8 Essential Content Marketing Initiatives

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8 Essential
Content Marketing
Initiatives You Shouldn’t
Be Without
Joe Pulizzi (@juntajoe)
Founder, Content Marketing Institute and
Content Marketing World

Co-Author, Get Content Get Customers
and Managing Content Marketing

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TODAY’S AGENDA
• Move Fast – 100+ Slides!
• Brief History of Content Marketing
• The Latest Research
• The Biggest Content Marketing Questions
with Answers and Cases for Each
• Q&A

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What happens
when you start
telling a story?

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Why is this SO
important?

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Search Engine
Social Media Optimization
STORYTELLING
STORYTELLING

Lead
Generation

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Example of
trying…

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I see the future
and it is
____________

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Red Bull – The Media Co.

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Why Are We Here?
Just 36% believe their
content marketing is effective

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Our Biggest Content
Marketing Challenge
•Producing Enough Content
•Producing the Kind of Content
that Engages

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“We are trying to
figure out how our
marketing can be
more useful.”

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THE PROBLEM WITH

WHAT?

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Search Engine
Social Media Optimization
YOUR UNIQUE STORY
(authority to publish)

Lead
Generation

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Business Higher
Purpose Purpose

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HIGHER
HIGHER
PURPOSE
PURPOSE

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“How do we find and
create engaging
content? Right now,
we don’t have any.”

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“How do we measure
the success of our
content?”

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Keys to ROI
1.Know Why You Are Making
Content

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Are You Measuring the Right Things?

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Content Helps Achieve Business
Objectives, Not Content Objectives

Courtesy Jay Baer

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The Goal Isn’t to be
Good at Content.
The Goal is to be Good at
Business, Because of
Content.
Courtesy Jay Baer

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Keys to ROI
1.Know Why You Are Making
Content
2.Buyer’s Journey
3.Select the Right Metrics

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4 Categories of Content
Metrics

Courtesy Jay Baer

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Consumption Metrics
Question answered:
“How many people viewed,
downloaded, listened to this
piece of content”

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Key Questions
• Do people consuming that content engage
in other, more desirable behaviors on the
site?
• Do they do so at a ratio different from site
visitors overall?
• Do people consuming that content return
to the site?
• Do they do so at a ratio different from site
visitors overall?

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On Customer Retention

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“How do we get more
content out of each
story idea?”

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The Kelly Situation:
Product: Complex workforce solutions
Target: Largest 5,000 companies globally
Deal Size: $50m - $2bn
Key Buyer Titles: HR, Procurement, Operations, C-Suite
Avg Time to Close: 12-24 months

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“Too many silos…we
have content all over
the place. Very
political.”

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The Content Marketing Team
Typical roles within your existing team…

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Social Media
Public Relations
Marketing
Email
Mobile
Search

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Example….

Todd Wheatland
VP of Thought Leadership
Kelly Services

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Example…
Rob Yoegel
Content Marketing Director
Monetate

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“How do we get our
employees to start
creating content?”

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AWARENESS
SEO
PUBLIC RELATIONS

NURTURING

EMAIL
LEAD NURTURING

CRM / SOCIAL
LOYALTY PROGRAM

CUSTOMER EVENTS

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“We need to be
producing more
content. More, more,
more.”

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LEADING
INFORMATION
PROVIDER
FOR YOUR
NICHE

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Deliver content at all the right stages of the buying process
to attract and retain customers.

Subscribers continually show positive behaviors
throughout the year - purchase, sharing, attending
web events, subscribing, etc.

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Site & Event
Sponsors Email Webinars
Magazine

SUBSCRIBER

Paid Events Consulting
Paid Content

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

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Define Your Hit List of Influencers

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• Last five years
– over 300
different guest
posts,
interviews or
webinars

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The latest full-length
books on the discipline of
content marketing.

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Site & Event
Sponsors Email Webinars
Magazine

Paid Events Consulting
Paid Content

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Get Uncomfortable:
If you don’t feel like
you are going to run off
the road, you are not
driving fast enough.

http://taylordowns.com

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November 7-8, 2012 Cleveland, OH

November 15, 2012 4-5-6 March, 2013
New York, NY Sydney, Australia

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Joe Pulizzi
joe@contentinstitute.com • @juntajoe on Twitter

Week of Sept. 9, 2013
CLEVELAND, OH

8 Essential Content Marketing Initiatives

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