This document discusses the evolution of marketing from traditional ads and promotions to content marketing. It notes that people are overwhelmed by marketing messages and have short attention spans. Most marketing content goes unused, and customers do not care about brands. However, content marketing that creates emotional connections through stories can be effective if it provides value to the customer. The document advocates developing a content strategy to reach customers at different stages, and acting like a publisher to create useful content that audiences want to engage with.

2. What Is Marketing?
Ask most people and they will tell you
that marketing is an ad, a banner or
some kind of promotion. But weren’t
there 4 “P’s” in Marketing 101?

3. 5,000
2/3
86%
44%
90%
marketing messages
per day
of U.S. on the “Do Not Call” list
Of people skip TV ads
direct mail is never opened
of emails are never opened
So we support the
myth by bombarding
our audience with
messages they don’t
want.

4. The average attention span of a person has
dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds.
This, along with the increasing channels and
formats of information available is altering our
brains.

5. The average attention span of a
Goldfish is 9 seconds.
(Statistic Brain)
Goldfish have longer attention spans than
the average human today.

6. Less likely
to click on a
banner than…
Banners have 99 problems and a click
ain’t one. Business Insider cheekily
reported that you are more likely to get
struck by lightning or win the lottery than
see a click on your banner.

7. As a whole society, we’re bored!
Bored with content we don’t
want.

8. And this is having a dramatic impact
on certain industries like the
newspapers who have seen a
dramatic loss of nearly $50 billion in
revenue since 2000.

9. 60-70% of marketing content
goes completely unused
(Sirius Decisions)
Almost 70% of your content budget
is completely wasted

10. 73% of people surveyed wouldn’t care if the
brands they use
disappeared from their life.
(Co.Exist)
And your customers could care less
if you even exist.

11. Marketing has a marketing problem.
And it’s reflected in the interest of
global monthly searches over the
last decade

12. But there’s hope. Seth Godin said:
“content marketing is all the marketing
that’s left” as brands struggle to meet
the needs of today’s digital consumer.

13. What is Marketing?
“Marketing is knowing your customer so
well that your product sells itself.”
- Peter Drucker
“Marketing is too important to be left to
the marketing department.”
- David Packard

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And that brings us to stories. From
the day we emerged from caves,
we’ve been telling stories about how
to survive and how to thrive.

15. But it’s not really about the information
we convey in stories, it’s about the
emotional connection those stories make.

16. Your customers are expecting you to care
more about them than about you. They
are expecting you to touch their hearts
and inspire their minds.

17. It’s not just about creating great
content, it’s about delivering great
content. And then you need to go
one step further and pour your fans

18. Where I Started

19. What Does SAP Do?
Interesting? Is The Customer The Hero?
SAP AG is a
German multinational software corporatio
n that makes enterprise software to
manage business operations and customer
relations. Headquartered
in Walldorf, Baden-
Württemberg, Germany, with regional
offices around the world, SAP is the leader
in the market of enterprise applications in
terms of software and software-related
service.[2]
The company's best-known software
products are its enterprise resource
planning application systems and
management (SAP ERP), its enterprise
data warehouse product – SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP
BusinessObjects software, and most
recently, Sybase mobile products and in-
memory computing appliance SAP HANA.
SAP is one of the largest software
companies in the world.
(Wikipedia)

20. Almost All Our Content Addressed
“Who is SAP? / Why Should You Chose SAP?”
(@MylesBristowe and
CommCreative)

21. We Were Not Answering Our Customers Top
Questions
99.9% of our web traffic from visitors
who already knew us or bought from
us
Less than 0.1 % were net-new or
early-stage prospects
Less than 10 keywords generated all
the early-stage search traffic

22. How Much “Early Stage”
Search Traffic Do We Get?
Not Enough Early Stage Visitors:
Asking “What is Big Data?”
100,000’s of searches / month
Too Many Later Stage Visitors:
Asking “What is SAP Software”
100s of searches / month

23. What is a Content Strategy?
Delivering the content your audience needs,
in all the places they go (by persona, buyer stage, channel, type)
Managing content as an asset with an ROI
Thinking and acting like a publisher
(and like a business)

24. To Reach Our Audience
We Need To Act Like Publishers
*search engine optimization

25. Business Innovation Blog from SAP:
http://blogs.sap.com/innovation
Mission:
To earn our audience’s
attention by helping them grow
their business, out-perform
their competition, and advance
their careers.
To act like a publisher by
creating content people actually
want to consume.

26. Content Marketing Objectives:
Reach, Engagement AND Conversions
Traffic, engagement and leads
we would have NEVER seen!
Recognized by Fast Company,
Digiday,
Content Marketing Institute, more…

27. Software
Content
NewsCred provided everything SAP
needed to scale content marketing

28. Enterprise
Software
End-to-end software that helps brands
manage every step of the content marketing
process, from creation, discovery and
workflows, to distribution and analytics.

29. Licensed
Content
We’ve built relationships with over 4,500
publishers, giving you the ability to publish
stories from award-winning sources on
topics that resonate with your audience.

30. Custom
Content
We provide custom content through
The NewsRoom, our exclusive network of
hand-selected writers, photographers,
videographers, and designers.

31. What do you need to create a
content marketing strategy?
1. Content is Not A Campaign – Focus on Strategy
2. Effective Content Combines Brand-Created, Licensed and Syndicated
3. Focus on Quality That Scales

32. NewsCred is powering content for the world’s
leading brands. Come talk to us!