The document discusses the challenges Johns Hopkins University faced with its website including difficulties with content management, poor mobile experience, and lack of intuitive navigation. It outlines the steps taken to implement a content strategy including discovery interviews, creating user personas, defining identity pillars, and developing a messaging architecture. The process involved stakeholders from across the university and provided recommendations for managing politics, clarifying tools, defining roles, and maintaining momentum to ensure a successful content strategy initiative.
Content audits can be mind-numbingly boring and time consuming. They require an incredible amount of patience and curiosity. But, they are an absolute necessity for all businesses, as they manage their digital content assets.
Learn how to:
Distinguish between different types of content audits
Decide what type of content audit you need
Perform a gap analysis
Use the information you glean from content audits
Get creative when you encounter a wall
We will use three case studies—a major university, a healthcare client and a major publishing company—to illustrate how to make sense of content audits. Focus will be on understanding content requirements, how to present data to the C-suite and how to use all the information you learn from a content audit without losing your mind.
Marketing is Dead. Build a Foundation. Ignore the Hype.Kyle Lacy
My presentation for the State of Search conference in Dallas, TX on 11/12/2016. We talked about how the customer experience is the only things that matter. It is the only thing that makes you relevant. There are 4 Ps to the survival of marketing as a profession - people, process, programs and performance.
YOUR PEOPLE SHOULD DEVELOP & RE-DEVELOP YOU PROCESSES & PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE.
Working in tech is great... until it isn't. Burnout, bias, conflict, and unethical products are all too common. Compassionate Coding helps you avoid these pitfalls by applying emotional intelligence. Here are some tips to help you learn new skills, land a job, and handle conflict effectively, so that you can craft a fulfilling and compassionate career.
Delivered by April Wensel at LEARN Academy, March 2019.
The most effective interventions focus not only on individual target behaviors, but also on the needs, perspectives and motivational quality of the people who will use them. When we design behavior change interventions, we focus on providing information at the right time, in the right place, for the right person… and that requires a content strategy. In this webinar, Marli Mesibov will provide examples and guidelines for crafting a content strategy specific to behavior change.
Why is this so hard? Understanding Design Challenges - Adam Connor & Magga Do...Mad*Pow
Gain good insights into how to gauge your organization’s readiness for design and the ability to analyze your organization’s culture and use it to make meaningful decisions about change efforts and much more!
Content audits can be mind-numbingly boring and time consuming. They require an incredible amount of patience and curiosity. But, they are an absolute necessity for all businesses, as they manage their digital content assets.
Learn how to:
Distinguish between different types of content audits
Decide what type of content audit you need
Perform a gap analysis
Use the information you glean from content audits
Get creative when you encounter a wall
We will use three case studies—a major university, a healthcare client and a major publishing company—to illustrate how to make sense of content audits. Focus will be on understanding content requirements, how to present data to the C-suite and how to use all the information you learn from a content audit without losing your mind.
Marketing is Dead. Build a Foundation. Ignore the Hype.Kyle Lacy
My presentation for the State of Search conference in Dallas, TX on 11/12/2016. We talked about how the customer experience is the only things that matter. It is the only thing that makes you relevant. There are 4 Ps to the survival of marketing as a profession - people, process, programs and performance.
YOUR PEOPLE SHOULD DEVELOP & RE-DEVELOP YOU PROCESSES & PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE.
Working in tech is great... until it isn't. Burnout, bias, conflict, and unethical products are all too common. Compassionate Coding helps you avoid these pitfalls by applying emotional intelligence. Here are some tips to help you learn new skills, land a job, and handle conflict effectively, so that you can craft a fulfilling and compassionate career.
Delivered by April Wensel at LEARN Academy, March 2019.
The most effective interventions focus not only on individual target behaviors, but also on the needs, perspectives and motivational quality of the people who will use them. When we design behavior change interventions, we focus on providing information at the right time, in the right place, for the right person… and that requires a content strategy. In this webinar, Marli Mesibov will provide examples and guidelines for crafting a content strategy specific to behavior change.
