Content Marketing in 2017 - Discussion at Digital Chai pe Charcha

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Content Marketing – how should one approach it?

Should we do content marketing?

Content & Blogs product Leads & Sales – this is why brands continue investing in it

Source: NeilPatel

Earned media takes longer but has more sustained impact

Source: NeilPatel

Most Indian Youth feel they are being bombarded with Ads

Why do brands invest in Content Marketing

Leads/Sales over a long-term from a new channel

Reach users who use Ad-blocking

Get organic traffic / SEO

Ad Fatigue

Content Marketing is impacted by what we do most – Search & Social

Content for Search

Content for Social Media

/ Other Channels

Results via Content

Marketing

IDEATECREATE

AMPLIFY

Source: http://www.exacttarget.com/blog/50-content-marketing-stats/

How do you make your content stand out from the crowd?

How do you make your content stand out from the crowd?

“Content that is 10 times better than the best result that can currently be found in the search

results for a given keyword phrase or topic.”

Finding the Content Marketing sweet spot

How to find the sweet spot?

Google Keyword Planner

Moz Explorer Buzzsumo

Answer the Public Quora

Brainstorming Consumer

Intent

Other ways!

Using one of the tools - Buzzsumo

IDEATECREATE

AMPLIFY

How to make it 10x?

Make it longer, more detailed and

thorough

Make it more up-to-date

Include better visuals – Images,

Infographics, Videos

Ensure low page load time and an

enhanced UX

Data shows that long form content with images work best

Long-form content (> 2000 words) tends to rank higher in search results than short-form content

Source - Hubspot

Content With At Least One Image Ranks Higher Than Content That Lacks an Image

1 million articles analysed to reach the results of what gets shared most

1 million articles analysed to reach the results of what gets shared most

Videos

Infographics

Webinars

Tools

Lists

How To

Why postsResearch Reports

Surveys & Quizzes

Different content is required at different parts of the funnel

DBS has done some phenomenal work on this

Google

Bharat Matrimony : Happy Marriages

Happymarriages.com, a content marketing initiative set up by BharathMatrimony.

It is a content section that guides people to discover new ways to a happy marriage. It provides guidance for the challenges that people face during partner search and the several stages post marriage.

List of Top Things – Get a lot more shareability

List of Top Things – Get a lot more shareability

List of Top Things – Get a lot more shareability

List of Top Things – Get a lot more shareability

How to - Posts

How to - Posts

Why - Posts

Housing.com is leveraging infographics at its best

Campaign for Book “The Great Indian Obsession”garnered reach of close to half a million over a span of a week

Zomato does this brilliantly on their social media

Research Reports – Consulting firms do this very well

Survey Results – Yourstory Case

Sometimes the brand is at focus – creativity is the key!

It can be a combination of different types of content

IDEATECREATE

AMPLIFY

Content Marketing Ideation + Creation + Publishing

Content Marketing Ideation + Creation + Publishing

+Promotion

=

How do you amplify

Promote on Social Networks especially

Twitter, Linkedin, Slideshare

Use LinkedIn Ads, Facebook Ads &

Promoted TweetsNotify your email list

Respond to questions on Quora, Reddit,

comment on blogs, take part in industry forums

Reach out to people who have shared similar

content

Leverage the reach of influencers

Content Marketing – how should one approach it?

Does it product business results?

A lot of companies invest in content marketing thinking this is how it works

This is how it really works!

Right Call to Action is required to make this work

Right Call to Action is required to make this work

Aim is to create shareable content – For e.g. 378 shares in just 4 days

Content marketing producing results – A case study

One of the first few real estate digital marketing content articles we created

Search rankings and traffic apart, content marketing done right also brings business results

PETWISH CAMPAIGN - Dog Breeds & Lifestyle Campaigngarnered reach of over 1 lakh with ~43,000 shares

Q&A

Email: vikas@socialbeat.inTwitter: @jvchawla

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