This document outlines 50 essential content marketing hacks presented by Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing Inc. at CMWorld. It provides an agenda for the presentation and covers topics such as content planning, measurement, formats, distribution, influencer engagement, repurposing content, and getting sales teams to leverage content. The goal is to provide new tools, tricks and best practices to help convert readers into customers through effective content marketing.
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50Essential Content
Marketing Hacks
New tools, tricks, shortcuts, best practices and more
to convert readers into customers
Matt Heinz
President, Heinz Marketing Inc
@HeinzMarketing
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AGENDA
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Housekeeping
Copy of this deck
FREEBIES:
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⢠Last yearâs Content Marketing Hacks preso
⢠My award-winning* bacon recipe
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A widening gap between investment & ROI
According to CEB:
⢠45% of B2B marketing budgets go to content
⢠84% of marketers expect to increase content spend
⢠Only 45% of marketers think content marketing is
working
⢠66% of marketers canât connect content metrics &
business metrics
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Planning fundamentals
â Buying committee members
⥠Personas
⢠Buyerâs journey
⣠Format preferences
⤠Internal âbuying committeeâ
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Measurement expectations
â The right metrics
⥠Can you buy a beer with it?
⢠Operational vs Executive dashboards
⣠External impact
⤠Profit center vs cost center mentality
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10sources of content inspiration
1. Customer questions
2. Stuff you read
3. People you disagree with
4. Your customer-facing teams
5. Trade press
6. Conferences, panels & Webinars
7. Twitter hashtags
8. LinkedIn Answers
9. The news
10. Things you see that are dumb
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5common content marketing mistakes
1. Not having a plan up front
2. Writing for the company instead of the customer
3. Not encouraging and participating in two-way
communication
4. Not promoting, aggregating and curating great
content from others
5. Only producing written content
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Influencerengagement best practices
1. Build good lists (Little Bird)
2. Give to get
3. Have a pipeline mentality
4. Build relationships
5. Be patient
6. Reciprocate & participate
7. Measure
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Longtail best practices
1. Repurposing
2. Re-edit old posts with new keywords
3. Tools
⢠TweetOldPost
⢠LinkedIn Publishing
⢠Search
4. Seasonal surfacing
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Gettingsales to use your content
1. How does it help them make money?
2. Get sales leadership to buy-in first
3. Show examples of how it works
4. Teach, train, launch, reinforce, measure &
celebrate
5. Create systems that make it easy
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AGENDA
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Housekeeping
Copy of this deck
FREEBIES:
⢠Full Funnel Marketing (my new book)
⢠Last yearâs Content Marketing Hacks preso
⢠My award-winning* bacon recipe
Just bring me a business card (or send email to
[email protected]) noting what you want
@HeinzMarketing ⢠#CMWorld
#40Â I have three: Active, Delegated & Someday
Weekly review process
Add and forget (until Sunday)
(print a copy for show-and-tell tomorrow)
Smartsheet for groups
@WaitingFor folder
Contactually
Projects â Delegated folder
#41Â Sort by context
Use dates unless itâs not deadline-driven
âOne of Fiveâ
Use tools to make it available everywhere
Make the âanywhereâ tasks truly anywhere (folder for plane time)
âfreeâ calendar reminders
#42Â Inbox Zero is a myth
Folders aplenty
@ folders
Two minute rule
One read rule (if you canât follow it, donât check your email)
24 hour rule
#43Â (take copy of notepad for show and tell)
Pen and paper always (Evernote for conferences sometimes)
Transfer the checkboxes
Scan and archive the notes
#44Â Block time
Nights off
Always have something to do with you
Meetings â have an agenda, start on time, question recurring meetings, huddles instead
#45Â Pen and paper
Moleskine
AquaNotes
Dragon Dictation
Dial2Do
#46Â Smartsheet
Daily Do List
Social tools â Hootsuite, Buffer
Contactually
LinkedIn Contacts