Here's the truth, the majority of marketers FAILat content marketing. Don't believe us, data shows the overwhelming amount of companies openly admit that their content marketing is not meeting their expectations.
Our presentation shares content marketing "do's" and "don'ts" and how content strategy is the foundation for successful content marketing.
7 Marketing Automation Strategies That Actually Drive Business ResultsThree Deep Marketing
IBM Marketing Cloud and Three Deep Marketing have teamed up for a back-to-school marketing session! Join us as we chat about building bridges between Marketing and IT departments. Here's the slides from our panel discussion on September 22, 2016
“Why do salespeople love sales tips and quotes so much? It’s probably because we believe in our own potential, our capacity to learn and grow. We’re constantly striving to conquer new sales challenges, close new deals, and shatter old records.” ~ Ken Krogue, InsideSales.com
Email marketing is one of the oldest digital marketing tactics, yet it continues to deliver a higher ROI than just about any other online strategy. But this is not your father's email marketing anymore. That's right: this strategy has matured, and if you haven't revisited how you create email content since the early 2000's, you're most likely missing out on the major ROI and benefits of email. This topic takes an in depth look into six key areas of email marketing and how each has evolved. It's time to update your old email marketing strategy and move it to 2016 and beyond.
Marketing and Sales alignment is paramount for success with any organization. Learn to create synergy between your teams for maximum impact for your sales. Revenue generation is the objective any effective marketing campaign, so aligning with your sales efforts will lead to a success and sustainability.
Content Marketing: An expert discussion on effective online content strategiesFluid
The content marketing world is a fun yet complex environment. It should be a major part of all internet marketing strategies and something your business shines at. We cover everything you need to know from beginner to expert topics. If you have to ask yourself, "What is content marketing?" - you'll get that answer here. If you are an expert, you might simply enjoy hearing firsthand stories from Fluid Advertising's and the More Good Foundation's content creators. Whether your focus is on B2C or B2B content marketing, this presentation will help you think critically about your process and find ways to build more successful, sharable content. We hope you enjoy!
b2b content marketing
what is content marketing
content marketing examples
digital content marketing
content marketing manager
Marketing agencies are increasingly being asked by clients to help generate more and better leads for their sales teams. Yet, very few agencies are equipped to even talk to their clients' sales and marketing management teams about these needs. Very few agencies have experience generating leads online, let alone helping sales and marketing teams function together as one unified team with common goals and mutual accountability. In this recorded webinar, you'll learn how to help clients align sales and marketing processes, goals and messaging.
7 Marketing Automation Strategies That Actually Drive Business ResultsThree Deep Marketing
IBM Marketing Cloud and Three Deep Marketing have teamed up for a back-to-school marketing session! Join us as we chat about building bridges between Marketing and IT departments. Here's the slides from our panel discussion on September 22, 2016
“Why do salespeople love sales tips and quotes so much? It’s probably because we believe in our own potential, our capacity to learn and grow. We’re constantly striving to conquer new sales challenges, close new deals, and shatter old records.” ~ Ken Krogue, InsideSales.com
Email marketing is one of the oldest digital marketing tactics, yet it continues to deliver a higher ROI than just about any other online strategy. But this is not your father's email marketing anymore. That's right: this strategy has matured, and if you haven't revisited how you create email content since the early 2000's, you're most likely missing out on the major ROI and benefits of email. This topic takes an in depth look into six key areas of email marketing and how each has evolved. It's time to update your old email marketing strategy and move it to 2016 and beyond.
Marketing and Sales alignment is paramount for success with any organization. Learn to create synergy between your teams for maximum impact for your sales. Revenue generation is the objective any effective marketing campaign, so aligning with your sales efforts will lead to a success and sustainability.
Content Marketing: An expert discussion on effective online content strategiesFluid
The content marketing world is a fun yet complex environment. It should be a major part of all internet marketing strategies and something your business shines at. We cover everything you need to know from beginner to expert topics. If you have to ask yourself, "What is content marketing?" - you'll get that answer here. If you are an expert, you might simply enjoy hearing firsthand stories from Fluid Advertising's and the More Good Foundation's content creators. Whether your focus is on B2C or B2B content marketing, this presentation will help you think critically about your process and find ways to build more successful, sharable content. We hope you enjoy!
b2b content marketing
what is content marketing
content marketing examples
digital content marketing
content marketing manager
Marketing agencies are increasingly being asked by clients to help generate more and better leads for their sales teams. Yet, very few agencies are equipped to even talk to their clients' sales and marketing management teams about these needs. Very few agencies have experience generating leads online, let alone helping sales and marketing teams function together as one unified team with common goals and mutual accountability. In this recorded webinar, you'll learn how to help clients align sales and marketing processes, goals and messaging.
