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50 Essential Content
Marketing Hacks
New tools, tricks, shortcuts, best practices and more
to convert readers into customers
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President, Heinz Marketing Inc
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AGENDA
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I am serious about the bacon…
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Everything the light touches…
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My content story…
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What is content?
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My most powerful content marketing of 2015
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Rich stories with long shelf life…
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#farmlife
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Great content is emotive
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One slide to rule them all
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Is this the modern funnel?
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Only two sales stages matter
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Only two sales stages matter
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The buyer’s journey
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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 can’t connect content metrics &
business metrics
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Planning fundamentals
① Buying committee members
② Personas
③ Buyer’s journey
④ Format preferences
⑤ Internal “buying committee”
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Expectation setting
① Resources
② Tools
③ Budget
④ Roadmap & ramp timeline
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Measurement expectations
① The right metrics
② Can you buy a beer with it?
③ Operational vs Executive dashboards
④ External impact
⑤ Profit center vs cost center mentality
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Great content is…
① Targeted
② Contextual
③ Evocative
④ Integrated
⑤ Measured
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Execution
① Format types
② Sales integration/leverage
③ Shelf life strategy
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Personalized video (easier than you think…)
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Interactive content…
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Response
① What’s next?
② Are three steps faster than one?
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Format cheats
1. Quality content
2. Great stories
3. Less time!
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The Q&A
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The Link Blog
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Serial Content
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Guest Posts
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Crowd
Sourcing
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10 sources 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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5 common 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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Distribution best practices
1. Dlvr.it
2. GaggleAMP
3. Triberr
4. Influencers
5. Hashtags
6. Link from old, popular posts
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Influencer engagement 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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Long tail 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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Repurposing
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Getting sales 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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1. Project Lists
2. Task Lists, Organization & Filtering
3. Email Management
4. Note Taking, Triage & Filing
5. Time Management
6. Idea Capture
7. Automation & Reminder Tools
The Seven Productivity Habits
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Project Lists
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Task Management
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Email Management
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Note Taking, Triage & Filing
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Time Management
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Idea Capture
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Automation & Reminder Tools
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AGENDA
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Housekeeping
Copy of this deck
FREEBIES:
• Full Funnel Marketing (my new book)
• Last year’s Content Marketing Hacks preso
• My award-winning* bacon recipe
Just bring me a business card (or send email to
matt@heinzmarketing.com) noting what you want
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Matt Heinz
President
Heinz Marketing Inc
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@heinzmarketing
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50 Essential Content Marketing Hacks (Content Marketing World)

Editor's Notes

  • #40 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 – Delegated folder
  • #41 Sort by context Use dates unless it’s not deadline-driven “One of Five” Use tools to make it available everywhere Make the “anywhere” tasks truly anywhere (folder for plane time) “free” calendar reminders
  • #42 Inbox Zero is a myth Folders aplenty @ folders Two minute rule One read rule (if you can’t follow it, don’t check your email) 24 hour rule
  • #43 (take copy of notepad for show and tell) Pen and paper always (Evernote for conferences sometimes) Transfer the checkboxes Scan and archive the notes
  • #44 Block time Nights off Always have something to do with you Meetings – have an agenda, start on time, question recurring meetings, huddles instead
  • #45 Pen and paper Moleskine AquaNotes Dragon Dictation Dial2Do
  • #46 Smartsheet Daily Do List Social tools – Hootsuite, Buffer Contactually LinkedIn Contacts