Creating a Content Promotion Plan that Works | Digital Marketing for Business 2015

CONTENT MARKETING: CREATING A PROMOTION PLAN THAT WORKS

CASIE GILLETTE • DIRECTOR OF ONLINE MARKETING • KOMARKETING

CASIE GILLETTE DIRECTOR OF ONLINE MARKETING

10 YEARS

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#DMFB15 • @CASIEG • @KOMARKETING


How many times have you heard content is king? Or content is queen? Or content is some royal person…too many!



CONTENT… ONLY TAKES YOU SO FAR


If a marketer writes a piece of content, will anyone read it? Will anyone link to it? Maybe. If they don’t, it makes it a lot harder to keep writing. How do we set ourselves up for success?


CONTENT MARKETING MUST HAVE

MARKETING

CREATION PLANNING PROMOTION



ME WANT

CONTENT


LOOK WITHIN YOURSELF…OR YOUR WEBSITE

Take a deep dive into analytics to understand what it is your audience already likes. Find out which content drove the most traffic and the most shares. Landing page reports are a great way to see what content drove users to the site.


LANDING PAGES

You also need to know which content drove the most organic traffic. Which types of content already perform well in search? What is it you know your audience is looking for?


ORGANIC TRAFFIC


CONVERSIONS

Don’t forget about conversions. We want to drive users to our site, but more importantly, we want them to do something! See which pages drove conversions or at least contributed to driving conversions.


As you’re looking at your top landing pages, start looking for trends. What types of posts are driving the most traffic? What topics are driving the most traffic? By understanding this data, you have a much better idea of what your audience wants.

TRENDS

CONTENT TYPE TOPIC KEYWORD

BLOG

MAIN

CASE STUDY

LIST

RESEARCH

NEWS

GENERAL

SOCIAL

SEO

PPC

CONTENT

B2B

LINKS KEYWORDS

CONTENT

OTHER



SHARING IS

CARING


TOP SHARES

Analytics can be helpful in showing you not only where your content is being shared but will also show you which content is being shared on which network. You can find where your audience is and what they actually share across social channels.

Open Site Explorer is a tool from Moz that will provide you with link data on your site or any other site out there. We want to focus on top linked pages. Again, this will give us an understanding of what our audience finds interesting.


BuzzSumo can give you some really great insights into how content is being shared. See which pages generated the most shares and in which networks they generated those shares.


As you start putting together content ideas and topics, do a search to see what content is out already there around each topic. Plug the URLs into SharedCount and it'll show you how many shares each piece got across various social networks, including Facebook and Stumbleupon.



BuzzSumo now also offers a content analysis tool, showing you average shares by network, content type, content length and more!



COMPETITIVE

CONTENT


As we consider the content creation process, we have to think about how people are actually searching. And that’s changing.


27% OF SEARCH QUERIES ARE

QUESTIONS


70% GROWTH IN YOUTUBE

HOW-TO SEARCHES


AVG VOICE SEARCH QUERY

5-6 KEYWORDS


ME WANT

???????


Forums are a great place to see what people are asking. Quora, Spiceworks & niche forums make for easy content generation.




IF IT’S WHAT OUR USERS WANT

CREATION PLANNING PROMOTION



HOW DO YOU BUILD

BUZZZZZZZ?


WHO


REFERRERS

Referral data can show you who has already linked to you site. These people are already interested in what you have to say.


With BuzzSumo, you can see all users who shared a piece of content on Twitter AND what other types of posts they shared.


You can also look for influencers by topic to see who else might be worth targeting in the promotion phase.


Followerwonk can also help you identify influencers. Followerwonk will identify people by topic or keyword by searching their bios or Twitter profiles.


Want to find people on Google+? There’s a great bookmarklet from AJ Kohn called Ripples. Create circles by topic.



You can start looking for people’s email addresses with BuzzStream’s Email Research Tool or Citation Labs Email Finder.



BUILD YOUR NICE LIST

Where do you want people to see your content? Plastering your content all over the internet probably isn't going to be the answer. Using the Google Analytics data mentioned earlier combined with information on our influencers, you can start to see where your audience is most active and where it makes the most sense to promote the content. Identify communities and sites that are worth reaching out to.


GROUPS

Go back to your forums & find where questions were asked related to your content. Can you go back and answer the question now?


Keyhole is a good tool for tracking hashtags. It tracks across Twitter, Instagram & Facebook and give some really great data. It will show you top posts by a keyword or hashtag, the most influential users for the term, demographics, and it will even give you other hashtags that are being used with it. This is all really information for the promotion piece.


How do you get people to share something? Make them a part of it. Make them feel involved.


When planning your content promotion, don’t leave out paid social media as it’s becoming a really big part of content distribution. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn offer some good targeting options and can be used even if you have a small budget.


GET PAID

CREATION PLANNING


PROMOTION



CASE STUDY

The biggest caveat to all of this is you aren’t going to go all out for every single piece of content you produce. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t however have a strategy for every single piece you produce. For the Komarketing B2B report mentioned previously, MarketingLand.com was one of the first sites we reached out to and they ran a recap of it the day it launched. We then sent it out to our target list of influencers whom we had previewed the report to and then to the actual survey respondents. We also ran a targeted LinkedIn ad and promoted it on our general social channels. It was picked up by over 30 sources, featured on Dell’s Facebook page, is one of the top linked pages on our site, and continues to be referenced to this day.


MARKETING LAND


MARKETING LAND

INFLUENCERS


MARKETING LAND

INFLUENCERS

RESPONDENTS


MARKETING LAND

INFLUENCERS

RESPONDENTS LINKEDIN AD


MARKETING LAND

INFLUENCERS

RESPONDENTS LINKEDIN AD

BLOG POST

SOCIAL NEWSLETTER


•  30+ PRESS/BLOG PICK-UPS •  DELL’S FACEBOOK PAGE •  TOP LINKED PAGES ON SITE •  TOP TRAFFICKED PAGES


To make your life easier, make sure to track your promotion as closely as possible. Tools like BuzzStream or RavenTools allow you to keep the conversations in one place. This is important when there are multiple people working on a team.



SUCCESS KID!


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