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Page 1: Getting Buy-In for Content Marketing (MozCon Remix)

GETTING

BUY-IN FOR CONTENT

MARKETING A MozCon Remix by @iPullRank

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…. How is your so-

called “content”

gonna make us

money?

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YOUR TEAM OR CLIENTS

MAY DRIVE YOU TO DRINK

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…AND YOU MIGHT FALL

FLAT ON YOUR FACE

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How can I get

them to buy this

content

marketing stuff?

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YOU NEED A

COMPELLING

DATA-DRIVEN

PITCH

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SELL YOUR VISION…

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BUT ALWAYS

BE READY TO

DO THIS …

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…CONTENT IS THE GLUE

TO EFFECTIVE MARKETING

YOU MUST TAKE A STAND

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ACTONE RESEARCH Doing research that sticks

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Opportunity Discovery is the process of understanding the client’s space in context of the business goals to tailor the content strategy

directly to what they need to accomplish.

OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY

LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

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BUSINESS GOALS ARE PARAMOUNT

Understanding and integration of the business

objectives throughout the entire process is incredibly

important to obtaining buy-in and measuring success.

If you’re not speaking in terms of conversion, you will

not be speaking much longer.

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MARKET RESEARCH

Every content creator and SEO should have at least a working knowledge of the space, the company and the audience. At iAcquire

we’ve invested heavily in the market research capability and we create client one sheets and influencer reports with objectives, personas,

customer insights, market insights, hot topics, key influencers and resources

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Develop four hypothetical representations of people that exist within the online conversation as related to business goals, give them

stories and attributes to which content will be created. The key is to keep it as relevant and actionable to the content you will be creating

as possible

PERSONAS

PERSONA C PERSONA B PERSONA A PERSONA D

DEMOGRAPHICS

LIFESTYLES

USER STORY

USER NEEDS

DEMOGRAPHICS

LIFESTYLES

USER STORY

USER NEEDS

DEMOGRAPHICS

LIFESTYLES

USER STORY

USER NEEDS

DEMOGRAPHICS

LIFESTYLES

USER STORY

USER NEEDS

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THE PROBLEM WITH AD HOC PERSONAS

While this approach can be very effective

stakeholders may potentially challenge it because

it’s not empirical. However neither is the old

method of handing out post-its to stakeholders

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BUT ALWAYS

BE READY TO

DO THIS …

“A major virtue of personas is the

establishment of empathy and

understanding the individual who uses

the product” -Donald A. Norman, Nielsen Norman Group

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At iAcquire we have a data-driven approach starting from Nielsen’s PRIZM segments, layering data from Experian Simmons and finally

using Social Inventories from Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and DoubleClick to develop empirical and social media-relevant personas.

DATA DRIVEN PERSONAS

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INTRODUCING NIELSEN PRIZM

Download this PDF: http://ocair.org/files/KnowledgeBase/HowTo/PRIZM_Code.pdf

Nielsen’s PRIZM

segments all of the

US into 66

predetermined

types or “codes”

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EXPERIAN SIMMONS

Simmons Mosaic Types: http://www.tetrad.com/pub/documents/agsmosaiclist.pdf

AIO CLUSTERS

MOSAIC TYPE BY URL

MOSAIC TYPE BY

ONLINE ACTIVITY

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OUTSIDE THE US USE COMSCORE

Check it Out: http://www.comscore.com/Products/Audience_Analytics

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GOOGLE HAS “AFFINITY SEGMENTS”

Google Affinity Segments: http://www.google.com/think/products/affinity-segments.html

BUILT IN PERSONAS

DATA IN

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

CREATE

CUSTOM SEGMENTS

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GOOGLE CONSUMER SURVEYS

Get very targeted Consumer Data: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home

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GOOGLE CONSUMER SURVEYS STEP BY STEP

Guides to Writing Surveys: http://help.surveymonkey.com/categories/creating-designing-surveys/design-tutorials-troubleshooting/create-design-tutorials

SPECIFY AUDIENCE

WRITE QUESTIONS

GET DATA

DEFINE THE SURVEY TYPE

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SHORTCUT VERSION OF ALL THIS

Pull 10,000 of your Twitter followers from SimplyMeasured and create a WordCloud of their profiles to quickly

understand what topics the audience is interested in: http://www.simplymeasured.com http://www.tagcrowd.com

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REAL-TIME KEYWORD RESEARCH ON TWITTER

Use Bottlenose: http://www.bottlenose.com

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When planning out a content marketing campaign use the consumer decision journey to determine what need state your

content will specifically speak to.

CONSUMER DECISION JOURNEY

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As usual finding the right keywords is important. Mapping them to content, need states and KPIs is paramount to proving

the success of a campaign

MAPPING KEYWORD RESEARCH

[flowers]

[when do roses bloom]

[what flowers for a first date]

[buying chrysanthemums]

[flower a month club]

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Map the content type directly to the customer decision journey to determine where in the funnel that this content

will reach the user

TYING CONTENT MARKETING TO THE FUNNEL

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You will need determine realistic and specific KPIs with regard to where the content is in the funnel and develop reporting

that speaks to directly to that value.

