Content-Centric Websites

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Give Them Content Or Give Them Away Building Websites That Capture Not Deter Your Customers Jason Falls – Doe-Anderson Inbound Marketing Summit San Francisco April 28, 2009

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Give Them Content …

Or Give Them AwayBuilding Websites That

CaptureNot Deter Your Customers

Jason Falls – Doe-AndersonInbound Marketing Summit

San FranciscoApril 28, 2009

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Websites Used To Be BrochuresCustomers Got BoredQuarterly Updates Won’t DoCustomers Want To Be Engaged

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Consumers Demand EngagementEngaging Content Incites ReactionReaction Becomes ConversationWebsite Becomes Living, Breathing

Being

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Content-Centric Websites Are Updated Frequently

Good Content Is Linked To By Others

Search Engines Scan For “Relevance”

Is it recent?

Do other people think it’s good?

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So, How Do We Do It?So, How Do We Do It?

Return To Your Marketing RootsDefine Your ProductDefine Your AudienceDefine Your CompetitorsDefine Your EnvironmentDefine Your Success

Build Content Around Your Consumer

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Prove It!Prove It!

Point in presentation where Jason rolls the dice and wings it!

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Riddle Me This, Batman!Riddle Me This, Batman!

Category

Product

Name it

What are its key benefits?

Competition

Environmental Factors

What Is Success?

Who is our audience?Where do they work, play, shop, dine?

What do they like to do for fun?

Who are their friends?

What interests them (in and out of our category)

What makes them buy things?

Demographics (for the dorks in the room)

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What Would Interest Your What Would Interest Your Audience?Audience?

What do we know? (generally speaking)

What can we give? (product, expertise)

What can we explain? (how-to)

What can we share? (other's content)

Who can we interview?

What can we have fun with?

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ExamplesExamples

Note: Jason Falls has never claimed to be a designer.

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Factors To ConsiderFactors To Consider

“Content” Implies Need For CMS

Search Engines Look For Relevancy

Is is recent?

Do other people think it’s good?

Branded Content Doesn’t Have To Be About The Brand

You Are Giving To Get

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Don’t Forget!Don’t Forget!

It’s Not Rocket Surgery

Start With Marketing Basics

ProductAudienceCompetitionEnvironmentSuccess

WWOCE - What Would Our Customers Enjoy? (WWJD)

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Let’s ConnectLet’s Connect

Jason FallsVP, Director of Interactive

& On-Line Communications

Doe-AndersonLouisville, Ky.

[email protected]

Twitter: @JasonFalls

O: 502.815.3257

www.socialmediaexplorer.com