14 Reasons Why Inbound Marketers Make Great AdvertisersHubSpot
It turns out inbound marketers make for great advertisers. But why? To find out we started looking at the campaigns our customers were creating to uncover what made them so effective.
This overview is informed greatly by the discussion at our Executive Forum in March 2015, but it also is
the culmination of our observations from Content Marketing World 2014 and our advisory client work in
the past year.
Our objective is to report on the key challenges faced by marketers, the vital insights being realized, and
the general health of content marketing as a strategic business approach. As was the case last year, this overview ultimately asks more questions than it answers; our goal is not to settle debates or provide trite answers to complex business challenges, but to update and inform.
At the two-day Executive Forum, CMI leaders and senior marketing executives from more than 30 enterprise brands came together to collaborate and to discuss and report on their own organizations’ efforts in integrating content marketing as a strategic approach.
The extraordinary insights and the identification of challenges could not have been possible without the
generous contributions of this forum class, as well as last year’s forum participants. Their input doesn’t represent their tacit endorsement of the ideas, but as a collective group they are responsible for the value contained in this report.
It is great to have a dream for our business - but without a plan it will remain just that!In this short webinar Kevin will take you through a simple one-page strategic planning framework that will help turn your dream into a Vision and help make it become a reality.
CMI’s first Executive Forum: Research and results
In May of this year, CMI held its first Executive Forum. For this event, we brought 40 senior-level marketers from large brands together to address the present and future state of enterprise content marketing. During a series of exercises, presentations, and candid discussions, participants shared the challenges they face, discussed potential roadblocks to success, and predicted the victories they see on the horizon — both large and small.
We’ve compiled an executive summary from the proceedings of this Forum — The State of Enterprise Content Marketing: 2014, which we are proud to be able to share with the whole CMI audience. Over the coming weeks this will be followed by two additional reports, based on the qualitative research we conducted with a broader group of content marketing professionals prior to the Executive Forum.
You might notice that our report asks more questions than it answers. Its goal (as was the case for the Forum itself) is not to provide pat answers to complex issues but, rather, to report on the insights and challenges that participants shared and to help us at CMI frame our larger goals for the issues we want to cover.
Neither the Executive Forum Report nor our ensuing research would have been possible without the generous contributions of the 2014 Executive Forum members (who are credited in the Report). However, their presence at the event — and their inclusion in this report — is not a tacit endorsement of any of the ideas presented.
Ultimately, the discussions that took place at the forum will serve as our “stake in the ground” moving forward. And as we work toward re-engineering marketing processes more broadly, we will consider it a waypoint for our ongoing journey.
Optimize Omnichannel Campaigns In 2018: How To Reach Every Buyer In Every Cha...G3 Communications
View this #sps17 Webcast on-demand here: http://dg-r.co/2xOyTwO
This session will share use cases highlighting how B2B organizations are overcoming the limitations of insufficient data and integration to expand their reach and buyer engagement. With more precise targeting, the session will provide prescriptive examples of how B2B marketers can keep up with their B2C peers by putting actionable intelligence into play across multiple channels, including:
• Increasing telemarketing conversions;
• Improving email click-through rates;
• Reducing digital ad acquisition costs: and
• Lifting direct mail response rates.
Attendees will also find examples of how access to accurate account and contact data are helping organizations identify their best audiences and then deploy campaigns across channels that match buyer preferences.
As we prepare for landing, we hope you've enjoyed our Content Marketing World conference ebook series, a great and fun project with our friends at TopRank Marketing. We hope to see you in September when you'll have a chance to listen to these great CMWorld 2017 speakers and industry authorities. Thanks for being on this journey with us!
Writing good job adverts is imperative if you want to achieve your Recruitment outcomes. The job advert is the first point of contact between yourself and your prospective candidates - you want to leave a positive first impression.
