Content: Grab Audience Attention

Syncapse Social Club – SXSW InteractiveMarch 10, 2012

Rebecca LiebIndustry Analyst

Content Marketing: Grab Audience Attention

@lieblink

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We’re Tuning Out the Noise

77% of Internet users do not engage with online advertising. A shift from “push” to “pull”

marketing is imperative to brand survival.

Source: Kramer, Staci D. "Pew: Online News Users Don’t Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads" The Economics of Digital Content. Mar. 2010. <http://paidcontent.org/article/419-pew-online-news-users-dont-want-to-pay-or-look-at-ads/>.

Shifting from “Push” to “Pull”

Company culture

Resources and staffing

Budgets

Service provider relationships

Training

Tools vs. strategy

Advertising integration

It’s Time to Rebalance

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A Need for “Rebalance”

Episodic ad campaigns vs. continual initiatives

New demands on marketing departments and the enterprise

Emerging technology allows any brand to function as a media company

Organizations that rebalance now will enhance and improve their marketing

initiatives, spend more effectively, and align to meet changing consumer expectations.

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Rebalance with Content

Content marketing is a pull strategy—it’s the marketing of attraction.

It’s being there when consumers need you, and seek you out with relevant, educational, helpful, compelling, engaging and sometimes

entertaining information.

Content Marketing Builds Stronger Brands

Awareness

Purchase Intent

Word-of-mouth

Customer Engagement

Lower Acquisition Costs

Content Marketing Changes the Game

Earned and owned media

Long-term initiatives vs. short-term campaigns

New skills as publishers, producers and community managers

Evolution from advertisers to storytellers

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What Kind of Content Are You?

Three Types of Content Marketing

1. Entertains

2. Informs and Educates

3. Provides Utility

Three Types of Content Marketing

1. Entertains – K-SWISS

2. Informs and Educates

3. Provides Utility

K-SWISS Uses Humor to Attract Audiences and Sales in Release of Online Video Series

K-SWISS’ Kenny Powers videos earned millions of views online, resulted in a

1256% increase in Facebook fans, and contributed to a

250% increase in online sales.

3 types of content marketing

2. Informs and Educates – Salesforce.com

3. Provides Utility

Salesforce Leverages Video to Share Product Demos, Webinars, Events and More

Salesforce’s 2,600 YouTube videos

receive upward of 11K views per day. The

company has valued its product demo views

(av. 2 minutes per view) as equal to

customers receiving service from 66 hyper-

efficient sales representatives.

3 types of content marketing

2. Informs and Educates – Salesforce.com

3. Provides Utility - GE

GE Transformers iPad App Proves Useful to Its Engineer Community

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Getting Started:Strategies & Tactics

Conduct a Content Audit to Assess Assets

Page/Sub-

Section

Page Name

Type of Content

Source of

Content

Owner/Approver/Publisher

What’s It

About?

Support User/Busi

ness Goals?

Findable & Used?Analytics

Clean, Professional,

Logically Organized?

Keyword/Metadata/

1.1 Home xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx

1.2 Widget Page

xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx

1.3 About Acme Corp

xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx

Generate a Keyword List

Free SEO services like Google AdWords’ Keyword Tool can

aid in generating a robust and comprehensive keyword list.

Create an Editorial Calendar

The editorial calendar should address the questions:

how much content, how often, and specifically when it will publish. It includes content

requirements, responsibilities and a schedule.

Source: http://www.findandconvert.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/editorial-calendar-sample.png

Content is like leftover turkey.

Reuse and Repurpose for Greater Impact

Speech

PowerPoint Deck on

Slideshare

Video Speech

on YouTube

Transcribe for Blog

Extract Charts and

Infographics

Turn Into a Whitepaper,

eBook or Column

Create a Webinar

or Training

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Achieve Content Maturity

Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model

Top-Level Findings

Content initiatives are a significant investment.

Rebalancing requires departmental integration and cultural shifts.

Content and advertising should be interrelated.

Marketers are distracted by new channels and technologies.

Over the next five years, content marketing will permeate the organization.

Content Channel Confidence

Where is Content Confidence Held?

Base: 56 marketers; Size of bubbles above reflect marketers' intention to increase/decrease use of that content type over the foreseeable future. * Based on question: What are the most effective types of content you’ve used to promote your brand? ** Based on question: Which type(s) of content do you plan to phase out, use less of, or

have found ineffective?; Source: Altimeter Group

How Will You Rebalance?

Rebecca Liebrebecca@altimetergroup.com

rebeccalieb.com/blog

Twitter: lieblink

THANK YOU

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