I propose we replace "content marketing" with "content moments." Because people don't want to be sold to. But they do want value from brands. If we start thinking about creating moments that have meaning — experiences that connect, that spark emotion, that illicit action (or reaction) — we'll make a better connection with our audience.
This presentation was delivered on May 19, 2015 at the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce BizCon.
The great Seth Godin talked about the three types of advertising, which includes direct response marketing. What advertising strategy should you use if you have limited budget? What are the benefits of direct response marketing and when should you use it? We'll answer all these questions here.
How to Turn a Presentation into a Conversation - Greg Rosner, PitchKitchenSales Summit
Pitching PPT slides to uninformed audiences was a thing that died with VHS tapes in the 90's. With the entire world's knowledge now searchable in everyone's pocket, the purpose of your presentation has changed. The art and science of delivering great presentations boils down to getting only a few things right. Audiences expect speaker authenticity and a learning experience. Presentations today of ANY kind, to people in a room or over the web must be engaging, interactive and memorable. But how? Even for the 95% of us introverts who would rather die than speak in public? This presentation will demonstrate three things anyone can do to prepare for and deliver modern presentations that you're audience will love.
Influential and Authentic Communication Workshop (2.5 hrs)Marlies van Dijk
This 2.5 hour workshop was designed for the Saskatchewan Medical Association Board members on Influential and Authentic Communication. It contains a number of exercises and links to resources.
Social Truth: Revealing what Truly Matters to CustomersBrandwatch
Working in an era where customers are creating data all around us, it is becoming increasingly critical to understand how to use unstructured data to ensure a 360 degree view of audiences. Do you understand the key attributes that drive the customer experience? Can you afford to let the potential of its value go untapped?
To discover ‘social truth’, marketing professionals require a system that gets beneath what customers say to what they really mean. Find out how linguistic and visual data is changing the future of research to deliver deeper engagement and lifetime customer value.
The great Seth Godin talked about the three types of advertising, which includes direct response marketing. What advertising strategy should you use if you have limited budget? What are the benefits of direct response marketing and when should you use it? We'll answer all these questions here.
How to Turn a Presentation into a Conversation - Greg Rosner, PitchKitchenSales Summit
Pitching PPT slides to uninformed audiences was a thing that died with VHS tapes in the 90's. With the entire world's knowledge now searchable in everyone's pocket, the purpose of your presentation has changed. The art and science of delivering great presentations boils down to getting only a few things right. Audiences expect speaker authenticity and a learning experience. Presentations today of ANY kind, to people in a room or over the web must be engaging, interactive and memorable. But how? Even for the 95% of us introverts who would rather die than speak in public? This presentation will demonstrate three things anyone can do to prepare for and deliver modern presentations that you're audience will love.
Influential and Authentic Communication Workshop (2.5 hrs)Marlies van Dijk
This 2.5 hour workshop was designed for the Saskatchewan Medical Association Board members on Influential and Authentic Communication. It contains a number of exercises and links to resources.
Social Truth: Revealing what Truly Matters to CustomersBrandwatch
Working in an era where customers are creating data all around us, it is becoming increasingly critical to understand how to use unstructured data to ensure a 360 degree view of audiences. Do you understand the key attributes that drive the customer experience? Can you afford to let the potential of its value go untapped?
To discover ‘social truth’, marketing professionals require a system that gets beneath what customers say to what they really mean. Find out how linguistic and visual data is changing the future of research to deliver deeper engagement and lifetime customer value.
How to Turn a Presentation into a Conversation - Greg Rosner, PitchKitchenSales Summit
Pitching PPT slides to uninformed audiences was a thing that died with VHS tapes in the 90's. With the entire world's knowledge now searchable in everyone's pocket, the purpose of your presentation has changed. The art and science of delivering great presentations boils down to getting only a few things right. Audiences expect speaker authenticity and a learning experience. Presentations today of ANY kind, to people in a room or over the web must be engaging, interactive and memorable. But how? Even for the 95% of us introverts who would rather die than speak in public? This presentation will demonstrate three things anyone can do to prepare for and deliver modern presentations that you're audience will love.
