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You know that what your institution calls a brand is actually a logo and a worn tagline. It’s time to get serious about your brand positioning. You need research, critical thinking, creative brilliance, and a digital-first strategy. And you need a website that serves as the flagship for your newly articulated brand.
How do you get your senior leadership to understand and buy into the time and resources necessary for a branding initiative and website redesign done right?
In this webinar, mStoner and our branding partner BVK arm you with the tools — the data, the stories, presentation approach and techniques — you’ll need to build and deliver a persuasive pitch to your decision-makers.
What You'll Learn:
The process, timeline, and potential costs involved in a brand-to-website project.
Options and alternatives for sequencing work, particularly in the face of institutional milestones or strategic planning process.
Ways to justify a large investment using data and information that will resonate with your institution’s decision-makers.
From Jay Baer and Convince & Convert, The Power of Everything is an ebook from an all-star cast of modern marketing practitioners, who provides short reflections on the power of mobile, content, corporate culture, big data and more.
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Sorry, marketers. We can’t hear you, because we have collectively, actively stopped listening. Your ads, your overloaded websites, your sponsored content, your "infotainment series"—these are not the things we want or need. What we need, dear people, is for you to pause … and breathe. Stop treating every day like a fire drill. Momentarily ignore the shiny new trends. Instead, take a look at the things that are (still) fundamentally broken. Your message is splintered. Your teams are siloed. Your technology is backwards. Your content still sucks.
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The Future of Content Marketing: 10 Things to Consider Today
Over the last few months. Joe Pulizzi has been sharing exclusive insights in CMI’s weekly newsletter, The Content Marketing Revolution. These tips are things that struck him each week, but when we looked at them in total many had a theme: they help marketing leaders prepare for the future of content marketing. The ideas range from big to small and quick to implement and a bit longer-term, but all are things you should be thinking about today. For more exclusive insights from Joe, subscribe to The Content Marketing Revolution. What do you really need to know to prepare for the future of content marketing?
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Content marketing is all the rage these days, with 2013 showing signs that even more marketers are embracing it. There is a good reason for that. Consumers, in both the B2B and B2C environments, respond very well to a properly run content marketing casmpaign. Large organizations have spent big money discovering what works and what doesn't. Use what they've learned about content marketing to power your organization's marketing strategy going forward. 49 pages
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Good Business & Good Branding are synonymous.
Together they are the foundation of any enterprise & inextricable. Making a decision about one informs & shapes the other.
21st Century BRANDS reflect our ideals, values, aspirations, passions.
A GREAT BRAND TODAY UNITES EMPLOYEES & CUSTOMERS AROUND A BIG IDEA OR PURPOSE MUCH LARGER THAN SELLING. Brands that offer people the OPPORTUNITY TO BE PART OF THE STORY, THE EXPERIENCE, THE BIG IDEA, THE PURPOSE, whether they’re inside or out, are the ones that are winning.
Existing on the continuum of: cave paintings, fireside chats & yellow brick road experiences, 21st Century BRANDS CAN & DO SERVE AS POSITIVE CHANGE AGENTS.
Presented is a capture of best practice Brand Strategy Case Studies, including four I've supported development on. What we see is that big Vision, more Meaning, Inclusivity, Authenticity & a few Fun surprise are foundational to all of their success.
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A Beginner's Guide to Content Marketing
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“The goal is not to be good at
content. The goal is to use content
to be good at business.”
Jay Baer
US marketing author
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Content marketing is not new
The term ‘content marketing’ may be recent but the practice of content marketing has been
around a long time.
Down the centuries people have shared knowledge with others, transferred skills, warned of
danger and passed along useful facts, figures and opinions.
Today this intimate way of information sharing is changing, and fast.
We are all time-poor. Too many people want our attention and if we surrendered to
their demands we would be simply overwhelmed.
Since 2003, social media has increasingly pushed traditional media models aside. It
speeds up the direct and very personal delivery of information to each of us, and at
the same time gifts us a publishing platform and a filtering system. We now have
numerous options to receive and share information anytime, anywhere, any place.
