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Este novo guia vai te ensinar como aumentar as ligações de entrada por meio de:
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* Blog convidado e conteúdo
* Os concursos e promoções
* E mais!
This slideshow is created upon the concepts of Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett in ProBlogger and elaborates on the following points:
- What is a blog? What is a corporate blog?
- Difference between a blog and a website and a blog's added benefits
- 10 reasons why niche blogs are successful
- Writing tips for bloggers: Scannable content
- Types of blog posts
- 10 steps to writing a successful series
- Building an interactive blog by encouraging comments
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This seminar will give you tips to improve your website's promotional strategy through blogging, social marketing, and Web 2.0 results. Learn to utilize the social web to connect with your client base, improve customer service, and generate sales leads. Streamline your blogging and social media marketing methods with the latest tools, techniques, and innovation. You will leave the seminar with actionable tactics you can use to make money NOW.
Este novo guia vai te ensinar como aumentar as ligações de entrada por meio de:
* Redes sociais como Facebook, Twitter e Pinterest
* Blog convidado e conteúdo
* Os concursos e promoções
* E mais!
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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Blogging
1. How to Start a Blogging Program
in Your Company
The Ultimate Guide to
Corporate
Blogging
2. Introduction....................................................................................................1
Corporate Blogging Defined...............................................................................3
Business Benefits: Why Blog?...........................................................................5
Corporate Blogging is a Completely Level Strategy..............................................7
Customize Your Approach.................................................................................9
Metrics for Setting Goals and Reviewing Progress............................................ 10
Challenges to Success................................................................................... 12
Taking Steps to Get Started........................................................................... 13
Checklist for the CEO/Executive Team............................................................. 14
Checklist for the Blogging Administrator......................................................... 15
Quickstart Guide for the Blogging Administrator.............................................. 16
Checklist for the Employee Bloggers............................................................... 28
Quickstart Guide for the Employee Bloggers.................................................... 29
How to Start a Blogging Program
in Your Company
The Ultimate Guide to
Corporate
Blogging
3. The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Blogging | 1
INTRODUCTION
I wish there was an eBook like this one four years ago when we started a corporate blog.
Who knew that, in just a few short years, corporate blogging would become such an essential marketing tool for generating
new business.
We (you and I) must sell our expertise. We must do so by providing consistently valuable and compelling content to our pros-
pects and customers. In doing so, we must leverage the greatest marketing assets we have (our employees). This presents both
challenges and opportunities.
And corporate blogging is one huge opportunity.
In my case, in 2007 I left a high-paying job in the publishing industry to start my own marketing consulting practice. At the time,
I knew literally nothing about social media, even though blogging had been around for almost 10 years. I had a wife and two small
children to support, so the pressure was on. Needless to say, I didn’t have a lot of funds for traditional marketing efforts.
In April 2007 our company launched a blog. At the same time, we started to figure out how to leverage our LinkedIn and Facebook
accounts. A little after that, we found Twitter, as well as some other handy social media tools you’ll read about in this eBook.
For two months, I personally blogged at least three times per week. Nothing happened. In those first 60 days I had exactly 321
page views. That’s less than six page views per day. To my knowledge, most of the visitors were family and friends.
But I persisted...we all persisted. Our staff consistently posted helpful and compelling stories about the industry. We talked
about issues that no one else was talking about. We started to comment on other blogs where our customers were hanging out.
We shared relevant information via our social networks.
The next 60 days we saw more than 2,000 people come to our blog. The 60 days after that? One day more than 1,000 people
came to our site. Today we have a number of blogs that consistently attract more than 40,000 customers and prospects per month.
And all this started with one blog post.
4. The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Blogging | 2
You may be saying, “Joe, web traffic is great, but how about business?”
I can tell you that our single most important tool in our content marketing toolbox has been, and will continue to be, our blog.
We have driven more business, started more relationships, and established ourselves as the industry experts because we share
valuable, compelling, and relevant content on our blog almost every day.
But we learned each step the hard way. We wasted a lot of time just figuring out how to use all these new tools. All you have to do
is read this eBook and execute a handful of the practices.
This eBook will show you that there are many, many people succeeding by leveraging corporate blogging, just like we did.