Data Informed Design - Good Tech Test - May 2018Courtney Clark
When it comes to design, everyone has an opinion! However, during reviews and discussions it’s those with more than an opinion that fair the best. Successful design solutions require a deep understanding of audiences, clear strategy, and good ole data.
In this session you’ll learn:
- Common data sources for design
- How to build a data-informed approach (not data-driven)
- What data-informed design looks like in the wild (aka case studies).
Whether you’re trying to prove a point, make an improvement, or discover something new, data-informed design moves your team from gut-feelings to fact-based decisions.
When it comes to design, everyone has an opinion! However, during reviews and discussions it’s those with more than an opinion that fair the best. Successful design solutions require a deep understanding of audiences, clear strategy, and good ole data.
In this session you’ll learn:
- common data sources for design,
- how to build a data-informed approach,
- what data-informed design looks like in the wild (aka case studies).
Whether you’re trying to prove a point, make an improvement, or discover something new, data-informed design moves your team from gut-feelings to fact-based decisions.
Go to www.cfnps.org for information about upcoming events. Videos are not only a valuable way to showcase your organization. They also can be used to direct traffic to your website, thanks to YouTube features such as commenting, rating, and sharing. In addition, you can use YouTube to track and shape your message as your outreach campaign develops. In this way, your YouTube videos become an integral part of your social marketing strategy.
In this session we will cover the following:
• Incorporating Insight Statistics and other YouTube ratings and user comments to shape your communications strategy
• Linking your YouTube video to other networking sites like Facebook
• Adding keyword tags to your YouTube channel
• Using Call-to-action overlays on your videos to drive campaigns
• Including the Google Checkout “Donate” button in your video.
Marketing your business doesn't have to be hard. Chances are you already have the tools you need for success. Discover how to amplify what you're already doing with these digital marketing tools.
Yeezy taught me: What the world’s most divisive icon taught me about running ...Moving Targets
Most highly successful people, in life and in business, are extremely confident, entitled, and potentially jerks. There's an extremely thin line between confidence and delusions of grandeur. The reality is if you want that level of success, you may have to flirt with that very same line. Here are a few cogent lessons you can learn from Kanye West for your business. And ladies if you follow these instructions exactly, you might be able to pull you a rapper, a NBA player, man, at least a dude wit' a car.
You’ve set the goals, your agency says you’ve hit them — Great! But now what?
Discover how to break down the list of things your agency should be doing, how to set SMART goals, major red flags to watch out for, and many more from Joe Khoei of SalesX and Aaron Levy of Elite SEM.
Empowering People to Make an Impact: Advocacy in Higher EdStephan Hovnanian
We can all agree that the power of word-of-mouth advocacy is stronger in Higher Ed than anywhere else. Advocacy fuels awareness, recruiting, retention, and donations. It is present in students, staff, faculty, and alumni. But, despite its power and ubiquitousness, advocates typically don't know how to spread the word beyond "showing support" with a pledge or windshield sticker. Imagine if you could match the right message to the right person at the moment they wanted to spread the word. In this session, you will learn how to weave advocacy into the very fabric of your institution, so when you deliver an experience worth talking about, there's an easy-to-share message to go with it.
User-centred digital strategy - UX in the City Manchester 2017Sophie Dennis
Peter Drucker once observed: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”. Strategy is how you avoid this. A sound strategy tells you where you are going, and sets out a high-level, achievable plan to get there. It’s how you make sure anyone can decide what the right things are to work on.
Yet bad strategy documents abound: massive tomes, years in the making (during which the organisation has continued to do what it perhaps should not have been doing at all), full of platitudes, unattainable visions, or uninspiring lists of mundane tactical objectives. Documents that sit in draws, routinely ignored. It makes it easy to pooh-pooh strategy, dismissing it with another Drucker aphorism “culture eats strategy for breakfast” or the mantras of “strategy is easy, tactics are hard” and “the strategy is delivery”.
