Inbound marketing revolutionary Hansen Hunt presents The best of INBOUND15 including inspirational takeaways, the hottest strategies in marketing right now, and the top new tools everyone is using.
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Best of INBOUND 2015 Recap by Hansen Hunt
1. Welcome to the #SDHUG
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Hansen Hunt, SDHUG Leader
Topic: Best of INBOUND15
Omar Zenhom, Co-Founder of Webinar Ninja
Topic: Plan and Launch Your 1st Webinar
Watch Online: http://webinarninja.co/sdhug/
2. #SDHUG Agenda
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3:30 – 4:00PM: The Best of INBOUND With Hansen Hunt
4:00 – 4:30PM: Power Q&A With 14 Mentors (Grab a beer/Use restroom)
4:30 – 5:30PM: Plan and Launch Your 1st Webinar With Omar Zenhom
5:30 – 6:00PM: Q&A, Networking, Mingle, Beer
9. Seth Godin
“You have to be able to hold two ideas
in your head at the same time. It
might work, and it might not work.”
“Do things that matter.”
Watch Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGFyrVgUPk
Welcome to SDHUG
Hello everyone online!
Live tweet using the hash tag #SDHUG
Stay off the wifi
Things I like:
Pickles
Popcorn
Beef Jerky
Cheese
Beer
People need 4 HUGs a day for survival, 8 for maintenance, and 12 for growth.
How many have you had today?
Another way to think of this is, “Would I want it sent to my mother?”
- SFD – Shitty First Draft
If you covered up your logo would YOU recognize you?
- If you understand your customer’s audience, then you will better understand what content your customer needs.
- Make your customers look awesome
Attunement is about being empathetic.
Buoyancy is about being able to stay afloat even after facing an ocean of rejection.
Clarity is about curating information and being able to separate signal from noise.
Ahmen the #troublemaker
The engineering party
Kalamazoo HUG leader and personal friend Dan Moyle
Seth Godin with a head smaller than my beard
MC of INBOUND and previous SDHUG speaker Dan Sally, on stage taking a selfie right after INBOUND wrapped up.
Slack CEO, Bill Macaitis, called podcasts one of the most effective top-of-the-funnel content offers
Tap into your community of influencers
Be consistent and set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
Think about connection, not content
“Content is like crack; with the addiction, people eventually get exhausted. There’s a difference between connection and getting your content fix. ” -Marc Maron
The more human you can make your podcast, the more likely it is to connect with your persona emotionally
Sonia Simone of Copyblogger asks Are you worth it? She says you have to be worth it because no one owes you their time and attention
Passionate content wins
Don’t get discouraged, Content marketing has a flywheel affect
Make the user happy to make the algorithm happy
Headlines are tremendously important
Use social paid ads for content amplification.
Pro tip: Only boost Facebook posts that are organically gaining more traction to drastically increase engagement and reduce cpc
Repurpose content snippets
Customer Insight
Modular Imagination: modular content. Create & curate content snippets related to core concepts (personas, keywords, lifecycle stage)
Add the bacon: gather modular content, like testimonials, from influencers which will make that content POP
Live video is the hot new thing
Periscope
Meerkat
Blab: “Google hangouts done right” – Joel Comm
Live for FB Mentions
Snip.ly – add a lead gen CTA on every link you share, including over other websites you send traffic to
Buzzsumo – this is how I find the hottest, newest content and topic influencers to share and connect with
Buzzstream is more focused on finding and engaging with the influencers
Leading marketers track ROI, prove success, and reap the rewards
When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
Be authentic, be a unicorn.