Recent research shows that we now mistrust brands, business, government and
other traditional sources of information. (See the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer for
Australia.) We all have the ability to speak beyond our own circle but no
organisation has the right to be heard.
Traditional media is fragmenting and as it searches for new business models, its
reliability as the dominant communications channel to our audiences is slipping
away.
It is time for a different approach
to connect with customers, citizens or clients.
Enter content marketing, an evolution of old-style marketing,
gaining traction in the US and now emerging in Australia.
Content uncovered
Content is the information your audiences find useful or entertaining or both. It is not
necessarily what you want to say. It is what the audience wants or needs to hear. The
currency of content marketing is information that adds value to your audiences. If it fails the
all-important test of adding value it just becomes part of the background noise, which
surrounds us every day but never connects with our hearts or minds.
You can create and share content across owned, earned and paid media. Owned media are
the channels you control, such as social media accounts, websites, print materials and
events. Earned media is coverage through independent online newspaper, radio and TV
reporting. Paid media includes advertorials and advertising.
If there is a wide choice of platforms, the range of formats is just as extensive. You can
share your information through text, video, images, animation, games, audio, statistics, data,
events, face to face encounters and a whole lot more.
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We've always done that
Content marketing works on the principle that giving people worthwhile or entertaining
information is the best way to achieve a mutually productive relationship with them. It is
about conversations that are continuous, engaging and so useful that audiences recognise
their value and want to be take part.
But isn't content marketing what we've always done?
Yes, maybe, perhaps. Most marketers understand the basic concept of content marketing.
A 2013 Content Marketing Institute Survey shows 98% of Australian B2B marketers use
content marketing while 89% of B2C marketers use it. They may not use the term content
marketing but they do use information to build brand awareness, increase engagement and
keep customer loyalty.
Communicators have long practiced elements of content marketing, but until now their
approach has not been systematic. The campaign approach of old-style marketing and PR
has dominated. Campaigns have been researched, planned, carried out and evaluated over
a specific time frame, which is stop, go, pause, stop, go, pause. Audience needs often do
not influence the timing of campaigns and organisations run on their own communications
timetables.
Content marketing is about continuing conversations based on relationships forged by the
power of valuable information. Frankly, it is messier than what we have done in the past
because it is fluid, interactive, two-way and relies heavily on social media. It is far more
dynamic than previous approaches.
Step by step
Content marketing is an end-to-end system built on the following steps:
Understanding the big picture
Knowing your audience’s interests
Sourcing valuable information
Preparing, packaging and sharing content so it compels conversation
Measuring results and adapting where necessary
Traditional marketing and PR mostly runs
campaign by campaign. Stop, go, pause, stop, go pause.
Content marketing is about continuing conversations based on
relationships forged by the power of valuable information.
Understand the big picture
Before undertaking content marketing you need to have mastered the essentials. What is
my brand, what does it stand for, and where is it heading?
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After this critical information is honed, come questions that will shape how you approach
your audiences. What do you want your communications to achieve in terms of business
and other results? When do you want to achieve results by? What is your timeframe for
planning and execution? What resources can you devote?
In this regard content marketing is no different from any other type of marketing or PR
campaign.
Know your audience
Discover what your audience wants or values. This need is no different from traditional PR
and marketing - at least in theory. However, in practice how often have we focused on what
we want to say not what they want to hear?
What problems does your audience want to solve? What issues interest them? What
information do they need, do they understand? How do they want to engage with you or
your issue?
Answering these questions and then sharing the solutions will lead to useful communications
not communications that interrupt. Content marketing dictates that you test your
assumptions about what audiences need. Never be afraid to sit down with them and ask
what do you need from us? How can we be more useful? Seek out this information by:
Formal and traditional market research and customer surveys
Asking frontline staff about concerns people raise
Analysing issues raised with the CEO, Minister or complaints department
Searching online for terms associated with your organisation or issue
Listening to the chatter on social media
Keeping watch on your website’s analytics
Source content
Map out the content you can provide to your audience’s needs. US author Jay Baer
proposes Youtility as the new requirement for information. Youtility is information so helpful
that people would be willing to pay for it, which Baer claims will set you apart in today’s
competitive landscape.
