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Creating Custom and Targeted Content to Increase Brand
Awareness
Mike BrownFounder | The Brainzooming Group
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We help make smart organizations more successful by rapidly:
• Expanding their strategic options and
• Creating innovative plans they can efficiently implement.
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Our Clients Range Across Industries
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We’ll Cover• Taking an Audience‐First Perspective
• Creating Content that’s Both Outside‐In & Branded
• Engaging Audiences & Integrating Branded Messages
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Insights into your:• Social Strategy• Metrics• Staffing• Content• Activation• Engagement
9 Diagnostics to Check Your Social Strategy
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Step 1. Strategy,Step 2. Platforms.
Don’t screw up the order!
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Linking Business and Social StrategyBusiness Objective
Social Strategy
Strategy Overview Typical Tactics
IncreasingSales
Sales Focused Extend offers or reward purchase continuity through retail – whether online or offline.
• Exclusive online offers• Driving traffic to online purchase sites• Relationship building supporting direct selling
GeneratingLeads
Content Marketing
Original content online used to build leads. Can extend to audience generated content or content aggregation.
• Creating new (and curating) content• Offering downloadable assets• Inbound marketing + email and other follow ups
Building an Audience
Community Building
Attracting followers through common ties and interests, integrated into a content marketing and/or advertising approach.
• Targeting an audience via their high interest areas• Featuring content of general interest (not brand‐specific)
• Promoting branded content and sign‐up opportunities
Growing Awareness
“Lifestyle"Focused
Targeted outreach to a specific important audience group to attract them with regularity and frequency.
• Selecting a high‐interest topic• Creating engaging content on the lifestyle topic• Promoting engagement and incentives
Improving Customer Service
Consumer Engagement
Integrating social media into customer service and direct contact channels to build retention and strengthen relationships.
• Using aggressive social listening• Interacting with the audience using clear response standards
• Developing a social media command center
StrengtheningPerceptions
Cause Marketing
Linking social media and networking toward a common cause and future opportunities to share your message.
• Developing broad partnerships with experts related to a cause
• Integrating social and other public affairs activities• Offering its brand voice to amplify cause‐related messages
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Integrating Social Media
Website
Blog -Content Creation
Blog -Content Creation
Blog -Content Creation
Landing PagesInfo Exchange &
Conversion
Blog -Content Creation
Blog -Content Creation
Blog -Content Creation
Blog -Content Creation
SearchOrganic, Local,
Social Graph, PaidSocial Platforms
LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest,
Others
Other Marketing Communications &
Business Development
Typical StepsBusiness Objectives Topics Keywords
Metrics Social Media Strategy Blog, Social Platforms, Landing Pages Audience Persona Interests Topics
Content Creation & Curation Sharing & Audience Building
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Taking an Audience-First Perspective
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What So Many Brands MissThe Too Frequent
Content Mix for a Brand Reality
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“Outside‐In” Content
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“Outside‐In” Timing
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Defining Your Target Audience
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Behavioron your website
Behavior in work &
personal life
Web Social
Personas Aren’t Created Equal
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MaryMarketing VP
• 48, married, and has two high school children.• Traditional professional; Works long hours for a Fortune 500 agri‐business company
• MBA from the University of Illinois. • Realizes the importance of social media, but hasn’t actively participated beyond a LinkedIn profile and a Facebook page.
• The company’s brands are her “babies.” She puts extra time and effort into her responsibilities for driving growth for her company.
• With her Blackberry in hand, she stays continuously connected with family, work, and friends.
• As a successful business woman, she expects and demands peak performance out of her children, employees and her market research vendors.
• A self‐described “wine aficionado”, Mary enjoys having a cocktail or glass of wine with co‐workers or friends to celebrate a job well done.
• 35, single and lives in a condo; doesn’t have time to deal with yard work.
• BS degree in business; obtained an MS degree in marketing while working full time.
• Very social outside work and enjoys traveling, exercise and activities where he can relax. Quiet at work. Passionate about research, statistical analysis, and integrity of research efforts.
• Tech savvy and uses iPhone. Engaged in social media to build new contacts, connect with previous colleagues and friends. Spends time reading online market research articles and blogs to find relevant info and solutions to his job.
• Involved in a number of business associations for networking to him advance his market research career.