Using real-world examples of successful discovery and strategy projects, this talk will show you how to reclaim strategy, do it well, and get the support you need to translate it into action. You’ll be able to apply what you learn whether you’re developing the overarching strategy for a whole company, for a particular product or service, or delivering a brand, content or customer experience strategy. Culture may still eat strategy for breakfast, and implementation may still be the really hard part, but with a good strategy behind you you’ll have a lot more chance of succeeding.
You will learn:
* how to distinguish between vision, strategy and tactics, decide which your organisation needs right now, and the UX methods to apply to each
* how to hit the ‘goldilocks point’ with your strategy: not so visionary you fail the "yeah right" test, not so mundane you fail the "so what?" test
* how and when to engage with stakeholders, avoiding big surprises in order to get the support and buy-in that’s necessary to turn recommendations into action
how to tackle the discovery process and structure your findings and recommendations
Social Network Marketing: Integrate Real Life with Online Kristin Slice
Business owners understand that social media, e-commerce and websites are powerful tools, but how can you strategically capitalize on these innovations? In this two-part series, you will learn valuable and practical tips for developing a social media strategy for your business, identify social media platforms to incorporate, and learn social network marketing time management strategies.
• Part 1: How to Develop a Strategy Specific to Your Business
• Part 2: Social Media Tools and Secrets and Time Management Tips
This program is intended for business owners who need to revise their existing social media strategy to generate leads for their business.
A small Presentation about the book: TouchPoints by Douglas Conant & Mette Norgaard in which you will find out what a TouchPoint is, how to be able to create it in the smallest moments and how will it help the Leader generate better results through a better relationship with his employess!
Workshop from Netroots Nation #NN13. As the ’80s hit says: “One thing leads to another.” That’s the most basic description of a theory of change. If you want to make a difference in this world, you need to plot out how. In order to reach our goals, we need to understand where we are now, what barriers exist between here and there and how to get there. Though strategy and planning might sound complicated and tedious, we’ve found ways to make it fun and practical. We’ve developed a game-based approach for developing a theory of change that has helped organizers, environmental advocates, immigrant rights activists and more plan, execute and win campaigns. If you like to have fun and you like to win for progressive candidates and causes, come play with us.
Nonprofit Marketing Trends 2014: What to Ignore, What to EmbraceKivi Leroux Miller
Delivered at AMA Cause Camp 2014 in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 4, 2014. Participants held up a colored index card to indicate their answer to each question posed in the deck. Play along at home! Come up with your answer before you click the slide to see mine.
John Lane - Centerline Digital - DMFB Conference 2014 - How To Walk On The Se...Centerline Digital
How To Walk On The Sea Of Content.
There are two really big things that keep content marketing from working as well as it could for you:
1. Too much focus on quantity, rather than quality.
2. Not truly understanding your audience.
And they are related. I think that most people revert to creating more rather than "more valuable" because they don't understand their audience well enough to know what more valuable means.
So on quantity... we are in our own way. We're content hoarders. We think if a piece of content gets 1 view per month it must be good and worth keeping. That simply isn't true. Be willing the edit – promote more, iterate or replace. And we'll never be able to stop the quantity problem completely. Because even if we only put out the best quality content around a topic, we'll still be competing with all the content made be everyone else in the space.
And that's where audience understanding comes in. The better we know our audience — as humans, not canned personas — the better we can create the content they crave, and the better optimized it will be for the right audience to find it, engage with it, and share it. That type of understanding is an ongoing process, not a moment in time.
This presentation given at the Digital Marketing For Business conference covers those two points, and provides strategies on overcoming both challenges.
For more info, please visit http://www.centerline.net or contact me (John Lane) via Twitter: @johnvlane
Thanks!
How to Turn a Presentation into a Conversation - Greg Rosner, PitchKitchenSales Summit
Pitching PPT slides to uninformed audiences was a thing that died with VHS tapes in the 90's. With the entire world's knowledge now searchable in everyone's pocket, the purpose of your presentation has changed. The art and science of delivering great presentations boils down to getting only a few things right. Audiences expect speaker authenticity and a learning experience. Presentations today of ANY kind, to people in a room or over the web must be engaging, interactive and memorable. But how? Even for the 95% of us introverts who would rather die than speak in public? This presentation will demonstrate three things anyone can do to prepare for and deliver modern presentations that you're audience will love.
