Sejal Visawadia
What is Content Marketing?

Creating and delivering valuable content
to your target audience
What is Content?

Whitepapers, eBooks,
Case Studies

Audio or Video
Content

Blog and Social Posts

Events (Webinars,
Workshops)

Images and Infographics

Email Newsletters
Why Content Marketing?
• Generates 3x more leads than
traditional marketing
• Build trust, create value among
suspects – people who want to
know what you know, not what
you sell (not yet)

• Decrease costs, increase
customers'.
Cornerstone of Marketing

SEO

Social Media

Content Marketing

Brand Voice &
Personality
Content Directly Affects Search
Content Marketing Does NOT

Does not directly sell
Content Marketing Does

Does help push leads down the funnel
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Content Marketing Strategy

4

PLAN

MEASURE

3

PUBLISH

2

CREATE
Who is Your Audience?
• Content you create
should address
your
customers’ points:
• a need
• a problem
• a desire
• a challenge
What are their biggest pain/point needs?
Identifying Pain Points
• Check out common
search inquiries around
your product or industry
using Google Search
Trends and Google
Keyword Tool
• Address FAQs – ask your
sales people what
customers are asking
them

Do your research – what do your customers need?
Where is Your Audience?
For instance:
• City dwellers are significantly more likely than rural residents to
be on Twitter
• Women are five times as likely as men to use Pinterest
• Baby boomers are the fastest growing segment of Facebook

Where do they find information online?
Tools for Content Creation
• Google alerts

• Percolate
(Real time content marketing
platform)
Tools for content creation
• LookBookHQ
(A visual storytelling platform)

• ÜberFlip
(Like Flipboard or Slideshare on
your own domain name.)
Tools for content creation
• Addvocate

• Little Bird

• TrackMaven

• Influitive

• Contently

• PaperShare
Publish
Measure and Adjust
Content creation software
Content marketing companies
2013 B2C Content
Marketing
THANK YOU

Content Marketing