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The Blueprint for Superior Marketing Content - MTA

The Blueprint for Superior Marketing Content - MTA | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Initially I thought this post too basic, but on a second take I realized that this may be of value to some readers. Good structure to emulate. 

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The Best Content Types for Each Stage of the B2B Sales Cycle [Infographic] - Profs

The Best Content Types for Each Stage of the B2B Sales Cycle  [Infographic] - Profs | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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9 Content Marketing Tools You Should be Using but Aren’t - Inbound Marketing Blog

9 Content Marketing Tools You Should be Using but Aren’t - Inbound Marketing Blog | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Feedly Sites like Feedly aggregate blog content in an RSS feed so that you can stay up-to-date on the topics that matter to you (and to your customers) to know which hot topics you should be posting about.

 

The Tweeted Times This Twitter app compiles news in your Twitter stream and ranks it by popularity among your friends.

 

List.ly This online tool helps organizations curate, crowdsource, and engage readers through a live list embedded directly into blog posts.

 

Canva Websites like Canva allow you to produce your own graphics using a supply of templates and images sourced for free. With a step-by-step tutorial and an intuitive platform, just about anyone on your team can create visual images that convey the desired message to your audience.

 

SlideShare

 

ThingLink The fun site enables you to upload and image and add icons from ThingLink’s library to create your own custom interactive image, video or message.

 

HootSuite

 

MailChimp

 

Click to Tweet Using services like Click to Tweet make it easy to provide bite-sized bits of content from your larger posts that readers can immediately post on their own Twitter account with just one click. Because you can customize the tweet, you can include a link back to your site or your Twitter handle to gain additional followers and shares.

 

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My guess is that you're using at least half of these...I hope.

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Why Your Content Team Needs to Write Outbound Emails - The ExactTarget Blog | #TheMarketingTechAlert

Why Your Content Team Needs to Write Outbound Emails - The ExactTarget Blog | #TheMarketingTechAlert | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Crafting emails to prospects, leads, and customers is a natural extension of the content marketer’s skill set. And by applying their expertise to email, content marketers become an integral part of communication at every point of the buyer’s journey. This makes you an indispensable, sought-after asset.

 

A second, and perhaps more crucial, reason content marketers should draft outbound emails is to ensure consistency in messaging and style -- particularly when emails are promoting major content assets.

 

Content is tailored to the buyer persona needed to reach. That content asset was written, edited, designed, and basically agonized over by the content marketing team. So when it’s time to promote it through outbound channels, don’t just pass it along to the demand gen team.  The result is a more consistent approach between the content and promotion strategy. After all, the content marketer knows the material being sent out, and how to speak to the target buyer you’re hoping will open that email.

 

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Makes perfect sense, especially the notion that you need a consistent, buyer persona focused message.

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B2B Enterprises Falling Far Short in Front-Line Sales Enablement - MarketingCharts

B2B Enterprises Falling Far Short in Front-Line Sales Enablement - MarketingCharts | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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B2B enterprises are failing to provide adequate support to their front-line sales forces, finds the CMO Council [download page] in an audit of 230 senior senior marketing executives conducted in Q3. One of the biggest deficiencies pertains to real-time delivery of sales intelligence and breaking news, with fewer than 1 in 10 definitively agreeing that their current customer information system acquires and delivers real-time account-related news, social insights and customer-related developments to the sales organization.

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GADZOOKS, this is friggin' horrible! If we can't deliver the right content at the right time to Sales, then we're failing! Where's that functionality?

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ComBlu » The Alchemy of Content | #TheMarketingAutomationAlert

ComBlu » The Alchemy of Content | #TheMarketingAutomationAlert | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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The Alchemy of Content: A Formula for Overcoming Four Major Content Pain Points”: offers a step-by-step process for overcoming four common content pain points:

 

Content Development and Distribution: How to organize resources to establish an effective and efficient process.

Content Creation: How to effectively “feed the content beast” with content that resonates.

Content Cadence: How to get the publication cycle right.

Content ROI: How to make sure content is working hard enough for the investment made. Defining your value story requires a methodical approach.

  1. Clearly identify KPIs aligned with business mission.
  2. Identify the metrics that will work as a unit to tell a value story.
  3. Identify the sources of those metrics and pull into a dashboard using connectors.
  4. Create an algorithm that weights each metric in relation to their importance to the “story.”
  5. Analyze performing and non-performing metrics for each KPI on a periodic basis and use to calibrate approach.
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This truly is a step-by-step process, and very timely.


If you are considering formalizing your content process, or you need to do a pre-2014 audit, you need to review this .pdf. It's a quick read at 50 pages, and is a roadmap that you can use to compare/contrast/improve.


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9 Questions to Help You Prioritize Content Creation [Template] - CMI

9 Questions to Help You Prioritize Content Creation [Template] - CMI | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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To help prioritize your content requests, consider developing a content request form that you share across all departments that might be asking you for content. Often requestors only have a vague idea of what their needs are when they ask for content to be created. The request form helps them drill down to their most essential needs — which will help you identify possible ways to incorporate them into your existing content plan, or to minimize the revision process so that you can free up time in your schedule to produce additional content. Moreover, the improved communication facilitated by the form helps you produce content that is more targeted, more appropriate, and better able to deliver the kind of results its requestor expects. Marketers also would be wise to use the form themselves, to help flesh out and prioritize their own ideas for content creation.


Marteq's insight:

A great tool...but we wonder if this builds more walls vs. bridges. We know requests flow into marketing from a variety of people for a variety of items, and organization is important. We just don't know if policing this process (or lack of process) should be done via a form (even an online form that extends a custom object from SFDC).


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