tmsa conference - how to win at search social and content marketing
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Internet Search and Social Marketing represent two of the most powerful opportunities available for you to outperform your competitors and grow your business. While Social Media continues to grow wildly in both use and functionality, Search continues to grow more powerful every year; but how do they play together? Arnie shows his audience:· How to increase your odds of being found in search and social media· How search and social can be combined and leveraged to work better together than individually· The role of content in the equation· Why and how to consistently create content that your target market will enjoyTRANSCRIPT
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How to Win at Search, Social & Content Marketing
Arnie Kuenn, CEO, Vertical Measures
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About Your Presenter…
• Vertical Measures is a 45 person search, social & content marketing agency in Phoenix, AZ
• Instructor for the Content Marketing Institute & Online Marketing Institute
• Columnist for Marketing Land, Chief Content Officer & LinkedIn
• Been an Internet marketer longer than Google has existed.
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“Content Marketing”
Google Trends
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What is Content Marketing?
• Content marketing is the art of providing relevant, valuable content to your customers without selling or interrupting them.
• Instead of pitching your products or services, you are delivering information that makes your prospects more informed before they buy.
• If you deliver consistent, ongoing valuable information to your prospects, they ultimately reward you with their business and loyalty.
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This is not a 30 day R.O.I.
BUT THE LONG-TERM PAYOFFS CAN BE HUGE
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Achieving Success Is A Continuous,
Planned Out Process
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Think Like a Publisher!
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Develop Your Strategy
Strategy will evolve through the whole process
• Why are you creating the content you are creating?
• Who is your audience?
• What types of content will you create?
• Who will create your content?
• When will you develop your content?
• What does success look like?
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What are we searching for?
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Start Your Research Here!
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Google Research Tools
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List All Content Ideas in a Spreadsheet
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Longer Search String = More Clicks
Source: http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/keyword-stats.html - 9/01/2013
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Put Together An Editorial Calendar
VerticalMeasures.com/calendar
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Address Pricing / Cost
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Comparisons
Showcase your product or service then compare and contrast to others.
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Lists – People Still Love Them
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Resource Pages
38 links to this page
111 links to this page
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Free Guides, Case Studies & White Papers
- Lead generator - Link attractor - Long life span
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ModSpace
PDF Downloads • Temporary Buildings • Office Trailers • Designer Offices • Modular Complexes • Classrooms • 150-mph Wind-Load Office • Space Assessment Guide • 5 Steps to the Right Mobile Office
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ModSpace
Case Studies by Industry and Application
• Featured • Industry • Application • Permanent • Temporary
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ModSpace
Blog
• Regular & frequent posts
• Infographics
• Video
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Buyers need information that helps them make an informed decision.
Businesses that provide that useful information - will win.
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Benefits of a Blog
• Gives you a vehicle to post new content
• Allows for internal linking
• Keeps the search engines coming back – have 434% more indexed pages*
• Have 2X as many backlinks*
• Your site gets 55% more traffic*
• You have 79% more Twitter followers*
Source: *Hubspot
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More than 80% will click here!
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Most Common Problems We Find?
• Unintentional duplicate content • Duplicate title & description tags • Thin content • Blocked pages or site • Over optimization of anchor text in
backlinks and footer
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Advertising! Pay Per Click (PPC) and Native Advertising
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Sharing New Content Can Be Very Simple
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Distribute or Repurpose Your Content
Source: CMI & MarketingProfs
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E-mail Campaigns
Essential Elements
– Visually appealing and branded
– Incorporate into editorial calendar: plan frequency
– Segmenting: targeted messaging
– Plan out segmented drip or follow up campaigns
– Stay brief: Read More, Get More Details
– Great subject line!
Distribution Services: – Exact Target
– Constant Contact
– Vertical Response
– Mail Chimp
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47% Of Emails Are Opened On A Mobile Device
SOURCE: LITMUS - September 2013
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Measure!
•Measure for successes… and failures
•Check your rankings, traffic, conversions and other key metrics
• Focus on the strategies that are providing the best ROI and keep rolling out the content
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All 8 Steps Are Important!
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Courtesy of The Sales Lion
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The Results…
Yale’s traffic has grown from 40,000 visitors to 150,000 annually
Leads have grown from 800 to 2,300 monthly!
Revenue is up by 40% since starting their content marketing program.
And according their president Steve Sheinkopf: “Profitability is up way more than that, because we eliminated marketing expense.”
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The best time to start a
content marketing program
is 5 years ago.
The second best time is
NOW!
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SHAMELESS PLUG
We offer the best content marketing workshops in the industry and can bring them to you.
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More Traffic. More Leads. More Business.
www.VerticalMeasures.com
Raffle Time!