MEASUREMENT PLANNING

Rankings, Social Shares, Links, traffic, Page views

Rankings, Social Shares, Links, traffic, Page views, Time on Site

Rankings, Social Shares, Links, process completions, time on site, purchases

Rankings, Social Shares, Links, purchases

Rankings, Social Shares,Content Creation, Signup, # Logins, Time On Site, Page views

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…. BUT WHAT ARE OUR

COMPETITORS DOING?

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FACEBOOK RECOMMENDATIONS PLUGIN DEMO

Get a snapshot of a site’s popular content:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/recommendations/

EXTEND THE BOX

TO 1000 PIXELS TO

VIEW 20 PIECES

OF POPULAR

CONTENT

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SOCIAL CRAWLYTICS

Use Social Crawlytics to find out what the best performing content for competitors

http://www.socialcrawlytics.com

SOCIAL

CRAWLYTICS

GIVES AWESOME

GRAPHS OF

SHARES BY

NETWORK

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SOCIAL CRAWLYTICS GIVES SHARE COUNTS BY URL

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ADD ALL OF THIS TO YOUR QUANTITATIVE CONTENT AUDIT

The Content Audit is a great way to understand what is performing already so you can make the case

to make more of it. Pull in Traffic, Social Shares, Time On Site and Conversions.

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DON’T GO SHOWING ALL

THAT DATA JUST YET!

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ACT TWO GETTING BUY-IN Build a list of people that want the

content

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The big idea should thematically govern the content strategy and keep content from being an “isolated incident” by tying everything to an

initiative that fits into the overarching marketing mix and gives creative life

WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?

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Content Marketing is about turning the brand into a storyteller. Tap into the Jungian story archetypes and align them with the

business to build an effective story. More on story archetypes: http://socialmediatoday.com/tommyismyname/383348/7-

story-archetypes-and-how-they-can-dramatically-improve-your-marketing

THE 7 STORY ARCHETYPES

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Content is not a one-way street, but a cyclical process between the client’s goals, the strategist’s ideas and the influencer’s needs. Take

your content to the audience before you ever write a word or place a pixel and get their feedback and buy-in.

THE CLIENT-STRATEGIST-AUDIENCE FEEDBACK LOOP

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Using the following tactics find a group of people that will commit to engaging with this content and use that as evidence that the content

will appeal to the brand’s audience and drive KPIs

CALL YOUR SHOT

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USE TOPSY TO FIND INTERESTED PARTIES

Use Topsy to find people who shared competitor content: http://www.topsy.com

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USE QUORA TO FIND TOPICS + INTERESTED PARTIES

Use Quora to find content ideas to repurpose with a built in audience: http://www.quora.com

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FOLLOWERWONK, ABOUT.ME, ZERP.LY, FINDPEOPLEONPLUS

Use the features of your personas (instead of just target keywords) to find people using:

http://www.followerwonk.com , http://about.me, http://zerply.com and http://findpeopleonplus.com

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CONTENT AS A MAXIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT

Pitch content that supports multiple KPIs and need states within the customer journey as well as keeps

the barrier to entry high for the competitors.

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YOU ARE NOW READY

FOR THE PITCH

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ACT THREE PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

5 tips for highly-effective, actionable

and data-driven content marketing

pitches

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THE FOCUS IS THE STORY

Tell a compelling story and answer a key issue using your data as a to drive it home

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TIE EVERYTHING DIRECTLY TO ROI

Everything you suggest should be directly explained in context of the ROI

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TAILOR IT DIRECTLY TO THE STAKEHOLDERS

Everything you show should address the concerns of the stakeholders; anticipate their questions

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IT BETTER BE BEAUTIFUL

Invest the time to make your pitch look beautiful and professional

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SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE

Speak in terms the stakeholders understand for example “share of voice” rather than number of rankings

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ACT FOUR VALIDATE Validate what you’ve done through

measurement

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Share of Voice (SoV) is a traditional advertising term defined as the percentage of possible positions in a channel occupied. As it pertains

to the SEO it is the percentage available search volume captured. Use it when explaining the opportunity to non-SEOs.

WTF IS SHARE OF VOICE?

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KEYWORD-LEVEL DEMOGRAPHICS BEST PRACTICES

Incentivize the Opt-In (Communities or Coupons)

Just track the persona

Use the appID Cross Property Cookie and Remarket

I have a half-finished Wordpress plugin. If you’d find that useful tweet at me and let me know.

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MAP SITE PROFILES TO CONVERSIONS

Does your site require some sort of profile? Tie the fields of that profile to measurement. See my post

on how to segment and measure users: http://moz.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-scraping-seomozs-active-user-base

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USERREPORT.COM

Survey your users for free and get their demographic data into GA: http://www.userreports.com

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ACT FIVE OVERCOMING FAILURE

Content pitches that failed and how to

overcome them

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A marketer presents the creation of infographics via email and phone, but doesn’t succeed and ultimately the client sees them as

“complicated” or “expensive” measures.

