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Be The
Benchmark
February 20, 2015
Ashley Brown, Vice President
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Ashley Brown
Vice President, Strategy
@iamashbrown
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Inspire Powerful Advocates.
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What We’ll Cover Today
• Why you should you care about content?
• What does great content look like?
• How do you build a content team?
• What do you measure?
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Traditional News is Dying
And it’s Not Coming Back
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Newspaper Ad Revenue 1950-2013
Billions of 2013 Dollars. Source: Slate/NAA
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What is 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.”
- Content Marketing Institute
What is Content Marketing
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Brands Increasingly Own Media
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Corporate Blog Growth is Leveling Off
After years of steady growth
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Social Media is Increasingly Entrenched
And It’s Not Just Facebook
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Coke: It Starts With Structural Change
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You Have to Make the Basics Brilliant
Great Stories Great People Great Process
• Do you have a written content
strategy?
• Is your focus clear: build the
brand, drive sales, feed the
funnel, remove obstacles?
• Do you have license to
provoke?
• Are you a true storyteller?
• Do you have the right talent
in place?
• Do you have an SEO expert?
• Do you have strong writers?
• Do you have photographers &
videographers?
• Do you have a digital
technologist?
• Do you have executive
support?
• Do you have an editorial
process in place?
• Do you understand the
CMS?
• Do you have agreed upon
digital/social KPIs?
• Do you have the right-
sized budget?
• Do you have a paid media
budget?
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Key Ingredients to Great Content
Be Emotional
Be Useful
Be Brave
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“Why fit in when you were
born to stand out?”
- Dr. Seuss
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Berlitz – German Coast Guard
VIDEO
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Victoria’s Secret
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The Home Depot
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The Museum of the Great War
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The Museum of the Great War
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Rock the Vote!
• 2014 was the year Real-Time
Marketing went mainstream; in
2015 smart marketers will bake
RTM into communications plans.
• This doesn’t mean that you have
to build a war room.
• Remember that awesome Arby’s
tweet at the 2014 GRAMMY’S –
Social Media Director Josh Martin
wrote it on his couch.
Unlock the Power of Super Fans
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Timely Content Bumps Performance
262% Increase 67% Increase
Across 20 Participating Brands Tapping into the #NationalIceCreamDay
Conversation
In Retweet rate vs. the last
3,000 tweets by each brand
In Favorites rate vs. the last 3,000 tweets by each brand
Use of the hashtag #NationalIceCreamDay had a positive
Retweet impact for 13 brands, reduced Retweet impact for 7
brands.
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Best Performing Content
Smithsonian
3,647% Bump to RT
27% Bump to
Favorites
Ben & Jerry’s
202% Bump to RT
92% Bump to
Favorites
The Knot
174% Bump to RT
70% Bump to
Favorites
Food Network
372% Bump to RT
175% Bump to
Favorites
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Performance vs. Average 2014 Performance
Retweet Performance
Across 20 Participating Brands Tapping into the #NationalIceCreamDay
Conversation
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How to Plan for RTM
Prepare
• Don’t wait –
brainstorm
strategy in
advance.
• Draw lines in the
sand/boundaries
before the event.
Communicate Measure Act
• Ensure that the
process is easy,
and understood.
• Be nimble – most
messages won’t
be written until
minutes before
they’re posted.
• Communication
allows you to
move fast.
• The team needs to
be empowered to
act – with clear
roles.
• Have a copywriter,
creative lead, legal
rep, analyst, and
program manager
on hand.
• Every brand and
every team will
see different
results – know
what success
looks like.
• Make sure you
have the tools and
the skills to use
data to your
advantage.
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This Will Rise to 42% in 2015.
Marketers Spent 25% of
Their Budgets on Digital
Marketing in 2014.
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You Will No Longer Reach
Your Audience
For Free
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Get Ready to Pay to Play
No More Boxes
• Generic copy and
stock imagery is
the digital
equivalent of junk
mail.
• Free the team to
think outside the
box, invest in high-
quality visuals,
and leverage
UGC.
Know The Audience
Right-Size Budgets
Relentlessly Measure
• Fully understand
your audience and
customer
psychographics.
• Build the right
audience sets
based off K&I
data.
• Only target those
sets – no more
spray & pray.
• Build a rigorous
measurement
program.
• End the days of
“everyone is
always
successful.”
• A/B test
everything.
• Expect to spend
25% of your total
marketing budget
on digital,
including search
and social.
• This does not
include content
creation – this is
reach only.
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Build the Right Measurement Plan
Social Media Owned Media
• Comments
• Likes
• Shares/Re-posts/Re-grams
• Completion rates
• A/B and test & learn data
• Conversion data
• Views
• Completion rates
• Pageviews
• Time spent on page
• Bounce rate
• Social shares
• Referrals from social media
• Open/Unsubscribe rates
• A/B testing
• Conversion data
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“In this profession, it’s a
long walk between drinks.”
- Truman Capote
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Thank You
Ashley Brown
@iamashbrown