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PRESENTS:
How to Leverage Earned & Owned Media
to Create Effective Paid Media Programs


       Bill Flitter
       •   15+ years online marketing experience
       •   3x Entrepreneur, founder dlvr.it
       •   Content Marketing Strategies Conference creator
       •   Youth basketball coach


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Agenda

• A few creditability slides

• 3 step promotional action plan

• Q&A




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Mission: Distribute the world’s content




         Distribute the
         world’s content

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dvlr.it scales syndication for

350K businesses who rely on dlvr.it
to distribute 2.5M stories daily to

600M fans, followers, subscribers


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Integrating earned, owned and paid media




        Save media dollars


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Content connects brands…




                    …and people.
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But content promotion is messy.




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Find peace with paid distribution




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Definitions




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Feedback cycle of yesterday




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Today’s focus group




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Reduce your paid media budget
                             Content



                                     traffic
Data




           Owned Media                         Earned Media
               Blog                                 Free
              Social                              Retweets
              Website                               SEO

                        sharing


                              Data



                          Paid Media
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Promotional Plan

Distribute
To Owned Media

Measure
Owned & Earned Performance

Grow
Amplify what’s working
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Promotional plan




Distribute
To Owned Media




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Build content once



REUSE
REFORMAT
REPUBLISH
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Make content searchable, snackable
          and shareable




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Automation is not a dirty word




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Assembling the pieces

    Video   Recipes News Press   Images




Websites     Mobile   Search     Social
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Shared on social




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Optimize for search




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Syndicate to blogs and websites




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Format for mobile




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Tools to help


                           Earned &
 Blogger                   Owned
Outreach                   distribution




  Mobile                   SEO




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Measure
Owned & Earned Performance




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Reminder: What’s the goal?




  Save media dollars


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Buying media




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Lots of social media signals




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Overwhelmed with data




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Monitor actionable data

Content Analysis: Create a list of headlines
ranked by activity generated (clicks
retweets, sales)


Demographic Analysis: Determine who
clicked what


Sentiment Analysis: Surface popular
themes or keywords

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Monitor actionable data

Content Analysis: Create a list of headlines
ranked by activity generated (clicks
retweets, sales)

1. Cut non performing content
2. Continue with what works in paid media
3. Change and republish low performing stories




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Monitor actionable data

Demographic Analysis: Determine who
clicked what

1. Discover what resonates with different social
   groups
2. Determine what content to create for each group
3. Direct paid media to the exact audience




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Monitor actionable data

Sentiment Analysis: Surface popular
themes and keywords

1. Surfaces future story ideas and direction
2. Serves as a signal for future product, sales and
   marketing ideas
3. Supplies keyword and category data to inform
   paid media




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Tools to help


                          Earned &
Website                   Owned




Demos                     Social




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Grow
Amplify what’s working




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Let’s be realistic about earned media




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The PRO Plan

Promote: Proactively drive traffic

Retarget: Re-message blog visitors

Optimize: Review and refine

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The PRO Plan

Promote: Proactively drive traffic

1. Assembling the assets
    Targeting: Keyword, category, demographic.
    Content: repurpose what resonated with
     earned & owned audiences
2. Automate with RSS
3. Add tracking link appends (example UTM
   codes with Google Analytics)
    Example:
     http://dlvr.it/?utm_source=dlvr.it_blog&utm_medium=display&u
     tm_campaign=Dlvr_blog_distr


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Promote: Related articles




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Promote: Dynamic display ads




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Promote: Native placements




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Promote: Native placements on mobile




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The PRO Plan

Retarget: Re-message blog visitors

1. Recapture visitors attention after they leave
   your site or blog
2. Remarket a sequence of articles or offers
3. Retain existing customer’s attention and share
   of wallet




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The PRO Plan

Optimize: Review and refine

1. Apply same technique discussed with owned
   media:
   • Content Analysis: Create a list of headlines ranked by activity
     generated (clicks retweets, sales)

   • Demographic Analysis: Determine who clicked what

   • Sentiment Analysis: Surface popular themes or keywords

2. Create or curate new content to feed the cycle



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Tools to help


                        Paid
Press                   Earned
                        Owned




Paid                    Content
                        Seeding


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Uber list of social tools
http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/social-lumascape/




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Recap
                         Content



                                 traffic
Data




       Owned Media                         Earned Media
           Blog                                 Free
          Social                              Retweets
          Website                               SEO

                    sharing


                          Data



                      Paid Media
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Did we accomplish our goal?