In these slides, we teach you what you should be doing to write the best job ads.
This webinar takes a look at why culture is so important to attracting and retaining great talent. We also look at how to create attractive cultures and what you can do today to get started.
Sales and Marketing - Shifting Lead Nurturing Into OverdrivePardot
Both sales and marketing teams are being challenged with bringing in prospects, engaging leads and bringing home the deals. Lead nurturing has historically been known as a marketing tool and has quickly become a successful part of the overall strategy that supports and drives sales deal success.
So, just how does sales leverage lead nurturing? Join Ken Krogue, President and Founder of InsideSales.com, and Derek Grant, Director of Sales at Pardot, a salesforce.com company, to find out!
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.
This ebook will inspire you to become a better marketer in 2013 and beyond, and fill you in on some of the key trends shaping social media marketing and digital marketing success in the modern age.
Presented by our very own Angie Schottmuller at Conversion Conference Chicago on June 11, 2013 and SMX Advanced on June 12, 2013.
CRO, meet SEO! It's time to maximize organic conversions with these 12 power plays. Learn common optimization factors, the SEO CRO funnel, tricks, trends, & more!
Need help connecting SEO & CRO?
At Three Deep, we truly "get-it" when it comes to driving and converting web traffic. We bridge organic conversion tactics with powerful user-centric strategies to deliver lasting, tangible ROI. Your time and budget is finite. Grow ROI with an SEO & CRO power play. >> Contact us today for a consultation!
SEO-201 teaches you how to optimize your content and strategy. Here are the slides from the June 22, 2016 Webinar to help you start growing your organic traffic.
14 Reasons Why Inbound Marketers Make Great AdvertisersHubSpot
It turns out inbound marketers make for great advertisers. But why? To find out we started looking at the campaigns our customers were creating to uncover what made them so effective.
This overview is informed greatly by the discussion at our Executive Forum in March 2015, but it also is
the culmination of our observations from Content Marketing World 2014 and our advisory client work in
the past year.
Our objective is to report on the key challenges faced by marketers, the vital insights being realized, and
the general health of content marketing as a strategic business approach. As was the case last year, this overview ultimately asks more questions than it answers; our goal is not to settle debates or provide trite answers to complex business challenges, but to update and inform.
At the two-day Executive Forum, CMI leaders and senior marketing executives from more than 30 enterprise brands came together to collaborate and to discuss and report on their own organizations’ efforts in integrating content marketing as a strategic approach.
The extraordinary insights and the identification of challenges could not have been possible without the
generous contributions of this forum class, as well as last year’s forum participants. Their input doesn’t represent their tacit endorsement of the ideas, but as a collective group they are responsible for the value contained in this report.
It is great to have a dream for our business - but without a plan it will remain just that!In this short webinar Kevin will take you through a simple one-page strategic planning framework that will help turn your dream into a Vision and help make it become a reality.
CMI’s first Executive Forum: Research and results
In May of this year, CMI held its first Executive Forum. For this event, we brought 40 senior-level marketers from large brands together to address the present and future state of enterprise content marketing. During a series of exercises, presentations, and candid discussions, participants shared the challenges they face, discussed potential roadblocks to success, and predicted the victories they see on the horizon — both large and small.
We’ve compiled an executive summary from the proceedings of this Forum — The State of Enterprise Content Marketing: 2014, which we are proud to be able to share with the whole CMI audience. Over the coming weeks this will be followed by two additional reports, based on the qualitative research we conducted with a broader group of content marketing professionals prior to the Executive Forum.
You might notice that our report asks more questions than it answers. Its goal (as was the case for the Forum itself) is not to provide pat answers to complex issues but, rather, to report on the insights and challenges that participants shared and to help us at CMI frame our larger goals for the issues we want to cover.
Neither the Executive Forum Report nor our ensuing research would have been possible without the generous contributions of the 2014 Executive Forum members (who are credited in the Report). However, their presence at the event — and their inclusion in this report — is not a tacit endorsement of any of the ideas presented.
Ultimately, the discussions that took place at the forum will serve as our “stake in the ground” moving forward. And as we work toward re-engineering marketing processes more broadly, we will consider it a waypoint for our ongoing journey.
