From the B2B Content2Conversion Conference, with: Cheryl Hanley, Sr. Director of Demand Gen, PGi

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Herding Cats & Corralling Chickens
A CMO’s guide to virtual collaboration
Presented by Cheryl Hanley, Senior Director of Demand Generation at PGi

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§ The Strategy
§ The Process
§ The People
§ The Tools
§ The Results
Best Practices for Implementing a Large Content
Marketing Program

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§ Define the target audience/personas
§ Define the pain points or what keeps them up at night
§ Define the campaign framework
§ Leverage research
The Strategy
77% of Marketers say it’s essential for their company
to deliver an effective customer experience
(source: Accenture)
89% of high-growth companies are focused on
customer experience compared to only 60% of
low-growth companies
(source: Accenture)
84% of companies employ remote workforces
(source: Frost & Sullivan)

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The Process

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Marketing Nurture Campaign - Collaboration

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Collaboration Content

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Email and Landing Page

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§ Collaboration was key to successfully
pulling this program off
§ In order to create this infographic along
with our Marketing Nurture Campaigns,
we had to work with a number of people
§ Including: Writers, Designers,
Marketing Managers, Project
Managers, Key Stakeholders, and
Outside Agencies
The People
Content
Project
Team
Writers
Designers
Marketing
Managers
Project
Manager
Key
Stakeholders
Outside
Agencies

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The Tools
Quickly Arrange Virtual Meetings Create a Centralized Project Workspace

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§ Open Rate: 59.46% (avg for nontransactional email is 38%)
§ Click Thru Rate: 9.16% (avg for nontransactional email is 3.2%)
§ Click to Open Rate: 14.23% (avg for nontransactional email is 13.4%)
§ Forward Rate: 4%
The Results

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Our overall content marketing effort has:
§ Influenced overall pipeline valued at over $761K with 90
Opportunities
§ Content has driven inbound leads attributing to > 41% of our marketing
database
§ Media exposure through Inc, Entrepreneur.com, CIO.comand
Business News Daily
Big Picture Results

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Questions?

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