how to be insanely effective when you don’t have enough resources, budget, or time
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How to Be Insanely Effective When You Don’t Have Enough Resources, Budget, or Time
Lessons from the Trenches (the longest title I could come up with)
Chris Moody
Content Marketing Leader GE Digital @cnmoody
Speaker Photo
(2.5” square) Hi!
I’m Chris.
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Who is this guy? ü Sued over a blog post ü Deposed for nine hours ü Been fired once ü Been hired more than once ü Escaped a kidnapping attempt ü Been shot at & chased by a man
with a spear ü Won a national poetry contest in 5th
grade with a poem I wrote while the teacher collected our “homework”
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"FAILURE IS GROWTH. FAILURE IS LEARNING. BUT, SOMETIMES
FAILURE IS JUST FAILURE.” GAVIN BELSON
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82% OF ENTERPRISE MARKETERS HAVE NO CENTRALIZED VIEW OF THE CUSTOMER
FORRESTER
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“The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, or Ben Franklin
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80% of CEOs were not impressed by the work done by marketers and believed marketers were poor business performers. Fournaise
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1. Marketers could not prove ROI of activities 2. Marketers had lost sight of what their job really was
WHY DO WE SUCK?
FOURNAISE
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1. Marketers could not prove ROI of activities 2. Marketers had lost sight of what their job really was 3. Marketers were not business performance-obsessed enough
WHY DO WE SUCK?
FOURNAISE
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But, wait! 70% of CEOs admit they may be responsible for poor marketing performance!
Fournaise
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1. Having steadily lost trust in the ability of marketing to be successful
CEOs blame themselves for:
FOURNAISE
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1. Having steadily lost trust in the ability of marketing to be successful 2. Having given up on holding marketers accountable
CEOs blame themselves for:
FOURNAISE
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CEOs think marketers suck. They blame themselves for our terrible performance because they should have fired us a long time ago.
Recap:
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Stop chasing the next big thing and do your job better.
Stop chasing the next big thing and do your job better.
Stop chasing the next big thing and do your job better.
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"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." Sun Tzu
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more effective are those with a documented content strategy.
300%
MARKETINGPROFS/CMI
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- Look at top 5 sales qualified lead assets & replicate - Run an influencer webinar each quarter - Sponsor and conduct original research - Identify and engage thought leaders - Atomize our content to run a cross-channel campaign
Example:Drivemoresalesqualifiedleads
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- Leads to MQLs to SQLs to Opportunities to $$$ - Traffic and variations - Share of voice and awareness metrics - Top converting assets - Engagement - Volume / production
Samplecontentmetrics
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What?
What?
Delta
What?
Delta
Debrief: What worked? What didn’t? Why? Insights & learnings
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1. Define your mission 2. Identify your main goal 3. Document a plan to accomplish it 4. Decide on relevant metrics 5. Establish a baseline and start testing
RECAP: Documenting your content strategy
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Individual results may vary. Past performance no guarantee for future results. Results not typical. Your results may vary.
DISCLAIMER
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Since 1901, only 45 players out of 125,000+ had a season with more homeruns than strikeouts.
Min. 20 HRs
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“Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain…”
LESTER BURNHAM, AMERICAN BEAUTY
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“Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing content all at once, and content's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to content, and then content flows through me like rain…”
CHRIS MOODY, AMERICAN BEAUTY
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Be opportunistic in the pursuit of creating content your customers and prospects find valuable.
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1. Answer every question 2. Interview your colleagues 3. Stop trying to hit homeruns 4. Find content everywhere
RECAP: Insanely effective things you can do now
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1. Stop chasing the next big thing 2. Document a content strategy 3. Find content everywhere 4. Achieve your measurable goals 5. Connect with me and rate this session
We made it!