After 22 years of PR experience, I recognise that finding information for the right audience at
the right time is rarely straightforward or easy. Someone in your organisation will have it but
who are they? And if they have it, how is it arranged and presented? Is it in accessible
language and is it supported by aids to our understanding? Or more importantly are there
barriers to sharing material and if so how do we overcome them?
Often we find answers buried deep within our organisation where we least expect them.
Therefore, an early content marketing task is surfacing valuable material much like a
detective sleuths a case. This morphs into a constant need to refresh material so the
audience sees it as relevant and timely.
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Sometimes your organisation simply does not have the information audiences want. Today
this is no excuse for not providing it, given our access to so much online search power. If
you don’t have it, find it and then curate and package it into audience-friendly formats.
Curating was once the exclusive province of librarians, scholars and scientists. Now search
engines can locate and refresh information at lightning speed. You can arrange information
from others alongside your own manually, or use free tools like paper.li, Flipboard and
Spunge to effortlessly collate, review and share it.
Storytelling
Content marketing moves us beyond simple declarations of features and benefits of a
product or service. It shifts the marketing mindset from hyping to helping.
One way it does this is through storytelling. Stories are the language of the human camp.
They are how we learned about the world when we were children. Content marketing
demands we tell the stories of our organisations, what they do and why they are worth
listening to.
Effective storytelling is
like cement binding us to our audiences
just as storytelling in the past bound us to traditions,
cultures and communities.
The strongest story you can ever offer is from someone your organisation has helped to
achieve a better result in their lives. This can come from clients, customers or loyal fans.
These testimonials are like mini-history lessons weaving together struggles, action and
outcomes achieved, into persuasive personal stories.
The next most powerful stories are about your own people helping others by sharing their
knowledge and experience or through their actions. Or it could be a backing from
independent figures or an organisation, that tells others about the value your organisation
offers.
Unfortunately the least effective story is the one most commonly used. It involves a
declaration from a Minister, CEO or other hierarchical figure about the virtues of their
company or agency. Although we may turn to authority in a time of crisis, they lack the
closeness, empathy and credibility to connect an organisation to an audience in more routine
circumstances.
The 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer for Australia shows public trust is significantly higher for
people other than the boss. Independent academics, technical experts and regular
employees rate higher than those in the C suite. Their trust ratings are somewhere near the
bottom of the barometer.
Present content
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Presenting your content is an important step that involves arranging information into formats
your audience is likely use. Do my audiences like long or short text? Is my information best
shown in infographics, charts, spreadsheets or tables? Would video and imagery work well
for my how to instructions?
And how you express that content is critical.
Large organisations need rules about who can say what, when and how. If you speak in a
qualified, corporate voice you either end up talking to yourself or to those remarkably similar
to you. In both cases you have probably missed the mark – and by a wide margin.
Content marketing is about communicating with personality so
people just get it, respond and engage with your information.
It sounds simple but it requires the right tone,
skill, balance and lots of practice to achieve that outcome.
Content through pictures
A standout feature of content marketing is the far-reaching use of images. This is because
there is so much information available and we are all so busy. We are instinctively drawn to
imagery to quickly process information and shortcut our understanding of issues.
A recent Hubspot article highlighted why imagery is important in communications.
90% of information sent to the brain is visual.
The brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text.
40% of people will respond better to visual information than plain text.
Infographics add an average of 12% more traffic to online efforts.
Viewers spend 100% more time on webpages with videos.
Viewers are 85% more likely to buy after watching a product video.
In Australia we are seeing the explosive growth of video.
In the April – June 2013 edition of Professional Marketing Magazine, Matt Bruce of Nielsen
Media Group Australia highlighted how Australians have taken to online video. In January
2013, 11.2 million Australians watched more than 1.8 billion hours of video. The average
Australian spent nearly seven hours watching online video content revolving around
entertainment, news and information. They watched on YouTube, Facebook, ABC Online,
News.Com.Au and other sites. Not surprisingly, brands are looking at increasingly using
video to engage with customers.
What images and video content could tell the story of your organisation and why it matters?
Share content
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A major consideration in sharing your content is what communications channels your
audiences use and when they use them.
