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Creating powerful online content
Your key to your web presence success
How do you feel about ‘Content’?
● How do you feel about the link between content and social media?
● The transition from one way communication to two way
communication is about change management
● Valuable content is about moving away from interruption, broad
brush marketing to attraction marketing
● We live in a media saturated age where no one has time for
irrelevant intrusive marketing
● You may feel positive, excited, nervous, overwhelmed or fearful!
1. Understanding ‘Content’
● Good content is the key to a successful web presence
● Create content for three main reasons:
1. Create keyword rich content – great for Google success
2. Provide valuable content that attracts your target audience
3. Point 1 and 2 help ensure you get found when people search
and that you make the right impression when you are found
● To achieve this you need to understand the principles of good
content creation
2. Understanding ‘Content’
● It’s about learning how to find potential customers at the right time
in their buying cycle
● Because we live in an information age, people buy when they are
ready to buy – so your job is to help people reach a buying decision
● People go online for product /service information, not to your store!
● Gain control of that buying cycle - provide the information they
need during the investigation phase via your website so it is
indexed by Google
3. Understanding ‘Content’
● That content creates a path leading to your business. When they
are looking for help, you are there, offering the help you anticipate
they will need.
● The essence of content marketing = anticipate content your
potential perfect client needs and they will come to you
Getting Started — Long Tail Content● Start with 5 pieces of key long tail content (blogs and videos)
● Then add 1 a week or at least 1 a month
● Create 1 video a quarter (because of the power of YouTube)
● Focus on quality over quantity
● The more good quality content you have the more traffic you will
generate to your website and business
Creating Short Tail Content
● Use your core long tail content to inspire short tail content
● E.g. A 10 snippets from a 10 step post = 10 G+ posts over 10 days
● This drives traffic back to your long tail content on your website
● Save them and repeat because social media feeds are fast paced
● Grow your content to grow your snippets which drives more traffic
● Send snippets across channels, in your newsletter and in social
comments
Creating a Content Schedule
● Schedule content production and sharing
● The Content Schedule is a key factor in ensuring continuity
● Use the Google Calendar to schedule long tail content
● Share it with all responsible
● Set weekly and monthly targets
● If you don’t schedule you won’t write content, share it or manage a
newsletter effectively
Types of Content
● Blogs, articles and web page content
● **Videos — commercial videos, smart phone videos, hangout videos —
one of the strongest types of content for search performance right now,
● Podcasts
● Photos
● Infographics
● Product descriptions
So what do you say in your content?
● Help people! Tips, guides, articles that are relevant to your
products/services, sector and audience needs...
● Answer questions - FAQs
● Listen and respond
● Inspire
● Establish yourself as the go-to resource for a specific topic, product or
service
Repurposing Content
● Get the most juice out of your limited resources!
● Take content you have already created and adapt it
● A blog can be a transcript for a talking head video
● Which can also be a Podcast
● Which can also be a SlideShare piece
● Which can also be an infographic
● Give people a different way to engage with your content as it suits them
Content linked with social media
● Content and social media can help you
● Enhance your PR work and brand awareness
● Protect your reputation
● Extend your customer service
● Build a valuable community
● Facilitate research and development
● Drive sales and leads
Keyword Strategies
● It’s essential you place good keywords into your content — think about
that perfect client again, what will they search for?
● Enables Google to identify your content and return it in search results
● Include keywords in your content title, high up in your content and in
pictures
● Use Google Keyword Planner
● Don’t overdo it, be natural and create content for real people
A Simple Call to Action (CTA)
● CTA— the response you want the perfect client to take
● What is the most important specific action you want your perfect client
to take?
● Sign up? Call? Email? Visit? Buy?
● Purpose of your content — to lead them to this 1 simple action
● Every piece of communication you do should reinforce this CTA
consistently
● Too many CTAs causes people to bounce
The Perfect Client
● Avoid this basic marketing and communication mistake
● Don’t market to an audience that is too broad — this results in a
weak and convoluted message
● Instead focus on your perfect client!
● This results in a clear and concise message
How to Identify your Perfect Client
● Assess you customer data
● Who is your most profitable client?
● Who is the least hassle?
● Who fits with your business goals?
