Efficient Marketing: The Tools You Need and How to Use Them

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Webinar - Blue - May 2010

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Efficient Marketing

The Tools You Need
and How to Use Them

Cocoa & Shea

The Context: Content Marketing

Companies that blog receive 55% more traffic than companies that don't.

- Hubspot, June 2012

The Inefficient Approach

The Inefficient Approach

- Broken promises

- Fewer sales

- Out of sight, out of mind

The Efficient Approach

92% of brands that blog more than daily make sales from their content
vs
43% of brands that blog less than monthly

- Hubspot, February 2012

3 Steps to Efficient Marketing

1. Planning your schedule



3 Steps to Efficient Marketing

1. Planning your schedule

2. Finding and creating content


3 Steps to Efficient Marketing

1. Planning your schedule

2. Finding and creating content

3. Streamlining your process

Planning

Your

Schedule

Carving Out Time

Editorial Calendar

An editorial calendar encourages blogging as a habit, wards off writers block, and ensures that you never miss another deadline.
Its a small, subtle thing, but youll be surprised at the difference it makes in your mindset.

- Justin Evans & Zack Grossbart

Google Calendar

google.com/calendar

Google Docs Spreadsheet

docs.google.com/spreadsheet

Planning Your Schedule

- Google Calendar

- Google Docs Spreadsheet

Finding
and Creating
Content

Ready-to-Go Content

Guest authors

Round-up articles

- trade posts to reach each others' audiences

- repurposing your own content

Curated content

- researching and recommending

Curated Content:
an example

Finding Content To Share

RSS readers

Google Reader
Bloglines
Lazyfeed

reader.google.com

Tools to Collect & Curate Content

Pocket (Read It Later)

1.

2.

getpocket.com

Tools to Collect & Curate Content

Pinterest
(virtual, sharable bulletin boards)

1.

2.

pinterest.com

HootSuite

hootsuite.com

Your virtual social media consultant
http://crowdbooster.com/

CrowdBooster


CrowdBooster


Displays reminders

Rates posts

Recommends topics

Email Autoresponders

Autoresponders
an example

Blog Broadcasts
(RSS to email)

Blog Broadcasts
an example

Email Templates

Drag-and-Drop Editor

Finding & Creating Content

RSS Reader

Pocket

Pinterest

HooteSuite

CrowdBooster

Autoresponders

Blog Broadcasts

Email Templates

Drag-and-Drop Message Editor

Streamlining
Your
Process

Rescue Time
(reports on time spent)

rescuetime.com

Harvest
(time tracking & invoicing)

getharvest.com

Streamlining Your Process

- Rescue Time

- Harvest

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

- Ryan Seacrest

Marketing Your Small Business With Webinars

August 15 at 7 p.m.

Getting Started With AWeber: Tools & Tips to Set Up Your Account

August 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.