Optimize Omnichannel Campaigns In 2018: How To Reach Every Buyer In Every Cha...G3 Communications
View this #sps17 Webcast on-demand here: http://dg-r.co/2xOyTwO
This session will share use cases highlighting how B2B organizations are overcoming the limitations of insufficient data and integration to expand their reach and buyer engagement. With more precise targeting, the session will provide prescriptive examples of how B2B marketers can keep up with their B2C peers by putting actionable intelligence into play across multiple channels, including:
• Increasing telemarketing conversions;
• Improving email click-through rates;
• Reducing digital ad acquisition costs: and
• Lifting direct mail response rates.
Attendees will also find examples of how access to accurate account and contact data are helping organizations identify their best audiences and then deploy campaigns across channels that match buyer preferences.
As we prepare for landing, we hope you've enjoyed our Content Marketing World conference ebook series, a great and fun project with our friends at TopRank Marketing. We hope to see you in September when you'll have a chance to listen to these great CMWorld 2017 speakers and industry authorities. Thanks for being on this journey with us!
Writing good job adverts is imperative if you want to achieve your Recruitment outcomes. The job advert is the first point of contact between yourself and your prospective candidates - you want to leave a positive first impression.
In these slides, we teach you what you should be doing to write the best job ads.
This webinar takes a look at why culture is so important to attracting and retaining great talent. We also look at how to create attractive cultures and what you can do today to get started.
Sales and Marketing - Shifting Lead Nurturing Into OverdrivePardot
Both sales and marketing teams are being challenged with bringing in prospects, engaging leads and bringing home the deals. Lead nurturing has historically been known as a marketing tool and has quickly become a successful part of the overall strategy that supports and drives sales deal success.
So, just how does sales leverage lead nurturing? Join Ken Krogue, President and Founder of InsideSales.com, and Derek Grant, Director of Sales at Pardot, a salesforce.com company, to find out!
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.
This ebook will inspire you to become a better marketer in 2013 and beyond, and fill you in on some of the key trends shaping social media marketing and digital marketing success in the modern age.
Presented by our very own Angie Schottmuller at Conversion Conference Chicago on June 11, 2013 and SMX Advanced on June 12, 2013.
CRO, meet SEO! It's time to maximize organic conversions with these 12 power plays. Learn common optimization factors, the SEO CRO funnel, tricks, trends, & more!
Need help connecting SEO & CRO?
At Three Deep, we truly "get-it" when it comes to driving and converting web traffic. We bridge organic conversion tactics with powerful user-centric strategies to deliver lasting, tangible ROI. Your time and budget is finite. Grow ROI with an SEO & CRO power play. >> Contact us today for a consultation!
SEO-201 teaches you how to optimize your content and strategy. Here are the slides from the June 22, 2016 Webinar to help you start growing your organic traffic.
Presented by own Angie Schottmuller on April 26, 2013 as part of the Instant eTraining Social Media online certification course.
Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the human brain than text. It's time to better leverage social networks for collecting and aggregating photos for your business! Learn the basics of Instragram, cases studies of diverse successes, tips for photo challenges, tools for analytics, and more!
Take your natural search traffic to the next level. SEO 201: Content Optimization and Strategy was presented on July 30, 2015 as a resource for marketing professionals. The complete presentation may be viewed at http://www.threedeepmarketing.com/blog/next-level-seo-how-to-optimize-strategy-and-content/
Are you leveraging social proof to optimally boost leads and sales? Checkout out these tricks for harnessing current and past customer success (testimonials, star ratings, customer action shots, etc.) to drive more conversions.
You'll learn:
- What kinds of social proof aid conversion (and why)
- Common conversion-killing social proof cases to avoid
- When and where social proof matters on a landing page
- How to score/grade the quality of your social proof
- What elements make a highly persuasive testimonial (and how to get them)
BONUS: Learn the "CRAVENS" methodology -- a simple scorecard for measuring the quality of social proof to effectively persuade conversion. CRAVENS = Credible, Relevant, Attractive, Visual, Enumerated, Nearby [anxiety points], Specific.
Note: A "craven" is a chicken, quitter, scaredy cat, etc. The CRAVENS model focuses on leveraging social proof to strategically reduce anxiety (i.e. scaredy cat, abandonment tendencies) and in turn boost conversion. Get ready for some actionable social proof tips and some epic LOL cat slides! #RememberTheCravens (scaredy cats!)
