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Topic: Help! I’m a content marketer – 15 easy to implement content tips you can start using tomorrow! Creating good content that endures is a significant challenge for most modern marketers. In a practical presentation with scores of examples directly relevant to On the Edge delegates, René will outline how you can put your expertise and experience at the centre of your marketing effort with 15 examples of content marketing that you can implement the very next day after the conference. An interactive session, not to be missed. Key takeaways: An understanding of what constitutes good content How to cost effectively get a content marketing strategy off the ground 10 great ways to use content for b2b marketing

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Help I’m a content marketer

@renepower www.marketingassassin.co.uk www.bdb.co.uk #edgebham 19/9/13@

15 easy to implement content tips you can start using tomorrow

with

René PowerDigital & Business

Development Director, BDB

Help – I’m a content marketer!

The challenge of contentThe challenge of content

The challenge of content

Running before you can walk?

Not cool.

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Being seduced by the dark side of technology?

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Not seeing results?

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You’re not alone

Whilst 56% saw content marketing have an impact on sales:

15% said they saw 'little or no increase’

29% simply did not know the impact of content marketing

Half of marketers (46%) find demonstrating content ROI a key challenge.

2013 Content Marketing Benchmarking Report

You’re not alone

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Your world changed

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‘Old’ marketing doesn’t work any more

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There’s too much noise

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And too much competition…and too much competition

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Tomorrow: Rethink how you push material out to customers and consider it from their perspective

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Getting started

Getting started

Assign responsibilityAssign responsibility

Tomorrow: Can you identify a managing editor and a few contributors?

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Visit watering holesVisit watering holes

Tomorrow: Check out one media site, Linkedin group, portal or trade association to identify opportunities

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Map content to buyersMap content to buyers – Establish

your value add

Tomorrow: Establish what the absolute benefit you provide?

Access your media everywhere

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Audit what you haveAudit what you have

Tomorrow: Ask everyone in the organisation for one highlight from the last twelve months

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Content audit template

Tomorrow: Match what customers are looking for in groups to what you offer

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Curation and creation

Curation and creation

Curate

Curator [Cu-ra-tor]Noun: A keeper or custodian of a museum or

other collection

Curate

Tomorrow: Use ONE of the following cool ‘curation’ tools….

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Source content with Feedly

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Twitter / Twittersearch

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Maximise internal ideas with Yammer

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Create new content

Create new content

Tomorrow: Repackage existing content > release to blog to newsletter to case study to whitepaper

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PR is the bedrock of content marketing

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Most used >> Most effectivePress releases Case studyBlog posts WhitepaperCase studies Video

PR: the bedrock of content marketing

Evernote case study marketing

Tomorrow: Check out the case study http://bit.ly/181fhoo

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Using case studies

Ten things you could blog tomorrow

Repurpose a press release, upload a presentation, manual and more

Comment on a news story affecting your industryComment on latest research / dataWrite a round up once a week of your industryProvide an industry resource listReport on an event – this event?Write up a customer case studyOffer a guest post (and reciprocate) Solve an industry problemTake a provocative stance on something that

needs to change

Tomorrow: Put a blog post (or news story) on your website and tell people about it!

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Ten things you could blog tomorrow

Intercom cool blogging

Eshots and enewsletters

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Eshots and enewsletters

Packaging sector whitepapers

• See ebook – Bosch, Toledo in packaging

Using whitepapers

Tomorrow: Establish one industry problem you can write a guide about

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Zendesk using video

Tomorrow: Check out http://www.zendesk.com/why-zendesk

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Using video

Staying organised

Staying organised

Create a calendarCreate a calendar

Tomorrow: Plan & be realistic. Start out

with one post, one

news story a week,

one piece of lead gen content a quarter, one eshot a

quarter

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Never miss an idea with Evernote

Tomorrow: Sign up to Evernote for free and try it out – great for those long commutes!

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Never miss an idea with Evernote

Define what success will look likeDefine what success will look like

Tomorrow: What does success look like to you? Build activity to achieve it whether vanity or sanity

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Your one-a-day prescription for the next 3 weeks!

1. Customer perspective

2. Contributors

3. Watering holes

7. Curation tool

8. Repackage one

element as blog

9. Case study

4. Absolute USP benefit

5. Highlights

6.Match propositions

& requirements

10. One news story

11. One industry

problem

12. Video

Extras:

16. Subscribe to my

blog

17. Buy my book from

Amazon (or ask nicely for a

free review copy)

13. Plan / calendar

14. Ideas capture

15. Success

metrics

Your one-a-day prescription for the next 3 weeks!

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Image / reference credits

1 – Devices http://www.geekazine.com/special/pressreader-electronic-newspapers-ces-2013/ 3 – Runner http://www.marksdailyapple.com/physical-effects-poor-training-marathon/#axzz2exskx4Nr4 – Apple Death Star http://geardiary.com/2012/10/05/my-journey-to-the-dark-side-er-apple-is-complete/5 – Paul Lambert http://images.football365.com/13/01/800x600/Aston-Villa-v-Southampton-Paul-Lambert-pa_2884893.jpg 6 – Animation

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oHmrz8xVAH8/TSU7L9Jz9dI/AAAAAAAAAQw/I9PutMsyVTo/s200/dans-poor-performance-lg-14402296.jpg 7 – People http://www.noexcuseshr.com/2013_04_01_archive.html 8 - Marketing http://mkt4pontozero.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/conversa-novo-marketing-30.html 9 – An Internet minute http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/internet-minute_b38168 11 – Service http://debbielaskey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tale-of-marketing-and-customer-service.html 13 - Batman http://communicatebetterblog.com/root/ 15 - Added value http://www.creativ.com.au/ipad-application-developers/ 16 – Content audit http://www.madhavighare.com/web-writing/what-is-a-content-audit 17 – Content audit template http://johnmccrory.com/2011/10/the-handy-dandy-content-audit-template/ 23 – B2b content types http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2013/10888/how-b2b-content-impacts-buying-decisions-infographic 27 – Intercom blog http://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/ 29 – Screen grabs from www.packworld.com 32 – Calendar http://carmencollins.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/content-calendar.jpg 33 – Evernote http://www.macstories.net/news/evernote-announces-major-redesign-of-ios-app/

Additional resources: Hubspot

Image credits

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MY 330 page Kindle eBook on B2B digital marketing available now at Amazon

This and hundreds of other guides and resources are available to Smart Insights Expert members.

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