● Gender? Age group? Interests? Needs? Build a detailed perfect
client profile
● Create content specifically with this client in mind
Moving from a Problem to a Solution
● Most people buy to solve a problem or fulfil a perceived need, moving
from negative to positive
● Move perfect clients from a problem to a solution, from lack to fulfilling a
need
● Sometimes your perfect client will not be aware of the problem
● Always lead them to a positive outcome wrapped up in your product
Keeping Content Evergreen
● Content that doesn’t age!
● Track your content and establish which are the most popular
● Focus on the content that is popular and drives engagement
● Periodically review it and edit it, thus keeping it relevant (‘last updated’)
● Imagine if 1 piece of content brought 25 perfect clients to your site
every month. A conversion rate of just 1% = 3 new customers (yearly)
● Work out relevant numbers in your business and create accordingly
What Should You Give Away for Free?
● Yes, you are supplying relevant and useful content to your perfect
clients for free!
● Option 1 — keep important information and give away what is already
available online — your role is to curate
● Option 2 — Give away as much as possible to demo your expertise so
you get hired (Buyers vs. DIYers syndrome!)
● Option 3 — give away content that complements your products/services
and gives you a chance to promote your paid products/services
The Sphere Content System
● A way to balance the strengths of your products/services with the needs
of your perfect client
● Successful marketing and communication is about understanding
human behaviour
The Physical Sphere — the body
● Our physical/bodily needs — our most basic needs
● Food, clothing, housing, heating, health, physical security
● Marketing to this sphere involves showing how a basic physical need is
going to be fulfilled
● E.g. Double glazing TV ads promote warmth which satisfies a physical
need
The Intellectual Sphere — the mind
● Intellectual stimulation from the analytical part of our nature — what
appeals to our logical side
● Problem solving, analytic observations, financial planning, education,
exploration
● Marketing to this sphere involves informing, technical persuasion, facts
● E.g. Audi’s precise engineering
The Emotional Sphere — the heart
● The most powerful of all spheres and the least understood!
● Emotions are the dominant force in all our decision making
● Social standing, individuality, love, hope, comfort, peace, freedom,
dreams, fear
● Marketing to this sphere involves appealing to emotional needs,
showing us things we aspire for
● E.g. Christmas food amidst family scenes — social pleasure through
emotional family connections
Analysing product/service spheres
● Analyse your products/services from the perspective of your perfect
client — put yourself in their shoes
● What is the most important sphere to your perfect client?
● What value would they assign to each sphere?
● Some products/services rely heavily on a specific sphere
● Some products/services are a blend
● Your job is to combine the spheres, carefully blending physical,
intellectual and emotional values into your content
Designer Kitchen Kettle Example
● Perfect client — successful, has kids, has extra income,
environmentally aware
● Physical sphere — insulated outer casing — protects kids
● Intellectual sphere — efficient — environmentally friendly and optimum
temperature settings
● Emotional sphere — the lifestyle they want — a kettle for the modern
successful home the perfect client desires which can be reflected in
photography and video
Designer Kitchen Kettle Example
● This outline enables you to create marketing content according to the
correct sphere depending on the product and the perfect client
● E.g. Designer kettle is marketed very differently to a budget kettle
marketed to new home owners on a budget
3 Spheres for the Perfect Content Mix
● Create content involving all 3 spheres to engage your perfect client on
all the key points of human experience
● Do this to align your product/service to their needs, blending 3 elements
to create reassurance and trust
● All 3 spheres give you a breadth and depth of ideas, sparing you the
headache of content block
● Avoid marketing in isolation — manipulative, e.g. No need to bypass
intellect and logic, if the product doesn’t work, it’s not good enough!
The Creative Angle
● Inform, entertain, inspire and tell stories
● Create a content style that suits your brand
● Ghost writing — maintain editorial control with the people you work with
and don’t completely handover your social media channels to external
people
● If you can’t write then talk, if you are not comfortable with either then
hire someone
Top tips
● Know your business goals
● Know your audience (sphere content system)
● Know what your audience is looking for
● Assign responsibility and then support them!
● Set times, routine and tick box guides
● Repurpose and be efficient
● Get help if necessary
● Measure
Summary
● Creating quality content is an essential ingredient of a successful web
presence
● Invest in good content to succeed online
● Think long term
● Be realistic, get training and internal/external support