• Given the state of the economy and shifts in consumer spending, he is worried about cutbacks and looking for a trusted advisor; someone that understands his pain points and can step in to help his group provide more value for his company’s growth efforts.
JasonMarket Research Manager
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Goals
Interests
Focus
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How old is this person?
What is his/her demographic profile?
What are the person’s job title, role, goals, challenges?
What are the range of responsibilities they have?
What’s on their professional frontier?
What lifestage is this person in?
What is this person passionate about?
What personal aspirations and issues are top of mind?
What topics are of greatest interest to them?
What activities do they enjoy?
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Audience Member: __________ Name: __________
What are the steps in the purchase
journey?
What do they need at this step to connect with the brand?
Age? Demographics?
Career Situation?
Job Title & Responsibilities?
Professional Challenges?
Lifestage?
Interests / Desired Outcomes relative to our brand?
Personal Challenges?
Personal Interests?
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Being Both Outside-In & Branded with Content
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Content Funnel – Questions and TopicsAwareness
(Explore Problem / Oppty)
Consideration(Put Name to Problem /
Oppty)
Decision(Solution Strategy,
Compile Provider List)TOPIC AREAS for PERSONAS
Persona 1
Persona 2
Persona 3
Persona 4
Persona 5
Types of Content PROBLEM• eBooks / eGuides• White Papers• Expert Content• Educational Content
SOLUTION• Expert Guides• Comparison White Papers• Podcast / Video /
Presentations
SERVICE• Case Studies• Product Literature• Production Comparisons• Vendor Comparisons
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Audience Needs & Interests
Compelling Communication
& Interaction
BrandLoyalty
Social
TraditionalMedia
NetworkBuilding
The Right Mix Is Critical
Your Brand
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Finding a credible way to address audience interests
What makes a topic great?
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What shouldbranded contentdeliver for your
audience?
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What Will Your Content Deliver? EIEIUEntertainment• Provides amusement or enjoymentInspiration• Stimulates the audience to do or feel somethingEducation• Delivers systematic instructions or provides an enlightening
experienceInformation• Delivers facts or knowledge about something or someoneUtility• Provides a useful or beneficial function or capability
Via Kodi Foster, Vice President – Data Strategy at Viacom
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He’ll be there for me!I can depend on him!I’ll CHANGE him!
CLOSE THE
SALE!
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Consistent Brand Strategy Drives Social
• Brand Promise• Brand Experience
• BIG Brand Statements
• Audience Targets
• Social Personality
• Integrated Content
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Brand Promise
Trustworthiness
Consistency
Distinction
Emotional “Signature”
Shorthand Communication
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Delivering the Brand Experience
Communications
Team
Services
Reinforcers
Advertising Word of Mouth
Invoices
Facilities
Website
Expertise Service Quality
Service Experience
Customer Service
Culture & ValuesPerformance
Hiring & Recruiting
Logos
Collateral
Forms
Uniforms
PR
Sponsorships
BrandPromise
Frontline Employees
Staff
Behind the Scenes Employees
Social Media
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Brand Language and Images
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Are you actively unpacking your brand foundation to
guide content?
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GeneratingAudience‐Oriented
Topic Ideas
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Multiple Approaches
• Answering Questions
• Audience Conversations
• Think‐Know‐Do
• Turning Inside‐Out to Outside In
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Answering Questions
What Are Audience Questions at Each Stage? Persona: ___________________Awareness
(Explore Problem / Oppty)Consideration
(Put Name to Problem / Oppty)Decision
(Solution Strategy, Compile Provider List)
Questions about theactivity?
Questions about themselves?
Questions about ourorganization?
Questions on options beyond our organization?
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Awareness• What should I know about this activity, but might easily overlook?• Why are some things more important than others to get desired benefits?• Is there one place where I can get all the information on trends, how‐tos, and
other important facts for this activity?• When will this be the most important, beneficial, or valuable for me?• What case studies show how this is being done in new and successful ways?• Is there anything important I should know about the various providers in this
category?
Prospect Journey‐Based Questions
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Consideration• What are important decision criteria to explore?• Are there short cuts I can take in looking at all the options?• Does anyone have a graphic that shows all the important features, outcomes,
and benefits of all the choices?
