Learn about content, aligning your content with business objectives and user tasks, the difference between content strategy and content marketing and how to use neuroscience to create inspiration marketing.
3. Every minute…
• YouTube users upload 48 hours of video
• Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of
content
• Instagram users share 3,600 new photos
• Tumblr sees 27,778 new posts published
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4. Demanding?
The average brand organization is
responsible for the content demands of
178 social media properties, plus
websites, blogs and live events.
-The Altimeter Group (2013)
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13. Modern Marketing Challenges
• Ads don’t have the same power (esp.
in digital)
• Reduced attention
• Lack of brand loyalty
• Social sharing
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27. Email Addresses/Contacts
Engaged
Prospect &
Recycled
Lead
Sales Lead
Opport
unity
Custo
mer
• Emails/Contacts: Not yet leads, just
have entered the funnel
• Engaged: Show real engagement by
downloading content, opening an
email, commenting on a blog post
• Prospect: Qualified but are not ready
to buy (decision makers?)
• Lead: Prospects that show enough
behavioral engagement that we want
to call them
• Sales lead: Qualified by sales
• Opportunity: Part of the active pipeline
• Customer: They have bought an
solution
• Upsell and retain: Keep them buying
Sales Funnel
MarketingSales
Nurturing
Database
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39. How can we control this
conversation?
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40. 5 Questions You MUST Ask
1. To whom are we speaking?
2. Who are we? (as a brand?)
3. What are we trying to say?
4. How do we say it?
5. When and where do we say it?
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41. External Messaging
External Messaging Questions
• To whom are you
speaking?
• Who are you?
• What are you trying to
say?
• How do you say it?
• When and where do you
say it?
Content Strategy Tools
• Personas
• Identity Pillars
• Messaging Architecture
• Voice/Tone
• Editorial Calendar
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56. Messaging Architecture
Current Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging
CHEAP AFFORDABLE
You can find the products you
want, at the price you are looking
for.
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57. Messaging Architecture
Current Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging
CHEAP AFFORDABLE
You can find the products you
want, at the price you are looking
for.
• Our prices are consistently 20%
lower than other retail chains.
• Robust coupon program
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58. Voice
We are:
sophisticated innovative academic
friendly fun important smart innovative
funny hipster sarcastic sympathetic
empathetic awesome helpful
convenient
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59. Voice
We are:
sophisticated innovative academic
friendly fun important smart innovative
funny hipster sarcastic sympathetic
empathetic awesome helpful
convenient
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60. Voice
We are:
sophisticated innovative academic
friendly fun important smart innovative
funny hipster sarcastic sympathetic
empathetic awesome helpful
convenient
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61. Voice
We are:
sophisticated innovative academic
friendly fun important smart innovative
funny hipster sarcastic sympathetic
empathetic awesome helpful
convenient
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65. Content strategy also:
• Internally who is responsible for all the
different phases of content?
• Plan
• Create
• Publish
• Distribute
• Analyze or Measure
• Govern
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67. Modern Marketing Challenges
• Ads don’t have the same power (esp.
in digital)
• Reduced attention
• Lack of brand loyalty
• Social sharing
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68. Goals of content marketing
1. Attract: Create content that will draw prospects like
bees to a blossoming flower
2. Acquire: Give them the content in exchange for an
email address or some other form of potential ongoing
contact
3. Engage or connect: Continue to engage by creating
and sending relevant content about your product,
service or knowledge base
4. Drive profitable action: Clearly align your content
creation and distribution efforts with your business goals
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90. Who said?
“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining
an audience is hard. It demands a
consistency of thought, of purpose, and
of action over a long period of time.”
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