Data Informed Design - Good Tech Test - May 2018Courtney Clark
When it comes to design, everyone has an opinion! However, during reviews and discussions it’s those with more than an opinion that fair the best. Successful design solutions require a deep understanding of audiences, clear strategy, and good ole data.
In this session you’ll learn:
- Common data sources for design
- How to build a data-informed approach (not data-driven)
- What data-informed design looks like in the wild (aka case studies).
Whether you’re trying to prove a point, make an improvement, or discover something new, data-informed design moves your team from gut-feelings to fact-based decisions.
When it comes to design, everyone has an opinion! However, during reviews and discussions it’s those with more than an opinion that fair the best. Successful design solutions require a deep understanding of audiences, clear strategy, and good ole data.
In this session you’ll learn:
- common data sources for design,
- how to build a data-informed approach,
- what data-informed design looks like in the wild (aka case studies).
Whether you’re trying to prove a point, make an improvement, or discover something new, data-informed design moves your team from gut-feelings to fact-based decisions.
Go to www.cfnps.org for information about upcoming events. Videos are not only a valuable way to showcase your organization. They also can be used to direct traffic to your website, thanks to YouTube features such as commenting, rating, and sharing. In addition, you can use YouTube to track and shape your message as your outreach campaign develops. In this way, your YouTube videos become an integral part of your social marketing strategy.
In this session we will cover the following:
• Incorporating Insight Statistics and other YouTube ratings and user comments to shape your communications strategy
• Linking your YouTube video to other networking sites like Facebook
• Adding keyword tags to your YouTube channel
• Using Call-to-action overlays on your videos to drive campaigns
• Including the Google Checkout “Donate” button in your video.
Marketing your business doesn't have to be hard. Chances are you already have the tools you need for success. Discover how to amplify what you're already doing with these digital marketing tools.
Yeezy taught me: What the world’s most divisive icon taught me about running ...Moving Targets
Most highly successful people, in life and in business, are extremely confident, entitled, and potentially jerks. There's an extremely thin line between confidence and delusions of grandeur. The reality is if you want that level of success, you may have to flirt with that very same line. Here are a few cogent lessons you can learn from Kanye West for your business. And ladies if you follow these instructions exactly, you might be able to pull you a rapper, a NBA player, man, at least a dude wit' a car.
You’ve set the goals, your agency says you’ve hit them — Great! But now what?
Discover how to break down the list of things your agency should be doing, how to set SMART goals, major red flags to watch out for, and many more from Joe Khoei of SalesX and Aaron Levy of Elite SEM.
Empowering People to Make an Impact: Advocacy in Higher EdStephan Hovnanian
We can all agree that the power of word-of-mouth advocacy is stronger in Higher Ed than anywhere else. Advocacy fuels awareness, recruiting, retention, and donations. It is present in students, staff, faculty, and alumni. But, despite its power and ubiquitousness, advocates typically don't know how to spread the word beyond "showing support" with a pledge or windshield sticker. Imagine if you could match the right message to the right person at the moment they wanted to spread the word. In this session, you will learn how to weave advocacy into the very fabric of your institution, so when you deliver an experience worth talking about, there's an easy-to-share message to go with it.
User-centred digital strategy - UX in the City Manchester 2017Sophie Dennis
Peter Drucker once observed: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”. Strategy is how you avoid this. A sound strategy tells you where you are going, and sets out a high-level, achievable plan to get there. It’s how you make sure anyone can decide what the right things are to work on.
Yet bad strategy documents abound: massive tomes, years in the making (during which the organisation has continued to do what it perhaps should not have been doing at all), full of platitudes, unattainable visions, or uninspiring lists of mundane tactical objectives. Documents that sit in draws, routinely ignored. It makes it easy to pooh-pooh strategy, dismissing it with another Drucker aphorism “culture eats strategy for breakfast” or the mantras of “strategy is easy, tactics are hard” and “the strategy is delivery”.