Why is this so hard? Understanding Design Challenges - Adam Connor & Magga Do...Mad*Pow
Gain good insights into how to gauge your organization’s readiness for design and the ability to analyze your organization’s culture and use it to make meaningful decisions about change efforts and much more!
Webinar: Creating a Customer-Centric Content StrategyCasie Gillette
In today's world of mass content, creating content your customers care about is imperative. Learn about the new customer experience, see how to choose the correct keyword phrases for search, and find existing gaps in your content marketing strategy.
Content Strategy Secrets from the Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub and Ahava Lei...Ahava Leibtag
Ahava Leibtag and Amanda Todorovich from Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub gave this workshop at Content Marketing World 2014 in Cleveland on September 11, 2014.
Using Data to Improve Hospital MarketingAhava Leibtag
3 case studies prove that usability studies, content auditing and content strategy increases traffic. In one case study, we increased traffic 330% to a hospital blog by creating personas.
BOBCM: Best of Branded Content Marketing 2015 D&AD EditionJustin Kirby
BOBCM’s special 2015 D&AD edition - produced in partnership with D&AD, the global association for creative advertising and design - presents industry experts’ guest features and awards
Better Together: Content Strategy and Design #CSFORUM16Rebekah Baggs
Imagine a future where siloed departments and legacy workflows don’t stand in our way. Today’s content is complex, interconnected, and needs to be ready for devices we haven’t even dreamed of yet. Tomorrow isn’t going to get any simpler. Successful outcomes demand a new kind of collaboration.
For the past three years, Rebekah Cancino has studied how successful teams collaborate on content decisions, and helped transform the way content strategists, designers, and developers work and produce together. In this session, you’ll hear what she’s learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team and workflow, too.
Gateway drug content strategy elements you should use (Content Marketing Show...Charlie Williams
Content strategy can seem superfluous and too-much extra work when we are busy creating and promoting our content marketing efforts. But, there are a few simple content strategy tools that any digital marketer can use to help publish compelling marketable content that connects with your audience.
Here, I've tried to look at some of the best elements of content strategy (specifically, from the discovery phase) you can use to create a process-led, repeatable workflow to plan great marketable content.
Create a Content Marketing Strategy Your Customers will LOVE, in 7 StepsJay Baer
Here's how to create a content marketing strategy your customers will love, in 7 steps. This presentation from global content marketing consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author Jay Baer will help you craft a winning content marketing strategy for your brand or organization. The principles in this presentation are used by Jay Baer and his Convince and Convert consulting firm on behalf of some of the largest companies in the world. Learn how corporate objectives, audiences, audience inquiries, metrics, content execution, and even social media work together to make content marketing programs successful. You'll want to print this one out and/or share it with your team.
How a Content Marketing Company Does Content Marketingion interactive
Uberflip’s VP of Marketing, Hana Abaza and ion co-founder Anna Talerico come together for a content packed, content marketing presentation.
Get the inside scoop from a company that produces hundreds of webinars, thousands of blog posts and many more leads. Hana and Anna take you through:
- Goals and Strategy
- Content Marketing Cycle
- Planning and Process
- Execution and Evaluation
Learn how to use content to raise awareness, boost engagement and fuel lead and demand generation by focusing on more than just great content. We show you what a quality content experience looks like and how that experience differentiates your content from the rest.
Get the roadmap you need to put your content marketing program on the fast track to success.
Jesse Lewes (People for Research) and Emma Howell (cxpartners) talk about writing recruitment briefs. These slides go through how to pull a brief together, how to decide and describe the participants you need, and how and when to involve your recruiter.
Culture of Content: Bridging the Gap Between Content Leadership and Creative ...Andrea Goulet
What holds brands back from creating engaging, effective content typically isn’t talent, but rather a complex cobweb of rules, regulations and business processes that get in the way.
The best content marketing brands embrace a “culture of content.” They have a collaborative spirit. Leaders know how to articulate visions. Messaging foundations are documented. Approvals are swift and nimble. And creative professionals have the resources they need to execute engaging content in real time.
