david mcinnis - cranberry-newsmarketing
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Content Curation: David McInnis, CEO, Cranberry, Founder, News Marketer and PRWeb. Curation and News Marketing: Strategies that turn the news you make into a powerful content marketing strategy.TRANSCRIPT
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Presented by:David McInnisCEO/Founder, Cranberry
NEWS MARKETING
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
1) My Journey into News Marketing2) Press Releases then and Now3) Why News Marketing?4) New model for emerges for Cranberry5) Strategies you can use today
AGENDA:
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
WHY AM I UP HERE?
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
I NEED YOUR HELP
360-483-8441
damcinnis
@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
To Develop News Marketing as a Discipline
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
WHY NEWS?
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NEWS
Is Always Original Content
Has anAuthoritative
Voice
Builds Trust and Confidence
Gets Sharedand
Re-purposed
Ladders up
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Nobody wants to be first but they’ll happily follow each other off a cliff.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
My Journey intoNews Marketing
1997 - The Start
2001-03SEO / Google
News
2005-07Social Media PR
2011-12Decline of thePress Release
2013RIP D2C PR?(What’s next?)
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SO, WHAT WENT WRONG?
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Wire Services, partly…
Insane editorial restrictions like headline attribution are killing D2C PR
Diminished SE visibility, Search no longer treats PR the same.
ROI are no longer very attractive.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
WEDID!
We wrote PR for search engines
Chasing Links
Seduced by “free traffic”(SEO)
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Search Engine Referralsayfkm? This is alter where we worship?
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Wait, it gets worse. . .
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Press Releases
High Bounce Rates
Low Time on Page
Lower Time on Site
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
> 12,000 Page views with News Marketing
600 Page views on press release newswire4 search engine referrals
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446 Page views on press release newswire4 search engine referrals > 2,000 Page views with News
Marketing
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Is social the nextGoogle News?
What we really need are engaged consumers
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Press Releases
Keep using them, just not exclusively
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@giantcranberry recommends
Regional Distribution 380 words $370
400-500 words $80
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A New Model forCranberry
News MarketingNews Crafting
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So, how do we fix things?
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Good News!
Content marketers already have most of the skills for successful news marketing.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
5 News Strateg
ies
Learn the Art of Drafting
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
✓
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
5 News Strategie
s
Learn the Art of
Drafting
Write for People
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
DEVELOP ACCURATE PERSONAS
COMPETITIVE SPONTANEOUS
METHODICAL HUMANISTIC
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
5 News Strategies
Learn the Art of
Drafting
Write for People
Learn the Language
of “We”
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What is Pendulum?
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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Today we are in the upswing of a “WE” cycle.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
How does this affect you and your news?
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
PendulumGift.com
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
5 News Strategies
Learn the Art of
Drafting
Write for People
Learn the Language
of “We”
Greedy is Out
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
5 News Strategies
Learn the Art of
Drafting
Write for People
Learn the Language
of “We”
Greedy is Out
Test Distribution
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Proper Care and Feeding of the Beast
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Custom Feeds
Don’t feed the beast feeds right out of your CMS.
Build custom feeds for your content for each distribution channel, etc…
Allows you as news marketer to fix editorial. ; )
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Or Hand FeedSome platforms may allow you to create custom headlines.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Test Your Headlines
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Parents help to secure
schools
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Use CPC advertising to test headlines.
Identify your content as news to improve:
• relevance and time on page
• click through rates
• quality score
✓
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Share the Love
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It’s not about you…Do this instead
Point the spotlight at a customer, partner or vendor.
Acknowledge shortcomings (industry and self) Have brass? Give a shout out to your competition.
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Link Strategy
1/3 of links to your online assets.
1/3 to another authoritative article / site
1/3 other sources
No more than 1 link per 125 words of copy. Less is more.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
rel=“nofollow”on everything
Make sure your distribution partners respect nofollow directives within your feed.
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Test Everything
✓
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
Frequency
Not everything is newsworthy.
Don’t “invent” news.
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What we monitor
Page views
Bounce Rate
Time on page (w/out video assist)
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ANTIOXIDANTS FOR YOUR NEWS@giantcranberry
I NEED YOUR HELP
360-483-8441
damcinnis
@giantcranberry