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Content marketing is the real deal. The term itself has been gaining currency over the last several years slowly becoming the new buzzword for marketers and gurus everywhere and eye candy for brands. In this chapter, I highlight a few brands that have taken content marketing to the next level. Companies like Virgin Mobile, American Express, Marriott, L’Oréal and Vanguard have delivered game changing content marketing strategies that are providing customers with new and improved brand experiences.
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Chapter 2 is all about defining social business strategy. Essentially, I condense the entire content of my first book, Smart Business, Social Business, into one chapter and introduce new thinking, implementation strategies and new models.
Content is the number one challenge for brands today. The ability to tell an integrated brand story across the social web requires internal planning, cross team collaboration, coordination between different marketing teams in various geographies; and the establishment of controls, processes and workflows, also known as governance.
Content marketing is the real deal. The term itself has been gaining currency over the last several years slowly becoming the new buzzword for marketers and gurus everywhere and eye candy for brands. In this chapter, I highlight a few brands that have taken content marketing to the next level. Companies like Virgin Mobile, American Express, Marriott, L’Oréal and Vanguard have delivered game changing content marketing strategies that are providing customers with new and improved brand experiences.
And while these brands are “killing it” in the content marketing space, many other brands are going through several challenges. Subject matter experts like Jascha Kaykas-Wolff (Chief Marketing Officer of Mindjet), Sean McGinnis (Marketing GM, SearsPartsDirect.com), Joe Chernov (Vice President of Marketing at Kinvey), Sandra Zoratti (Vice President of Marketing at Ricoh) and Danny Brown (Chief Technology Officer of ArCompany) give their expert opinions about why brands struggle with content.
Chapter 3 is about building the foundation and kicks off section 2. I start off discussing the need to create a centralized editorial team that will responsible for driving change within the organization.
The Content as a Service (CaaS) model is meant to address both the external challenges of reaching your target audience; and also the barriers you face internally. The goal of CaaS is to ensure that content is considered a strategic imperative for
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There isn’t a right way or wrong way to structure your content teams. Every company is different. Culture, leadership and business objectives vary and are often times dynamic. This usually results in you having to shift roles and responsibilities, general team structure or alter your content strategy in order to adapt to the current business climate.
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• By priority
• By business type (B2B, B2C and nonprofit)
• By geography (North America, Australia, United Kingdom)
Part I covered two “playlists”: Internal Processes and Content Marketing Strategy Tactics (find that here on SlideShare as well). From channels to platforms to audience segmentation, we discussed how you can best establish your content marketing strategy and structure your team internally for more efficient processes.
Part II: Playlist 3 is where we show you how to mix things up a bit with different Execution Tactics. See how to create and deliver the best content to meet your business objectives. While some geographies and business types have similar priorities, others are finding their own unique beats — and the differences may surprise you.
We hope you find the following findings insightful and inspirational as you make your plans for the year ahead.
Enjoy!
Joe Pulizzi
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If you have been working in social media for some time, you are already familiar with a Social Business Command Center (sometimes referred to as a Social Media Listening Center). Both Dell and Gatorade were early adopters of command centers and many companies are now starting to follow suit.
Keynote presentation for the #SocialTools15 conference in San Francisco - October 27 & 28. The focus is using data and analytics to drive more effective storytelling and content strategy.
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• By priority
• By business type (B2B, B2C and nonprofit)
• By geography (North America, Australia, United Kingdom)
Part I covered two “playlists”: Internal Processes and Content Marketing Strategy Tactics (find that here on SlideShare as well). From channels to platforms to audience segmentation, we discussed how you can best establish your content marketing strategy and structure your team internally for more efficient processes.
Part II: Playlist 3 is where we show you how to mix things up a bit with different Execution Tactics. See how to create and deliver the best content to meet your business objectives. While some geographies and business types have similar priorities, others are finding their own unique beats — and the differences may surprise you.
We hope you find the following findings insightful and inspirational as you make your plans for the year ahead.
Enjoy!
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Learn From The Experts: The Challenges With Content Marketing
1. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
The Challenges With
Content Marketing
LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS
Excerpt from Your Brand: The Next Media Company
Available for pre-order on
2. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
JOE CHERNOV
Vice President, Marketing Kinsey
@jchernov
Brands struggle to create relevant content
because they struggle to empathize. They
cannot seem to see the world through the
lens of the buyer. Instead, they insist on trying
to persuade the buyer to see the world
through their own perspective. Relevant
content is the byproduct of empathy.
Everything else is just selling.
