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What Every CMO Needs to Know About Content Strategy
Mark Fidelman's document outlines a 10-step framework for creating a strategic content strategy aimed at enhancing social content for businesses. It emphasizes the importance of curating content, building communities, and engaging with customers to increase both satisfaction and sales, while leveraging analytics for continuous improvement. The framework encourages companies to utilize crowd-sourcing, social sharing, and smart search to create intelligent, living content that meets the needs of their audience.
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- 1. What Every CMONeeds to Know About Content Strategy The 10 Step Framework for Social Content By Mark Fidelman
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- 4. has CONTENT Which includes…
- 5. Documentation Video & Graphics, etc. for PRODUCTS
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- 7. but most content arean afterthought
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- 9. or SOCIAL
- 10. So, they post PDF files Static HTML or worse
- 11. And as aresult… their visitors tune out and leave.
- 12. OR… never arrive on their site
- 13. But there is somuch more they can do
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- 15. that is developed andmaintained by the COMPANY & COMMUNITY
- 16. that reduces support costs
- 17. increases and revenue
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- 20. learn more? to READY READY TO LEARN MORE? Image by Tim Forbes http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpuppy/188786826/sizes/l/in/photostream/
- 21. So how doI create a STRATEGIC social content site?
- 22. START WITH ASTRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
- 23. Let’s EXPLORE the elements…
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- 25. CONTENT CURATION DESCRIPTION The processof assembling, summarizing, categorizing and interpreting information from multiple sources in a context that is relevant to your customers BENEFITS Improve the quality and quantity of your content EXAMPLE Present your best content to new website visitors in order to maximize sales potential
- 26. curate digital content to provide more relevant audience experience Tagging Search Contextualizing Commenting Brand Website Rating editing Curated Content Content Content Brand Curators Audience
- 28. LEARNING COMMUNITIES DESCRIPTION Create communities of customers that are helping other customers with your product or service BENEFITS Customer service cost reduction, increase leads and sales, more satisfied customers, R&D info EXAMPLE Intuit’s TurboTax community site
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- 30. …and the Intuitsite organizes it for everyone else.
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- 32. SOCIAL SELLING DESCRIPTION Company andcommunity developing a one-to-one relationship around content BENEFITS Direct relationship with prospective and current customers EXAMPLE Sales and Marketing tracking prospect interaction with content to identify sales opportunities
- 33. create engaging content HomePage That attracts prospects to your site…
- 34. participate And keepthem coming back by encouraging them to join your community + engage contribute
- 35. Offer something ofvalue 70% Study: of people become a fan of your brand because they want a deal
- 36. Then monitor theironline activity Understand potential sales opportunities or prospects doing due diligence on your product or service
- 37. In short, asocial media-acquired prospect has A GREATER VALUE than a prospect acquired via traditional media Study: Customer’s Social Network Value • Annual Value: $100 • Network: 100 Followers • % of Social Network with Similar Behavior: 5 (5 x $100) Network Value: $500
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- 39. REVIEWS & RATINGS DESCRIPTION Site visitors rate content and provide instant reviews of content that does not meet their needs BENEFITS Quickly discover what content is effective or not EXAMPLE Microsoft’s Technical Documentation Community
- 40. COMMUNITY ratings and feedbackhelp users…
- 41. …quickly decide whatis most relevant to them
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- 43. SOCIAL CURRENCY DESCRIPTION Reward programs that encourage users to contribute to content and product documentation BENEFITS Better content & documentation through crowdsourcing & reduced support costs EXAMPLE Microsoft MVP program, Cisco Support Community, MindTouch “Pay to Doc” program
- 44. REPUTATION that drives socialrecognition…
- 45. Pay the communityto CREATE QUALITY CONTENT
- 46. And REWARD them with badges
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- 48. SMART SEARCH DESCRIPTION Contextual &adaptive search that learns to present the best content based on the search query BENEFITS Customers find the best content quicker. Contextual Cross selling opportunities EXAMPLE Highest rated content bubbles to the top of search results
- 49. Adaptive search thatgets SMARTER OVER TIME
- 50. CONTEXTUAL Cross selling fromsearch results…
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- 52. SOCIAL SHARING DESCRIPTION Sharing contenton social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. BENEFITS Connect with your customer’s social network EXAMPLE Facebook-like
- 53. Encourage site visitorsto SHARE CONTENT with their network
- 54. SHARE TOOLS ALLOW SOCIAL SHARING FOR INCREASED REFFERAL TRAFFIC AND CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
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- 56. SOCIAL LOGINS DESCRIPTION Log into website with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. BENEFITS Less friction for customers. Company receives higher quality info about site visitors. EXAMPLE Facebook Connect
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- 58. And the companyreceives quality info About their site visitors No need for form fills. One click logins
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- 60. CROWD SOURCING DESCRIPTION Enable thecrowd to contribute content, documentation, videos, tutorials, how-to guides BENEFITS The crowd helps build your content/documentation and supports your community EXAMPLE Who Runs Gov (Washington Post)
- 61. Crowd sourced contentthat is CREATED & EDITED BY THE CROWD
- 62. EDIT DIRECTLY within thebrowser in real time…
- 63. THE POWER OFCROWDSOURCING Huge Web Traffic Text Video Some Images Minimal 1X 10X 100X Content
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- 65. CONTENT ANALYTICS DESCRIPTION Content-specific analytics BENEFITS Deriveintelligence and meaning from how content is being consumed EXAMPLE Answers the question “Why are 1000 people a week searching our documentation for XYZ?”
- 66. How do youknow what’s RELEVANT to your site visitors?
- 67. Content Analytics allowssite admin to quickly understand the ACCURACY, QUALITY, AND AGING of the site’s content. Best of all, it watches CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR through search patterns.
- 68. THAT’S IT FORTHE FRAMEWORK
- 69. Remember content islike theater for your audience
- 70. But don’t forgetabout the strategy…
- 71. or the Content Strategist
- 72. THESE COMPANIES CANHELP CONTENT CURATION SMART SEARCH • MindTouch 2010 • MindTouch 2010 • HiveFive Curata • Google Enterprise Search LEARNING COMMUNITIES • Mzinga OmniSocial • MindTouch 2010 SOCIAL SELLING • Community Sites • Marketo (tracking tool) REVIEWS AND RATINGS • MindTouch 2010 • GetSatisfaction SOCIAL CURRENCY SOCIAL SHARING • Jive Software • Facebook Like • Lithium • OpenID • MindTouch 2010 SOCIAL LOGINS CONTENT ANALYTICS • MindTouch 2010 • Facebook Connect • Mzinga Analytics • PassPack
- 73. DID I MISS ANYTHING? Mark Fidelman www.seekomega.com t. @markfidelman TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK
- 74. CREDITS Slide Sources Notes ALL Jessica Roeckel Design and Editing Help 8 Flickr Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrhappy8/1996718955/sizes/l/ 33 Images courtesy of Old Spice www.oldpsice.com 36 Marketo is a marketing automation company Marketo.com 45 Image courtesy of Kelly Abott at MindTouch 53 Image courtesy of Adobe TV 61, 62 WhoRunsGov is a MindTouch Powered site Washington Post owns the site 66, 67 Content analytics from MindTouch 69 Flickr Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/soumit/115026195/ Photographer: Soumit 72 Flickr Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauspray/4464488444/