9. Earned Media & PR
• Brings big numbers all at once
• Gives a spike of traffic
• Must be strategic
• May not be aimed at the target market (i.e. much of the time
TechCrunch isn’t the target market, but it’s what VCs read &
gives social proof)
• Has a strong trust rate
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15. Why Do PR?
§ Looking to raise money
§ Hiring
§ Creating awareness in the market
§ Downloads of your app / Sales
§ Signaling to competitors
16. What is Earned Media
& PR
§ Blog posts that you write and submit for
publishing (how-to’s are great for this)
§ Coverage from any media (radio interview,
blog post, news article, etc)
§ Mentions from others that you didn’t pitch
§ Evangelists who are well known (imagine
Oprah mentioning you to her minions)
17. Why Earned Media &
PR
§ Exposes you to big numbers all at once
§ Gives a spike of traffic
§ May be strategic instead of pure growth
(e.g. TechCrunch might not be the target
market, but it’s what VCs read)
§ Has a strong trust rate
19. Performance Measurement
• Is your objective SMART: specific, measurable, achievable,
realistic & time specific?
• What are your strategic initiatives?
• Build awareness
• Expand distribution (i.e. increase downloads)
• Get more funding
• Hire great people
• How will you measure (KPIs)?
• Traffic
• Sales
• Applications
• Interest from VCs
20. Your Goal Determines Strategy
If you want to raise
money, pitching to
mommy bloggers won’t
help. Unless one of
them just raised a fund.
22. Your List is Gold
Journalists Analysts Influencers
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24. How to Do Earned Media & PR
• Get to know media & bloggers on Twitter long before launch
• Give
• 2 weeks before launch ask if they would be willing to check
out your product (consider an embargo)
• Offer an exclusive
• Contribute an article
• I’ve heard of success from mass emails (luckiest woman I’ve
ever met – only case of success I know)
• KEEP YOUR ASK SHORT
26. Tools You Need
• Google Alerts:
• Who is covering your competition?
• Who owns your keywords?
• SimilarWeb
• What are your keywords?
• What is your competition focusing on
• Google Trends / Twitter Trends
• Trendjacking
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27. Content as PR
§ Guest blogging
§ Webinars / Presentations with bigger
partners that give helpful industry
related information
§ Create an infographic for others to share
§ Guest contribute to a media publication
29. Writing - What Do You Read?
• No one cares about your company
• People are busy
• They care about what they need for work or life
• Don’t waste their time
• Grammar and spelling mistakes lower trust by up to
50% - get another set of eyes to check your work
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30. Blogging
• Make sure it’s interesting
• Have a CTA at the bottom of the post leading
somewhere else
• Don’t have it be about you (see the first bullet)
• Blog regularly, so people come back
• Give helpful information
• Test whether 300 words or 1200 words are better for
your audience
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31. Thought Leadership is Critical
• Blogging and guest blogging is one of the best ways to
do this
• Webinars / Presentations that give helpful industry
related information (think Crunched and its Growth
Hacker series)
• White papers (sign up to our newsletter and get this
white paper for free!)
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36. Watch the Funnel
Acquisition – Learns About Product
Conversion – Signs Up OR Demo
Retention – Uses Product
OR Buys
Buys OR Expands
Account
WOM
(Sharing)
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Your content
depends on where
the person is in the
funnel
37. • PR (Media Kit recommended)
• Facebook
• Podcast
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Quora
• LinkedIn
• Blogging
• Newsletter / Email (highest ROI of all digital media)
• Google+
• Forums
• White papers / Case studies
• Peer review
• Seeding posts
• Infographics
• E-book
• Webinars
• Community
• Guest blogging
• Teleseminar
• Affiliate Marketing
• Game elements (e.g. leader board, 80% signed up,
awards for actions)
• SEO / SEM
• Pinterest
• Blog commenting
Sample Free Tactics (not in any
order)
39. Communicating to an
International Market
• Americans spell correctly. However, the British
disagree. There are more Americans than British J
(localize your English – even when it’s for Australians)
• Spelling and grammar count – mistakes lower trust
levels in all languages and cultures
• Find someone from the culture you’re aiming to sell to,
who knows marketing – to do your marketing. OR – go
there & live for a bit. Understanding culture is critical.
