16. Search Engine Optimisation
• Get the basics right
– MOBILE RESPONSIVE
– Good quality relevant content
– Good Quality Link building – Deep Linking
– Sitemap
– At least 200 words per page
– Content, titles. Paragraph titles
– Image titles, Page titles
– Images
– Update your site regularly
– Does your Domain include Keywords?
– Use Google Adwords for Keyword searches
20. E-news is measurable
• 168,000 email subscribers
• Biweekly
• Current open rate ± 28%
• ROI on each email activity is ± £10,000 for products
in the email
21.
22. Gather customers
emails religiously
• 3-4 stories
• Keep it simple
• Keep it visual
Always link back to website
Builds loyalty and advocacy
Creates 7 touch points for new sales
23. E-newsletters
• Segment data and create content for different
audiences
• Measure each e-newsletter and review success
• Keep the content simple
• Always link back to website
• Measure journey on website from click (Analytics)
28. Listen
Google Alerts
Twitter
Google Reader
Share &
converse
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Newsletter
Content
creation &
Broadcast
You Tube
Blog
Flickr
iTunes/podcasts
Community
building
Forum
Facebook Groups
LinkedIn Groups
Virtual worlds
Social media engagement ladder
Start from the beginning
Less time More time
29. Listen
• Listening for social cues
– Listening for your brand and reputation
• Listen to hashtags for mention of needs #
• Check social media search terms
– Check out your reputation
• Check SERPs of your phrases
• Check review sites
• Ready crisis management plan
30. Hashtag ideas
Sector specific
• #windpower
• #climatechange
Geographic specific
• #dorsethour
• #weymouth
Campaign specific
• #greenenergy
Media specific
• #journorequest
• #prrequest
33. Adapted from ‘Media Cloverleaf’ by Richard Edelman
How do I
manage
social
media?
Content first
strategy
‘Tradigital’
E-news
Forums
Digital magazines
Traditional
Media
Press
Social
networks
Facebook
Twitter YouTube
LinkedIn
Website
Responsive design
Mobile enabled
Owned Content
Video, blogs,
photos
Create
Once
Post
Everywhere
34. Create more content…
What is content marketing?
• create and distribute valuable,
relevant and consistent content
• to attract and acquire a clearly
defined audience
• with the objective of driving
profitable customer action.
35. What is content?
• Images
• Archived content
• Infographics
• Video
• Blogs
• Explainers
• Web pages
• PDF downloadable content
• Content for Syndication
• Podcasts
• Product offering
• Service descriptions
36. Why Content Marketing?
• Increase in engagement
• It’s favoured by 68% of customers – they prefer it
• On average it generates 54% more leads
• Some businesses have seen a 30% increase in Sales
with Content Marketing (Zappos)
• More than half of B2B marketers plan to increase their
content marketing budget in 2015.
• 70% of B2B marketers are creating more content than
a year ago.
38. Granddad of Content Marketin
• Red Bull Screen Shot
• Energy Drinks business Media company
39.
40. Content Marketing – what can you do?
• Facts & figures = Infographics
• Showcase your staff
• Showcase businesses/customers you work with
• Photos and video
• Blog posts
• New website pages
• Instructional, learning content for your
community, content for existing customers, how
to guides,
46. How does it make you feel?….
Where is the product?....
47. Video everything
• Video increase visitors understanding of your product
or service by 74% - Digital Sherpa 2014
• “Video is going to be gigantic in 2015. The social
content marketing world will put more dollars there,
and YouTube and Vine will increase their impact.”
Michael Walton SVP of Marketing and Product at
Simply Measured
• By 2017, video will account for 69% of all internet
traffic
48.
49. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXNfDO-hGF0
What can you video?
• Product descriptions, visualisations
• Expert analysis, talks
• Case studies, testimonials
• Pre sales – research
• Post sales - support
• KEYWORD PHRASES IN YOUR TITLES
and DESCRIPTION
• 45% of viewers stop watching a
video after one minute. By the two-
minute mark, 60% of viewers have
M&S
In one year, 3m mins of video
content viewed
M&S Consumers who watch the
videos stay twice as long on the site
as those who do not watch them.
Boosted Basket Size 25%
50. Customer support
Creating video content for
customer retention & staff
engagement and training:
Sony Xperia have created
a YouTube channel of all
their support and advice
guides.
51. Meformers vs Informers
Researchers at Rutgers University found
that only 20% of us are informers on
social media, while the other 80% are
meformers.
Informers had more twice the followers
of meformers.
Sharing information is better for your
follower count than sharing about
yourself.
57. en should you post?
• Twitter – 3 times a day
• Facebook – 2 times a day
• Instagram – 2 times a day
• LinkedIn – Once a day
• Google+ - 3 times a day
• Blog – Twice a week
• Pinterest - 5 times a day
58. • Schedule posts for most popular times of the day
• Use Klout or Buffer to schedule and see popular
times of the day
• If you schedule – don’t forget to be available for
responses
• Work with your planned business activities
• Think about seasonal opportunities
• Create your own opportunities!
59. Check in…….How’s it going?
• SEO
• E-news
• Social
• Content
• What 3 actions will you take away
• What are the timescales
• What are the barriers?
• What difference will they make to your business
60. Check in…….How’s it going?
• SEO
• E-news
• Social
• Content
• Mobile
• What 3 actions will you take away
• What are the timescales
• What are the barriers?
• What difference will they make to your business