Due to the rise in content marketing, many are depending on content efforts — like a regularly publishing to company blogs, creating eBooks and more — to drive leads and traffic. But without a team of in-house writers, how can marketers consistently scale their strategies?
Ryan Buckley, Cofounder of Scripted, and Gabe Bevilacqua, Founder of Rallyverse, discuss how marketers can scale their content strategies through original and curated content.
This presentation covers:
• Why scaling your strategy is important in content marketing
• How to scale your strategy with original content
• How to use curated content to build your brand and community
• How to optimize your distribution and traffic acquisition from your content assets
How to Scale Your Content Strategy: Original and Curated Content
1. Original and Curated Content:
How to Scale your Content
Marketing Strategy
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2. Who We Are
Ryan Buckley, Scripted.com co-founder
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& Head of Partnerships
ryan@scripted.com
Gabe Bevilacqua, Rallyverse co-founder
& COO
gabe@rallyverse.com
3. The Content Marketing Challenge
Be relevant to your audience and your brand:
…multiple times per day,
…on multiple networks,
…for multiple accounts,
…with finite resources.
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7. What is curation?
For content marketers, curation
means assembling content around
your brand and the themes and
topics that matter to you.
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That means:
Sharing and posting
third-party content
alongside your original
content to fill out your
content calendar —
and keep your
audience engaged.
9. How Rallyverse Handles Curation
Popular 3rd-Party Content
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Brand’s Original Content
Trending Social Network
Algorithm reviews thousands of sources
to create content recommendations from
publisher-approved, fair-use sources, all
tuned to your marketing objectives
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10. Why does Curated Content Work?
1. Allows you to participate in a broader
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discussion
2. Adds surface area to your brand
3. Allows you to meet expectations of your
audience
11. Our data shows that marketers big and small rely on
curated content – for over half their social media
posts
Source: Rallyverse research, June 2014
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12. Content Curation best practices:
Honor your brand
Use proper attribution
Add your voice and POV
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14. You’ve spent time, effort and maybe
money to create original content.
Make sure that you’re getting the
most out of that investment.
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That means:
Don’t be shy
about posting
your original
content to social
media more than
once.
Brand’s Original Content
16. Why Reposting Original Content
Works?
Opportunity to capture different
audience segments at different times
Same content is relevant in different
contexts
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17. Our data shows that you can post the same URL
more than once to social media without a decline in
clicks:
Source: Rallyverse research, July 2014
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18. Reposting best practices:
Focus on Evergreen Content
Be Relevant
Adapt Messaging And Delivery
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21. How Do You Define Success?
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Web Traffic
Direct Sales
Social Media Sharing
Qualitative Feedback from Customers
SEO Ranking
Time Spent on Website
Web Traffic
Sales Lead Quality
Social Media Sharing
Sales Lead Quantity
SEO Ranking
Time Spent on Site
B2B B2C
24. Current State of Content Teams
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44%
of B2B marketers say they
have a documented content
marketing strategy
73%
of B2B organizations have
someone in place to oversee
content marketing strategy.
25. Small Team, Big Content
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Team
• Content Manager
Volume
• 50+ pieces of content published
per month
Content
• Blog Posts
• Guest Posts
• White Papers
• Slideshares
• Webinars
Content Creation
Scripted Writers
In-House
20%
80%
26. Efficiency of External Writing Teams
Editorial Calendar
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Submit Guidelines
Content Written
Review Content
Measure and optimize
Measure
Publish/Promote
30+ pieces of content written
in 5 to 10 days
3 to 5 days of review and
editing
Promote across relevant
channels immediately
27. Original Content That Is Easiest To Scale
Thought-leadership
Long-form
content
Newsworthy/trend content
Evergreen content
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29. Don’t Create Content Just To Create Content
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Know This First:
Your
Brand
Content
Creation
Your
Audience
Timing
30. Content
Manager
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Industry
Writers
Social
Media
Employees
Monthly
Themes
FAQ
Customer
Stories
Industry
News
GA
Keyword
Tool
Competitor
s
Editorial
Calendar
Notas del editor
Nicole will introduce both Ryan and Todd, who will go deeper into who they are and what they’ll be talking about.
Presenter: Gabe
Allow as many idea opportunities to influence your editorial calendar. Don’t limit this process to one content manager or writer. Though you should NOT ignore your competition - use tools like sharedcount to analyze the success of not only your own stories, but benchmark against your competitors (try putting together a draft of this, I can help iterate). I also want to give a primer on Google Keyword planner here.