Recycling or repurposing content you already have is a great way to boost your marketing plan. In this guide our experts will show how you can breathe life into your most popular pieces of content .
3. What we’ll cover today
● Recap the theory behind content marketing
● Getting your content in front of people
● Making your content go further
● Some ideas to try
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5. Defining content marketing
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The Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as…
“Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable,
relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience –
with the objective of driving profitable customer action.”
It’s not a new idea. In fact it’s been around since the early 1900s when Michelin
produced the Michelin guide offering drivers advice on car maintenance!
6. 10 benefits
1. Grow reputation - improved perception of your brand
2. Efficiency - content marketing only needs to cost time
3. Increase reach - through social traffic and followers
4. Get found by prospects - with more content indexed by search engines
5. Demonstrate knowledge - and establish yourself as a thought leader
6. Generate sales leads - exchanging content for contact details
7. Build relationships - by positioning yourself as a useful resource
8. Show your human side - through your point of view and tone
9. Increase engagement - with highly targeted audiences
10. Build brand awareness - and increase authority and trust
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9. Extending reach
● Email newsletter - segment clients
● Print out - use in meetings, waiting
room, post
● Email to relevant clients
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10. Upload to your website
1. Use the introduction as a blog post OR
summarise each section in the guide
2. Ask readers to fill in a contact from to read
the full guide OR include a link to the full
guide
3. Follow up with a call
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12. Social media
● Which channels do your clients use?
● Tailor for different channels
● Experiment with text, images, time of
day
● Can post links to same piece of
content
● Canva to create visuals for social
media
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14. Benefits
Saves time - Time can be a barrier to creating content
Extends value - Get the most out of it
● Same message different channel - different people
● Gives you another chance to rank in search engines
● Helps you create consistent content
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15. How to start
1. Gather what you’ve got from everyone in the business
2. Don’t worry about how old it is
3. Format isn’t a problem
4. Think about what you want to achieve. Keep this in mind when deciding
what to repurpose
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18. Question and answer blog posts
Split the guide into a series of blog posts
Benefits
● Lots of content
● Helpful content
Link to other posts in the series
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22. Interesting stats blog post
Create a blog using key figures
Benefits
● Quick to read and create
● Shareable content
Need focused calls to action to help readers take the next step.
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25. Beyond your website
Content that can be consumed on social
media
Benefits
● Quick to digest
● Reach an audience that might not visit
your website
Only worth it if you have a decent number
of followers
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26. Other ideas
E-books to blog posts (and blog posts to e-books)
Webinars
Video blogs
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28. Measuring impact
Not just number of views that’s important
Capture leads?
What did the leads do next?
Help you find out what works and improve
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No good churning loads of content out if you haven’t thought about these things first
Who do you want to attract?
What is valuable and relevant to this audience?
But all this takes time (and money)
How often have you spent ages creating a piece of content that has an initial ‘bang’ and then just sits there?
Same topics that you have to create content about again and again
Getting more people to see your content (original or otherwise)
Example...
Who it is aimed at
Format
Sections
Going further
Don’t just upload it to your site. Encourage the reader to access the full guide.
Exchange details -lead generation
Or free access
Quotes and statistics are good to include in visuals
What is repurposing content? Rejigging content you already have for a different audience or platform
adjust, combine, expand
Can be difficult to justify spending time on something that’s not a quick win / has v obvious ROI
Repurposing can change media. Presentations make great webinars
No point doing loads of work if you’re not going to get any benefit from it
Who it is aimed at
Format
Sections
What you have probably already done with this
Link to other guides
Play with formatting
More time. Not a designer
Brand colours and fonts
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