The 30-Minute SEO Checkup covers what every marketing professional should know about SEO. It teaches you how to test your website’s SEO strength with one 30-minute checkup. Start recognizing common SEO problems and fix basic issues to improve your site’s organic performance.
Everyday consumers turn to Google to search for where they can buy products and services near their location. If you’re business isn’t ranking in local search, you could be losing customers to your competition.
Email 101 presented by Scott Pearson. The presentation is a great resource for marketers who are just beginning email marketing campaigns. Also a outstanding refresher for people who are in the industry and looking to freshen up on strategy and foundation.
Introduction to SEO presented by Nate Plaunt on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Learn about the foundational and technical elements of SEO that set your website up for success!
How to Improve Your Landing Page Optimization | Landing Page TestingThree Deep Marketing
Jeff Sauer leads a session on how to improve your landing page optimization and the top 7 ways to improve your landing pages today.
Landing pages are often overlooked in many internet marketing initiatives when compared to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC), but is a very important part of any internet marketing campaign. Whether you're looking to gain more qualified leads for your lead generation business, or improve your e-commerce sales, this presentation is sure to help you look at landing page optimization in a new light.
Marketing for Independent Insurance Agents on a Shoestring BudgetThree Deep Marketing
This presentation is for independent insurance agents. Jeff Sauer presented at the Trust in Marketing Seminar in Minneapolis, MN on 3/20/2012. This presentation showcases marketing activities done by large organizations and how to achieve a similar effect on a shoestring budget.
Slides from Carie Otto's paid media webinar covering lead generation in the digital age... Also known as pay-per-click marketing strategies. Learn the basics to get started with paid media with this slide deck - or view the complete presentation at: http://www.threedeepmarketing.com/blog/pay-per-click-its-lead-generation-in-the-digital-age/
Do you have a content marketing strategy but need guidance on how best to implement it? Find out what content works best across social media platforms, what trends? what content gets in update streams?, and learn top tips to increase your engagement online and how applying these tips can positively impact your business.
10 Content Strategy Questions Every Organization Must Answer - VERDINO & COGreg Verdino
In this straightforward self-assessment, you'll see the state of content strategy and content execution within your company, and get a sense of how to take your content program to your next level. Get started on your journey toward content excellence.
The Content Conundrum 2 People: How to Structure Your Content Team 3 Process: How to Define A Process That Works What You’ll Learn Today 4 Tools: Find The Right
Limited Resources (mo’ time, mo’ money, mo’ people)
Conundrum Demand for More Content Blogs eBooks White Papers Video Case Studies Sales Enablement Webinars
How do you cut through the clutter? How do you get in front of your audience? How do you hold their attention?
What is a 10x Content Marketer? Someone who is productive and on target with your goals. To be a 10x content marketer you must create, manage and optimize ridiculously good content in a consistent and repeatable way.
This come down to three things. (In that order.) People Process Tools
Disclaimer: You Already Kinda Know What You’re Doing Before worrying about but process… Understand buyer personas Document strategy and goals Align w/ Buyer Journey Align with Lead Gen Offers Align with Corp. Calendar
People
How to Structure Your Content Team
Process
Establishing a Process Organizational Process (the big picture) Core Content Activities Evaluate Content/Business Goals
A Simple Process Plan Create Publish Promote Analyze Adapt
A Less Simple Process
The Content Cycle Creation Content Experience Publishing Promotion & Distribution Measure & Learn
The Functional Process Behind It Creation Content Experience Publishing Promotion & Distribution Measure & Learn Content Brainstorm Editorial Calendar / Timelines Drafts Submitted Edit & Format Design / Experience Schedule to Publish
Creation Content Experience Publishing Promotion & Distribution Measure & Learn How do we make this more efficient? Content Brainstorm Editorial Calendar / Timelines Drafts Submitted Edit & Format Design / Experience Schedule to Publish The Functional Process Behind It
Rapid Prototyping (Quickly and easily get feedback on a content idea.) Social Media Talk to your team Talk to a customer Start small (i.e. blog post, then eBook) Making Process Better
Parallel Processes Making Process Better Content Brainstorm Editorial Calendar / Timelines Drafts Submitted Edit & Format Design / Experience Schedule to Publish
Design / Experience Schedule to Publish
Make Meetings Better Define your purpose Set a time limit Stand up! Invite the right people Making Process Better
BREAKFAST The chicken was involved. The pig was committed. Invite committed people to your meetings. (h/t @ksgreen) Making Process Better
Consistent Drip of Ideas Editing / Proofreading Repurpose Content ! Video to Audio ! Roundups ! Slides / Infographics ! Articles to eBooks (vice versa) ! Update existing content (Moz example) More Tips for Faster Content Creation
Tips For Optimizing The Content Experience First thing is first.. What are your goals. Lead Generation Great content isn’t enough. You need room within the content process to optimize the experience for lead capture.
