creating your social content engine: searchexchange 2013 presentation
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Presentation on the value of and approaches to creating a "content engine" as part of your social media and content marketing strategies. Developed for SearchExchange 2013 in Charlotte, NC.TRANSCRIPT
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Creating Your Social Content Engine for SearchExchange 2013
Kevin Briody VP Digital Strategy @kevinbriody
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First off, what is a content engine?
“Engine”: A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion
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Power Your core content and content strategy Motion Social activity, engagement, and results
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Social Content Engine:
The platforms, processes, and people that convert your core content (power) into social activity, engagement, and results (motion).
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Why is having a social content engine important?
Template Source: Likeable Media
Because we’ve all been there…
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What does it solve for?
Enables consistent content planning • Avoid the desperate content gaps • Aligns with content and digital strategy • (in short, keeps you from winging it)
Makes more effective, efficient use of content • Chew up less time, avoid missed opportunities
and wasted effort
Breaks down silos • In planning, people, channel management
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Build It Fuel it Fine Tune It
About building that social content engine…
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Build It
Beyond building channels, you need to build your infrastructure: • Platforms & Channels • People & Teams • Syndication • Tools & Processes
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Select platforms & channels with care
Start modest, focus on small wins: Don’t build a whole locomotive when all you need is a mower. Mower(s) that: Aligns to your audience, your available content, and your ability to sustain and fuel it for the duration
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People: don’t build silos
Ensure teams are built to share content across channels
Create cross-channel roles (editor, strategist, planner) Extends to all core content, not just social
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Tools & processes: Don’t neglect the boring
Social publishing tools are exciting, but content repositories, CMS’ and workflow tools will make or break your content engine.
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Embrace Syndication
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Fuel It
So you have your engine in place, now how do you make it go? • Core Content • The Full Mix • Omni-Channel Thinking • Adaptive, Fluid, Flexible
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Focus on Your Core Content Great social content starts with a powerful core – your “target” content on digital platforms that forms the centerpiece of your content marketing strategy, and measurably drives business. Blogs, Articles, Whitepapers, Webinars, Product Slicks, Case Studies, Infographics, etc.
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Employ the Full Mix
Original Content Sourced/Licensed Curated 3rd-Party User Generated
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Omni-Channel Content Thinking
Those silos again…avoid letting your content planning get sucked in. Place topic, audience, and objective first…don’t start with “I need some tweets!” Then apply natively across channels.
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Keep it Adaptive, Flexible, Fluid From agile development and agile marketing to agile content. Plan well, but don’t let your plans, templates, and best practices define you. Optimization is your friend…
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Fine Tune It
It’s a special kind of engine: maintenance does more than keep it running, it lets it improve infinitely. • Clear Objectives • Content Insights Process • Optimize Relentlessly
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Start with Clear Objectives
Keep it simple: awareness, engagement, and outcomes Define content objectives for both business-driving “core” content as well as in-channel supportive content. Vary goals by content purpose. • In-channel “health” KPIs • Evergreen vs. timely • Etc.
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Develop a Content Insights Process
Uses Insights Pillar Ques1on
Ini$al & Recurrin
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t Plann
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Engagemen
t Strategy
Audience & Segmenta1on
Who is the audience, what do we know about them, and what if anything has changed recently?
Social Media Trends & Conversa1on Analysis
What are they talking about, where, and what does that tell us about the nature of the conversa1on?
Search Insights What are they searching for, on our site(s) and across the Web?
Compe11ve, Industry, Market Developments
What other environmental inputs should we factor into ongoing content planning?
Internal Priori1es and Inputs
What are the pressing internal, partner, or client campaign, marke1ng, and communica1ons priori1es?
Analy1cs: Op1miza1on Frameworks
What do channel and plaMorm analy1cs tell us about how exis1ng content is performing, by aOribute?
Recurring Insights Mee$ng
Content Planning
Stakeholder Repor1ng
Program Op1miza1on
Internal Reports
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Offer 5
Offer 4
Offer 3
Offer 2
Offer 1
Index by Offer
Optimize Relentlessly
Evaluate relative performance against key metrics: awareness, engagement, outcomes, both in-channel and core content. Break out by useful attributes (depth, freshness, topic, segment, asset type, etc.): provide smart, actionable insights to your content planning team.
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Fine tuning your social content engine is a process that should never end: relentless content optimization opens up the possibility of infinite improvement. Just have a plan.
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Parting words…
• Consider your content creation process like a well-oiled engine: moving parts to translate content (power) into action (motion).
• Focus on your core digital content strategy and the business outcomes it drives
• Keep it all adaptive, agile, fluid
• Avoid silos – in your team, processes, and channels
• Start modest, find the small wins
• Optimize always and forever
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