   Save media dollars


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Invitation




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Q&A




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           www.VerticalMeasures.com




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Contact:
Bill Flitter
CEO/Founder

email: bill@dlvr.it
phone: 415 286 5606
website: http://dlvr.it




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Leverage earned and owned media to create effective paid media programs

Editor's Notes

  • #7 Fundementalchange happening in online media buying. It’s something very few companies are taking advantage of today. Most companies are marketing in Silos. Paid Media budgets, Social Media Budget, PR Budgets – all separate budgets with little communication between what works. smart marketers are re-evaluating the ability of paid media to serve as a vehicle to amplify the impact of earned and owned media rather than viewing each media channel as a separate and totally disconnected effort.
  • #11 Consumermedia consumption habits have evolved in recent years with the growth of social networks, mobile devices, and tablets to cause a shift in the ways that paid, owned, and earned media are created, implemented, and leveraged.Fortoday’s short dicussion, when I mention “Content” I am referring to Blog Posts that may/not be enhanced with pictures, infographics, videos
  • #12 Long feedback loop, group think takes place, expensive. Not suited for the rapid fire always on communication that takes place on twitter, Facebook, Pinterest
  • #13 Real-time, low cost.Never before have we witness such instant feedback. It’s a blessing and a curse. It’s perfect. Because we have to react so quickly, we will make mistakes but the traditional focus group isn’t perfect either. However, if all that social media energy is corralled correctly, we can do great things with it. Which I am about to show you.
  • #15 Across your companies paid, owned, and earned channels, how will you promote your beautiful piece of content?  How will you get the word out and ensure the right people see it and share it?  This can’t be taken care of as end piece – these questions have to be answered before you ever start your content creation efforts.For years, marketers have viewed paid, owned, and earned as separate strategies: paid (i.e., ad buys) to blast their messages, owned (i.e., branded social media pages, blog, website) to showcase their own marketing messages, and earned (i.e., articles, social media commentary, and engagement) to provide third-party validation about their products.
  • #16 We have a simple 3 step process that doesn’t matter the size of budget or company you work that you can easily implement and reap rewards.
  • #17 Step One
  • #18 Develop a plan to promote your content that is native to each unique platform and/or channel. Build it once and recycle. For instance, if you’ve developed an infographic, create some extracts from it with interesting statistics.  These make great social updates for Twitter or LinkedIn.  Take each statistic and dive deep into a blog post on each starting with quality content makes optimizing across channels easier and provides seamless messaging
  • #19 For all the thought and creativity that we invest in the creation of cool content, we need to put an equal amount of thought and creativity into its distribution through all available channels. The majority of content today is consumed in some stream or feed like environment – the headline, just like the subject line in an email, becomes the most important piece of your time. Really great content is in the 140 characters you tweet. Once the click happens, it’s the rest of the content that keeps them coming back – be known for writing great content that inspires, that causes someone to take action
  • #20 Can you imagine sending one email at a time to thousands of customers? You wouldn’t do that. Automating the syndication of long form content to social is like sending an online newsletter.
  • #22 But don’t over optimize so it makes no sense for humans.
  • #27 Reduce Paid Media budgetHow? Repurpose what works in Earned/Owned media
  • #28 Has been a gamble. Put out an ad or several and hope that it performs but you waste a lot money for testing.
  • #29 Likes, retweets, pins, reposts, shares – time, geo, There is a trail of data that we leave behind when we interaction on social media. Pictures we post, the comments we make and the people we associate with can provide a revealing portrait. Reach. You might want to measure the number of fans, followers, blog subscribers and other statistics to gauge the size of your community.Engagement is measuring retweets, comments, average time on site, bounce rate, clicks, video views, white paper downloads and anything else that requires the user to engage.Competitive data may include thebrand’s “share of voice” across the web or number of competitors’ brand mentions.Sentiment. You might want to measure the numbers of mentions with positive or negative sentiment.Sales conversions. Do you want to measure social media referral traffic to the top of the sales funnel or number of sales aided by social media efforts?
  • #30 There is just so much data that we feel overwhelmed. Ask yourself what you really need to make a decision.
  • #31 My opinion is you don’t need a lot of different data points to be successful. Track a few key indicators. We have found the above can have a big impact on helping you create compelling content, lower your media cost and reduce waste
  • #37 No traffic = no conversation Paid media can be useful to consumers who are making a considered purchase,
  • #38 The PRO plan for paid media planning. paid media can help spread messages and also further increase fans, followers, subscribers and sales,
  • #39 UTM parameters are simply tags that you add to a URL. When someone clicks on a URL with UTM parameters, those tags are sent back to your Google Analytics for tracking
  • #41 Often overlooked advertising method to recapture attention of blog visitors. We have found re-messaging blog visitors with a sequence of content or offers is a great way to walk them down the conversion funnel.
  • #45 Distribute to owned media.Measuredowned and earned performance. Amplify what’s working
  • #46 This plan allows you to quickly test a few pieces of content and reduce your media dollars by amplifying what works. If it works for your owned/earned audience it will have a better chance of succeeding with a paid audience. Likely you are trying to attract the same audience.