Managing Content Projects with Success and Panache by Ahava Leibtag (Now What...Blend Interactive
So often in digital projects, we push content to the bottom of the pile, or the end of the timeline. As we evolve our strategies, we’re learning that content really needs to come first. Ahava will show you how to avoid this problem and plan your content for success. Using case studies from a major university, a children’s hospital and a major publishing company, you will learn how to set up your digital projects, so that content is a major consideration and doesn’t destroy your project at the last minute.
How to Build Useful Audience Personas to Guide Your Digital Strategy | Laura ...Laura Hampton
Digital marketing expert Laura Hampton provides her guidance on creating useful audience personas to guide your digital strategy. This presentation was first delivered at Brighton SEO in April 2016.
Webinar: Creating a Customer-Centric Content StrategyCasie Gillette
In today's world of mass content, creating content your customers care about is imperative. Learn about the new customer experience, see how to choose the correct keyword phrases for search, and find existing gaps in your content marketing strategy.
Content Strategy Secrets from the Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub and Ahava Lei...Ahava Leibtag
Ahava Leibtag and Amanda Todorovich from Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub gave this workshop at Content Marketing World 2014 in Cleveland on September 11, 2014.
Using Data to Improve Hospital MarketingAhava Leibtag
3 case studies prove that usability studies, content auditing and content strategy increases traffic. In one case study, we increased traffic 330% to a hospital blog by creating personas.
BOBCM: Best of Branded Content Marketing 2015 D&AD EditionJustin Kirby
BOBCM’s special 2015 D&AD edition - produced in partnership with D&AD, the global association for creative advertising and design - presents industry experts’ guest features and awards
Better Together: Content Strategy and Design #CSFORUM16Rebekah Baggs
Imagine a future where siloed departments and legacy workflows don’t stand in our way. Today’s content is complex, interconnected, and needs to be ready for devices we haven’t even dreamed of yet. Tomorrow isn’t going to get any simpler. Successful outcomes demand a new kind of collaboration.
For the past three years, Rebekah Cancino has studied how successful teams collaborate on content decisions, and helped transform the way content strategists, designers, and developers work and produce together. In this session, you’ll hear what she’s learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team and workflow, too.
Gateway drug content strategy elements you should use (Content Marketing Show...Charlie Williams
Content strategy can seem superfluous and too-much extra work when we are busy creating and promoting our content marketing efforts. But, there are a few simple content strategy tools that any digital marketer can use to help publish compelling marketable content that connects with your audience.
Here, I've tried to look at some of the best elements of content strategy (specifically, from the discovery phase) you can use to create a process-led, repeatable workflow to plan great marketable content.
Create a Content Marketing Strategy Your Customers will LOVE, in 7 StepsJay Baer
Here's how to create a content marketing strategy your customers will love, in 7 steps. This presentation from global content marketing consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author Jay Baer will help you craft a winning content marketing strategy for your brand or organization. The principles in this presentation are used by Jay Baer and his Convince and Convert consulting firm on behalf of some of the largest companies in the world. Learn how corporate objectives, audiences, audience inquiries, metrics, content execution, and even social media work together to make content marketing programs successful. You'll want to print this one out and/or share it with your team.
How a Content Marketing Company Does Content Marketingion interactive
Uberflip’s VP of Marketing, Hana Abaza and ion co-founder Anna Talerico come together for a content packed, content marketing presentation.
Get the inside scoop from a company that produces hundreds of webinars, thousands of blog posts and many more leads. Hana and Anna take you through:
- Goals and Strategy
- Content Marketing Cycle
- Planning and Process
- Execution and Evaluation
Learn how to use content to raise awareness, boost engagement and fuel lead and demand generation by focusing on more than just great content. We show you what a quality content experience looks like and how that experience differentiates your content from the rest.
Get the roadmap you need to put your content marketing program on the fast track to success.
Jesse Lewes (People for Research) and Emma Howell (cxpartners) talk about writing recruitment briefs. These slides go through how to pull a brief together, how to decide and describe the participants you need, and how and when to involve your recruiter.
Culture of Content: Bridging the Gap Between Content Leadership and Creative ...Andrea Goulet
What holds brands back from creating engaging, effective content typically isn’t talent, but rather a complex cobweb of rules, regulations and business processes that get in the way.
