Content Strategy Secrets from the Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub and Ahava Leibtag

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Ahava Leibtag and Amanda Todorovich from Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub gave this workshop at Content Marketing World 2014 in Cleveland on September 11, 2014.

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Ahava LeibtagPresidentAha Media Group

Amanda Todorovich,

Digital EngagementCleveland Clinic

@amandatodo

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Today1. Meet your tour guides2. Planning your Content3. Challenges in Content Creation4. Publish your Content5. Distribute your Content6. Analyze your Content7. Govern your Content

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Meet your tour guides

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Ahava Leibtag• Author of The Digital Crown• Owner of 11-person content firm, Aha Media Group • 9 years in healthcare

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Amanda Todorovich• 15 years in

“storytelling”– 10+ years in

healthcare• Blogs, social media,

email

@amandatodo

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About Cleveland Clinic

• No 2 most visited hospital site in the country (driven mostly by content) with 80-90 million visits in 2014

• More than $204 million in annual revenue from appointments made via leads from ClevelandClinic.org in 2013

• No. 1 most visited hospital blog with 2.5+ million visits a month

• 1 million+ Facebook fans (only St. Jude’s has more)

• 250K+ Twitter followers (only Mayo has more)

• Named one of 140 Twitter feeds to follow in 2014 by TIME magazine

• No. 1 in Linkedin followers among hospitals

• 15+ email newsletters with a combined distribution of 250K+ a month. Flagship Be Well newsletter has a 55K distribution list.

• 130 active paid search campaigns (using treatment guide content) that generate more than $32 million in revenue yearly and an ROI of 24-to-1.

• No. 2 in the industry in organic search traffic with a projected 38 million in organic search visits in 2014

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Planning your Content

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What is content?

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Content is a conversation.

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Content Strategy: Two Parts

External Messaging • To whom are you talking? • Who are you? • What are you trying to say? • How do you say it? • When and where do you

say it?

Internal Workflow

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External MessagingExternal 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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The Lifecycle of Content Strategy

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Plan1. Discovery:

• Auditing: What are our current assets?• Stakeholder Interviews: What do people both outside

and inside the organization think?• Analysis: What’s the business case? What are we trying

to accomplish?2. Answering the 5 Essential Questions3. Define Workflow

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Discovery1. Content Auditing2. Stakeholder Interviews3. Analysis

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Content Audits

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Stakeholder Interviews

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Content must:• Align with business objectives• Support users in accomplishing tasks

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Business Goals

User Tasks

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Business

Goals

User Tasks

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Business

Goals

User Tasks

The Sweet Spot

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Analysis:How do we want our brand to be perceived in this conversation?

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External MessagingExternal 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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What are the business objectives?

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5-Step Methodology• Personas• Identity Pillars• Messaging Architecture• Voice/Tone• Editorial Calendar

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#1Personas =

To whom are we speaking?

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Judy, Jen & Taylor

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“Jen's kids have had a few cases of strep this past year so she's reading up on natural strep throat treatments.”

“Judy's husband has gout so she tries to learn all she can about it.”

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#2Identity Pillars =

Who are we?

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Identity Pillars• Who are we as a brand?• What do people think of us currently?• How do we want to shift that

perception?

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Identity PillarsCurrent Identity Pillars Future Identity Pillars

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Identity PillarsCurrent Identity Pillars Future Identity Pillars

CHEAP

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Identity PillarsCurrent Identity Pillars Future Identity Pillars

CHEAP AFFORDABLE

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#3Messaging Architecture=

What are we trying to say?

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Messaging Architecture• How do our identity pillars map from

a business and patient/family perspective?

• How are we representing those ideas?

• What are our messages that reinforce the identity pillars?

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Messaging ArchitectureCurrent Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging

CHEAP

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Messaging ArchitectureCurrent Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging

CHEAP AFFORDABLE

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Messaging ArchitectureCurrent Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging

CHEAP AFFORDABLEYou can find the products you want, at the price you are looking for.

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Messaging ArchitectureCurrent Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging

CHEAP AFFORDABLEYou 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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Messaging ArchitectureCurrent Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging

CHEAP AFFORDABLE35 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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How do we say it?

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Define Voice

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VoiceWe are:

sophisticated innovative academicfriendly fun important smart innovativefunny hipster sarcastic sympatheticempathetic awesome helpful convenient

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VoiceWe are:

sophisticated innovative academicfriendly fun important smart innovativefunny hipster sarcastic sympatheticempathetic awesome helpful convenient

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VoiceWe are:

sophisticated innovative academicfriendly fun important smart innovativefunny hipster sarcastic sympatheticempathetic awesome helpful convenient

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VoiceWe are:

sophisticated innovative academicfriendly fun important smart innovativefunny hipster sarcastic sympatheticempathetic awesome helpful convenient

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Come here right now.

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Define Tone

Yes: Sound like <example>

No!: Sounds like <example>

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Useful, helpful not preachy, friendly,

conversational, credible, human, innovative, leader,

high-tech, high-touch, patients first.

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Who will do all this work?

Requesters

Providers

Creators

Reviewers

Approvers

Publishers

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Challenges in Content Creation: Q&A

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Publish your Content

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Technical Considerations• Information architecture• Taxonomy• Metadata/Schema• XML/DITA• CMS• SEO

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Build a Home

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Team Approach

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Two ModelsHealth Hub• Dedicated team• One person scheduling

and publishing content

ConsultQD• Dispersed across

marketing• Many people

scheduling and publishing content

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Publishing Calendar

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Align Tools with Objectives

• CMS– WordPress for HealthHub & ConsultQD– .org just moved from MOSS to SiteCore

• Analytics• Templates & submission forms• Engagement Tools– Atomic Reach

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Think about Formats

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• Articles• Listicles• Slideshows• Videos• Infographics• Quizzes

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Distribute your Content

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Maximize the investment.

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Physician Audience Mystery

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Analyze your Content

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Don’t “go from the gut.”

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Which did better?

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Mine the Data. Mind the Data.

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• Pick a metric that determines success.

• Use tools that give you actionable information.

• Actually look at the data.– Review as a team.– Identify themes and trends.

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Avoid Auto-Pilot Mode• It’s dangerous.• Free-falling. Blind.• No idea where you’ll land.

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2014 YTD

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2014 YTD

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Embrace the numbers.Make changes.Test things.Make more changes.

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Govern your Content

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CONSISTENCY

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What is content governance?

Content governance is the day-to-day detailed management of content delivery and style, as well as the long-term execution of content strategy tactics.

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Content governance• Determines priorities• Provides detailed guidelines and standards

on how content should look, behave, and interact with customers

• Assigns ownership to people within the organization so they can make strategic decisions about content

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Why content governance?

• Creates a consistent customer experiences across channels

• Avoids content bloat• Sets internal organizational controls

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Consistent User Experience Across Channels

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Avoid Content Bloat

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Set Internal Organizational Controls

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Questions?