35. Section two: A guide to creating & distributing relevant content
36. “ Content marketing is a technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience - with the objective of driving profitable customer action. ” “ Get content, get customers ” – Joe Pulizzi
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39. An example: murdoch.edu.au Strategic goal Improving student attraction by developing more integrated marketing programs for target audiences. Target audience Year 12 High School Students sitting WACE (Western Australian Certificate of Education) exams. Social object Exams. What would they value? Support in the lead up to exams ( how to study as well as what to study ). How can you meet their need? Create a blog where students can access and interact with tips and advice direct from our lecturers. How could you package the content? Illustrated takeaways (info graphics) Top tips from attendees of exam preparation courses Guest lecturer blog articles Links to useful online resources (WACE Exams, Online study guides) What are your success measures? Engagement (dwell time, click depth) Sign up to online newsletter Sign up to Exam Preparation Seminars.
41. 1= daily twitter update, curated content, UGC 7= weekly blog post, tip sheet, photo-gallery, discussion 30= monthly extended blog post, eNewsletter, podcast, slideshare 4= quarterly whitepaper, eBook, infographic, competition 2= bi-annual event, webcast, print brochure, PDF extracts 1= annually iPhone app, Facebook app, host an event Source: Russell Sparkman | Fusionspark Media | 2009
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44. the99percent.com Strategic goal Increase conference and consultancy sales by positioning the99percent.com as a trusted resource for targeted audiences. Target audience Creative professionals. Social object Making ideas happen. What would they value? Advice, tips and cheat sheets from renowned industry leaders. How can you meet their need? Create a blog where proven idea makers can share knowledge in the form of articles, action orientated tips and best practice sessions. How could you package the content? Blog articles Illustrative conference take-aways Videos Cheat-sheets What are your success measures? Engagement (dwell time, click depth) “ Appreciates ” Tweets Comments
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46. brainpickings.org Strategic goal Increase donations by fostering and nurturing relationships with subscribers. Target audience Non-industry specific audiences seeking inspiration. Social object Creativity. What would they value? Inspiration for creating and building new ideas. How can you meet their need? By bringing together different disciplines to inspire new ideas (A discovery engine for interestingness). Bring together things you didn ’ t know you were interested in until you are (educate). Separating the ‘ signal from the noise ’ (curate) How could you package the content? Blog articles Top 10 lists YouTube videos Curated maps/imagery What are your success measures? Engagement (dwell time, click depth) Social share (Facebook, Twitter) Newsletter sign ups
60. What does this mean for content packaging for our intended audience?
61. Highlight: One in two students say social networking is the content they would access ‘ most often ’ online. Finding: 67% of females added comments to a social networking site daily-weekly
62. Highlight: Watching video created by other users is the second most popular online activity. Finding: 65% of male students consume video content daily-weekly
63. Highlight: Our students actively seek out reviews and opinions from others. Finding: 52% of students use online forums or discussion groups daily-weekly
64. Highlight: Students actively share and recommend content with their friends. Finding: Students on average have 200-300 social networking contacts
65. Highlight: More than a quarter of our students are creating and publishing their own content – they are drivers of social change. Finding: 61% of international students surveyed are actively creating content online
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Speaker: De Welcome to the session here at Murdoch today. For those of you visiting from other states we hope you enjoyed the beautiful drive along the river to get to our South Street campus. Before we get into the workshop we ’ d just like to take the chance to get to know our audience a little better. So, can we have a show of hands please for: People from agencies or consultancies People who work for online or digital media teams within Universities Anyone who works specifically in a social media role inside of a uni? Marketing Managers Senior managers … ..ooooo any IT people?!!!! Thanks
Speaker: De Largest campus in Australia …….most of it is bushland though What I love about being on campus
Speaker: De But rather than spout some facts straight from our prospectus about the Murdoch campus we wanted to show a video made by one of our student bloggers from an assignment we set them to tell people the 10 things they loved about Murdoch
Speaker: Claire Ben is a great example of user generated content in a social context – Ben can get away with saying things about Murdoch that as Marketers we would probably be fired for. But you can bet that his video would make more of a lasting, positive impression about Murdoch than a page in our prospectus ever could. And that ’ s really what we ’ re hear to workshop today.
Speaker: Claire
Speaker: Claire
Speaker: Claire
Hopefully this session will provide you with some valuable tools in helping to plan the purpose of your social media strategy. Today will be about helping you craft the need for social media within your university and a little bit about how to make sure it is ultra relevant to your target audience.
