How Curation Boosts Your Content Marketing Strategy
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What is curation and how can it boost your content marketing strategy? How can you become a content curation rock star? Who curates and why are they good at it? How are Kapost and Curata integrated? The CMO of Curata, Michael Gerard, and Customer Success Manager of Kapost, Camilla Calhoun, answer these questions and more!
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How Curation Boosts Your Content Marketing Strategy
- 1. HOW CURATION BOOSTS YOUR CONTENT MARKETING STRATEGY #CurationRockstar
- 2. #CurationRockstar 2 Camilla Calhoun Customer Success Manager Kapost @camillacalhoun camilla@kapost.com Michael Gerard Chief Marketing Officer Curata @michaelgerard michael@curata.com
- 3. #CurationRockstar 3 Have you ever… Published a “best of” post? Commented on and shared a link on twitter? Pasted a link to facebook with your commentary?
- 5. #CurationRockstar 5 And so have these folks. . . 5
- 6. #CurationRockstar 6 AGENDA • What is curation and how can it boost your content marketing strategy? • How can you become a content curation rock star? • Who is doing it well and why? • How are Kapost and Curata integrated?
- 7. #CurationRockstar 7 CONTENT MARKETING IS HERE TO STAY Drive Traffic & Leads Establish Thought Leadership Boost Brand Awareness Q. Top Strategies Used in Marketing Programs? Curata s Annual B2B Marketing Trends Report http://bit.ly/curatab2b2012
- 9. #CurationRockstar 9 POLL How many of you… 1. Produce content that goes unused 2. Produce content that is too brand (“YOU”) centric 3. Struggle to keep up and stay relevant
- 10. #CurationRockstar 10 • 60-70 % of content goes unused (it is too product focused*) • Brands struggle to create enough buyer-centric content • Inconsistent messaging is delivered to buyers • Challenge to stay relevant *Sirius Decisions, May 2013 You’re Not Alone…
- 11. #CurationRockstar 11 MOST CONTENT IS STILL IN OUR OWN VOICE!
- 13. #CurationRockstar 13 “ Content curation is the process of an individual (or team) consistently finding, curating and sharing the most relevant and highest quality digital content on a specific topic for their target market.” -Curata WHAT IS CURATION?
- 14. #CurationRockstar 14 WHY IS CURATION IMPORTANT? . . .Thought leadership . . . Lead generation . . . Lower content development costs
- 15. #CurationRockstar 15 CURATION OBJECTIVES Source: Curata’s 2012 Content Curation Adoption Survey http://bit.ly/CurataAdoption2012
- 16. #CurationRockstar 16 Ideation & Planning Production Distribution Analysis BOOSTING YOUR CONTENT MARKETING PROCESS
- 17. #CurationRockstar 17 Identify Find Curate Share Analyze 5 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL CURATION
- 19. #CurationRockstar 19 CURATION IN ACTION: IQ BY INTEL http://iq.intel.com
- 20. #CurationRockstar 20 SOURCES Schedule a regular and consistent time every day to review content. RSS Feeds News Sites Blogs Trade Pubs Twitter Journals FIND
- 22. #CurationRockstar 22 CATEGORIZE TAG GROUP INDEX ARCHIVE RECOMMEND CURATE: FIRST ORGANIZE Think like a librarian when organizing content. – Use categories & tags in blog software – Make your CTA point to another piece of content – Create digests & roll-up summaries
- 23. #CurationRockstar 23 ANNOTATE ANALYZE RECAP OR SUMMARY ASK QUESTIONS, POLLS COMMENT PROVIDE INSIGHT AND GUIDANCE CURATE: THEN ADD VALUE Comment like an analyst when you curate . . . create value for your audience.
- 24. #CurationRockstar 24 • Share only a portion of the original content • Always attribute sources • Drive visitors to the original publication • Follow the Google “Rule of Thumb” CONTENT CURATION & FAIR USE Create, curate, but never pirate content. Source: http://bit.ly/CurationEthicsPost
- 25. #CurationRockstar 25 CURATION IN ACTION: VERNE GLOBAL http://www.greendatacenternews.org
- 28. #CurationRockstar 28 HOW CURATA AND KAPOST ARE INTEGRATED
- 29. #CurationRockstar 29 HOW CURATA AND KAPOST ARE INTEGRATED
- 30. #CurationRockstar 30 IN SUMMARY • Content Marketing is here to stay • Meet your audience needs and provide a market-in perspective • Grow your CM strategy and capture your audience with curation. • Need a holistic platform to manage and integrate curation and content marketing
- 31. #CurationRockstar 31 Q + A Sales at Curata sales@curata.com Customer Support at Curata accounts@curata.com Sales at Kapost sales@kapost.com Customer Success at Kapost AM@kapost.com