“
”
3. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
JASCHA KAYKAS-WOLFF
Chief Marketing Officer, Mindjet
@kaykas
It all comes down to priorities. Content
marketing is as important as your media plans
and your demand generation targets. Until
content is a part of the core planning process it
will continue to suffer. Additionally, most brands
have poor organizational design. Community
and content strategies are splintered amongst
multiple members of a marketing team and
have a lack of ownership other than tactical
execution.
“
4. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
SEAN MCGINNIS
Marketing GM, SearsPartsDirect.com
@SeanMcGinnis
A lack of empathy & lack of the right structural
incentives places brands at a severe
disadvantage when it comes to creating
relevant content. Brands have a short term, low
risk mindset that forces them into a the corner
where only communications that have an
immediate, hard return on investment. Relevant
content represents, in many instances, the
exact opposite of that. Consumers do not want
to be sold to...and yet that's exactly what most
brands are busy doing.
“
5. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
MICHAEL BRENNER
Vice President of Marketing Strategy at SAP
@BrennerMichael
Because in most organizations everyone owns
content and no one owns content! Most brands
do not measure or manage content like a
strategic asset that can produce an ROI. The
result is too much late-stage, overly-
promotional product details and sales
testimonials.
“
”
6. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
JEFF ELDER
Social Media Manager, SF Chronicle
@JeffElder
It's hard work. Unique, original content is the
currency of media: It's traded because it's
valuable. The value stems from knowledge.
"Write what you know" suggests authority of the
subject as a prerequisite. So you either have to
start with an expert, or spend time learning
about the subject matter.
“
”
7. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
SANDRA ZORATTI
Vice President of Marketing, Ricoh"
@sandraz
Relevance, the way to get customer
engagement, is elusive. While it is not easy to
achieve relevance, it is essential for marketers
and brands; without it they risk customer
defection. To be relevant, a marketer needs to
employ both science and art. Science is
needed to leverage data-driven insights and
apply them to targeting, messaging and
measuring. Art is needed to create the
engaging and creative content and connection
from the marketer’s vision, not their data.
“
8. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
DANNY BROWN
Chief Technologist, ArCompany
@DannyBrown
They've never worked with integrated
communities and solutions before. They're old
school in thinking, believing mass messaging
and broadcast medium is still the way forward.
Any brand that thinks this can't hope to
understand the nuances of different networks
and the behavior of the users on these
networks. Again, it comes down to being silo'd
from the most important people and content for
your brand.
“
9. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
CARLA JOHNSON
Principal, Type A Communications
@CarlaJohnson
Brands don’t understand the story they’re
trying to tell – what makes them unique and
stand out in the “white space” of their industry.
Too many brands crowd to the same corner
with nothing different or original to say. It takes
effort and discipline to create an original story
and tell it consistently. Also to tell a story well
and create relevant content around it, brands
must know to whom they’re telling the story to.
Lastly, to be relevant, brands have to be
consistent and distribute content on time with
a consistent cadence.
“
10. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
DAVE KERPEN
CEO, Likeable Social
@DaveKerpen
Brands traditionally have not been in the
content business, or the publishing business,
or the media business. Ultimately, what's
necessary for brands is a seismic shift, and
for most companies, especially large ones,
change is very challenging.
“
”
11. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1:
Understanding The Social Customer And The Chaotic World They We Live In
• We Live In A Multi-Screen Economy
• CADD (Content Attention Deficit Order) is Among Us
• Relevance Is the Key To Content Consumption
• The Customer Journey Is Dynamic And They Are Unpredictable
• Customers Are Influential
• Business Objectives Stay The Same Despite The Changes Externally
• Vendor Spotlight - Social Flow
Chapter 2: "
Defining Social Business Strategy & Planning
• The Social Media “Bright & Shiny” Object
• Social Media Has Caused Internal Business Challenges
• The Three Pillars of Social Business - People, Process Platforms
• The Social Business Value Creation Model
• The Differences Between A Social Brand And A Social Business
• Vendor Spotlight - Sprinklr
Section 1: Understanding The External & Internal Landscape
12. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 3: "
Establishing A Social Business Center Of Excellence
• A Lesson From Tesla Motors
• The Establishment Of A Social Business Center of Excellence (CoE)
• The Responsibilities of a Center Of Excellence
• Considerations For Building A Social Business Center of Excellence
• The Organizational DNA And Team Dynamics
• How The Center of Excellence Integrates Within Your Organization
• Vendor Spotlight - Jive
Chapter 4:
Using Employees, Customers And Partners To Feed
The Content Engine
• How To Scale And Plan An Enterprise Advocacy Program
• GaggleAMP Helps Scale Employee Advocacy
• Napkin Labs Helps Scale Customer Advocacy
• Pure Channel Apps And The Channel Partner Content Opportunity
• Vendor Spotlight - Expion
Chapter 5: "
Building Your Social Business Command Center
• The Strategic Importance Of A Social Business Command Center
• Social Business Command Centers In Action
• The New Form of Command Center Operations: Real-time Marketing
• How To Build A Social Business Command Center
• The Social Business Command Center Framework
• Vendor(s) Spotlight: Hootsuite, Tracx, Mutual Mind, PeopleBrowsr, Tickr,
Social Flow
Chapter 6:"
Understanding The Challenges Of Content Marketing
• Examples of Brands Taking Content Marketing To The Next Level
• Content Marketing Challenges: What Do The Experts Say?
