Let’s Talk About Content for PR
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Why Content?
3/4th of U.S. consumers share content
2/5th of U.S. consumers share content
immediately before a purchase
71% of consumers make purchase
decisions based on social media referrals
Why Content?
30% of marketing budgets spent on content
Most effective marketers spend 42%
21% of Marketers successfully track ROI
Michael Durwin
DURWIN
MICHAEL
INNOVATION, DIGITAL &
SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIST
Michael Durwin
1
Social media campaign: 1995
Brand fan page
Website video
Brand MySpace page
Brand video on YouTube
Character Twitter
Live brand video
Google Glass beta tester
Invented Potential Human Reach™
ST
Michael Durwin
Bermuda Tourism • HBO • Mass
General Hospital • Stoli • NBC •
Amazon • SFO • Microsoft • Coca
Cola • ABCNews • Boston Bruins •

Decathlon Sports • ESPN • Disney
• Reebok • FOX • NatGeo • AMC •
Liberty Mutual • Home Depot

Blue Cross Blue Shield • Deloitte •
Comcast • JJill • Food Network •
MDA • Thule • Partners Health •
Nokia • Nature Publishing • New
Balance • Biogen • AMEX • Fidelity
• DentaQuest • Bose • CME Group
#IPRCcontent7 Steps to Creating Content
Michael
Traditional PR =
helping others tell your story
Content Marketing =

telling your own story
Content Marketing for PR =
owning media not renting it
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WTF is Content?
It ain’t just this
It’s this: 3,128,447 views
12,300+ pins
It’s this:
It’s this: 28,336 likes
It’s this:
It’s this:
It’s this:
It’s this:
It’s this:
It’s this:
It’s this:
208k+ Likes
7,697 Shares
2.8k Comments
It’s this:
42,474 Likes
375 Comments
Blogger Contest
Blogger
Preperation:
Itinerary blogs
Images
Videos
What’s in my bag?
Blogs
Images
Videos
Nominations
Landing Page
/Microsite
1 Week
Blogger(s) Social Networks
Germany Tourism Social Networks
Anticipated Attention
Fuseideas AccountHours
Blogger
Trip:
Checkins
Images
Blogs
Links
Videos
Infographic
Blogger
Trip
Recap:
Blog
Videos
Blogger
Trip Content:
Images
Videos
Infographics
Guest Posts
39,664,570 Impressions
21,387 Likes
10,968 Mentions
31% Twitter Follower Increase
501% Instagram Follower Increase
1,273% Facebook Follower Increase
7% increase in positive social sentiment
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Content Marketing is
about your brand!
NOT
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Talking about Others
Talking about
Your Brand
20%
80%
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Talking about
Your Brand20%
Talking about Others
80%
Valuable & Engaging
to your Audience100%
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Participant
User
Customer
Producer
Community
Consumer
< >CONSUMER HUMANCONSUMER HUMAN
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0 0.15 0.3 0.45 0.6
15%
24%
25%
27%
33%
40%
42%
53%Lack of internal creation resources
Lack of content strategy
Budget constraints
Inability to effectively measure
No cross-channel integration
Lack of staff skills
Lack of variety of content type variety
Lack of management support
Ascend2, “Content Marketing Trends Survey Summary Report March 12, 2015
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“Adapt or die.”
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Copywriting
Story Telling
Graphic Design
Photography
Video Production
Presentation Design
Public Speaking
Web Design
SEO
Media Planning
Analytics
Social Listening
Psychology & Sociology
Email Marketing
Multivariate Testing
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CTR
0
2.5
5
7.5
10
0.74
1.2
1.94
1.47 1.17
1.81
4.33
7.91 7.53
8.02 8.18 8.45
7.72
8.35 7.98
9.96
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CPC
0
0.35
0.7
1.05
1.4
1.32
0.57
0.5
0.43 0.38 0.35
0.16
0.08
0.17
0.05 0.03
0.11
0.03 0.05 0.05 0.02
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QUESTIONS?
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SEE YA!
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