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How Blogging Can Boost Your Gift Shop Sales
Charlotte Biggs, Card & Gift Network for Autumn Fair 2018
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What We’ll Be Covering
• Why you should blog for your business
• How to create compelling content
• Saving time! How to use blogging as the base of your marketing strategy
• Getting a return on your investment
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Hello!from Charlotte
I help greetings card and gift companies get noticed and sell
more online.
Card & Gift Networkwww.cardandgiftnetwork.com
blogging since 2009.
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What is a blog?
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Statistics for card & gift industry #1
642 companies surveyed
• 35% (225) had a blog
• 49% (110) had posted in 2018
• 35% (78) had posted in the last 3 months
• 19% (43) had posted in the last month
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Statistics for card & gift industry #2
Top Ten retailers for “gifts”
• 9 out of 10 had a blog (1 had 2 separate blogs)
• 6 had posted recently
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Why Blog for Business?
To gain new customers & make sales!
Every time you add a new post:
• Solve a problem or provide value to your customer.
• Build up “know, like, trust”
• Signal to search engines
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Blog Post
Product Page
Shopping Cart
Checkout
Blog Post to Purchase
Blog Post
Mailing List
Email Series
Product Purchased
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Compelling Content
• Specific
• Valuable
• Clickable
• Quality
• Purposeful
• Shareable
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Blog for Your Ideal Customers
BuyerRecipientor Product
LeadAwareness
Interest
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Compelling Content
• Specific
• Valuable
• Clickable
• Quality
• Purposeful
• Shareable
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What Do Your Customers Want?
• Your Knowledge
• Your Products
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QuestionsWhat are good Christmas gifts for best friends?
What are good Christmas gifts for co-workers?
answerthepublic.com
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Compelling Content
• Specific
• Valuable
• Clickable
• Quality
• Purposeful
• Shareable
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Make it Clickable
• Good content needs a good headline
• Recommended Tool: http://coschedule.com/headline-analyzer
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Compelling Content
• Specific
• Valuable
• Clickable
• Quality
• Purposeful
• Shareable
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Make it Quality
• High quality images/video and audio
• Easy to read
• Formatted for scan reading
• Plain English
• Search engine friendly
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Compelling Content
• Specific
• Valuable
• Clickable
• Quality
• Purposeful
• Shareable
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Define Your Purpose
• What action do you want?
• Leads - ask people to join your mailing list
• Sales - encourage people to buy
• Read more/share this
• Include one call-to-action (CTA)
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Compelling Content
• Specific
• Valuable
• Clickable
• Quality
• Purposeful
• Shareable
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Make it ShareableWhy?
• More views
• Love from Google
How?
• Interesting headline
• High quality, valuable content
• Share buttons on each post
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Saving Time! Blog to Marketing Masterplan
Repurpose
• Email newsletter
• Social media updates
• PR - proof for journalists
• Pay Per Click (PPC) landing page
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Making the Most of Blogging
Recycle
• Recreate your best text posts as video/audio/slides
• Rewrite for other blogging platforms
• Update popular posts
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Measuring the ImpactReferrals (Acquisition)
• Where traffic is coming from & to which posts
Content/Page Views (Behaviour)
• Which content works best
URL Builder
• Track people clicking our calls-to-action
Goal Tracking (Conversions)
• Track sales or email sign ups
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2 Things to Remember
1. The most important thing in the presentation?
• Write your blog for your ideal customer.
2. What should the audience do if they do nothing else?
• Define a purpose for each blog post so your blog contributes to your business goals.
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Q&AAny questions?
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