDIENCE & WHAT DO THEY WANT? Research what your different personas are looking for or want to know and craft your strategy around it. We can use personalization, customization and copy variations to speak to different types of fans and localize content throughout your WordPress site.
- 13. What is YourDigital Ecosystem? @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 14. What Resources DoYou Have? @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 15. What is YourEditorial Plan? @ThirdWunder #WCMTL • What type of content do you produce and at what frequency? • What is your tone, manner, and style? • Which types of content will you produce for others (guesting) and who’ll write it? • What is your workflow for edits/approvals/images?
- 16. BUILDING YOUR MARKETINGMACHINE
- 17. TO TURN YOURWORDPRESS SITE INTO A MARKETING MACHINE, WE HAVE TO MAKE IT BIGGER ON THE INSIDE…
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- 19. Inbound Tools @ThirdWunder #WCMTL WordPress InboundNow Suite • CTAs • Leads • Landing Pages CoSchedule Buffer MailChimp SEO Yoast
- 20. Inbound Tools @ThirdWunder #WCMTL WordPress InboundNow Suite • CTAs • Leads • Landing Pages CoSchedule Buffer MailChimp SEO Yoast
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- 23. CALLS TO ACTION(CTAs)
- 24. CTAs @ThirdWunder #WCMTL With theInbound Now CTAs plugin you can create custom responsive calls to action for blog posts, pages, landing pages and track their performance across instances.
- 25. A/B Tests @ThirdWunder #WCMTL BecauseCTAs are tracked sitewide, it makes it easier to run meaningful A/B Tests. Inbound Now has a marketplace for CTA templates which you can customize and style, or you can develop your own like we’ve done to the left. VS
- 26. Lead Generation @ThirdWunder #WCMTL UsingCTAs, you can develop customized templates to gather users’ info or redirect to another URL (e.g. campaign Landing Page or Contact Us page).
- 27. CTAs @ThirdWunder #WCMTL You cancouple Inbound Now’s CTAs together with their Leads plugin to customize what CTAs people see across your site based on where they converted or what they’re in. Like Psychic Paper!
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- 29. Inbound Now’s LandingPage plug-in helps you create repurposeable landing pages that also work with the CTA plugin so you can send visitors to a landing page and track originating CTA variation. Landing Pages @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 30. Landing Pages @ThirdWunder #WCMTL Usingthe Inbound Now Suite makes it easy to see a landing page performance statistics right in the edit view, including the conversion rates on any CTAs associated with it.. The CTA plugin lets you associated any CTAs you’ve created to a landing page, allowing you to customize messaging according to your content.
- 31. Not only forLanding Pages… We’ve even used the plug-in to custom code multi-step experiences like quizzes and experiential forms to help users customize the experiences they want. Landing Pages @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
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- 33. Leads @ThirdWunder #WCMTL Capturing Leadsusing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution or Email Marketing System (EMS) is a crucial part of inbound strategy. It allows us to build relationships and personalize content like newsletters for specific groups or segments.
- 34. Leads @ThirdWunder #WCMTL The InboundNow Leads plugin is a little different from those tools. It allows us to customize content so that visitors who’ve converted on your pages see what they need to see and your WordPress site morphs to their interests. Like Psychic Paper! (Again)
- 35. Leads @ThirdWunder #WCMTL You canmanage leads and create lists that help display customized content (e.g. specific Calls-to-Action) to different groups based on lists or actions. Their experience is personalized so they have a better time on your website!
- 36. Leads @ThirdWunder #WCMTL That helpsusers understand how your site works with data.
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- 38. Editorial @ThirdWunder #WCMTL CoSchedule hasbuilt-in workflows that allow editors and writers to collaborate on posts together and assign tasks easily, all right within WordPress! The editorial calendar gives you a global view of all blog posts and social pushes, and you can easily drag/drop posts to move them to other dates, which moves associated social posts, too.
- 39. Editorial @ThirdWunder #WCMTL The postview shows you a detailed snapshot of post performance (for already published posts), plus a full list of past and future queued social messaging around an individual post. This makes it so much easier to reshare content in smart and efficient ways and use different hashtags or mentions as needed, complementing the content creation process with easy promotion.
