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DEATH TO DEMISE: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT CONTENT MARKETING IS WRONG Ronell Smith [email protected] | @ronellsmith

Death To Demise: Everything You Know About Content Marketing Is Wrong

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DEATH TO DEMISE: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT CONTENT

MARKETING IS WRONG Ronell Smith

[email protected] | @ronellsmith

The Negotiator

Heat

Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter

Engagement is a POOR CHOICE for a goal.

How can this be?

WCG

The struggle is real

Forrester

96% of B2B marketers flopping!

Engagement should be a goal; it shouldn’t

be the goal.

Using  engagement  as  a  core  metric    is  an  excuse  for  being  unwilling  to  iden5fy  why  your  site  exists.    –  Avinash  Kaushik,  Google  

Spy on content popularity and type

Peruse Google for additional

details

Find links to popular content

Brand trust is ESSENTIAL

Taking trust to the extreme

Positive ubiquity

I’m  here    for  you.  

Don’t  make    this  creepy.  

Steve Jobs humanized the iPhone

launch

Allstate makes buying

insurance interesting

Blendtec’s CEO excited us about a

boring product

Opportunities beyond the top 10

YouMoz

Brand bias can work for your brand

Making it work for your brand…macinhery image

Make Trust Work For Your Brand

Weekly videos

Podcasts with influencers

Use staff expertise on social media

Whatchu  talkin’    ‘bout,  Ronell?  

Where the journey typically begins

Yawn…  

P.O.U.N.D

POUND

Network diffusion at work

Old  Way:  BUILD  links  to  CONTENT    

Comdata SVS

Link

Link

Link Link

Link Link

Link

Link

Website Content

Link

New  way:  SHARE  content  to  RELEVANT  social  streams  

Links

Content

Website  Content    

Links

Links

Links

Content

Content Content

Content Loyalty: The Prize We Should All Be Fighting For

The  shortest  path  to  a  sustainable  content  strategy  is  to  create  content  loyalty.  —MaWhew  J.  Brown,  Moz  

Your time is limited

A social hit buys you a little more time

Your  opportunity  

Parse.ly

Vulture’s magic

number: 5X

Chartbeat

Content attributes

that lead to loyalty

Hubspot

The bad news is the good news: It’s a

12-17 month process

The  majority  of  brands  will  con5nue  to  crash  and  burn  because  they  lack  the  consistency  or  the  pa5ence  to  build  a  loyal  audience.  —Joe  Pulizzi,    Content  Marke5ng  Ins5tute    

Content Marketing Institute

Begin with a CONTENT AUDIT

You  CAIN’T  be  serious!  

An in-depth process

Mike King Content Audit Template

Calculating content ROI

Content  ROI  Calculator  

BuzzSumo  

BuzzSumo

A simplified but valuable approach

Moz Content

Moz Content detailed info

Moz  Content  topics  data  

Moz Content’s Content Search

There is no such thing as can’t!

Tools

•  Open  Site  Explorer  

•  BuzzSumo  

•  Moz  Content  

Ronell Smith Ronell Smith

[email protected]| @ronellsmith

THANK YOU