• Content Marketing Challenges From The Data
• Moving Past The Content Marketing Buzzword
• Vendor Spotlight - Kapost
Section 2: Setting The Stage For Social Business Transformation
13. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 7: "
Defining Your Story & Content Narrative
• The Inputs Needed To Build Your Content Narrative
• The Outputs Should Equal Your “Hero” Content Narrative
• Simplifying Your Content Narrative
• Vendor Spotlight - Compendium
Chapter 8: "
Building Your Content Channel Strategy
• Finding And Preventing Gaps With Your Social Media Channel Strategy
• Mapping Your Content Narrative To Social Channels
• Building Your Content Tiers By Channel
• Using One Channel For One Purpose
• Diversifying Your Content Types Per Channel
• Best Practices For Writing Blog Content - It All Starts With The Title
• The Importance of Visual Storytelling
• Vendor Spotlight – Contently
Chapter 9:
The Role of Converged Media in Your Content Strategy
• Defining Converged Media
• Why Converged Media Is Important To Your Content Strategy
• Converged Media Modeling
• The Promise of Real-time Marketing
• Real-time Marketing Is More Than Just Being Real-time
• Edelman’s Creative Newsroom
• Creative Newsroom 5-Step Activation
• Creative Newsroom Models
• Vendor Spotlight - Newscred
Chapter 10: "
How Content Governance Will Facilitate Media
Company Transformation
• Defining Content Governance
• Building An Internal Collaboration Model
• Proactive Content Workflows (Planned & Unplanned Content)
• Reactive Escalation Workflows & Risk Assessment
• Managing New ‘Brand’ Account Creation
• Managing The Security of Social Media Passwords
• Vendor Spotlight - Spredfast
Chapter 11:
Structuring Your Teams to Become a Content Driven
Organization
• The Quick Lesson In Change Management
• Tearing Down The Organizational Silos
• Identifying Roles & Responsibilities
• Structuring Your Content Organization By Channel
• Structuring Your Content Organization By Brand/Product
• Structuring Your Content Organization By Region
• Structuring For Converged Media & Real-time Marketing
• Vendor Spotlight - Skyword
Section 3: Developing Your Content Strategy
14. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
VENDORS
Vendor Platforms Discussed In This Book
15. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
BRANDS
Brands Discussed In This Book
16. T H E N E X T M E D I A . C O
THE AUTHOR
Michael Brito is a Senior Vice President of Social
Business Strategy at Edelman Digital. He provides
strategic counsel to several of Edelman’s top
accounts and is responsible for delivering content
and social strategy, community management
operations and helping his clients scale their social
programs globally. Previously, Michael worked for
major brands in Silicon Valley to include Hewlett
Packard, Yahoo! and Intel Corporation working in
various marketing, social media and community
management roles.
He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences as
well as a guest lecturer at various universities
including UC Berkeley, the University of San
Francisco, Stanford University, Syracuse University,
Golden Gate University and Saint Mary’s College of
California. He is also an Adjunct Professor at San
Jose State University and UC Berkeley teaching
social business and strategic social media.
Michael has a Bachelor of Arts in Business from
Saint Mary’s College of California and a Master of
Science, Integrated Marketing Communications from
Golden Gate University. He proudly served eight
years in the United States Marine Corps. Michael’s
previous book, Smart Business, Social Business: A
Playbook for Social Media in Your Organizations,
was released in July 2011 and is available in
bookstores and Amazon.
Michael Brito"
SVP, Social Strategy
Edelman Digital
@Britopian
Now available for pre-order!
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EARLY REVIEWS
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, "
CMO, Mindjet
@kaykas
There’s a difference between being a thought-leader and a do-
leader. Thought leaders can tell you what you should be doing,
but often have no practical, real-world experience translating
thought into action. Do-leaders, on the other hand, are seasoned
professionals who base their advice on what they’ve
accomplished and failed at -- a huge value add for any
organization. Michael Brito, Senior Vice President of Social
Business Strategy at Edelman Digital, is the epitome of a do-
leader.