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41. Drip Campaign
• DO NOT BUY A LIST
• Build a list
• Goal: Engagement
• Cadence:
• First 3 emails – blog post lists, infographics, non-gated content
(just bring value)
• Next 3 emails – lightly gated content e.g. White paper, case study
• Next 2 emails – call to demo
• Last email – breakup (or just leave it open for awile)
• CALL THE PEOPLE WHO OPEN
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42. ABM
• Like Outbound, but more focused
• You need to know who the players are
• Targeted emails – these make it obvious you’ve done
your homework on them
• Do not send gated content (you should have their info
already)
• Send something IRL (books are always good, then a
swag notebook – but first don’t make it about you)
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43. Calling
• Do your research first
• People don’t call anymore, so there’s a chance you’ll
actually catch someone
• Call during work hours – not during their dinner
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44. Ads
• Also outbound, but not free – so I’m just mentioning,
but not diving in
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45. Email Hunter
Find the email of the person you want to connect to by using the Email Hunter Chrome
browser app
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46. Rapportive
Confirm the
email of the
person you
want to
connect to by
checking
names
through the
Rapportive
plugin.
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50. LinkedIn
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Choose who you
want to connect to:
What groups is the
person in?
If you know the title
but not the whole
name – do a search
in Google of the
partial name and
title & you’ll get the
whole name.
54. Marketing as a Sales Tool
• Case studies show your ideal customer and how things
go when everything is perfect
• Connecting with individuals on social builds the
relationship, e.g.
• Object can showcase customers design work on its FB page
• LinkedIn group about industry – lead generation
• Social CRM on Twitter
• Email marketing reminds companies that you exist &
what you can do for them
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55. Social Media for Research
• What is the title of the person in the organization that
typically makes the decisions?
• Rapportive
• LinkedIn
• Who are the media people who cover your industry?
• Twitter
• FB
• Quora
• LinkedIn
• Pinterest
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56. International Partnerships
• You’re in Europe – use it to your advantage – partner
with other European & Israeli companies
• Find companies in complimentary industries to do joint
partnerships with – e.g. A high end organic bed
company does a joint promotion with a high end
organic bedding (sheets) company – email lists are
combined & both companies & customers benefit
• Face to face is ideal, but Skype works wonders when
F2F is not possible
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57. Keep in Touch – Email
• Keep it short
• A/B test several subject lines
• Action-trigger emails have a higher opening rate
• Keep it relevant
• Appropriate landing page à funnel them in
• Let people choose what they want to be notified for
• DON’T BUY LISTS OR SPAM
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58. Keep in Touch – Notifications
• iOS 108 characters max
• Android – recommended 50 characters max (1-line on
the notification bar) * ht/ Danya Schwartz Bar-El
• Localize sending so user receives notification between
9-11am or 2-5pm (but test first)
• A/B test messaging for a couple of days then blast
everybody else with the winner
• In-app landing page – like all landing pages - fitted to
the message and the push campaign
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59. How You Say Things Matters
‘Researchers found that placing the following statement
at the end of an ad… caused their trust scores to jump
as much as 33 percent!’
“You can trust us to do the job for
you.”
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60. • Fear – Insurance
• Guilt – Mother’s Day
• Trust – Financial
institutions
• Value – Matching prices
• Belonging – Part of our
community
• Competition – Doing
better than the Jones’s
• Instant Gratification – I
want it now
• Leadership – Early
adopter & evangelist
• Trendsetting – What are
the leaders doing?
• Time – Save time
Get Emotional
61. International Markets
§ Americans spell correctly. However, the British
disagree. There are more Americans than
British ☺ (localize your English – even when
it’s for Australians)
§ Spelling and grammar count – mistakes lower
trust levels in all languages and cultures
§ Find someone from the culture you’re aiming
to sell to, who knows marketing – to do your
marketing. OR – go there & live for a bit.
Understanding culture is critical.