These brands don’t have more resources, skills, or technology than anyone else.
All they did was take the expertise within their organizations and actively share that in multiple ways online. They gave away
such valuable information that the people who came to engage in this material wanted to learn more, and ultimately do busi-
ness with them. They have a point of view. They realized that blogging and social media are important parts of the marketing
mix and don’t just sit outside in a vacuum. They started to think and act like publishers.
Fifteen years ago, this kind of marketing wouldn’t be possible. Today, we are all publishers whether we like it or not. There are
no barriers to entry. Anyone anywhere can succeed with the right message, consistency, and integration. It’s up to you whether
you want to take up the sword and be the leader you already are.
Now get busy blogging!
Joe Pulizzi
Founder, Junta42 | Content Marketing Institute
Co-author, Get Content Get Customers
5. The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Blogging | 3
CORPORATE BLOGGING DEFINED
A corporate blog provides a forum for your company’s leaders and employees to discuss topics
of interest with your target prospects, customers, and industry influencers. A corporate blog
site consists of many individual posts, each written by different bloggers within your company.
Organizing your site this way creates many more opportunities for your company to be found
online and generate new business. Consistency is key, so new blog posts must appear on a
regular basis (daily is ideal).
AN INSIGHTFUL RESOURCE. Successful blogs provide solutions
to your target prospects’ and customers’ issues. The purpose is not
to simply push product or company content, but to provide valuable
insight and resources to help your target audience solve their problems.
In addition to being useful, the content must contain specific keywords
that targets would likely enter into search engines so that your company
can be found though this inbound marketing channel.
MATERIAL FOR REPURPOSED CONTENT. Blog posts that
contain thought-provoking ideas and insight can be very useful for
your company’s marketing department. Any marketer will tell you that
creating new valuable content can be time-consuming and expensive.
Individuals’ blog content should lend itself to being repurposed in many
different forms (white papers, for example) over time.
SEARCH ENGINE SUCCESS. Corporate blogs contribute greatly
to your organic search engine optimization (SEO) and social media
strategies, as both efforts require good, relevant, and regular content.
The more ideas, insight, and material that your bloggers create, the
better chance you have of attracting new visitors to your site from
external resources.
ROLES FOR THE PRACTICE
There are three primary roles in a corporate
blogging practice:
The CEO and executive team, who set the
priority and goals for the effort, allocate the
proper resources, and communicate the impor-
tance of the effort to the people involved
The blogging administrator, who develops
the plan, ensures that the CEO and execu-
tive team approve and support the effort, and
works with the technology team and bloggers
to execute the plan and meet the goals
The employee bloggers, who help execute the
plan, blog regularly, and also market their
blogs to their individual social networks
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A Quick Example: Balihoo, Inc.
“It was easier to get our employees engaged once we had set goals…and now that we have a clear intention to convert leads,
our posts contain more calls-to-action,” says Shane Vaughan, Balihoo’s Vice President of Marketing.
The blogging administrator measures and reports on the blog’s success each month so all employees know how their efforts are
paying off. A monthly meeting is held where recognition awards such as gift certificates are given out for “most blog posts,”
“most page views,” etc.
Visitors who come to the Balihoo website from the
blog are now converting at a rate six times greater
than that of the average conversion rate from other
sources.
“This tells me that our blog is driving
valuable, relevant customers to our
site who are looking for the solutions
we offer.”
Shane Vaughan
Vice President of Marketing,
Balihoo, Inc.
PROBLEM: Balihoo, Inc. began its corporate
blog in May 2007. The original goal was to
present the company’s executives as thought
leaders, but because that goal was ambigu-
ous, the blog lacked focus. Additionally, only
three or four people were blogging, therefore
content was published infrequently.
SOLUTION: Balihoo relaunched its corporate
blog in 2010. A staff member was appointed
to manage the corporate blogging program,
and the primary goal from that point on was
to generate and convert leads.
RESULTS: Six months after rebuilding the
corporate blogging program, Balihoo had 20
to 25 employees blogging on a regular basis
— about half the company’s workforce.
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BUSINESS BENEFITS: WHY BLOG?