Your audience may want your information available through the mainstream media
immediately before they make a purchase decision. Your corporate website or face-to-face
meetings with staff may be how they want to build a relationship. Or social media platforms,
because of their freedom to choose and immediacy, could be how they access information.
A key task is to identify the best mix of tactics that match your audience’s inclinations,
timetable and needs.
It is unwise to restrict yourself to one channel only. Rather, you should seek to share
information through as many relevant platforms as possible. The 2013 Content Marketing
Institute survey shows
Australian marketers use
more than 25 tactics to engage audiences.
Right now the most effective approach is
in-person events and the least effective is gaming.
Not surprisingly Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube are the popular social media
platforms.
Nothing is ever static. Audiences and organisations change. Be alert to the need to
continually experiment to achieve the best possible blend of channels to talk to your
audiences. Pity today’s communicators. There are so many communications options open
to them, they are haunted by the thought they could always try just one more thing!
The media’s role
In the past there was a firewall between the newsroom and the marketing department in
most media outlets. Advertorial has always been around but often it was marginal business
and lacked credibility. If you wanted significant coverage you had to earn it or pay for it. Now
social media and search are serious threats to this model and this division is weakening.
The media are more inclined to publish content that others produce.
Newsrooms are shrinking, rising costs must be contained and advertising revenues are
drying up. There is a need replace advertising revenue with some other income source.
A recent For Immediate Release podcast highlighted how content from different
organisations (called branded content or native advertising) is finding its way into more
media spaces. The show reported an increasing mix of original reporting and sponsored
content. Which is a worrying situation because consumers are unclear about what news is
genuine and what is paid for.
Chief Content Strategist at Edelman, Steve Rubel sees three media-centric content
marketing models starting to emerge:
A paid syndication model which is similar to advertorial arrangements of the past.
The difference is content supplied by others now seamlessly mixes with that of
journalists.
A product placement model which is common to many TV formats.
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A co-creation model where an organisation such as a powerful brand, and the
media, fund a new event, activity, online app or sponsorship for specific reporting.
This is similar to big companies paying for naming rights to sporting events or
settings.
Free or pay?
Eventually someone in your organisation will query the wisdom of freely sharing information.
They will raise the issue of protecting intellectual property and proclaim, “We should not be
giving our stuff away”. They will come forward with reasons to lock your content behind a
paywall, forcing people to subscribe to get access or by erecting some other barrier.
You need to prepare for this eventuality and decide how you will resolve this dilemma. You
can have completely open information borders or only service people willing to pay,
subscribe to your newsletter or commit some other way to your organisation. Or you can
make some content free then charge for additional information.
The trend among experienced marketers is toward making information readily available and
eliminating as many barriers as possible. Encourage as many people as possible to access,
use and share your content so it achieves its maximum potential. And besides, human
nature being what it is, there are some people who will get your content no matter how many
walls you build around it.
Market content
Content can start conversations but needs a little help to spring to life.
You need to market
your information across multiple platforms,
taking care to promote useful information
first and your organisation second.
This involves being part of genuine conversations, something which most organisations find
hard to do. Listen to what others in your space are saying, join in only when it is apt and act
like someone helping people by answering their questions, not like a salesperson or an
Official communicating in beaucratese.
Marketing content might involve:
Targeting online and real world key influencers to help spread the word about your
information.
Contributing to other people’s blogs, events and industry forums, as well as your
own.
Using social media conversations to draw people to your website, blog or video.
Proposing search terms and harsh tags so your information is easily found.
Encouraging users to create and then share their own content about your issue.
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Ever, ever encouraging and responding to feedback.
Content marketing never ends – just like real life conversations. Traditional PR and
marketing campaigns are carefully planned and take place over a certain time. Many do not
easily change once they start. On the other hand, content marketing is just as carefully
planned but then changes as interaction develops.
Your conversation is like a flowing river. Someone expresses interest, you respond with
related information, your prospect engages again and it goes until a trusted relationship
builds. Unlike traditional marketing where the conversation often begins near the end of the
customer’s buying cycle, content marketing starts even before the customer has identified a
need.