The best content marketing brands embrace a “culture of content.” They have a collaborative spirit. Leaders know how to articulate visions. Messaging foundations are documented. Approvals are swift and nimble. And creative professionals have the resources they need to execute engaging content in real time.
Managing Content Projects with Success and Panache by Ahava Leibtag (Now What...Blend Interactive
So often in digital projects, we push content to the bottom of the pile, or the end of the timeline. As we evolve our strategies, we’re learning that content really needs to come first. Ahava will show you how to avoid this problem and plan your content for success. Using case studies from a major university, a children’s hospital and a major publishing company, you will learn how to set up your digital projects, so that content is a major consideration and doesn’t destroy your project at the last minute.
How to Build Useful Audience Personas to Guide Your Digital Strategy | Laura ...Laura Hampton
Digital marketing expert Laura Hampton provides her guidance on creating useful audience personas to guide your digital strategy. This presentation was first delivered at Brighton SEO in April 2016.
Ws Facilitating the group design thinking processAnna Ploskonos
Workshop "Facilitating the group design thinking process" at the IAF Europe MENA conference http://facilitationreloaded.com/ in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Anna Ploskonos and Daniel Osterwalder, 3-5 October, 2014. Questions addressed: WHY do we need A FACILITATOR in the design process? HIS/HER ROLE in this process? WHAT DO FACILITATORS DO in the design process, ACTUALLY?
THEIR TASKS? WHICH PROFESSIONAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES do facilitators need?
Content strategy - Beyond the wireframe (UX Bristol 2014)Nomensa
A workshop for UX designers and researchers.
Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling at the end of a project when you realise the content that’s been loaded onto the site is nothing like what you were thinking of when you created the wireframes? Or revisited a site you built a while ago and found that additions and changes made over the years have altered it beyond recognition?
Content strategy can help you plan for great content right from the start of a project. This workshop demystifies the content production workflow – how it’s commissioned, created, measured and maintained – talks a bit about governance, and provides some practical tips and tools to help plan and manage content, whether you’re from an agency or in-house.
AUTHORS:
Juliet Richardson
Juliet is Principal UX Consultant at strategic UX design agency, Nomensa based in their Bristol office. She has been working in the field of UX for longer than she cares to remember and has worked on some great projects with some fabulous clients along the way, including a recent collaboration with Sophie to create a content strategy for a large national charity.
Sophie Dennis
Sophie is a freelance consultant. She is a freelance consultant specialising in UX and content strategy. She started her career in publishing before being enticed away by the bright lights of web design, where she has spent 15 years trying to get clients to take their content as seriously as they do design. She recently collaborated with Juliet on the content strategy for a major UK charity, and is currently working as a User Experience Director at cxpartners.
Content Strategy Workflow & Governance Workshop, UX Bristol 2014Sophie Dennis
Content strategy: beyond the wireframe - a workshop for UX designers and researchers..
Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling at the end of a project when you realise the content that’s been loaded onto the site is nothing like what you were thinking of when you created the wireframes? Or revisited a site you built a while ago and found that additions and changes made over the years have altered it beyond recognition?
Content strategy can help you plan for great content right from the start of a project. This workshop demystifies the content production workflow – how it’s commissioned, created, measured and maintained – talks a bit about governance, and provides some practical tips and tools to help plan and manage content, whether you’re from an agency or in-house.
Sophie Dennis
Sophie is a freelance consultant. She is a freelance consultant specialising in UX and content strategy. She started her career in publishing before being enticed away by the bright lights of web design, where she has spent 15 years trying to get clients to take their content as seriously as they do design. She recently collaborated with Juliet on the content strategy for a major UK charity, and is currently working as a User Experience Director at cxpartners.
Juliet Richardson
Juliet is currently Principal UX Consultant at Nomensa in Bristol. She has been working in the field of UX for longer than she cares to remember and has worked on some great projects with some fabulous clients along the way, including a recent collaboration with Sophie to create a content strategy for a large national charity.