Corporate blogging offers significant benefits to your customer development efforts:
»» Increase the number of visitors to your site who will be interested in your ideas and who may ultimately become
interested in your products and services. According to Chris Baggott, CEO of Compendium Blogware, generally
80 percent of blog traffic comes from first-time visitors via search engines. A properly optimized blog that uses
keywords strategically will bring more visitors to your site each day and raise the search engine page rankings of your
business’s content links. In addition, corporate blog posts give you material for your social media strategy, as you can
post short summaries to your targeted social media sites (such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) and incorporate the
ideas in more specialized discussion forums and community sites.
»» Better communicate your story to the world. Blogging gives a voice to all your employees and enables them to share
their expertise — and their personalities — with your target audience. Blogs reflect your company culture and help
prospects connect with your company’s personality/style.
»» Improve your brand equity with timely, relevant, and useful content. Your visitors are looking for content that address-
es their informational needs. Your blog is the perfect place to provide the content — and the better you address their
needs, the more they will understand and appreciate your team and your company. This is a great way to build your
brand equity: the understanding of who you are through the eyes of your target audience.
»» Generate more qualified leads, sales opportunities, and sales. A corporate blog expands your reach to explain to a
broader audience who you are, what you do, and the value proposition you offer. A properly executed blog will raise
the number of qualified leads you receive and ultimately increase your sales.
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»» Improve your sales productivity. A blog gives you the opportunity to communicate the same message to
your target persona(s), versus having to have the same conversations with each prospect individually.
This enables you to:
move prospects through the sales cycle faster
with less time spent by sales people
increase the conversion rate of leads into sales
»» Measure how well you are communicating your value proposition
and continuously improve your messages over time. Analytical
tools enable you to track the progress of your program, and the
data that you gather will help you determine where to focus your
efforts moving forward.
»» Make your employees more customer-oriented. When it comes
to actively engaging with the customer’s perspective, very few
practices are better than writing quality content. A corporate
blog site is a non-sales oriented environment for your employ-
ees to connect with the company’s target audience(s). Allowing
your readers to leave comments on posts is a great opportunity
for bloggers to engage in thought-provoking conversations with
interested parties.
»» Give the marketing team material to use for other purposes.
High quality blog posts generate interesting concepts and con-
tent outlines that the marketing team can repurpose into more
robust content (such as white papers) for your target prospects,
customers, and industry influencers.
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CORPORATE BLOGGING IS A
COMPANY-WIDE STRATEGY
Properly executed corporate blogging adds measurable value, but as with any practice, it takes time and resources to get your
program up and running. Additionally, it will take time for the content to become popular with search engines and target readers.
For a blogging program to be successful, the CEO and executive team must buy in to the value of the program, communicate
its importance to employees, determine short- and long-term goals, and dedicate the proper resources to the effort. In addition,
participating employees should be given a goal pertaining to a regular blogging rhythm and must dedicate a set amount of time
each week to create marketable content.
Your corporate blogging strategy and practice
at the executive level includes:
»» Setting the right long-term goals and shorter-term goals/milestones
»» Assigning senior sponsorship
»» Appointing a person (a blogging administrator) to be responsible for the effort
»» Approving an approach and plan that correlates with your company’s goals
»» Properly resourcing the effort
»» Constantly communicating the importance of the effort to everyone involved
»» Reviewing results and making adjustments over time
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Corporate blogging as a company spreads both the opportunity to contribute and the effort
of maintaining a blog to every employee. More specifically, it’s important to encourage the
content creators who work in all areas of your company for a few key reasons:
Creating content that attracts people to you nurtures thought leadership throughout the organization.
It helps your employees understand that they are ambassadors of your brand, and it vests them in your busi-
ness in a more fundamental way. Plus, it increases social sharing exponentially when your employees share
their content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or YouTube.
It creates a much more diverse and interesting blog for your readers, because the blog reflects the points
of view of many, not just the perspective of one or two.
It’s much easier to maintain a robust, active blog when you have many contributors responsible for writing
compelling content, day in and day out. Have you ever written a regular column or blog? It’s a lot harder
than it seems, and after you have a few hundred posts or columns under your belt, it’s easy to burn
out or struggle for something new to say.
