Content Marketing for
Lead Generation
How Content Marketing can Help Drive
Traffic, Leads & Customers
Simon Leeming
Digital Media Stream
@thesleeming
www.digitalmediastream.co.uk
Content
Strategy
Framework
8-Steps
❏ Company-Level Objectives
❏ Benchmarks
❏ Target Personas
❏ Topic & Keyword Research
❏ Buyer Journey
❏ Content Planning
❏ Execution: multi-channel
❏ Reporting: ROI
Revenue Metrics
&
Benchmarks
Determine Marketing goals
from Sales Targets
Target Personas
Who Are You Talking to?
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Topic & Keyword
Research
React to active interest
http://answerthepublic.com/
Buyer Journey
Short-term & medium long
focus
Journey
Content
Planning
Aligning Content to Buyer
Journey and Keywords
Execution
Multi-Channel Approach
http://www.digitalmarketer.com/
Reporting ROI
Bring it back...
Key Areas
5-Levels
❏ Reach
❏ Traffic
❏ Leads
❏ Customers
❏ Conversion Rates
Customers
• Keyword Rankings
• Page Views
• Blog Visits & Readership
• Competitive Analysis
• Social Media Reach
• Social Media Message Analytics
• Highest lead generating
channels for
• Landing Pages
• Email
• Blogs
• Site Pages
• Contacts database size
• Number of sales qualified leads
• Blog subscribers
Visitors Leads
• Sources ROI
• Number of customers
• Lifecycle summary
Content
Strategy
Framework
8-Steps
❏ Company-Level Objectives
❏ Benchmarks
❏ Target Personas
❏ Keyword Research
❏ Buyer Journey
❏ Content Planning
❏ Execution: multi-channel
❏ Reporting: ROI

Content marketing for lead generation