How To Create Content That Earns Engagement, Trust and Loyalty For Your Brand

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How To Create Content That Earns Engagement,

Trust and Loyalty For Your Brand

@Ronell SmithRonell Smith

2014: It all CHANGED

How-to posts

In-depth evergreen articles

http://www.therecipeforseosuccess.com.au/seo-small-business-interview-rand-fishkin/

Interviews of influencers

Traffic

ConversionsWebsite numbers after 45

days

Engagement is a bad choice for a goal.

How can this be?

WCG

96% of B2B content marketers flopping!

Engagement should be a goal; it shouldn’t

be the goal.

Using engagement as a core metric is an excuse for being unwilling to identify why your site exists. – Avinash Kaushik, Google

Spy on content popularity and type

Peruse Google for additional

details

Find links to popular content

Why brand trust is essential

Taking trust to the extreme

Positive ubiquity

I’m here for you.

Don’t make this creepy.

Steve Jobs humanized the iPhone

launch

Allstate makes buying

insurance interesting

Blendtec’s CEO excited us about a

boring product

Brand bias can work for your brand

Making it work for your brand…macinhery image

Make Trust Work For Your Brand

Weekly videos

Podcasts with influencers

Use staff expertise on social media

Whatchu talkin’ ‘bout, Ronell?

Where the journey typically begins

Yawn…

Network diffusion at work

Old Way: BUILD links to CONTENT

ComdataSVS

Link

Link

Link Link

Link Link

Link

Link

WebsiteContent

Link

New way:SHARE content to RELEVANTsocial streams

Links

Content

Website Content

Links

Links

Links

Content

Content Content

Content Loyalty: The Prize We Should All Be Fighting For

The shortest path to a sustainable content strategy is to create content loyalty. —Matthew J. Brown, Moz

Your time is limited

A social hit buys you a little more time

Content attributes

that lead to loyalty

The bad news is the good news: It’s a 12-17 month process

The majority of brands will continue to crash and burn because they lack the consistency or the patience to build a loyal audience. —Joe Pulizzi, Content Marketing Institute founder

Content Marketing Institute

Begin with a CONTENT AUDIT

You CAIN’T be serious!

Calculating content ROI

Content ROI Calculator

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo

A simplified but valuable approach

Moz Content

Moz Content detailed info

Moz Content topics data

Moz Content’s Content Search

There no“I can’t!”

Tools

• Open Site Explorer

• BuzzSumo

• Moz Content

Thank You

@Ronell SmithRonell

Smith

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