Nowadays, when customers are looking to buy a product they are seldom influenced by traditional advertisement. More and more they are looking for practical and neutral information to decide whether or not to make the purchase.
Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach meant to meet those needs of the customers. It is focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.
3. Content Marketing Myths
• Anyone can write content
• Content Marketing is only for B2C brands
• There is no way to measure ROI
• You can find cheap writers/content creators
• Blogs are only used to share news
• Build it and they will come
• Content is only for search engines
• Content marketing does not require technology
• Content marketing is giving stuff for free away
• Automation is evil
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6. Time to be a little controversal
• Content is Crap!
• Do not grab attention but hold it!
• Don’t over optimize metrics
• Publishing is a product and not a campaign
• Marketeers suck at Content Marketing
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7. Time for some audience participation
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And create some epic content
For ADM to use!
11. A definition of Content Marketing
Content marketing is a strategic marketing
approach focused on creating and distributing
valuable, relevant, and consistent content to
attract and retain a clearly-defined audience —
and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer
action.
Source: Content Marketing Institute
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12. Content Marketing is…
The art of communicating with
your customers and prospects
without selling
Key to Social Selling & Employee Advocacy12
13. Question 2
Do you have a Content Marketing Strategy?
• Yes
• No
• Do Not Know
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16. Content Marketing for Beginners
• Understand what Content really is
• Set measurable goals
• Create personas
• Focus on your audience’s need
• Create & Curate Content
• Promote Content
• Analyze efforts
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17. Looking for a resource/plan
17http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2013/0
3/content-marketing-institute-framework/
18. Question 3
How mature do you rate your Content Marketing
to be?
• Early steps
• Young
• Adolescent
• Mature
• Sophisticated
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38. Content Marketing Resources
• Content Marketing Institute
(http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/)
• Hubspot (http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing)
• Mashable
(http://mashable.com/category/content-
marketing/)
• Jay Baer, Joe Pelluzi, Jeff Bullas, etc.
• Vendors like Meddle, Marketo, Curata
etc. 38
39. Thank you for your contribution to
some great content
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Check out our Storify after this event
40. And now over to real life cases!
• Content Marketing at EMC by Philippe
Gosseye
• Helpen ipv verkopen by Frederik De Schrijver
(Xerius)
• Content Marketing at Quadrant
Communications by Frank Van den Bossche
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Notas del editor
Welcome
Who am I?
20 years of marketing (product and general marketing)
10 years of international sales
Me and social networking
Marketing strategy no longer works
Move towards face to face networking
Move towards social media
They focus on campaigns, not conversations—where content marketing is executed with a beginning and an end explicitly to drive short-term results for the business.
They’re more about the brand than the audience—where marketers focus on their value proposition more than their values; where the brand—not the audience—is the hero in the story.
They’re impatient for impact—where executives expect content marketing efforts to ring the cash register on a short horizon—and, when it doesn’t, they deem it a failure.
They tell undifferentiated stories—where your content is lost in a cacophony of competing content—or, worse, when a brand’s content sounds exactly like its competitors.
They target too many audiences—where brands fail to focus on a serve a niche, instead casting a wide net with content that’s one size fits all—but, more likely, all sizes fit none.