Coming Up With New Content - Blogs, Whitepapers, Social Media

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Coming Up With New Content - Blogs, Whitepapers, Social Media & more

Amanda O’Brien | Hall Internet Marketing

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Who We Are

Amanda O'BrienVP of Marketingamanda@hallme.com@amanda_pants

Hall Internet Marketingwww.hallme.com

@Hall_Web

Got Questions?

• Use GoToWebinar “Ask a Question”

• Twitter with @hall_web

Content is King!

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Search engines like content –

More content, more search engines like you, more search engines like you, more you rank, more you

rank, more people to your website…

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People like contentLets them know who you are, lets them trust you, lets them link to you and buy your products.

Where is that content supposed to come from?

Figure out who• Who is the content for?

• Who is responsible to create it?

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Message and goal

• Message Map• Key points• Long term goal

– Attract customers

– Awareness/educate

– SEO

• Choose the right medium to get there

When and how often

• Editorial calendar

• Daily, weekly, monthly

• Accountability

• Organized content

Webinars, blogs, website content, ebooks, images, newsletters etc.

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Start small so you don’t burn out.Take the smalls and combine to something big.

• Take inventory

• What is working or popular?

• Popular content on your website

• Search terms people are using to find you

What content do you already have?

What are people looking for?

https://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Frequently asked questions and content ideas

•Customer service questions

•Frequently email questions

•Questions about your products and services

•Questions about your industry

•Errors and notices

•Competitive comparisons

•Who you are

•Success stories

•How to’s

•What is a ______?

•No such thing as a stupid/simple answer

•Share and educate, not a hard sell

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Questions out in the wild•Quora•LinkedIn questions•HARO•Yahoo Answers

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Blogs• Good place to starts, a hub

• Answer questions

• React to News

• Establish yourself as an authority

• Start with your point, prove it, show others

• How often can you keep this up?

• Once a day, a week?

Coming up with blog topics recorded webinar: http://www.hallme.com/webinars/coming-up-

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Whitepapers (ebooks)

• Longer

• People want data

• More formal than a blog

• Sketch it out first

• What points will you drive home

• Always include a call to action

• Break up the text

Photos and videos

• Pictures tell a thousand words

• Products in action

• Interviews

• Screen cap videos

Podcasts• Would it work for your business?

• Schedule them

• Be consistent

• Offer value

Webinars

• Knowledge as a product

• Schedule them

• Be consistent

• Offer value

• Can be done anywhere

• Reuse that content– Write about it

– Record it

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Social Media

• Part of your communication strategy

• Not separate

• Choose where, when and how much time

• Measure results

• Optimize your newsfeed

• Take your other content and share it

• Automating content as an option

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Reimagine, don’t recycle – Content Rules

• Don’t just plaster content everywhere

• Put a new spin on it

• Add an example

• Reflect

• Update if you change your mind

• Content Rules – CC Chapman and Ann Handley

Make all content findable and sharable

• Make sure search engines and people can find it

• Social sharing features

• Short URLs (bit.ly)

• Make it ready to travel

Web content for different users

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May 24th 2pm EST – JenikaDeveloping web content for different users

http://www.hallme.com/webinars/developing-web-content-for-different-users-195.php

• Questions?

• Follow: @hall_web @amanda_pants

• Vision Blog: http://www.hallme.com/blog/

• Upcoming Webinars: http://www.hallme.com/search-marketing-webinars.php

• CRO – Time to Make Some Data-Driven Decisions - Monica

• amanda@hallme.com

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