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| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Practical Content Strategy & Marketing Julia McCoy, 2017-11-27 Finally: a real-life, practical industry guide on content strategy and marketing. Practical Content Strategy & Marketing is your go-to guide on a practical content strategy and marketing education, created by author Julia McCoy as a written accompaniment to her new course, the Content Strategy & Marketing Course (www.contentstrategycourse.com). If you run a business, or if you’re trying to break into a top-dollar content marketing career, you need to know the practical concepts involved in content strategy and marketing. The “how,” the “why,” the “where” of content. Content marketing itself involves so many platforms, formats, content types, strategies, tools—and to get the most ROI from your approach to content marketing and strategy, you have to know how to do the most important content marketing practices. Forget FOMO and trying to figure out too many things. This guide will teach you the most important foundations and skills you actually need in order to get far in our booming industry of content marketing. For the first time in the industry, Practical Content Strategy & Marketing lays the “hows” of content marketing and strategy out, in a step-by-step approach, book form. Each section has written exercises built to solidify what you’re reading and learning—you’ll be able to fill these out with a pen. Don’t be afraid to mark up this book! Why is this book different? You’re not going to find corporate, birds-eye, mumbo-jumbo fluff in this content marketing guide. Quite the opposite. The author, Julia McCoy, won her way to the top (awarded as the top 33rd content marketer in 2016) the hard-knocks way. She dropped out of college and built a content agency, Express Writers, on nothing but $75 and the tenacity to go and follow her dream and see it through. Five years later, Julia’s business has served over 5,000 clients and employs over 40 team members, and her content consistently ranks at the top of Google and among the highest-shared for guest publications. Her go-to marketing strategy? A practical, hands-on content marketing approach that has ended up bringing her 99% of the clients her agency currently works with. With Julia as your guide, learn the principles and physical “how-to” behind these six key cores of effective content marketing: Module 1: Core Foundations of an ROI-Based Content Strategy Module 2: Audience Persona Discovery, Sales Funnel Content Mapping, & Style Guidelines Module 3: Understanding Keywords, SEO Opportunities, & Creating Keyword Reports Module 4: How to Build Content Cores (Your Content House) for an Authority Presence Online Module 5: Practical Content Creation (Your Site & Guest Blogging) Module 6: Content Promotion, Setting a Budget, Preparing Your Editorial Calendar, & Maintenance Along the way, you’ll get to build a working content strategy from the ground up, using the Brand Strategy Exercises in each module. Have your pen and thinking cap ready—and a brand you want to build an entire working strategy for! Practical Content Strategy & Marketing is a field guide for the smartest content marketers who know that strategy is the key to thriving in our world of new marketing through content. Bonus: leading business marketing expert Mark Schaefer joins Julia to write the foreword, and guests Sujan Patel, Michele Linn, Steve Rayson and more appear in guest lessons throughout the book. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies Stephanie Diamond, 2016-01-26 Drive your content marketing campaign toward success Blogs and social platforms are all the rage right now—especially for strategists looking to cultivate influence among target audience members through content marketing. Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies explains how you can use content marketing to gain an edge over your competition, even in the most crowded of marketplaces. This timely text introduces you to the Five C Cycle: Company Focus, Customer Experience, Content Creation, Channel Promotion, and Closed-Loop Analysis. The Five C Cycle drives the creation and documentation of a targeted content marketing strategy, and allows you to approach your content marketing campaign with confidence. By helping you determine your company's focus, uncover your customers' experience with data, develop channel promotions across social platforms, create actionable online content, and use closed-loop analysis to build on previous success, this will become your go-to content marketing guide. Content marketing entails creating and curating content online via blog posts, social media platforms, and more. The goal is to acquire and retain customers by creating content that brings value to their lives, and that encourages them to engage with your brand. This easy-to-understand guide will help you do just that. Analyze customer data to better understand your target audience's journey Leverage social platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, to develop channel promotions Create and curate intelligent, engaging content that leads to action Build upon your previous success with closed-loop analysis Whether you work for a large corporation, are part of a small business, are a solo thought leader, or are an educator, Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies tells you how to gain a critical, competitive advantage through targeted content marketing strategies. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Global Content Marketing: How to Create Great Content, Reach More Customers, and Build a Worldwide Marketing Strategy that Works Pam Didner, 2014-12-19 Engage Customers Around the World with Cross-Regional Content Marketing Technology has virtually erased national borders, forever transforming the way we reach and engage customers, as well as the way we search for and consume content. Global Content Marketing takes you step-by-step through the process of creating and refining your strategies to meet this new reality. LEARN HOW TO: Create content that engages people--regardless of their country and culture Identify key actions and strategies to apply to your projects Connect dots that others don't see and connect them in ways you never thought of before Content marketing across geographies is a diff erent animal. In this smart, practical, and authoritative book, Pam Didner has tamed this animal for all of us. -- DOUG KESSLER, Creative Director, Velocity A valuable guide to developing and distributing your global content effectively. -- NANCY BHAGAT, former VP, Global Marketing Strategy, Intel, and current Divisional CMO, TE Connectivity This book is the blueprint for engineering a modern scalable content marketing operation. -- PAWAN DESHPANDE, CEO, Curata “Finally the book that explores all critical aspects of global content marketing! Whether you are a small business or a Fortune 500 company, it is essential to understand the 4P’s developed by Pam Didner. Read it and take your content strategy to the whole new level. -- EKATERINA WALTER, author of Think Like Zuck and coauthor of The Power of Visual Storytelling |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses Joe Pulizzi, 2015-09-04 “Instead of throwing money away and sucking up to A-listers, now there is a better way to promote your business. It’s called content marketing, and this book is a great way to master this new technique.” -Guy Kawasaki, Chief evangelist of Canva and author of The Art of the Start 2.0 How do you take the maximum amount of risk out of starting a business? Joe Pulizzi shows us. Fascinate your audience, then turn them into loyal fans. Content Inc. shows you how. Use it as your roadmap to startup success.” -Sally Hogshead, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, How the World Sees You If you're serious about turning content into a business, this is the most detailed, honest, and useful book ever written. -Jay Baer, New York Times bestselling author of Youtility The approach to business taught all over the world is to create a product and then spend a bunch of money to market and sell it. Joe outlines a radically new way to succeed in business: Develop your audience first by creating content that draws people in and then watch your business sell themselves! -David Meerman Scott bestselling author of ten books including The New Rules of Sales and Service The digital age has fundamentally reshaped the cost curve for entrepreneurs. Joe describes the formula for developing a purpose-driven business that connects with an engaged and loyal audience around content. With brand, voice and audience, building and monetizing a business is easy. -Julie Fleischer, Sr. Director, Data + Content + Media, Kraft Foods What if you launched a business with nothing to sell, and instead focused first on serving the needs of an audience, trusting that the 'selling' part would come later? Crazy? Or crazy-brilliant? I'd say the latter. Because in today's world, you should serve before selling. -Ann Handley, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Writes and Content Rules Today, anyone, anywhere with a passion and a focus on a content niche can build a multi-million dollar platform and business. I did it and so can you. Just follow Joe's plan and hisContent Inc. model. -John Lee Dumas, Founder, EntrepreneurOnFire The Internet doesn't need more content. It needs amazing content. Content Inc is the business blueprint on how to achieve that. If you're in business and are tired of hearing about the need for content marketing, but want the how and the proof, Content Inc is your blueprint. -Scott Stratten, bestselling author and President of UnMarketing Inc. Content marketing is by far the best marketing strategy for every company and Joe is by far the best guru on the topic. I wish this book was available when we started our content marketing initiative. It would have saved us a huge amount of time and effort! -Scott Maxwell, Managing Partner/Founder OpenView Venture Partners |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Strategy Rahel Anne Bailie, Noz Urbina, 2013-01-15 If you've been asked to get funding for a content strategy initiative and need to build a compelling business case, if you've been approached by your staff to