Decision• If I expend more for a promise of greater benefits, how will I justify the
investment?• Are there tools to evaluate the benefits of making the right selection?
Prospect Journey‐Based Questions
What Are Related Topics to Questions at Each Stage? Persona: ________________Awareness Consideration Decision
Topics about the activity?
Topics about themselves?
Topics about ourorganization?
Topics on options beyond our organization?
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How are you using audience questions to develop content?
Where can you capture questions from multiple
listening post?
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Mining Audience Conversations
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Mining Customer Conversations
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What do they need to know about taking a step?
What will create a positive experience?
Education Opportunities (Positive questions)
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What concerns are they sharing with others?
What watch outs should they understand?
Address Pain Points (Negative questions)
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What positive surprisesare in store for them?What frustrates them about other options?
Anticipate Objections (Negative statements)
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Why do they select us?
Why do they not select us (or others)?
Highlight Brand Value (Positive statements)
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How are you engaging with individuals having prospect and
customer conversations?
Can you use this as an opportunity for “come along” research?
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Think – Know ‐ Do
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Interests
Seeking
Focus
Think
Know
Do
“Think Know Do” Framework
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Should be Creative
Everyone’s Involved
Can be “Faked”Can be
Learned
Yields Better Results
Is Important
Strategic Thinking
Mind Mapping ‐ Think
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Know
Behind the scenesExclusivesAssistance
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• What are you learning as an organization?
• How are you addressing industry issues?
• What customer service issues have you solved?
• How is your team working with customers?
• How do you improve your community?
• What does the team do outside work?
Do
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ApproachingYour Organization as a Beat
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TurningInside‐Out to Outside‐In
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Finding What’s Engaging about Your Brand
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“Lincoln Electric joins metal with fire. That’s cool!”
‐ Craig Coffey, U.S. Marketing Communications Manager
What’s the cool factor in your brand?
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Apply the“Oohs and Ahs”
Test
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“That’sa Topic!”
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Other Potential Content Topics
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Involve the Audience1. Answer questions your customers
or readers have asked you.
2. Ask a question of your readers to see what they think.
3. Ask readers what they’d like to read.
4. Ask 5 customers in a row the same question and write their responses in a blog.
5. Interview a customer on concerns, challenges, and views on industry issues.
6. Look for blog titles from your industry and write your version of the topic.
7. Publish potential upcoming topics and let readers decide what they want to read.
8. Run an online survey for readers and report the results.
9. Share a question on Facebook or Google+ and use responses for a blog post.
10. Feature guest posts from clients.
11. Solicit guest blog posts from business partners.
12. Talk to customers at events and find out what their current challenges are.
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Sharing What Your Brand Knows13. Interview yourself on a topic.
14. Recap a past event.
15. Recap the results of a research report someone else published.
16. Report on a conference people from your company attended.
17. Reveal background info on things that make your organization successful.
18. Share really cool work your organization is doing.
19. Share the results of research your organization has completed.
20. Summarize what your organizations knows about a news topic.
21. Write about things your audience might not realize.
22. Write about what your organization does to serve customers.
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Teach Others23. Expand your thinking on a published
post so it is more teaching‐oriented.
24. Take a new angle on a topic you’ve written about already.
25. Teach a new technique or tips you’ve been using.
26. Write about something you learned in the last week to share with readers.
27. Demonstrate a process your company uses that is valuable for your audience.
28. Answer frequently asked questions that require video demonstrations.
29. Feature experts in your business sharing their knowledge.
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30. Make a long list of ideas your customers and readers can use.
31. Make a short list of steps readers can take to accomplish something.
32. Write anything allowing you to put a number in the title (it attracts readers).
33. Add additional items to a list you’ve already published.
34. List the types of customer problems you routinely solve.
35. List questions you’re getting in customer service.
36. Ask readers a question and report the answers in a list.
37. List the steps in a process readers could handle for themselves.
Make a List
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Share Opinions38. Write what your organization thinks
about a topic or a news story.39. Disagree with a well‐known business
perspective.40. Write a response to an idea in a book
relevant for your audience/industry.41. Predict what your organization thinks
will happen in the future.42. React to opinions a competitor or
an industry figure is discussing.43. Review a book or magazine article
you’ve read recently.44. Review a fantastic product or service
your organization uses.