Introduction to PR Strategy with 8 Tips and TacticsAisha Kellaway
This presentation was delivered at Outreach Digital in London, in Feb 2016. It explores the fundamental principles of Public Relations, ground rules you need to consider before you develop a PR strategy, and 8 practical tips and tactics you can implement within your business.
Discover the 10 steps of the content strategy roadmap, including hands-on exercises. Content Strategy Deep-Dive session at the American Society of Association Executives 2014 Technology Conference. Delivered with Carrie Hane Dennison, Dina Lewis, and Maggie Swearingen
Similar to Johns Hopkins University: Managing an Identity Initiative, Redesign and Content Strategy All at Once (20)
Build your "Skills": Getting your Content Ready for Voice and ChatbotsAhava Leibtag
What’s coming next in content marketing? Voice-activated search! Semantic search is the future for search engines, and people search for topics using questions. In this presentation, you’ll learn voice basics and the specific things you need to do to get your content ready to drive more patients to your website and your services using voice-activated search.
How Content can Kick Start your Professional ReferralsAhava Leibtag
As the landscape of healthcare changes, professional referral partnerships are becoming vital for organizations of every type. But what role can content marketing play? How can you use content to enhance your profile in the eyes of strategic partners like hospitals and physician groups?
If you’ve already mastered content marketing to engage senior residents and their adult children, now is the time to use the same tools to create a powerful network of referral partners that will generate a steady stream of referrals for your higher levels of care services.
Learning Objectives:
-How to use marketing to build healthcare-based referral relationships
-How to create great content to engage network partners and grow referral channels
-Best practices from top healthcare brands that you can use too
How to Create a North Star Editorial ToolkitAhava Leibtag
All organizations need to know how to answer the following questions: To whom are we speaking? Who are we as a brand? What are we saying? How are we saying it? When and where do we say it? Learn how to create tools that answer these fundamental questions and put them together in a north star guide for your content marketing programs.
The Next Step in Content Marketing: Governance and WorkflowsAhava Leibtag
If you are struggling with “too much content,” “not enough content,” or “the wrong content,” this workshop is for you! Learn how to master the fundamentals of producing great content, including how to align teams, formulate iterative plans for governance and workflow, and sell your organization on the consistency and coherency that guidelines and standards will bring to content. Take home a recipe for:
Assessing current workflow and governance standards
Choosing the right tools for your organization
Building tools that work
Gaining executive and team buy-in
Presented at Forum for Healthcare Strategists
We’ve all been so focused on designing for mobile devices that we’ve forgotten about content. But how your customers find, consume, and share your content on mobile is more important than ever. Learn about how to use content strategy to solve these issues, including content modeling, content auditing, and the core model. It may sound super nerdy now, but it won’t be once you’re there. (Presented at The Now What Conference 2017)
How do you design for content in a mobile world? Learn about the core model and how it can help you get to a smart place where you're putting content first.
It takes a lot of work to say the right thing. Particularly in UX, where we spend so much of our time being critical of design, content, strategy, and products, how do we artfully communicate with our clients to create a feeling of rapport, collaboration, and collegiality?
Join this lively, interactive session to hear real-life examples from a veteran in the field on how to effectively communicate during difficult conversations.
This session will examine how to:
Manage challenging conversations around scoping
Right a derailed project
Create consensus without agreement
Increase healthcare social media engagement with content strategy (Geisinger ...Ahava Leibtag
Increase channel participation by 30% by implementing a content strategy. We also demonstrate Facebook engagement increase by 314%. A great presentation for a healthcare marketer who wants to improve your content strategy.
Plan Your Content Media Strategy Before Your Social Media StrategyAhava Leibtag
Both content strategy and social media are hot topics for strategic marketers. Where should you focus: social media or content strategy? And, how do you put together a strategic plan that encompasses all your goals and objectives while using the resources you have? In this session, we will review the basic building blocks of content, strategic plans for social media and content strategy and how to work within a budget.
Topics include:
Understand content and distribution
Create strategic content and social media strategies
Understand how to have a fabulous conversation with your target audiences
Managing your Content Projects with Success and PanacheAhava Leibtag
Learn to manage your content projects by treating content like a product, separating content and design meetings, and using simple project management tools and techniques.