So much of the knowledge and thought leadership that will make your blog a must-read isn’t distilled into
a single person in, say, the marketing department. Rather, it’s contained in the views of subject matter
experts who works throughout your organization. Some of those people might be in marketing, but they
might also be in the corner office, or product development, or they might be right on the
front lines in customer service or sales. It’s important to tap that expertise throughout
the organization, because that’s what’s really going to put meat on your blog’s bones.
Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR APPROACH
A corporate blogging program should be well constructed, but as with all practices, there are
many approaches that can lead to a successful effort. Below, we outline two broad examples
to help you determine the best approach for your business:
APPROACH 1.
TEST IMPLEMENTATION
Select a small number of committed people, perhaps one
employee from each department or team, to be trained and
start blogging on a regular basis. After your program has
been executed for a given period of time, review your results
vs. goals. What efforts can be made to increase participa-
tion? What approaches can be taken to improve quality/rel-
evance of posts? How can the company better promote posts
to external networks?
This approach is best used if the senior team is not ready
to commit to a full-scale implementation. The downside
of the “test implementation” is that it will take longer to
maximize the impact of the effort. This approach also will
take an ongoing commitment of time and resources from the
blogging administrator, as he or she will be responsible for
repeating the training and engagement steps necessary to
onboard new bloggers.
APPROACH 2.
FULL-SCALE IMPLEMENTATION
Determine who in the organization should be blogging
and execute a plan that gets everybody blogging from the
start. This approach will inherently be iterative in nature,
with ongoing adjustments based on results. The benefit of
executing a full-scale implementation is that your blog will
be likely to climb search engine rankings faster, and your
readers will likely be more engaged, as there will a greater
variety and amount of content available. The downside of
this implementation style is that it will take more time and
commitment up-front from the CEO and executive team to
ensure that the implementation is successful.
The approach that you and your executive team determine is best for your company needs to fit the priority level that the initia-
tive has within your organization’s overarching goals. The key is to create a plan that you can implement relatively quickly so
that you can start measuring the progress against your goals soon thereafter.
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METRICS FOR SETTING GOALS
AND REVIEWING PROGRESS
Metrics are essential for accurately setting goals and tracking the performance of your
blogging program. By analyzing the blog’s performance against your metrics, the blogging
administrator will gain valuable insight as to how the blogging initiative can be improved.
The metrics for blogging fall under four broad categories:
Measures the inputs to your blogging efforts, such as the number of bloggers who are meeting the
blogging goal, the number of blog postings created each period, and the number of target keywords
used in each blog
Measures the amount of attention your blogs are getting and where the traffic is coming from,
such as the number of weekly visitors, the number of visitors who have subscribed to RSS feeds, and
the number of visitors from your key traffic sources and other marketing channels (e.g., search engines,
social network sites, referral sites, e-mail newsletter)
Helps to demonstrate the level of engagement your audience has with your blogs, such as the aver-
age number of page views per visitor, the time spent reading blogs, and the number of comments you
receive (good or bad)
Helps to demonstrate the level of conversion you are getting with your blogs, such as the number of visi-
tors who click through to other sections of your website, the number of visitors who opt-in to receive your
e-mail newsletter, the number of visitors who ultimately become sales leads, opportunities, and sales, and
the amount of feedback you get from your target audience as they go through your sales process
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Another way to gauge success involves looking at how you’re faring in terms of your
industry influence/success. Are your targets looking to you for your expertise? Have
you been offered opportunities to syndicate your blog, speaking engagements, etc.?
When a blogging effort is first established, performance should be measured more by the bloggers’ input
metrics pertaining to quality and frequency. Over time, the audience traffic metrics will start increas-
ing, and this will become more valuable for determining success and making adjustments. As time
goes on you should have enough audience conversion activity (qualified leads for your sales
team) to start using these metrics to monitor the performance of your program and make
adjustments to your approach.
Just to be clear, we are not suggesting what your goals or measures should be; it is up to you
to determine the key focus of your corporate blogging effort and how to use the measures to
both monitor progress and identify opportunities for improvement. For example, a blogging
effort with little engagement and great conversion metrics might be considered a success if
your goal is to build short-term sales leads. On the other hand, an effort with great audience
engagement and few conversions might be considered a success if your goal is to build an
engaged community of your target audience that you believe will have longer-term business
benefits.