Web Content Strategy - How to Plan for, Create and Publish Online Content for...Joe Pulizzi
A presentation from Joe Pulizzi (Junta42) and Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic) on February 6, 2009 Online Marketing Summit in San Diego.
The presentation goes into detail about why marketers have to develop a publishing mindset, why web content strategy is so difficult, and what you can do now to create an effective content strategy and plan within your own organization.
Presentation from Joe Pulizzi from the Content Marketing Institute on 10 ways to fix your content and 10 tactical tips to implement within your content marketing strategy.
When it comes to building your content strategy, one size does not fit all. In this presentation, I discuss why best practices aren't always best, things to think about when building your brand's content strategy, and how finding a balance between "old and new" will set you up for sucess.
The presentation is from the Toronto HubSpot User Group on 12.2.21
AMA Baltimore - Building Your Content Marketing PlanWill Davis
As companies race to implement content marketing programs, many are doing so without a concrete plan. Right Source Marketing Managing Partner Will Davis leads this workshop on building your content marketing plan for Baltimore's American Marketing Association chapter. The workshop covers understanding buyer roles, viewing content from a business perspective, content planning, content creation, content optimization, content distribution and content tracking and analysis.,
Similar to Content Strategy: And how to suck less at it (20)
What can a show about nothing teach you about content strategy? A lot actually! Our upcoming webinar compares the satirical, societal norms from television’s Seinfeld to your own content strategy. This presentation shares 4 easy ways you can enhance your content strategy.
Slides from our live event on June 15, 2017. Sharing how data informs marketing decisions. No one knows the value of a fan’s engagement better than the Minnesota Vikings, so we’ve invited them to share the tactics and strategies they use to connect with their millions of fans during, and well-after game day.
Presentation shared at Three Deeps marketing and baseball event on June 30, 2016. Our presentation shares how your multi-location business can attract, engage and optimize customers at every location by sharing success stories from brands who have anointed themselves as successful examples for the rest of us to follow.
Your audience visits multiple online locations everyday, so how do you use your audiences online behavior to increase sales of your product inside retail locations. That’s the challenge Behr Paint faces, in advancing their email marketing practices they have grown into omnichannel strategies that integrate their audience’s website behavior with automated email and media strategies.
Our presentation at the 2017 IBM Amplify National Conference shares how Behr has grown from adhoc email campaigns into behavior based, relevant campaigns designed for omnichannel marketing.
Independent Wedding Professionals Association. Presentation given by Jeff Sauer to the Independent Wedding Professionals Association in MN on 12/20/2011.
Google Analytics: Make Your Site Work Harder from MIMA SummitThree Deep Marketing
Google Analytics is a free tool, so all I need to do is put some code on my website and it’ll magically work, right? Not so fast!
While Google Analytics is enterprise class software, there are some initial configuration changes that you need to make in order to maximize the insights you receive from your website. In this session, we will explore filtering website traffic, segmenting visits, properly tracking all traffic to your site (think display and social media), configuring goals, site search and much more. A must-attend session if you want to get actionable insights for your website!
If you are like most marketers, you are tired of hearing about “social media.” Listening to people go on and on about Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but never putting their importance into perspective. Has anyone ever shown you specific good and bad examples of execution? Explained how what could work brilliantly in one medium can fail miserably in another? What should you do yourself and what might be best left to the pro’s; how to connect your activities without a cookie cutter approach and more.