Healing your Content Process for Effective ResultsAhava Leibtag
Your organization is good at treating sick people, but what if it’s your Web content that’s ailing? Whether you’re redesigning or creating from scratch, content is often a source of headaches and nausea. But it doesn’t need to be this way! In this workshop, we’ll set you on a path to recovery with a three step program:
• Diagnose the problems - Audit your current content and uncover relevant information that will inform your content creation efforts moving forward.
• Establish treatment objectives - Establish KPIs for success and understand what engagement metrics really matter in your organization.
• Engage the care team – Learn to effectively manage doctors, academics and researchers in the content production process so you can keep your project running smoothly. This active learning workshop will include interactive hands-on activities and devote time to roleplaying common questions and pitfalls, so come ready with questions of your own.
After this workshop, you will have the tools you need to manage a new content project and set your organization on the road to success.
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.
First Things First: Building and Effective Marketing Strategy
Too many companies (and marketers) jump straight into activation planning without formalizing a marketing strategy. It may seem tedious, but analyzing the mindset of your targeted audiences and identifying the messaging points most likely to resonate with them is time well spent. That process is also a great opportunity for marketers to collaborate with sales leaders and account managers on a galvanized go-to-market approach. I’ll walk you through the methods and tools we use with our clients to ensure campaign success.
Key Takeaways:
-Recognize the critical role of strategy in marketing
-Learn our approach for building an actionable, effective marketing strategy
-Receive templates and guides for developing a marketing strategy
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
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.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
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
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
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How to Run Landing Page Tests On and Off Paid Social PlatformsVWO
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Mariate, Alexandra and Nima where we will unveil a comprehensive blueprint for crafting a successful paid media strategy focused on landing page testing.With escalating costs in paid advertising, understanding how to maximize each visitor’s experience is crucial for retention and conversion.
This session will dive into the methodologies for executing and analyzing landing page tests within paid social channels, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insights.
The Pearmill team will guide you through the nuances of setting up and managing landing page experiments on paid social platforms. You will learn about the critical rules to follow, the structure of effective tests, optimal conversion duration and budget allocation.
The session will also cover data analysis techniques and criteria for graduating landing pages.
In the second part of the webinar, Pearmill will explore the use of A/B testing platforms. Discover common pitfalls to avoid in A/B testing and gain insights into analyzing A/B tests results effectively.
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 session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
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.
Everyone knows the power of stories, but when asked to come up with them, we struggle. Either we second guess ourselves as to the story's relevance, or we just come up blank and can't think of any. Unlocking Everyday Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Marketing will teach you how to recognize stories in the moment and to recall forgotten moments that your audience needs to hear.
Key Takeaways:
Understand Why Personal Stories Connect Better
How To Remember Forgotten Stories
How To Use Customer Experiences As Stories For Your Brand
The Forgotten Secret Weapon of Digital Marketing: Email
Digital marketing is a rapidly changing, ever evolving industry--Influencers, Threads, X, AI, etc. But one of the most effective digital marketing tools is also one of the oldest: Email. Find out from two Houston-based digital experts how to maximize your results from email.
Key Takeaways:
Email has the best ROI of any digital tactic
It can be used at any stage of the customer journey
It is increasingly important as the cookie-less future gets closer and closer
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.
It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
Johns Hopkins University: Managing an Identity Initiative, Redesign and Content Strategy All at Once
1. Johns Hopkins University:
Managing an Identity Initiative, Redesign
and Content Strategy All at Once
AHAVA LEIBTAG
PRESIDENT
AHA MEDIA GROUP, LLC
@ahavaL @laurenish
LAUREN CUSTER
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL STRATEGY
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
18. @ahavaL @laurenish #confabedu
JHU.edu is one of the
most visible
manifestations of our
brand
We need to:
• Define our audience
• Tell the university’s story
• Encourage engagement
• Create gateways
• Implement workflow and
governance!
