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How To Make More Money With Creative, Customer-Focused Content Marketing
1. How To Make More Money
With Creative
Customer-Focused
Content Marketing
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2. What Are We Learning Today?
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• What is Content Marketing?
• What does a Content Marketing software company do?
• How do we know Content Marketing works?
• How do you build lasting relationships with your customers?
• How do you make your customer the hero of your content
marketing?
• How Do You Create Content For Your Customers? [Case Study]
5. There’s been a fundamental
shift in the way we create,
consume and share content.
4.5 BILLION
pieces of content
are shared
every day
1.8 BILLION
photos are uploaded
and shared
700 MILLION
snapchats
are sent
500 MILLION
tweets are
posted
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13. I built NewsCred’s content and social strategy from the
ground up.
In the past 18 months we’ve…
• Increased content production 60%
• Increased traffic 270%
• Increased our social following 20X
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14. How Do We Know Content
Marketing Works?
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15. …it directly influences purchase decisions.
Consumers engage with 11.4 pieces of content prior
to making a purchase.11.4
85% of consumers regularly seek out trusted expert
content when considering a purchase.85%
Nielsen 2014, Forrester 2015
By a factor of 3 to 1, B2B buyers want to self-
educate themselves by going to sellers’ websites to
learn about offerings and make purchase
decisions.
3:1
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16. 3xBrands who focus on connecting
with their customers on an
emotional level have a growth
rate triple that of their
competitors.
Jim Stengel, Proctor & Gamble, 2008
The fastest growing brands all have something in
common…
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17. How Do You Build Lasting
Relationships With Your
Customers?
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21. Customer Summits
2014: 40 customers
• Half day session
followed by a half day
of industry talks open
to the public
2015: 161 customers
• Full day of hands on
feedback with
executive team and
product managers
• Strategy sessions with
NewsCred experts
• 9 testimonial videos
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24. How Did We Do This?
- We doubled down on Customer Summits
- We hired a Customer Marketer
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25. Why Did We Do This?
• Increasing customer retention rates by
5% can increase profits by 25-95%.
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26. Get To Work
• 63% of CEOs see rallying their brand around the customer as
one of the top three investment priorities this year, and 90%
are committed to strengthening customer engagement
programs.
• Only 12% of B2B marketers said that they had teams in
place to execute a holistic customer experience strategy.
• 48% of marketers are only moderately confident in the
ability of their organizations to reach and engage
customers.
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CMO.com
30. How Do You Create Content For Your
Customers?
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31. @moxieingreen #FullStack15
Effective content marketing isn’t
about reaching MORE people.
It’s about reaching the RIGHT
people.
And using data-driven insights to reach the right
people at the right place and the right time.
33. How Do You Create Content For Your
Customers: SEO Keywords
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34. How Do You Create Content For Your
Customers: SEO Keywords
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35. How Do You Create Content For Your
Customers: SEO Keywords
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36. How Do You Create Content For Your Customers?
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37. How Do You Create Content For Your Customers?
Talk To Your Customers
(Or The People Who Talk To Them)
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• Sales
• Social Media
• Strategy/Agency
38. Listen To Your Customers: Millennials
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• 60K+ pageviews
• Our first content marketing “viral hit”
45. How Do I Make My
Customer The
Hero Of My
Content?
Case Studies
Blog Posts that address
their wins and challenges
Videos featuring your
customers
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46. How Do You Keep
Readers
Engaged?
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47. Why Are We Doing This?
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49. I Just Woke Up,
What Do I Need
To Remember?
• Effective Content Marketing
isn’t about reaching MORE
people, it’s about reaching the
RIGHT people.
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• Think creatively about how
to build customer
relationships.
• Every story has a hero –
make YOUR brand’s story
about your customers.
50. I Just Woke Up,
What Do I Need
To Remember?
• Use your content to answer
customer questions.
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• When you have a hit, test and
iterate to replicate success.
• Customers who read your
content will spend more
money and are less likely to
churn!
Notas del editor
Content marketing is the only marketing left
Content marketing is customer marketing
Content marketing is the only marketing left
Content marketing is customer marketing
Namely, one of the biggest transformations is the fundamental shift in the way we create, consume and share content. Every day, over 400 billion pieces of content are shared. Over 700 million snapchats are sent.
This sheer speed and scale of content creation and distribution has drastically changed from even a year or two ago.