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Blog for Business Tor Egil Ellingsen www.inboundwave.com [email protected]

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Blog for Business

Tor Egil Ellingsenwww.inboundwave.com

[email protected]

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Agenda

• What is a blog• Inbound Marketing vs Outbound Marketing• Blog Effects• Case• Five Keys to succesful blog• How to measure blog

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Blog

”read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal”

Princeton University

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What is a blog?• Articles– Educational & Informative– Solve a problem,how to

• Product Guides• Video• Images• Contest• Industry News• Event Coverage

PromoteYour

content In Social Media

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Outbound Marketing

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Inbound Marketing

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Rethinking Marketing

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Why Blog

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Blog effect

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CaseLaurens Hope Ecommerce

Industry: Ecommerce• 15 employees• Results after 6 months using Hubspot blog and

marketing plattform• Increases online sales with 40%

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Laurens Hope

• Since 2001 Laurens Hope Medical ID has providing medical ID wristbands to Identify various medical conditions.

• 2009 – Laurens Hope decided to focus on online sales and launch an Internet marketing strategy. Their website is supported with Hubspot blogging software and Marketing Analytics.

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Laurens Hope Challenge

Transitioning From Traditional Marketing to Internet Marketing

• From tradeshows, direct mail campaigns, public relation agencies doing traditional media coverages, local exhibitions etc

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Lauren Hope Challenge

• Started with blogging and establish social media presence

• Needed to find a Internet Marketing Solution

Solution Hubspot blogging software,CMS and Marketing Analytics

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Lauren Hope Solution

• Blogging tool includes– On Page SEO– Blog optimizer tool to identify keyword goals and

optimize content during creation and before publishing

– Blog Analytics, helps to track blog`s subscriber growht and performance

– Sources tool, to daily track sources such as social media, blogging and referrals.

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Laurens Hope Results

Increased online sales, website traffic and reach.

• Increased online sales by 40% in 6 months• 600% increase in website traffic using Hubspot• Increased Social Media reach by 153%• Attracted 1300 blog subsribers in 5 months

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Laurens Hope Results

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Overview Q`s

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5 keys to succesful blog

1. Pick your Target Personas2. Create a Mix of Posts3. Write Greate Posts (remarkable content)4. Sustain It (stick to it)5. Spread It

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1 Marketing Personas

• ”Create the kind of content that your buyers naturally gravitate to” David Meerman Scott

• Focus on creating unique remarkable content.

• 50/50 Marketing & Publishing

• Publishers with knowledge and passion

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1 Marketing Personas

• Keywords– What keywords will attract your Personas– Use them to optimize your content– Build an archive of content full of them

– Tools to define keywords• Keywordgrader (hubspot)• Wordstream.com

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1 Marketing Personas

A Word of Caution

• Do not write to much about the products and services you sell them

• Write about the things they want to learn about

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2 Plan a mix of Posts

• News• Opinions• Video• Use photos

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3 Write great posts

• Use headings, great ones– Use keywords, use spelling– Surprise people

• 5-800 words or shorter• 1 idea pr post

• Always Add a Photo– Flickr– iStockphoto– Shoot your own

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3 Write great posts

Where to get Ideas

• Everywhere• Keep a list• When you learn something new, publish it• Ask you readers

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4 Sustain It

Publishing Schedule

• Once or twice a week• Stick to it• More keyword-rich content is better

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Different Ways

• Email interviews• Video Interviews (conferences, office visitors,

clients)• Guest posts or blog affiliates• Best of list• How we do it”

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5 Spread it

Publish to all your social media profiles

– Linked in company page(b2b)– Twitter

• publish link to blogpost• Let readers tweet your great blogpost

– Share on Facebook – Slideshare, youtube and others– Follow your audience subscribe to their blog– MAKE sure you comment back = Listen and Engage

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Link to your blog• Your homepage• Press releases• Business Cards• Email Signatures• Business cards

• Link your blogposts– Social Media profiles– Attach link to your blogpost if you comment on relevant

topics on other sites– Email

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Engage people

• Write posts that link to or follow up on bigger bloggers` - ex Seth Godin, Brian Solis

• People google or technocrati search for well known names, they will se your post.

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Measure your BlogUse tools like hubspots to

• Metric 1 # Subscription• Metric 2 # Page views• Metric 3 # Comments• Metric 4 # Inbound Links• Metric 5 # Conversation – Visitors– Leads– Opportunities– Customers

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Catch dataUse CTA- Call to action and Landing pages

• Publish Call to action buttons with link to landingpages

• Customised landing pages with value proposition and sign up form.

• Free giveaways– Webinars, ebooks, whitepapers, presentations, contest

• Connect this data gives you leads to start nurthuring and prepare your prospects for CRM and sales.

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Hubspot

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Thank You

Tor Egil [email protected]

http://www.inboundwave.comhttp://www.hubspot.com