Using real-world examples of successful discovery and strategy projects, this talk will show you how to reclaim strategy, do it well, and get the support you need to translate it into action. You’ll be able to apply what you learn whether you’re developing the overarching strategy for a whole company, for a particular product or service, or delivering a brand, content or customer experience strategy. Culture may still eat strategy for breakfast, and implementation may still be the really hard part, but with a good strategy behind you you’ll have a lot more chance of succeeding.
You will learn:
* how to distinguish between vision, strategy and tactics, decide which your organisation needs right now, and the UX methods to apply to each
* how to hit the ‘goldilocks point’ with your strategy: not so visionary you fail the "yeah right" test, not so mundane you fail the "so what?" test
* how and when to engage with stakeholders, avoiding big surprises in order to get the support and buy-in that’s necessary to turn recommendations into action
how to tackle the discovery process and structure your findings and recommendations
Social Network Marketing: Integrate Real Life with Online Kristin Slice
Business owners understand that social media, e-commerce and websites are powerful tools, but how can you strategically capitalize on these innovations? In this two-part series, you will learn valuable and practical tips for developing a social media strategy for your business, identify social media platforms to incorporate, and learn social network marketing time management strategies.
• Part 1: How to Develop a Strategy Specific to Your Business
• Part 2: Social Media Tools and Secrets and Time Management Tips
This program is intended for business owners who need to revise their existing social media strategy to generate leads for their business.
A small Presentation about the book: TouchPoints by Douglas Conant & Mette Norgaard in which you will find out what a TouchPoint is, how to be able to create it in the smallest moments and how will it help the Leader generate better results through a better relationship with his employess!
Workshop from Netroots Nation #NN13. As the ’80s hit says: “One thing leads to another.” That’s the most basic description of a theory of change. If you want to make a difference in this world, you need to plot out how. In order to reach our goals, we need to understand where we are now, what barriers exist between here and there and how to get there. Though strategy and planning might sound complicated and tedious, we’ve found ways to make it fun and practical. We’ve developed a game-based approach for developing a theory of change that has helped organizers, environmental advocates, immigrant rights activists and more plan, execute and win campaigns. If you like to have fun and you like to win for progressive candidates and causes, come play with us.
Nonprofit Marketing Trends 2014: What to Ignore, What to EmbraceKivi Leroux Miller
Delivered at AMA Cause Camp 2014 in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 4, 2014. Participants held up a colored index card to indicate their answer to each question posed in the deck. Play along at home! Come up with your answer before you click the slide to see mine.
John Lane - Centerline Digital - DMFB Conference 2014 - How To Walk On The Se...Centerline Digital
How To Walk On The Sea Of Content.
There are two really big things that keep content marketing from working as well as it could for you:
1. Too much focus on quantity, rather than quality.
2. Not truly understanding your audience.
And they are related. I think that most people revert to creating more rather than "more valuable" because they don't understand their audience well enough to know what more valuable means.
So on quantity... we are in our own way. We're content hoarders. We think if a piece of content gets 1 view per month it must be good and worth keeping. That simply isn't true. Be willing the edit – promote more, iterate or replace. And we'll never be able to stop the quantity problem completely. Because even if we only put out the best quality content around a topic, we'll still be competing with all the content made be everyone else in the space.
And that's where audience understanding comes in. The better we know our audience — as humans, not canned personas — the better we can create the content they crave, and the better optimized it will be for the right audience to find it, engage with it, and share it. That type of understanding is an ongoing process, not a moment in time.
This presentation given at the Digital Marketing For Business conference covers those two points, and provides strategies on overcoming both challenges.
For more info, please visit http://www.centerline.net or contact me (John Lane) via Twitter: @johnvlane
Thanks!
Better manage your personal and professional social media time based on impact and effectiveness. Learn how to measure and analyze effectiveness and outcomes of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
In today’s online marketing world, content is king. You already have knowledge your audience finds valuable – now you need to use this as an asset for growth. Original content is the vehicle to position your brand as a leading authority in your industry.