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- 41. UTM Tracking If youshare a link in an email campaign, on social, in your email signature or anywhere else online, add UTM parameters using Google’s URL Builder other built-in tools. Measurement @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 42. Reporting That way youcan better track the efficacy of each medium and campaign. Over time you’ll be able to see deeper insights into how people get to your site, what they do, and which channels are performing the best for you. Measurement @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
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- 44. It’s all relative… Thesize, maturity and demographics of your social communities will have a huge impact on the frequency of your content distribution and how you reach your audience. Social Media @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
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- 46. Reshare & ReshareAlike! Many only post once about their content but, especially on Twitter, the key to distribution through social media is multiple, different posts that make the most of your current posts and back catalog. Don’t be afraid to schedule and share archived content if it’s evergreen and useful. You can always edit or tweak the post as needed if small things have changed! Social Media @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 47. CoSchedule We use CoSchedulefor content distribution on social media. It helps us schedule multiple social posts over time to get the most out of our growing content library. We can also see social performance right in the blog post view as well as all previous social posts so it makes mixing up hashtags and mentions even easier. Social Media @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 48. << These areall about the same blog post. CoSchedule automatically uses our Bitly vanity URL shortener and includes UTM parameters making it easier to track and post without creating UTM’ed links & shortening them manually EVERY TIME. Twitter @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 49. Still About TheSame Post… @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 51. Pay (a bit)to Play on Facebook @ThirdWunder #WCMTL Boosted content generally outperforms other Facebook Ad Types For important updates, and to keep a minimal weekly investment which helps organic reach as well, putting a few dollars towards boosting key content on Facebook is worth even a small investment as Facebook traffic tends to spend time-on-site.
- 52. We also useBuffer… CoSchedule is for editorial, it is not a social media management tool. So don’t expect it to replace Hootsuite, Buffer or native platforms for engagement, listening, live posting and all that other fun stuff! CoSchedule Isn’t Enough @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
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- 54. First Things First:CASL @ThirdWunder #WCMTL You’ve only got two more years to make sure you’re building your lists in ways that are compliant with Canadian Anti-SPAM Legislation. We wrote a whole King of the CASL blog post about it to make it easier for you!
- 55. Email @ThirdWunder #WCMTL We usethe MailChimp extension with our Leads Plug-in so we can create segments based on our lead data. Customized email newsletters are a great way to keep getting your content out to your audience and drive traffic to your site. Give users the option as to how they subscribe to your blog (e.g. weekly digests versus every post).
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- 57. Seeding @ThirdWunder #WCMTL Getting partnersand influencers to share your content can be an excellent way to team up for distribution and reach like-minded clients or customers. Content swaps, joint publications, guest posting or speaking, and contacting community managers are all great ways to connect and try to get content shared through their various channels. Just remember those UTMs!
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- 59. On-Site SEO @ThirdWunder #WCMTL SEOYoast makes customizing your meta info and optimizing your post really easy with its on-post editor. It guides you through SEO best practices by analyzing your post content, and giving you suggestions based on your focus keyword
- 60. On-Site SEO @ThirdWunder #WCMTL Eventhe listings view gives you a great snapshot of how your overall SEO is going, and the post view we showed in the blog section makes edits really intuitive.
- 61. Off-Site SEO @ThirdWunder #WCMTL Ifyou produce great content, it’s like a gift to the universe that can make getting backlinks a lot easier, especially if you do a lot of seeding. Guest posting on other popular platforms can be a great way to build on your off-site strategy, as is repurposing great content in all sorts of different formats.
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- 63. IS YOUR WEBSITEBIGGER ON THE INSIDE?
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- 65. Mohamed Hamad Tweet to@MohamedHamad Write to Mohamed@ThirdWunder.com Connect https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mohamedhamad Liesl Barrell Tweet to @LieslBarrell Write to Liesl@ThirdWunder.com Connect https://ca.linkedin.com/in/lieslbarrell Q & A @ThirdWunder #WCMTL
- 66. Tools We Mentioned @ThirdWunder#WCMTL Inbound Now Suite: http://www.inboundnow.com/ • CTAs • Leads • Landing Pages CoSchedule: http://coschedule.com/ Buffer: https://buffer.com/ MailChimp: http://mailchimp.com/ SEO Yoast: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/
Editor's Notes
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- #24 Mohamed It all starts with a Call To Action CTA’s are different from editorial because they can be more persuasive While editorial is more neutral A CTA is used to prompt a visitor to do something
- #25 Mohamed In this example we have an article about marketers learning from artists While the article itself is informational and editorial, we supplimented it with with a CTA to connect with us on if the visitor wants to learn more on how to apply these principles for themselve Here a CTA is specific to this post and is a direct call to contact us
- #26 Mohamed CTA are site wide and can be applied to an Pages, Posts, Landing Pages, Dynamic Widget areas A/B testing is great to experiment with tone, language, design and think outside the bo
- #27 Mohamed Inbound Now has a great market place for customizable templates if you are a developer, you can build custom templates to fit your sites design and expand on its features
- #28 Mohamed The CTA plugin works great with the leads plugin in that it allows you to display CTA personalized to your visitor if they have previously converted on a form and you’ve gathered some information about their interest. More on that to come
- #29 Mohamed CONTENT SHOULD BE EDITORIAL, BUT CTAs & LPs can be PERSUASIVE
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- #32 Mohamed Experiential quizes Surveys Email subscription Subscribe/Share to download Case Study Register for Seminar/Webinar/Event
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- #39 Liesl Alternative: Edit Flow
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- #42 Liesl Bitly does UTM with Coschedule
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- #55 Liesl CASL!!!
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- #62 Liesl For example, a slideshare deck can become a blog post that becomes an infographic which all comes together in a longform ebook downloaded from a gated landing page!
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