32. STEP BY STEP PROCESS
• Discovery
• Personas
• Pillars
• Messaging Architecture
• Voice/Tone
@ahavaL @laurenish #confabedu
33. DISCOVERY
• 8 primary stakeholders
• Interviewed 17 stakeholders from different
parts of the university
• Ran surveys on Facebook and from the email
newsletter
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35. PERSONAS
• Ran a persona workshop where we created 6 distinct
personas
• Chose 3 ultimately
• Went back and did parent research to confirm our parent
personas (interviewed 7 parents)
• Talked to admissions to confirm our student personas
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37. PILLARS
Brainstorming session that gives the primary
stakeholders an opportunity to express what
they currently think the perception of the
brand is, as well as what they would like the
brand to become.
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41. MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE
1. Gives priority to your business objectives
2. Gives you firm documentation for
explaining why certain content—and
messages—need to come first
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42. @ahavaL @laurenish #confabedu
Current Identity Pillars Want to move
the identity
pillars
Messaging Statement Business Objective
Collaborative Teamwork Our specialists collaborate across
disciplines to provide you with
personalized care
Collaboration across
disciplines
Approachable Approachable Our doctors are genuine
We are the opposite of stuff: We call
our doctors by their first names
Accessibility
Expert Expert Leaders We provide complex care
We provide excellence in research and
education resulting in innovation
An academic medical center provides a
higher-level of diagnostic and
treatment care
Expand geographic
reach
Excellence in
research and
education
AMC
Fractionated Patient-
centered
We put patients first
Our specialists travel to the community
to make it easier for you to come to us
Fast access
Specialists in the
community
50. RESPECT THE NEWNESS OF THE
PROCESS
• People feel ownership over their process
• When you introduce a new process, be
prepared for questions about the process
itself, not just the content strategy parts of
the process
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57. Recommendation
• Explain how each tool will be used
each time you begin the workshops
to create it
• Don’t get bogged down in the exact
wording during the workshops
• Try to emphasize that it will take
time for these ideas to marinate
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59. Filter the team
1. What’s the job of the consultant? What’s the
job of each person on the team?
1. Who are the best people to be involved in all
aspects of the process? Manage
accordingly.
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60. Define Digital
• Define what people’s backgrounds are
in the web and digital
• Consider going out together for an
icebreaker to get to know each other
in a different way
• Understand that education is an
ongoing part of the process
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62. Recommendation
Ask?
• Who is there to give feedback?
• Who is there to be a stakeholder?
Prompt stakeholders for specific types of
feedback, understanding you don’t need to take
every piece of feedback they give.
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64. Pick the right point person
• This person guides the internal process
and frequently engages with the
consultant
• It could be an editor, project manager, or
strategist; someone with proven editorial
skillset who understands content planning
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65. Content Strategy Point
Person
Find the person who can clearly define
and articulate the content needs as
they align to the business objectives
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66. Project Management
• Hold the team accountable to their to-do list
• Connect the dots within the project, and related projects
• Ensure the right people are in the right conversation
• Assign deadlines and enforce them with everything in your
being
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67. Recommendation
• Provide weekly status updates on both ends
– Don’t rely on a project management system to
keep in touch with the team
– Tools can help team be collaborative, but that
doesn’t make it collaboration
– Determine what works for you and your team
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71. How do you keep the sense of
momentum going?
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Establish
Content
Governance
Content
Analysis
Content
Creation
Establishing
workflows
Content
Planning
• Persona Development
• Messaging Architecture
• Identity Pillar
Identification
Build OR
clarify the
business
case
Content
Auditing
Discovery
YOU ARE
HERE
Content strategy is a mystery to many people. You have to clearly define and explain the tools several times, and don’t be surprised when people question the methodology. They just don’t understand the process and have never been through it before.
Need people who embrace an iterative process
People who really get digital/ Just b/c someone is an expert in content doesn’t make them an expert in digital (Ahava explain what that is and what to look for- get to know you meeting and background—icebreaker)
Individual interviews are important but group interviews are just as important for people to air their concerns and talk about their own professional goals- the problems they perceive and want to “fix”
Focused and a priority
We took 9 months
5 would have been perfect
–getting all the research—from that discovery presentation you need to press start