The Great
CONTENT MARKETING
REBOOTNew Roles & New Goals
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Chief Strategy Advisor
Content Marketing Institute
ROBERT ROSE
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CONTENT
MARKETING
is dead
as it turns out…
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is it
dead?
am i
wrong?
does it
exist?
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YOU SUCK AT IT!
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great content
just create
1.
is content marketing
all marketing
2.
ALTERNATIVE?
What is the
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Content Marketing Is Not Batman…
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less
efficient
1.
than advertising
slower
2.
than a cold call
more

expensive
3.
than a print ad
Content Marketing
is often…
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IN THE LONG RUN:
It is easier
to maintain an
existing audience, than
it is to reach a new one.
MEDIUM FRICTION
LOW FRICTION
HIGH FRICTION
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TIME
EASEOFREACH
LOW FRICTION
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TIME
ENGAGEMENTLEVEL
MEDIUM FRICTION
HIGH FRICTION
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ENGAGEMENTLEVEL
LOW FRICTION
MEDIUM FRICTION
HIGH FRICTION
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ENGAGEMENTLEVEL
LOW FRICTION
MEDIUM FRICTION
HIGH FRICTION
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ENGAGEMENTLEVEL
LOW FRICTION
MEDIUM FRICTION
HIGH FRICTION
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Magnet Marketing?
Do you remember
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Inbound
Marketing
Book
PublishedHubspot
Founded
Official
Launch
Website
Grader
Launched
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First Content Marketing World
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subscribe
an audience
win
a customer
grow
an evangelist
What’s the problem?
So…
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Here’s what we’ve learned…
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Successful Content Marketing
Is Not Supercharged
Campaign Marketing
Content Marketing
Is Not Campaign Marketing
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“When any new form comes into the
foreground of things, we naturally look
at it through the old stereos. . . . We’re
just trying to fit the old things into the
new form, instead of asking what is the
new form going to do to all the
assumptions we had before.”
- Marshall Mcluhan
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What if…
we approach content marketing
as a different kind of business
activity, rather than an alternative
form of marketing?
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Marketing
doesn’t change
content’s
purpose.
Content changes marketing’s purpose.
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“I know half my
advertising is wasted.
The trouble is, I don’t
know which half.”
- John Wanamaker, 1916
70% ad viewability is all that
can be expected.
- IAB, 2015
56% of display ads served on
our platform are not viewable.
- Google
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“I know half my
digital ads are
blocked. The trouble
is, I don’t know which
half.”
- Justin Timberlake, 2016
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What’s the value
of a Content Brand?
Function
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What if we not only
provide value IN time,
but also create things
that increase in value
OVER Time?
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United Technical Publishing
16 Magazines, Newsletters, 1,000,000 Subscribers
Electronics Media Division
7 Magazines, Newsletters, $23 million
in every
successful
content-driven
strategy
it is the collection of
assets that provides
strategic value
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What must get rebooted…
unable to measure strategic efficacy of the

program, because it’s not a program.

it’s only tactical support of collateral-based

marketing.
one year later, here’s what we have…
a disconnected pile of assets
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gated or ungated?
what’s the blog for?
why does social matter?
anything working?
what’s the ROI?
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Here’s what has to change….
10%Strategic 

Experience
30%
Campaign
Support
60%
Ad
Hoc
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How 

we 

spend 

our time…
60%
30%
10%
Strategic Experience
Campaign
Support
Ad
Hoc
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Flip It!
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The business case
is not what to start
doing.
It’s what we should
stop doing.
Campaign ROI
Marketing database (2X faster pipeline)
Customer ROI
Increased loyalty - (5x subscription time)
Increased LTV - (+10% increase in ASP)
Data ROI
Paid media (25% effectiveness in ad buys)

Data append - optimize site for experience
Business ROI
Attendance at regional events +20%
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CCDVTP
create
communicate
deliver
value
target
profit
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Go do it.
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The Great Content Marketing Reboot