Within the social media and content ecosystems, there are many content marketing sins and pitfalls that prevent content success.
Presented at SME Summit in Puerto Rico on October 21, 2015 by Jason Keath
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18. 5 Sins of Content Marketing
1. Content envy
2. Scaling too soon
3. Too many platforms
4. Skipping the funnel (sales pressure)
5. No distribution
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19. CONTENT FATIGUE
n. The desire to stop creating content.
Forever. Seriously. Leave me alone, I hate
blogging and Twitter and I never want to see
another infographic again.
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52. 8 Content Promotion Tips
1. Email (and apps)
2. Post multiple times to social
3. Syndicate
4. Pitch for shares
5. Feature influencers
6. Communities
7. Test new websites and channels (50/25/25)
8. Native ads (Outbrain & Taboola)
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54. 1. Start with Facebook
• More people
• More targeting options
• More ad types
• More success
• Now includes Instagram
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55. 2. Build in a 10% Testing Budget
• Test targeting (custom audiences)
• Test creative (images, headline, copy)
• Test landing pages
• Test ad types (link ad, video ad, lead gen ad)
• Use Carousel ads
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60. 3. Use Video Ads for Awareness
• Short videos (30-60 seconds)
• Hook them in the first 5 seconds
• Plan for viewers who have no audio
• Include a clear call to action
• Use video to educate and excite
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63. 5. Good Landing Pages
The strength of your landing page can save or
kill your ad campaign.
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66. 5 Social Ad Tips
1.Start with Facebook
2.Test everything (10% test budget)
3.Use video at the top of the funnel
4.Social ads work best for email lead
generation
5.Focus on your landing pages
More info at: socialfresh.com/leadpages
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The Social Fresh business.
They post 10 times to Facebook each day. They blog 5 times a day. They posted an original brand art image every day for 100 days. We should do that.
This is only the start of the problem though. It is compounded by a few additional industry trends that exacerbate Content Envy’s effect.
Content fatigue comes from this overwhelming pressure we put on a business to create and create more and more content at a higher and higher level on more platforms with no strategy, and oh yeah, we need better results.
This leads to a lack of creativity. A lack of surprise and delight. No human touch. This leads to overwhelming mediocrity of content.
Leads to overwhelming mediocrity
Quality content from Southwest
Creativity takes time
Discuss Small Business vs Large Business
Pareto Principle
80% of land in italy was owned by 20% of people
80% of pareto’s pea pod crop was harvested from 20% of the healthiest best pods
Capitalism takes over all the good analogies.
20% of your customer create 80% of the revenue
20% create 80% of your complaints
Find the 20% that create a much larger impact on your business, good or bad. Customers, products, marketing, everything. It is a tool for refocusing your time on what matters most.