However, effective content marketing is a challenge. Consistently creating and distributing content that performs is a challenge for marketing teams of all sizes. In fact, Content Marketing Institute studies have found that only 38% of marketers in 2015 say that their organization is at least “effective” at content marketing.
This presentation covers the 8 steps to effectively building your brand’s influence using content marketing, including:
1) How to create content that is truly valuable to your audience
2) How to get your content published in influential sites your audience is reading
3) How to create content on a consistent basis with limited resources
4) What to do with this content to create significant and measurable ROI
Does Your Content Work for People? Essentials for Evaluating Your Client's Co...GatherContent
Does your content work? It's a simple question. But, getting the answers can be a complex chore. Learn the essentials of assessing whether your content, or your client's content, has impact from Colleen Jones.
You can watch the full video session at:
http://blog.gathercontent.com/colleen-jones-webinar-evaluating-content
Check out Colleen's website at:
http://www.content-science.com/
Her tool, ContentWRX
http://www.contentwrx.com
Content Marketing 101 Masterclass for the Institute of Directors - Young Dire...Dean Langasco
Slides from IOD Young Director's Conference.
What is content marketing?
A quick history of content marketing.
Content success stories.
Applying learning from the greats.
Content Marketing: Publishing is the New MarketingJoe Pulizzi
Original presentation given in Slovenia by Joe Pulizzi, Junta42 at the POMP Forum - Content Marketing and why Publishing is the New Marketing. Discusses the move from traditional media to content initiatives and why brands are the new publishers. Also includes the eight steps to developing a content marketing strategy.
How do some businesses manage to grow and scale like rocket ships and other companies can barely get someone to share their content?
This presentation will go through the key components of a growth strategy that are leveraged by some of the most successful brands online.
It will discuss audience acquisition tactics that businesses of all sizes can use to ensure the work they're doing leads to continual growth spurts.
The Content Marketing Master Class, Toronto – a unique one-day workshop – will send you home with the strategy and the know-how you need to create exceptional content that will engage your audience and grow your business.
http://www.contentmarketingtoronto.com/
This roll-up-your-sleeves class is brought to you by the force behind Content Marketing World (a production of the Content Marketing Institute), in partnership with LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Join us and you'll find an intimate (and casual) setting where today's content marketing thought-leaders will provide you with the tools you need in order to develop and deliver an effective content strategy.
Interact with the experts and network with 100+ of your peers during a day of presentations and how-to workshops. If you're in marketing, corporate communications, sales leadership, public relations, advertising, audience development, content creation or curation, this is the event for you.
With LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, brands build relationships with the world's professionals by using accurate targeting to deliver relevant content and communications. As today's connected professionals seek out ideas and insights from the people and brands they trust, marketers use LinkedIn to target advertising and publish relevant content in a professional context. Brands extend reach through the social sharing that occurs naturally on LinkedIn, as well as by extending LinkedIn data to their sites and brand experiences through APIs.
Social media 2.0: Getting older and (hopefully) wiserOrca Social
Slide deck from our (Jonathan Wichmann and Ed Major) presentation at Oracle's Cloud Applications Days in Copenhagen 2014. More on: http://orcasocial.co.uk
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
Unleash the power of UK SEO with Brand Highlighters! Our guide delves into the unique search landscape of Britain, equipping you with targeted strategies to dominate UK search engine results. Discover local SEO tactics, keyword magic for UK audiences, and mobile optimization secrets. Get your website seen by the right people and propel your brand to the top of UK searches.
To learn more: https://brandhighlighters.co.uk/blog/top-seo-agencies-uk/
Search Engine Marketing - Competitor and Keyword researchETMARK ACADEMY
Over 2 Trillion searches are made per day in Google search, which means there are more than 2 Trillion visits happening across the websites of the world wide web.
People search various questions, phrases or words. But some words and phrases are searched
more often than others.