In his book, Your Brand: The Next Media Company, he concisely
breaks down one of the biggest challenges brands face today:
developing, and more importantly living, their content strategy. By
deftly tying team roles and responsibilities to the management of
converged media programs, he takes a three-dimensional view of
content strategy that’s usually missed out on by leaders who push
for ideals over ideas. And unlike some tell-all handbooks with little
to offer besides tired to-do lists and recycled suggestions, he
does it through intelligently-structured narrative that’s peppered
with applicable, pragmatic advice. Your Brand belongs on the
bookshelf of every CMO.
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EARLY REVIEWS
A must read if you are serious about
using social business strategy to
transform your brand into a media
company!
Mei Lee "
Vice President, "
Digital Marketing"
Conde Nast
Michael Brito brilliantly dissects how to
achieve social media success through
techniques of the Mad Men era manipulated
in to the age of Twitter and Facebook.
Discover your audience and the power of
virtual brand ambassadors, while learning
how to successfully manage your online
presence and maximize your exposure with
quality content.
Kinsey Schofield
TV Personality, Journalist"
@KinseySchofield
Brito has written a practical and thoroughly
engaging book for brands looking to
effectively launch a sustainable social
business strategy. Whether early in the
process or evolving your current approach,
Brito's holistic view provides actionable
insights to help you navigate both the
internal and external challenges we all face.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants
their brand to remain relevant in a world
where meaningful and authentic connections
with social customers are now tables stakes!
Amy Kavanaugh "
Vice President "
Public Affairs"
Taco Bell / YUM Brands
In the social world, content rules. Michael's
book makes the case that in order for brands to
thrive in this brave new world, brands must
become content creators
Pete Cashmore
CEO, Mashable
@Mashable
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Social media is causing a fundamental shift in
the structure of business - both internally and
externally. At this tumultuous time, Your Brand:
The Next Media Company provides a clear
road map to guide your organization through
the decisions you need to make NOW to
ensure you stay relevant and evolve into a
media company.
EARLY REVIEWS
This is a great read for anyone who wants to
understand and learn how to overcome the
challenges of content marketing. And isn’t
that all of us today?
Elisa Steele, "
CMO Skype Division"
Microsoft
@elisasteele
An incredibly accurate assessment of the
social customer and the challenges we face
today in garnering their attention. Brito
captures the very essence of what it takes for
brands to cultivate awareness and loyalty in
today's saturated content marketplace. Packed
with first-hand knowledge from tenured
marketing and agency executives, this text is a
must-read for anyone invested in tackling the
content marketing space and making a true
impact on the industry and, most importantly,
the consumer.
Shafqat Islam
CEO NewsCred
@shafqatislam
Joshua March"
CEO, ConverSocial"
@joshuamarch
Every company is a media company, no
matter your business model. I’ve been
preaching this for over 7 years, and Michael
Brito offers one of the most lucid and useful
resources on the topic yet. Buy this book,
you won’t regret it.
Brian Clark"
CEO Copyblogger Media
@Copyblogger
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Content Marketing is no longer just a concept,
it’s a way of business. Whether you are small
business, nonprofit or a large corporation you
need to read this book to learn the why and the
how to setup your organization to become a
media company. Michael Brito’s experience
and his collection of experts are second to
none and provide expansive and details
approaches that are applicable to everyone.
EARLY REVIEWS
The future of digital media is alive and
well and it's you. In Your Brand: The
Next Media Company, Michael Brito
provides a clear roadmap for
transforming your business into a more
relevant, social and meaningful media
company. He has followed up a fantastic
book on social business with a roadmap
for transforming your company into an
agile, ubiquitous and relevant content
machine; and he covers all bases from
social business to content marketing to
structuring your organization for
success.
Lee Odden, "
Author of Optimize"
CEO TopRank
@LeeOdden
Adam Hirsch
Senior Vice President
Edelman Digital"
Prior COO of Mashable
@AdamHirsch
In Your Brand: The Next Media Company,
Michael Brito puts the content marketing
conversation into a necessary, needed
context. He explains how some fundamental
shifts in the way consumers make
purchasing decisions changes everything
for brands, and why the smartest brands
should listen up!
Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer,
MarketingProfs
@MarketingProfs
Yes, we are all media companies now...but
so many brands don't know how to make
this important transition. Take this book, read
it and put it under your pillow. This book will
transform your marketing from "also ran" to
dominating your informational niche. Now is
the time!
Joe Pulizzi"
Founder, Content Marketing Institute "
Author, Epic Content Marketing
@juntajoe