Using existing models or frameworks when you’re planning is often a really good way to start – it helps you think a little bit more about what it is that you actually want to achieve and that helps the whole process be tied to something solid as you go through the journey to delivery. So we’ll start with two fairly solid models for defining the purpose of WHY you want to use social media.
This is pure product placement but it does it in a really amusing and therefore shareable way – it ticks all the classic marketing brief boxes but it does it in a fresh and humorous way
They are known as the customer service heroes – it’s debatable whether any other online retailer has a model which is a multi-channel intergrated as Zappos. They truly embrace customer service as their point of difference whether it’s online or over the phone, it seamless and their customers love that about them.
What ’s your social media content purpose How can you make it connect as effectively as possible with your audience
Return on Engagement Return on Participation Return on Involvement Return on Attention Return on Trust
(the art of communicating without selling) Making your customers smarter, and position your brand as a trusted source. IN THE HOPE THAT THEY WILL BUY SOMETHING NOT A NEW THING JELLO RECIPE BOOKS JOHN DEERE FARMERS MAGAZINE
content WAS all about shop windows – designed to attract passing traffic. In the hope they ’ ll come inside your store Now its about stocking volumns of content Which you can pick and pack when and where needed a store of info on everything you are doing, Illustrates brand story answers questions to a potential customer You wont drive people to this w/house Then let it then spread of its own accord.
Anthroplogist Jyri Engestrom. THE THING THAT BRINGS PPL TOGETHER We are social animals, we like to socialise. But there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. Example: you ’ re here, and we ’ re here, because we ’ re all interested in social media. Social media is the social object. Example 2: SOCIAL OBJECTS DON ’ T MATTER ON THEIR OWN Eg. IF SOCIAL MEDIA DIDN ’ T EXIST, WE ’ D PROBABLY ENJOY EACH OTHERS COMPANY ANYWAY SOCIAL OBJECT IS JUST THE TOOL THAT HELPS US TO BE WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.
Audience content matrix scenario Run through first row How often should you be creating this type of content
Any ideas on what this number might mean? How many times you should be publishing content Think and act like publishers Maintain an ongoing story budget (not $$ budget) frequency To start building your content ‘ warehouse ’
1- Twitter link to McDonalds awesome mathematics study site. 7 - lecturer article around top tips to maximise marks for the mathematics exam. 30 - Illustrated takeaway / inforgraphic around how to study smarter (not harder) 4- event – preparation seminars. Illustrated takeaways from the class. 2 – open day 1 – iPad app (course finder), Facebook App (help your friends choose a course)
AUDIENCE CONTENT PROPOSITION “ Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration ” FREE CONTENT - ARTICLES, TIPS, VIDEOS PAID CONTENT – BOOKS, CONFERENCES, CONSULTING DIFFERENT KIND OF CONTENT MARKETING MODEL Free in the hope that you will buy something
Audience: non industry specific looking for inspiration Proposition: what around us can inspire background separating from the noise to bring you things you didn ’ t know you were interested in until you are. They basically curate interestingness – things that may inspire or spark something – to essentially inspire you with what ever it is you create, do or say. Pay what you want model Tip jar
The splinternet theory
Not the right technology or the right amount of spend – but the right behaviour for engaging with people in the social world Tip: we also used the word “ study ” rather than “ survey ” as it made it sound more formal / academic
We were able to confirm that our students are really active in the groundswell and compared to the average Australian profile we had significantly greater involvement in all categories (interesting to see how much this has changed for Forrester from 2009). So we know that but then we wanted to know what kinds of behaviours are they most likely to participate in within each of those categories – so if I ’ m a critic what types of content do I prefer to critique? - Also need to point out that “ conversationalists ” wasn ’ t part of the 2009 Forrester study but we included it into our profiling
“ Added comments ” – not just being a spectator , they are conversing
Almost 100% of our students watch video content regularly – if you can make the content engaging enough what a great way to connect with this group
The power of the peer influence – particularly relevant for our prospective audience and breeding the feeling of familiarity that we want to create
Brand ambassadors anyone?
Wow – on average less than 5% of your target audience will actively take-part in your experience (most will just observe). Imagine the value of being able to tap into this source of content generators for your brand – brand 2012 campaign anyone?
And probably even more importantly help to make sure we are fuelled as much by smart content decision as the “ tools ” that we use to help us distribute our message.