5 Content Marketing Strategies/Tools to add value and enhance your practice. This session focused heavily on message develop and target audience selection. 60% of the audience -- mostly occupational health nurses -- was focused on internal marketing; 20% on external marketing and 20% on both. 60% of the audience focused on marketing to increase awareness of their practice with 20% focused on getting more clients/patients.
7. Content Marketing
• Content marketing is the strategy of
communicating with your audience and
prospects without selling to them.
• Instead of pitching yourself, you are delivering
information that helps (them). The content is
about and for them, not you.
• Content curation is an art of compiling
information from a variety of sources and
presenting them in a creative manner in front on
your audience.
10. Content Marketing
• to attract, acquire and engage a clearly
defined and understood target audience …
• to drive workers engaged in healthy living.
11. Content Marketing
Focus on …
• Is this content important to my prospects?
• Will this content add value to my employer?
12. Assumptions
• You have a well defined audience
• Discovering, curating & distributing content
builds trust, credibility and value
• Becoming thought leader builds business
• Digital media provides tools; you provide time
• Mindset – not size – matters
• Complex or simple: up to you
• 10 to 90 minutes a day
• Avoid Plagerism … Do Research
15. Discover & Create
“Monitor/Listen” for great content:
1. Google News Alerts
2. Google Scholar
3. Twitter feeds (see TweetDeck)
4. Professional Blog sites
5. Conferences & conference speakers
22. Messaging
• Step 1: determine your specific audience(s)
• Step 2: what is his/her point of view
– Worker health vs fewer absences
• Step 3: craft specific message for each audience
• Remember: what you say vs what they hear
23. Messaging
• KEY:
– Tell stories that reinforce your key messages
• Within confines of HIPPA, use “case studies”
25. Newsjacking
• “Jump on news in your profession”
• Create your response or perspective
• Put comment on original story
• Post to Twitter, blog, Facebook, etc.
• RealTime
27. Content Formula
1 = Something daily (news update on website, thought
for the day, Tip of the Day, etc.)
7 = Something each week (Tip of the Week, weekly
eletter, etc.)
30 = Something monthly (magazine, newsletter,
webcast, etc.)
4 = Something quarterly (Webinar, etc.)
2 = Something twice a year (white paper, research
report, etc.)
1 = Something annually (conference, eBook, etc.)
29. Tools
• Step 1: determine what tools are available
– External: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
– Internal: intranet
– Internal: blogs
• Step 2: select tools for each audience
31. 60 Minute Plan
REMEMBER: Tools are FREE; Your time is not!
Listening
• 20 minutes in morning (after initial setup)
Curating
• 20 minutes or more
Distributing
• 20 minutes or more (using scheduling tools)
34. Want More?
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