FAIL #1: WEAK PRESENTATION

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Your presentation should not be an email or a phone call, it should be an in-person presentation with all the stakeholders.

RESOLUTION #1: PRESENT A DECK IN-PERSON

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A marketer sells in an idea neglecting to invite key stakeholders only to have that content strategy fall apart once the miss stakeholders

review it.

FAIL #2: LEAVING OUT KEY STAKEHOLDERS

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Get all of the key stakeholders on board so you don’t have to repeat steps or risk the engagement falling apart after you believe

you’re good to go.

RESOLUTION #2: INVITE THEM ALL

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A marketer explains the content strategy using the wrong KPIs and the stakeholders respond that content is “nice to have” not as

beneficial as “bombarding people with 100k email communications.”

FAIL #3: NOT SHOWING THE VALUE

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Build your measurement around the business objectives and things that actually show the positive affects of revenue.

RESOLUTION #3: BETTER MEASUREMENT PLANNING

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A marketer relies heavily on data to make her case and lambasts the regarded accomplishments

of the key stakeholders.

FAIL #4: RELYING ON TOO MUCH DATA

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Don’t use numbers as a weapon to insult your stakeholders, tell a compelling story using the data as an aside that drive

the points of ineffectiveness.

RESOLUTION #4: LET THE STORY DO THE WORK

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ACT SIX THE PITCH A pitch to the Moz team

I’ve got an idea for you

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There is an underserved user out there – the procrastinator. Some key moz’s solutions expect that users have

the time to plan ahead, but inbound marketers need data now!

THE USER’S DILEMMA

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In the absence of certain real-time solutions from Moz the procrastinator turn to other sources.

THE PROCRASTINATOR’S RESOLUTION

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MOZ’S AUDIENCE IS FULL OF PROCRASTINATORS

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RAND SAID IT HIMSELF

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Majestic is rapidly chipping away at Moz’s advantages and solving the procrastinator’s dilemma. Their Search

Flow tool allows users to see a keyword difficulty score for 150 keywords at once.

MOZ’S PROBLEM

Open Apps

Trust Flow

Citation Flow

Search Flow

MozScape API

Domain Authority

Page Authority

Keyword Difficulty

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MOZ’S KEYWORD DIFFICULTY

Moz has the opportunity to continue to lead the pack by improving the keyword difficulty tool.

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The people have wanted a keyword difficulty API for years, but I understand that scraping Google on-demand at

that scale is completely unreasonable.

THE PEOPLE WANT A KEYWORD DIFFICULTY API

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The secret is that it’s underrated because you can only do 5 keywords at a time!

MOZ KNOWS IT’S AWESOME

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With the new funding, users expect Moz to be able to work magic.

USERS EXPECT MORE OF MOZ NOW

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Add batch keyword difficulty to the Mozbar so that any Google scraping is done on the client side.

ADD KEYWORD DIFFICULTY TO THE MOZBAR

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MEASUREMENT PLAN

Make it PRO only feature and measure the effect it has on user churn, account upgrades, mozbar

downloads and links and social shares of the Mozbar download page in context of the user profile

USER CHURN ACCOUNT

UPGRADES

MOZBOARD

DOWNLOADS

LINKS SOCIAL SHARES

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RECAP

You see what I did there?

IDENTIFIED THE NEED

TIED TO REVENUE

TOLD A STORY

OF OVERCOMING THE MONSTER

APPEALED TO

COMPETITIVE SPIRIT

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ACT SEVEN MORE TOOLS Here are some more tools that I use

for Content Strategy and Content

Marketing

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SCREAMING FROG + SEO TOOLS FOR EXCEL

For Quantitative Content Auditing I use Screaming Frog (http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/) and

SEOTools for Excel (http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/) to crawl the site and then pull Social Shares

and analytics numbers.

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YUTONGO

Crowdsource your ideas with Yutongo: http://www.yutongo.com

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MURAL.LY

Plan content visually with your team to easily translate into pitch decks: http://www.mural.ly

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BALSAMIQ

Build WYSIWYG wireframes for you stakeholders to see what you’re saying: http://www.balsamiq.com

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STORYBOARD THAT

Build out compelling storyboards for stakeholders to follow along your ideas visually:

http://www.storyboardthat.com

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TRELLO

Build Sharable and Assignable Content Calendars with Trello: http://www.trello.com

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MORE DATA SOURCES

Incentivize the Opt-In (Communities or Coupons)

Just track the persona

Use the appID Cross Property Cookie and Remarket

I have a half-finished Wordpress plugin. If you’d find that useful tweet at me and let me know.

MARKETING CHARTS

DATAHUB GOOGLE

CONSUMER BAROMETER

GOOGLE PUBLIC DATA

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ACT SEVEN THANK YOU / Q&A

Michael King Independent Consultant & Trainer

@iPullRank