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How to Create an Effective B2B 
Online Content Marketing Strategy 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
What is the goal of your B2B content 
marketing strategy? 
To make your business the leading information 
provider for your customers about solutions to their 
business challenges. 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
What pieces of online content can you 
provide to deliver this information? 
• Blog posts 
• Podcasts 
• SlideShares 
• Hangouts 
• Videos 
• Webinars 
• White papers 
• Infographics 
• eBooks 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
What will those pieces contain? 
• Interviews with industry leaders 
• Customer use stories 
• Industry statistics and analyst reports, with actionable 
advice and insights 
• Product tutorials, how-tos 
• Guide to measuring ROI on products 
• Product roadmap, features, developments 
• Anything else your customers tell you they want to learn 
from you...but you have to LISTEN. 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
How do you discover what content will 
be most useful? Ask your customers! 
• Surveys 
• Advocate marketing programs 
• Social media polls 
• Online survey tools 
• Listening 
• Sales team communications 
• Comments on social, blogs, 
communities 
• Any customer conversation 
• Research where they 
spend time online 
• Who do they follow on social 
channels? 
• What communities and 
forums do they belong to and 
participate in? 
• What do they share with their 
social networks? 
• What blogs do they read and 
comment on? 
• Where do they go to waste 
time? 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
Tactics 
What tools are in your content arsenal? 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
Audio & Video 
Google Hangouts, webinars and interview videos 
provide content that can be repurposed in 
multiple ways. 
• Create short clips for YouTube with annotations linking 
to the full version 
• Strip audio to create podcasts 
(put on iTunes) 
• Transcribe to create blog posts 
(What about developing a series?) 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
Words & Pictures 
• Compile blog posts, webinar slides into eBooks 
• Ask industry leaders to contribute articles 
• Repurpose eBooks for SlideShare 
• Create an email newsletter 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks
Additional layers 
Social 
• Optimize content for individual channels 
• Regularly recycle evergreen content 
SEO 
• Develop keyword strategy and optimize 
all content for organic search 
Lead Generation 
• Resist the urge to gate all the things 
• Add CTA to ungated content (soft ask) 
• Use email opt-in landing pages for gated content 
©2014 Heidi Willbanks

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How to Create an Effective B2B Content Marketing Strategy

  • 1. How to Create an Effective B2B Online Content Marketing Strategy ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 2. What is the goal of your B2B content marketing strategy? To make your business the leading information provider for your customers about solutions to their business challenges. ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 3. What pieces of online content can you provide to deliver this information? • Blog posts • Podcasts • SlideShares • Hangouts • Videos • Webinars • White papers • Infographics • eBooks ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 4. What will those pieces contain? • Interviews with industry leaders • Customer use stories • Industry statistics and analyst reports, with actionable advice and insights • Product tutorials, how-tos • Guide to measuring ROI on products • Product roadmap, features, developments • Anything else your customers tell you they want to learn from you...but you have to LISTEN. ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 5. How do you discover what content will be most useful? Ask your customers! • Surveys • Advocate marketing programs • Social media polls • Online survey tools • Listening • Sales team communications • Comments on social, blogs, communities • Any customer conversation • Research where they spend time online • Who do they follow on social channels? • What communities and forums do they belong to and participate in? • What do they share with their social networks? • What blogs do they read and comment on? • Where do they go to waste time? ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 6. Tactics What tools are in your content arsenal? ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 7. Audio & Video Google Hangouts, webinars and interview videos provide content that can be repurposed in multiple ways. • Create short clips for YouTube with annotations linking to the full version • Strip audio to create podcasts (put on iTunes) • Transcribe to create blog posts (What about developing a series?) ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 8. Words & Pictures • Compile blog posts, webinar slides into eBooks • Ask industry leaders to contribute articles • Repurpose eBooks for SlideShare • Create an email newsletter ©2014 Heidi Willbanks
  • 9. Additional layers Social • Optimize content for individual channels • Regularly recycle evergreen content SEO • Develop keyword strategy and optimize all content for organic search Lead Generation • Resist the urge to gate all the things • Add CTA to ungated content (soft ask) • Use email opt-in landing pages for gated content ©2014 Heidi Willbanks