Jeff Sauer from Three Deep presented this deck to a class at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Presentation is centered around what Google means to an Online Marketer and to a growing digital agency.
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/
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.
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
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
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.
Digital Money Maker Club – von Gunnar Kessler digital.focsh890
Title One is a comprehensive examination of the impact of digital technologies on
modern society. In a world where technology continues to advance rapidly, this article delves into the nuances and complexities of the digital age, exploring Its implications across various sectors and aspects of life.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
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Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
8. AGEN-DO
Definitions
• What is content?
• Why is content important?
• What is content strategy?
• What is content marketing?
Myths
Getting Started
Measuring Success
23. “A content strategist is like a
business analyst for your
content. We look at how content
is currently helping (or hindering)
your business and develop a
strategy to make it work better.”
Sally Bagshaw, Founder, Brisbane Content Strategy Group and
Snappy Sentences
25. “… Create valuable, compelling and
relevant content on a consistent basis
and build an audience over that time in
order to see some profitable customer
action.”
Joe Pulizzi, Founder, Content Marketing Institute
26. Should I focus on
content strategy or
content marketing?
27. Content Strategy Content Marketing
PLANS
For the creation, publication and
governance of content
EXECUTES
To attract, engage and convert
using content
What the heck are they doing and why the heck are they doing it?????
*Success in this instance is however it is defined by the survey participant.*
Source – Content Marketing Institute’s annual research
I ‘do’ coffee pouring, but I only have about a 30% success rate.
I ‘do’ taxes, but I only have about a 30% success rate.
I ‘do’ firefighting, but I only have about a 30% success rate.
Let’s lay the groundwork of some shared understanding.
Content is the heart of what we do as marketers; we talk to our customers, our clients, and our readers, and what we say to them—regardless of what form it takes—is our content. -- Moz
Is Content King or Queen – or does Context reign?
Is Distribution, Marketing, Usability or SEO the Queen?
Content is just like a blog right? Well, it can be… but so can every word you read on a website and every picture you see…
Content is an email newsletter right?… it could be, but it’s also be every email you receive.
It could be a video on your website, or on youtube, or on vimeo…
… or a tweet
Content is anything you produce that communicates a message to the end user. Even this webinar is content!
Content isn't 'stuff we write to rank higher' or 'infographics' or 'long-form articles.'
Content is anything that communicates a message to the audience. Anything. — Ian Lurie, CEO, Portent, Inc.
Ok, duh, not rocket science… but also not why I’m here.
Content is the way your business communicates with your customers.
… and communication is key to every successful relationship.
Your customer is being inundated with tons of information from tons of businesses. Gone are the days of information scarcity. It is HARD to make a decision – and hard to cut through the clutter. You’ve also probably heard that most people now have the average attention span of a goldfish…
So how can you win? You need crazy focus.
Great content is content that is created to solve your customer’s problem. The better and more relevant the content, the happier the customer, and the happier the customer the more likely they’ll be to make a decision, and one that is favorable to your business ---- spend money at your business.
Are Content Strategy and Content Marketing the same thing?
Clear definitions and smart collaboration help everyone in your organization speak the same language to more effectively perform, source or sell these services; measure and optimize efforts; and structure teams and staff them well.
This is how you find your crazy focus. ’if you fail to plan, you fail to plan’ – this is how you lay the groundwork for content marketing success.
Planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content. -Kristina Halvorson
Keep in mind that what makes a customer action profitable depends on the strategy – it doesn’t always mean dollars. Aaaaand we’ve made it full circle!
So, spoiler alert, BOTH. Sometimes it helps to (over?) simplify. Here’s your cheat sheet.
Content isn’t a project that you set and forget. It’s a product. And it’s created, and maintained, with a purpose. Otherwise it ROTs. (Redundant, Outdated, Trivial)
Real Estate agents mailing recipe cards example
Doesn’t do any good to aim… aim... Aim... You need to fire.
Content Strategy: Have something to say --- know what your audience is ordering
Content Marketing: Say it --- deliver it (and – results!)
Ok, I think I get. Now what?
Myths to debunk
Myth #1: Is this just another marketing trend?
CM: marketers charged with innovation, speed, and results – more execution focused; low hanging fruit
CS: perception it takes longer, is more expensive, etc. – long game
Peak of Inflated Expectations: Early publicity produces a number of success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not.
Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters.
Slope of Enlightenment: More instances of how the technology can benefit the enterprise start to crystallize and become more widely understood.
Content Marketing is rumored to be sliding out of the peak of inflated expectations (look, shiny objects!) and into the trough of disillusionment, as Joe Pulizzi, Founder of the Content Marketing Institute assesses. Looks like it’s about to become survival of the fittest in the marketing realm.
Clear definitions and smart collaboration help everyone in your organization speak the same language to more effectively perform, source or sell these services; measure and optimize efforts; and structure teams and staff them well.
Can’t just say you’re ‘doing it’
Pulizzi highlights two reasons for this disparity:
Lack of strategy (ß AHA, now that’s a problem you can work with!)
Brands using content the same way they use advertising
Source: AdAge, Is It Content or Is It Advertising?
90% of respondents plan to increase Content Marketing budgets
(more than half of these plan to do so by 20% or more!)
The 10% planning to decrease content marketing budgets shrunk from the 23% who planned to make cuts in 2013.
Myth #1: Is this just another marketing trend?
Myth #2: you’ll want us to make 15 videos and start a blog, right?
Remember this?
Content strategy should start by evaluating what you currently have and determining if it’s any good.
Start with a content inventory/audit.
Who is your audience & what is their buying process. Does your content map to it?
Does it satisfy target audience needs? Does it address various needs throughout the buying cycle?
Is it quality? Does it get any traffic? Is it shared often?
Who is your audience & what is their buying process. Does your content map to it?
What do you have?
What should be phased out?
What should be revamped?
Optimization & continuous improvement – what can you be testing and optimizing to get better results vs creating new content.
What needs to be created?
The ‘right criteria’ depend on your project and goals. This is a great starting place. An excellent repository of criteria is: http://understandinggroup.com/learn/posters/ia-heuristics-checklist/
Is what you offer findable, accessible, clear, communicative, useful, credible, controllable, valuable, learnable and delightful?
Heuristics provide a shared language of critique and measurable principles that help you prepare to succeed with users, both in research and out in the wild.
Myth #2: you’ll want us to make 15 videos and start a blog, right?
Myth #3: Content strategy seems expensive.
Here’s a little analogy…
Myth #4: Content strategy seems expensive.
If you fail to develop a content strategy you’ll find yourself trying to feed a five year old a steak…
Myth #4: Content strategy seems expensive.
…when what they really wanted was a grilled cheese…
Myth #4: Content strategy seems expensive.
…You spent a lot of time and money investing in something that is just going to sit out there on a plate and get cold….
Myth #4: Content strategy seems expensive.
…while your customer will go elsewhere to find what they’re looking for…
Investing in a content strategy helps prevent a lot of wasted time, effort, and MONEY. Knowing who your customers are and what they want, need, and prefer will help you spend your time, effort, and MONEY wisely.
Myth #4: Content strategy seems expensive.
We do this by developing customer journey maps
Map #2 is distilled version - actionable
Cool! …
Where do I start?
Reference What, Why, How slide from methodology deck – hit highlights in Q&A format
‘you can’t love others unless you love yourself first’
It’s not rocket science, but it is necessary. There are about a zillion resources out there.. Including this book!
Other favorites;
Epic list of content strategy resources – Jonathon Colman (UX content strategist at Facebook)
Books – Journals – Blogs – Articles – Events – Forums
Blog posts from Three Deep to help get started on measurement models and audience understanding following this session.
Awesome, I think I can do this. BUT, ultimately I have a boss to report to…
How do I prove that I made an awesome/ brilliant/ heroic move by investing in content strategy?
Here’s a tool from the Toolkit in action
When you stop to think about why you’re doing something it will help align teams and provide clarity from the very beginning. (or squish irrelevant ideas – a good content strategy makes it easy to say no)
working with them / sweet-talking their egos and hearts with gentle encouragement, to identify why the site / campaign / digital marketing invitiative exists
I can do that! …. Or more realistically, someone on my team can do that!
Content marketing will fail without a content strategy
Producing content without a content strategy wastes TIME & MONEY
Before you start, identify your goals & objectives, audience, and user journey
Always measure your results to show your boss you’re a hero and learn from your efforts.