how content promotion changed digital marketing

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Let’s face it: the Internet is becoming a pretty noisy place and building an audience from scratch can take a very long time today. Getting content cited and covered by prudent media outlets with massive built-in audiences can break through the noise, get your content seen and drive meaningful returns, quickly. Chad Pollitt reveals the results of how converging owned, paid and earned media can drive millions of media impressions while drastically improving brand awareness, conversions and traffic, and ROI in the quarter the campaign is launched. In this SEMrush guest webinar (that originally aired on December 9, 2014), you'll learn: Why most content marketing campaigns are ineffective How to succeed with content promotion Which tools and channels are available to help facilitate success How to budget for content promotion

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How Content Promotion Changed Digital Marketing Forever

Chad Pollitt

VP of Audience & Co-Founder, Relevance

VP of Audience, Co-founder

@chadpollitt

CHADPOLLITT

1 Content Failure Fatigue

2 The Problem

3 The Solution

4 The Content Promotion Ecosystem

5 Success Stories

6 How it’s Done

7 How to Budget

AGENDA

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1 Content Failure Fatigue

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Great Content Goes Unread Every Day

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Only 13UniqueViews

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How Does It Make You Feel?

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Some people

might feel

ANGRY

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Others might

just roll their

eyes in

FRUSTRATION

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A feeling of

DISGUST

would be

perfectly

normal, too

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Some people

might feel

DEMORALIZED or

EMBARRASSED

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…Or maybe

just THIS?

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2 The Problem

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Every Minute of Every Day

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- Mashable

Every Minute of Every Day

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- Mashable

571 websites are launched

Every Minute of Every Day

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- Mashable

571 websites are launched350,000 tweets are tweeted

Every Minute of Every Day

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- Mashable

571 websites are launched350,000 tweets are tweeted

48 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded

Every Minute of Every Day

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2.73 millionblog posts are written and published daily

The Content Promotion Manifesto

Over

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Many Industries are Oversaturated with Content

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Facebook’s organic reach is at 6% and dropping

- Ogilvy & Mather

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With other networks following suit

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42 of the top 50 SEO ranking factors are off-pageIncluding the top 12 factors overall

- Moz, 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors

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On-page content only has an indirect impact on off-page signals

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SEO is not something you do anymore, it’s what happens when you do everything else right

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The Internet is…

a VERY noisy place

for a brand to

stand out and be

found today

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37%of marketers believe they’re using their content effectively

CMI

Only

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This isn’t a CONTENT PROBLEM

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It’s an AUDIENCE PROBLEM

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So what should

marketers do

about it?

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Should they

produce more

content?

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How about

increasing its

quality?

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Brands can actually step down content

production and step up distribution

[promotion] to get better results

Ryan Skinner, Forrester

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Better distribution [promotion] improves

content’s quality, as the feedback cycle

accelerates

Ryan Skinner, Forrester

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3 The Solution:Content Promotion

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Media Relations

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication

Native Newsletter

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication

Native Advertising

Native Newsletter

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication

Native Advertising

Native Social

Native Newsletter

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication Advertorials

Native Advertising

Native Social

Native Newsletter

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication Advertorials

Native Advertising

Native Social

Native Newsletter

Press Releases

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication Advertorials

Native Advertising

Native Social

Native Newsletter

Social Media

Press Releases

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Media Relations

Influencer Outreach

Bylined Articles

Syndication Advertorials

Native Advertising

Native Social

Native Newsletter

Email

Social Media

Press Releases

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4 The Content Promotion Ecosystem

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Content Promotion

Tools

bit.ly/promotion-

ecosystem

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It has been found that the less an

advertisement looks like an advertisement

and the more it looks like an editorial, the

more readers stop, look and read

David Ogilvy, the “Father of Advertising”

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• Adproval

• BlogHer

• Blogsvertise

• BuySellAds

• Cision

• GroupHigh

• HubSpot

• IZEA

• Markerly

• Sway Group

• The Syndicate

Advertorial Networks

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5 Success Stories

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The Greatest Hoodie Ever Made

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American Giant

Earned coverage

from Slate.com

and Esquire

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15 to 20xincrease in production and still barely met demand.

Inc.com

forced a

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American Giant

Very difficult to

get media coverage

for a product, but

Bayard Winthrop

pulled it off

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Great product and story with purposeful

promotion

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How Rodon Beats Chinese Pricing

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The RodonGroup

Earned coverage

from virtually every

major media outlet

“Cheaper than China” Ebook

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The RodonGroup

…BECAUSE of

an in-person

endorsement

from the POTUS

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Great content with purposeful promotion

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Content that Advanced an Industry

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Slingshot SEO

Earned coverage

from academia,

media outlets and

industry influencers

around the world

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Even an onstage endorsement from Rand Fishkin at INBOUND 2012

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Slingshot SEO

Research and

media relations

enabled the study to

advance an industry

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Great content and research with purposeful

promotion

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Content promotion that drove eight-digits of incremental revenue

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Teradata

Earned coverage

from 46 media

outlets and trade

publications

“Big Data Marketing Hero” Ebook

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Over 3 million media impressions

25% landing page conversion rate

30 global brand prospect meetings

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Teradata

A full-on owned,

paid and earned

media blitz drove

36x return on

investment

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Great content and promotion on all three media channels

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The Bottom Line for You?

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Start with GREAT Content and Promote It

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800+ incremental leads in 14 days from one mention on Inc.com

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6 How it’s Done

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Research

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Define Personas

Media Assessment

Audience Assessment

Content Assessment

Influencer Identification

Research

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Creative

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Create content and all supporting assets

Creative

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Promotion

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Promotion

Finalize Pitch Angles

Editorial Outreach

Influencer Outreach

Paid Media

Email

Social Media

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Conversion

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A/B Testing

Retargeting

Marketing Automation

Conversion

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7 How to Budget for Content Promotion

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Half the money I spend on advertising is

wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which

half

John Wanamaker, the “Father of the Modern Department Store”

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63%of marketers believe they’re NOT using their content effectively

CMI

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2013 Spending on Content Promotion

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2013 Spending on Content Promotion

On average,brands spent at least…

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15.2%of content marketing budgets on promotion

Content Promotion Manifesto

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This is a Recipe for FAILURE

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Our Premiere Sponsor’s Clients Spent

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40% of their content marketing budgets

on promotion

Our Premiere Sponsor’s Clients Spent

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40% to 60% is a Recipe for SUCCESS

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