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Bas van den Beld Brilliant Blogging: Best Practices to Enhance Your Customer Reach @basvandenbeld - @stateofdigital - www.stateofdigital.com - www.basvandenbeld.com SES London, February, 2014

Brilliant Blogging: Best Practices to Enhance Your Customer Reach - Bas van den Beld

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My presentation about blogging at SES London 2014. In this talk I discussed how at State of Digital we do the following things: - Managing a group blog: how to keep 30 bloggers from around the world motivated and sharp - Finding the right topics: how to find topics to write about - Content using ‘influentials’: how to create and spread content using influentials Find a write up of the session here: http://www.stateofdigital.com/brilliant-blogging-best-practices-enhance-customer-reach-ses-london-2014-seslon/

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Brilliant Blogging: Best Practices to Enhance Your Customer

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@basvandenbeld - @stateofdigital - www.stateofdigital.com - www.basvandenbeld.com

SES London, February, 2014

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Managing a group blog

Content using ‘influentials’

Finding the right topics

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Managing a group blog

Content using ‘influentials’

Finding the right topics

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Create  a  ‘safe  place’  for  the  team

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The  success  of  a  group  blog  starts  with  the  happiness  of  the  bloggers

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Managing a group blog

Content using ‘influentials’

Finding the right topics

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There’s  always  something  to  write  about

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But  find  out  what  they  want  to  know

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You  need  to  understand  your  target  audience

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There  is  no  “average  user”.    People  approach  the  buying  process  in  different  ways

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Find  out  what  they  talk  about

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Places  to  look• TwiPer  • Quora  • Google+  • Linkedin  • Offline!

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Find  out  what  they  want  to  know

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Know  where  they  are

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Different  type  of  content

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Structure  your  content

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Basic  Structure

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Title !Opening !Body sub part 1 sub part 2 sub part 3 !The ‘so what’ !Close

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Start  with  the  subheadings

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End  with  the  conclusion  &  intro

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Never  forget  the  ‘so  what'

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Managing a group blog

Content using ‘influentials’

Finding the right topics

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Content  that  travels

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Friday Commentary

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Blogging  is  not  about  you,  it’s  about  your  audience

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