And even after your conversations result in a purchase, subscription or some other
participation, you need to stay in the communications space ready to answer questions and
be there in the future.
Process
Content marketing involves as much organisation, dedication and clarity as traditional
marketing and PR.
A good place to start your content marketing journey is to create an editorial calendar. This
is a simple document setting out the type of content to be produced, who will produce it,
when it is to be done, the approvals needed and which platforms you will share it on. The
Hubspot blog has a good free beginner’s tool that can add consistency to your efforts.
Who does the work depends on the size of your organisation. In smaller companies one
person is often responsible for everything. In larger organisations responsibilities are often
split between different staff and management levels. Typically creating and sharing content
involves people such as:
Content creators - These are often frontline or other staff
empowered to pass along client issues, helpful information
and good stories. Once they are know what to look for,
people get enthusiastic about this role especially when
their commitment to the company or cause is strong.
Content producers - They can be communications professionals such as designers,
copywriters, video and audio producers and those who manage media relations. They
transform the raw information they receive from others into compelling content. They can
also be responsible for sharing the content.
Your organisation can create and package visual and other content or outsource it to a
growing number of domestic content marketing providers. Larger Australian companies tend
to outsource content creation while smaller ones produce it in-house.
Listening teams - Organisations also need some type of listening team, one or more people
who monitor and respond to social media and online conversations. Because digital
dialogue is so fast, they need well thought through corporate guidelines that let them act
fast.
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The strategist - The communications boss is the overall content manager. She oversees
the strategic and day-to-day storytelling of the organisation and ensures the marketing effort
contributes to the where the organisation is heading.
Measure
Measurement can challenge even the most experienced marketer it should not be left to the
end. It needs to be factored in at every stage of the content marketing journey. Therefore,
develop KPIs specific to your organisation that tell you if you are reaching the right people,
how they engage with our content and if your content marketing is achieving the business
results your organisation wants.
Content marketing metrics can be:
Reach How many unique visitors view your content online in a given period?
How many visits to your website are from search engines?
How many people come across your content in traditional media?
How many people attend an event or have a face-to-face encounter?
What is the geographical spread of people engaging with you?
How are people accessing information through tablets, smart phones, laptops or
desktops?
Engagement How much time does your audience spend with your content measured by bounce
rates, page views and click throughs?
What is the quality and quantity of commentary on blogs and websites?
What is the number of retweets, likes and shares on social media?
How many emails are opened? Forwarded?
How many downloads of white papers, document, forms, information kits or other
material?
How many video views and podcast downloads?
Are people creating and sharing their own content around your issue?
How many key influencers are interacting with you and how?
How many questions are being answered online or over the counter?
Do your conversations lead to more requests for more information?
Outcomes How many discounts or coupons are redeemed?
Do surveys show changes in attitude or buying preferences?
Are inquiries, leads and conversion rates rising?
Is there an increase in online and off-line sales?
Are more people subscribing to e-newsletters and blogs?
Are more people taking advantage of our programs?
Are existing customers coming back or increasing the size of their orders?
Challenges
The content marketing journey can be scary at the beginning. But you are not alone. The
Content Marketing Institute reports the major challenges Australian marketers face, are:
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Producing engaging content
Producing enough content
Lack of resources to produce content
Producing the variety of content different people value
Measuring effectiveness
Lack of integration across communications staff
Management or senior communicators just don’t get it
Finding skilled staff that understand and can make content marketing work
These are legitimate concerns but not that different from other forms of communications.
They need addressing as an organisation commits to a content model of marketing.
The best way is to start small with an achievable project,
measure the impact, learn from the experience
and stretch and grow from there.
The future
The term content marketing may be new but it is an evolutionary shift from traditional
marketing. Marketers are in transition, and change brings uncertainty, new challenges and
more questions than answers. The first step can be nerve-wracking and starting can take
courage and commitment.
Fortunately the fundamental underpinnings of content marketing are not that difficult to
grasp. It is about sharing useful information with people with whom we want a relationship.
Most of us would see that as common sense.
The real challenge is identifying, producing and sharing valuable information across multiple
platforms and doing that consistently.
Good luck and may your content shine through