This is a presentation about a business idea. ContentMatch strives to provide an online hub and platform where small businesses and content providers can connect easily and effectively. To ensure authentic content, businesses and freelancers get matched according to interest. While we encourage freelancers to do what they love and to share what they care about, we want to make businesses aware about the value authentic and well written content can have for them.
2. As a traditional trained and freelance
journalist I noticed, that more and more of
the business I get is online.
On the pro side that means that there are
more outlets, more possibilities to
publish, more people who put content out
there.
On the downside it means, that many
people/publications do not want to pay
(much) for content anymore.
My Challenge
3. Despite the ever growing platforms and possibilities
for writers and content providers, just 1 in 10 authors
can make a living from writing alone, a drop from
40% just a decade ago*
Price drop due to content mills and mass produced
content -> Frustration
Since many writers simply love to write, they still
publish great content or create personal blogs, but:
they do not get paid for it
the often valuable content mainly remains unnoticed
Ouch!
Nobody wants to pay for my content
(*source: Authors Licensing and Collecting Society)
4. Who could those writers
provide valuable content for?
The Question is…..
5. On top of having to take care of the daily workload,
small business owners today have to do a lot more to
promote their business than just listing their contact
information in the Yellow Pages.
Lack of time
Lack of assets for an in house strategic marketing team
Feeling lost in the overwhelming amount of information
about digital marketing online
Help!
I need someone to promote my Business
6. ContentMatch strives to provide
an online hub and platform
where small businesses and
content providers can connect
easily and effectively.
The Idea
7. Just another idea?
No Market & Many established competitors
Upworks, fiverr, etc
How to differentiate?
Where is the market niche?
What is missing
No team
No marketing experience
No technical experience
Current State: Dissatisfaction
8. Specific target group: Connecting small businesses with
writers and content providers who care about the product
or service offered.
“Matching point” is a common interest/hobby.
Writers: Think of the one thing you love to do, the one thing you are
excited about when you wake up in the morning. That is what you
will connect with, when signing up as a writer with ContentMatch!
Small business owner can establish a personal connection to their
“digital storyteller” from the moment they log on to ContentMatch
– making it easy to cross the threshold to online marketing.
Vision: Refining the Idea
Personas!!!!!!
9. We needs FANS: Spread the word
Get writers/bloggers interested
Recruit businesses, network!(s)
1) Establishing a Team - NOW!
2) By December: Develop and build a working online platform.
3) By December: Establish an online presence on at least two to
three social media platforms and reach 100 Facebook Likes.
4) By December: Marketing strategy that will differentiate
ContentMatch from other competitors
Vision: SMART Goal
10. There are two basic capacities
From One-Woman’s Idea to ContentMatch Team
From zero up to a working platform
KPI’s: From – To goals to establish an online presence and network
Establish and Increase Face Book likes from 0 to 100 by December
Establish presence on 10 relevant Facebook Groups by December
5 blogger or writer groups
5 small business groups
Establish Newsletter and increase subscribers from 0 to 20
Increase LinkedIn Followers and share Project ContentMatch
Establish and increase Instagram Followers from 0 to 50 by December
Vision: From - To
12. Team ContentMatch
Josefine Koehn (concept & idea)
Wolfgang Leon (backend)
Ricardo Cornejo (photography
Early Outcome Win 1:
Team ContentMatch
14. FACEBOOK
183 Facebook Page Likes (mid Oct – Dec 1st)
Highest Single Post reach: 539
Member and posts in 15 blogger groups
Member in 5 business networking groups in
Miami
Early Outcome Win 3:
Social Media
LINKEDIN
241 Followers (+50 since November)
23 views for article published on LinkedIn
Rank of profile views improved by 28 % in 2 weeks (mid Nov – Dec)
17. 1) Grow the Team
2) Refine the Website/Platform
3) Grow a network of likeminded content providers as well as businesses and
media outlets who are looking for authentic content.
Social Media Goals
FB – 400 Page Likes by June 2015
LinkedIn – 600 Followers
Instagram
Twitter
Grow Email List to 200 by June 2015
Connect and Network offline with local blogger, writer, social media, tech groups
6) Establish ContentMatch as Expert in the field of web content
Get publications as web content specialist in business magazines
Content roadmap for blog, LinkedIn articles, slide share
7) Kickstarter
8) Launch Event (#campaign): Be.Do.Happy. Be.Write.Succeed.
Goals & Strategies for the Future
21. FB: Blogger Groups:
Blogging Boost
Creative Bloggers
Promote your Blog
Bloggers United
Blog Engagement/Promotion Group
SheKnows & BlogHer Social Media Influencers
Amazing Creative Bloggers and Crafters
Deutschlands Blogger: Ein Projekt
Social Media Club Florida
Florida Business Networking
Miami Young Professionals Network
Early Win: Online Prescence
22. Smaller, more affordable web marketing
companies do not offer an ongoing
relationship to build and service a strong
content marketing strategy
Existing freelancer-hubs tend to be heavily
online-focused, more impersonal and are not
specific to a certain location
Competitors:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245953
Upwork – very broad, multi step
Toptal: Just Developers and Designers, no
Content
Elance
Freelancer: Bidding process
Fiver – does not pay enough
Competitor Scan
Editor's Notes
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ContentMatch strives to provide an online hub and platform where small businesses and content providers can connect easily and effectively.
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One-woman-team (struggling like many other writers)
Backend programming is required
How to market something, that does not already exist?
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2) including backend, that will enable writers to specify not only their expertise and (searchable) online presence their interest in a drop-down menu and businesses to look for a writer that “matches” the product or service they offer.
3) as well as 100 Instagram Likes, LinkedIn to create a network of likeminded content providers as well as businesses and media outlets who are looking for authentic content.
1) Establishing a Team
2) Team ContentMatch will develop and build a working online platform by Decemer - including backend, that will enable writers to specify not only their expertise and (searchable) online presence their interest in a drop-down menu and businesses tolook for a writer that “matches” the product or service they offer.
3)By December ContentMatch will have established an online presence on two to three social media platforms and reach 100 Facebook Likes, as well as 100 Instagram Likes, LinkedIn to create a network of likeminded content providers as well as businesses and media outlets who are looking for authentic content.
4) By December ContentMatch will have developed a Marketing strategy that will differentiate it from other competitors.
Content Road maps for
blog
FB
Instagram
Content Road maps for
blog
FB
Instagram
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KPI’s: From – To goals to establish an online presence and network
Establish and Increase Face Book likes from 0 to 100 by December
Establish and Increase Instagram Followers from 0 to 50 by December
Establish presence on 5 relevant Facebook Groups by December
5 blogger or writer groups
5 small business groups
Establish Newsletter and increase subscribers from 0 to 20
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