For example, the words, ‘running shoes’ are searched more often than ‘best road running
shoes for men’
These words or phrases which people use to search on Google are called Keywords.
Some keywords are searched more often than others. Number of times a keyword is searched
for in a month is called keyword volume.
Some keywords have more relevant results than others. For the phrase “running shoes” we
get more than 80M relevant results, whereas for “best road running shoes for men” we get
only 8.
The former keyword ‘running shoes’ has way more competition from popular websites to
new and small blogs, whereas the latter keyword doesn’t have that much competition. This
search competition for a keyword is called search difficulty of a keyword or keyword
difficulty.
In other words, if the keyword difficulty is ‘low’ or ‘easy’, there won’t be any competition
and if you target such keywords on your site, you can easily rank on the front page of Google.
Some keywords are searched for, just to know or to learn some information about something,
that’s their search intention. For example, “What shoe size should I choose?” or “How to pick
the right shoe size?”
These keywords which are searched just to know about stuff are called informational
keywords. Typically people who are searching this type of keywords are top of a Conversion
funnel.
Conversion funnel is the journey that search visitors go through on their way to an email
subscription or a premium subscription to the services you offer or a purchase of products
you sell or recommend using your referral link.
For some buyers, research is the most important part when they have to buy a product.
Depending on that, their journey either widens or narrows down. These types of buyers are
Researchers and they spend more time with informational keywords.
Conversion is the action you want from your search visitors. Number of conversions that you
get for every 100 search visitors is called Conversion rate.
People who are at different stages of a conversion funnel use different types of keywords.
10 Video Ideas Any Business Can Make RIGHT NOW!
You'll never draw a blank again on what kind of video to make for your business. Go beyond the basic categories and truly reimagine a brand new advanced way to brainstorm video content creation. During this masterclass you'll be challenged to think creatively and outside of the box and view your videos through lenses you may have never thought of previously. It's guaranteed that you'll leave with more than 10 video ideas, but I like to under-promise and over-deliver. Don't miss this session.
Key Takeaways:
How to use the Video Matrix
How to use additional "Lenses"
Where to source original video ideas
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
13. @johnvlane | @centerline
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Questions
you may be
asking
yourself
right now…
Doesn’t quantity of content play a
big role in findability (SEO)?
If I choose to focus on “less, better”
then how do I choose what to create?
Something completely different from
the audience…?
17. Create New Math
World Relevance
Age
+ Accuracy
+ Utility
+ Channel Distribution
Brand Relevance
Message + Design + Effectiveness
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25. CREATE
DELIVER
ACTIVATE
Edit – The Content Lifecycle Optimization
Replace Iterate Promote
PLAN
MONITOR &
MEASURE
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2
Questions
you may be
asking
yourself
right now…
So are you saying that personas are
the most important thing or a waste
of time?
How do I determine the best metrics
and systems for my situation?
Something completely different
from the audience…?
28. Tools To Help You Get To “Why”
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29. Tools To Help You Get To “Why”
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30. Tools To Help You Get To “Why”
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31. @johnvlane | @centerline
3
Big Point
To achieve relevance with your audience,
focus on context.
And to keep up with ever changing
context, think in terms of
agile marketing.
36. “We’re looking at who’s written those comments, what their influence is and
what comments have the most potential for helping us create new content.”
Iain Tait - Global Interactive Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy
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3
Questions
you may be
asking
yourself
right now…
How fast are things (channels,
mediums, “marketing”) really changing?
How can I keep up (especially if I’m
doing everything by myself)?
Are we done yet?!
Something completely different
from the audience…?
43. Resources
Tom Webster: “Why You Don’t Need Content Strategy”
“Rolex: How A 109-Year-Old Brand Thrives In The Digital Age”
Rand Fishkin: “Content Marketers Could Become Their Own Worst Enemy”
“Content Marketing Will Never Work” from Travelblather
“The Big Problem Of Ad Fatigue”
Centerline Digital: Content Planning Guide
“How To Create and Customize Pivot Tables In Excel”
5 Whys (via Wikipedia)
Cait Smith: “Navigating How Humans Think”
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