45. Review a topic people are thinking about in your marketplace.
46. Share a half‐baked idea to see if readers can finish baking it.
47. Write a blog post that’s 80% done and allow readers to finish it.
48. Write about something completely obvious as if you’re the first to think of it.
49. Write about something completely obvious in a new way.
50. Write about anything to interest readers more than recent topics.
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Have Your People Personalize It51. Complain about a personal recent
customer experience relevant to your audience.
52. Share an anecdote from your organization.
53. Talk honestly about an issue where your organization is struggling to improve.
54. Thank a customer who has been loyal to your business.
55. Write about the most interesting thing that happened in your organization today, yesterday, or this week.
56. Share what inspires your organization and its people.
57. Cover community activities your organization supports.
58. Create a post that’s slightly more or less outrageous than the typical content.
59. Write something dramatically more or less outrageous than what you typically write.
60. Write something that allows you to name drop customers who will share it within their networks.
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Use Video and Images61. Video executives sharing brief
commentaries.
62. Video a demonstration relevant for your audience.
63. Video an interview with a work colleague or business partner.
64. Ask 5 customers to answer the same question on video.
65. Use photos from corporate events or customer interactions.
66. Feature photos of interesting things your audience or organization DOES.
67. Video a customer talking about its business.
68. Have two customers interview each other.
69. Video a day in the life of your (customer service) organization.
70. Shoot a short video with reasons why others should Like your Facebook page.
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Repurpose Content71. Combine shorter posts from your
organization’s blog into a longer one.
72. Expand a comment from another blog into a full blog post.
73. Group tweets from your organization into a list or other blog post.
74. Organize and refresh in new ways relevant information that’s already been published.
75. Publish links from your blog to make it easier to find everything on a topic.
76. Publish a presentation from your organization on Slideshare to embed in a blog.
77. Re‐edit and freshen something already written with new content.
78. Re‐run the most popular post(s) your organization has shared.
79. Share an intriguing video with comments to give your thoughts about it.
80. Write up the points covered in a slide from a Powerpointpresentation.
81. Embed a funny or on‐target cartoon.
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Being Engaging & Integrating Branded Messages
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Answering QuestionsInteractingSharing Linking
Check your brand’s last 20 updates!
Talking? OR
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Just the Facts
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Pop Up Video
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Gossipy
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Crisis Management
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Customer Engagement
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What challenges do you want to discuss?
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An Engaging Brand Personality• What characteristics make your brand personality type rewarding to be with?
• How will you create personality in your content?
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Is your brand personality apparent in yoursocial content?
What opportunities do you see?
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Conveying an Engaging Personality
Familial Mentor BFF CSRep Maven Comedian SnarkyConfidant Teacher Straight Shooter Newsperson Cool/Hip Gossip
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What Personality Is Missing?
Familial Mentor BFF CSRep Maven Comedian SnarkyConfidant Teacher Straight Shooter Newsperson Cool/Hip Gossip
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Balancing Contentand Commercial Messages
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Business Building with Social Media and Content Marketing
Attention
Action
Conversion
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The Content Marketing
Sales Continuum
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• Non‐exclusive offers (A deal for everybody)
• Giveaways (Something for engaging)
• Sharing content for information (Permission to keep talking)
• Peaking interest (Sneak looks at product)
• Micro‐advertising (Links to ads)
• Exclusive offers (Deals for those acting)
• Direct response (Click the link to buy)
• Proactive outreach (We can meet your need)
• All Deals, All the Time (Dell – nothing but deals)
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Non‐Exclusive Offers
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Giveaways
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Downloadable Content
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Sharing Content for Info
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Peaking Interest
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Micro ‐ Advertising
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Exclusive Offers
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Direct Response
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Proactive Outreach
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All Deals, All the Time*
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*Balanced with Content
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How is content helping (or not) to
drive your organizational objectives?
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PUMLQPlus – What worked?
Unexpected – What was surprising?
More – What would you like to see more of?
Less – What would you like to see less of?
Questions – What questions remain?
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Recap• Taking an Audience‐First Perspective
• Creating Content that’s Both Outside‐In & Branded
• Engaging Audiences & Integrating Branded Messages
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