implement a content strategy and want to know the business benefits, or if you've been asked to sponsor a content strategy project and don't know what one is, this book is for you. Rahel Anne Bailie and Noz Urbina come from distinctly different backgrounds, but they share a deep understanding of how to help your organization build a content strategy. Content Strategy: Connecting the dots between business, brand, and benefits is the first content strategy book that focuses on project managers, department heads, and other decision makers who need to know about content strategy. It provides practical advice on how to sell, create, implement, and maintain a content strategy, including case studies that show both successful and not so successful efforts. Inside the Book Introduction to Content Strategy Why Content Strategy and Why Now The Value and ROI of Content Content Under the Hood Developing a Content Strategy Glossary, Bibliography, and Index |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Get Content Get Customers: Turn Prospects into Buyers with Content Marketing Joe Pulizzi, Newt Barrett, 2009-05-02 Connect to customers with compelling content! The rules of marketing have changed. Instead of loud claims of product superiority, what customers really want is valuable content that will improve their lives. Get Content Get Customers explains how to develop compelling content and seamlessly deliver it to customers—without interrupting their lives. It’s the new way of marketing, and it’s the only way to build a loyal, engaged customer base. “Pulizzi and Barrett have taken integrated marketing communications to the next level. . . . Every marketer, large or small, can use this text to build better ongoing customer relationships.” —Don Schultz, Professor Emeritus-in-Service, Integrated Marketing Communication, Northwestern University “Deftly navigating the worlds of PR, advertising and marketing, Joe and Newt prove that the real secret to great marketing is not a brilliant tagline, but creating compelling and useful content.” —Rohit Bhargava, Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing, Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence, and author of Personality Not Included “Get Content Get Customers provides a play-by-play for any marketer who is serious about breaking away from the pack.” —Greg Verdino, Chief Strategy Officer, Crayon, LLC |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Inbound Content Justin Champion, 2018-04-24 Develop and implement an effective content strategy tailored to your business’s needs Inbound Content is a step-by-step manual for attracting the right people, turning them into leads, and closing them into customers. Today, everyone knows that content is king. It’s how we engage, how we inform, and how we pass the time; content is everywhere, and if you’re not leveraging its power to promote your business, you’ve already been left behind. Having a website and social media is not enough; if you truly want to take advantage of unprecedented levels of connectedness, you have to create content that draws customers in. It’s not about blindly expanding reach, it’s about reaching out to the right audience. Today’s marketplace is no longer about chasing the sale—with the right approach to content, your customers will come to you. Your content must be valuable, relevant, and consistent—but how should it be implemented at the actual content-creation level? This book shows you how to develop a unified strategy, create compelling content tailored to your needs, and utilize that content to its greatest advantage in order to build your brand. Discover the power of storytelling and generate effective content ideas Plan a long-term content strategy and a content creation framework Create great content, promote it, measure it, and analyze its performance Extend your content’s value, become a more effective writer, and develop a growth mentality Effective content is worth its weight in marketing gold. It stands out from the noise, and to the customer, looks like an oasis in a desert of clickbait and paid reviews. Inbound Content shows you how to plan, build, and implement your content strategy for unprecedented engagement and sales. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Strategy for the Web Kristina Halvorson, Melissa Rach, 2012-02-28 FROM CONSTANT CRISIS TO SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS BETTER CONTENT MEANS BETTER BUSINESS. Your content is a mess: the website redesigns didn’t help, and the new CMS just made things worse. Or, maybe your content is full of potential: you know new revenue and cost-savings opportunities exist, but you’re not sure where to start. How can you realize the value of content while planning for its long-term success? For organizations all over the world, Content Strategy for the Web is the go-to content strategy handbook. Read it to: Understand content strategy and its business value Discover the processes and people behind a successful content strategy Make smarter, achievable decisions about what content to create and how Find out how to build a business case for content strategy With all-new chapters, updated material, case studies, and more, the second edition of Content Strategy for the Web is an essential guide for anyone who works with content. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Strategy at Work Margot Bloomstein, 2012-01-25 Content is king... and the new kingmaker... and your message needs to align with your model and metrics and other mumbo jumbo, right? Whether you're slogging through theory or buzzwords, there's no denying content strategy is coming of age. But what's in it for you? And if you're not a content strategist, why should you care? Because even if content strategy isn't your job, content's probably your problem—and probably more than you think. You or your business has a message you want to deliver, right? You can deliver that message through various channels and content types, from Tweets to testimonials and photo galleries galore, and your audience has just as many ways of engaging with it. So many ways, so much content... so where's the problem? That is the problem. And you can measure it in time, creativity, money, lost opportunity, and the sobs you hear equally from creative directors, project managers, and search engine marketing specialists. The solution is content strategy, and this book offers real-world examples and approaches you can adopt, no matter your role on the team. Put content strategy to work for you by gathering this book into your little hands and gobbling up never-before seen case studies from teams at Johns Hopkins Medicine, MINI, Icebreaker, and more. Content Strategy at Work is a book for designers, information architects, copywriters, project managers, and anyone who works with visual or verbal content. It discusses how you can communicate and forge a plan that will enable you, your company, or your client get that message across and foster better user experiences. - Presents a content strategy framework and ways to implement in both in-house marketing departments and consultancies - Includes case studies, interviews, and lessons learned from retail, apparel, network television, business-to-business, automotive, non-profit, and higher ed brands - Details practical sales techniques to sell content strategy and use content strategy processes to sell other services and larger projects |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Google Semantic Search Dave Amerland, 2013 Optimize Your Sites for Today's Radically New Semantic Search Breakthrough semantic search techniques are already transforming Google(tm)'s search results. If you want to be found, yesterday's SEO techniques won't cut it anymore. Google Semantic Search tells you what to do instead--in plain English. David Amerland demystifies Knowledge Graph(tm), TrustRank(tm), AuthorityRank(tm), personalized and mobile search, social media activity, and much more. Drawing on deep knowledge of Google's internal workings and newest patents, he also reveals the growing impact of social networks on your SEO performance. Whether you do it yourself or supervise an agency, this is your complete playbook for next-generation SEO! * Learn how Google is delivering answers, not just links--and what it means to you * Profit from Google Now(tm) and the fragmented, personalized future of search * Prepare for Knowledge Graph(tm) by growing your online reputation, authority, and trust * Stop using 10 common SEO techniques that no longer work * Discover the truth about Trust Ranking(tm)--and 10 steps to take right now * Go way beyond keywords in today's new era of content marketing * Strengthen the social signal you create on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn * See why the First Page of Google is rapidly become obsolete * Drive unprecedented business value from your online identity and influence * Learn how Google captures meaning in unstructured data--and give it what it wants * Plan for all 4 Vs of semantic search: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity * Rapidly transition from technical to strategic search optimization http://helpmyseo.com/google-semantic-search.html |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: The Content Strategy Toolkit Meghan Casey, 2023-05-11 In this essential guide, Meghan Casey outlines a step-by-step approach for successful content strategy, from planning and creating your content to delivering and managing it. Armed with this book, you can confidently tackle difficult activities like explaining clearly to your boss or client what's wrong with their content, getting the budget to do content work, and aligning stakeholders on a common vision. Having The Content Strategy Toolkit at your side is like hiring your own personal consulting firm. You get a complete array of instructions, tools, and templates for most challenges you'll face. In this practical and relevant guide, you'll learn how to: Identify problems with your content and persuade your bosses it's worth the time and resources to do it right Assemble a stellar team for your content project Prepare your organization for content transformation Make sense of your business environment and understand your audience Align stakeholders on business goals and user needs Set a compass for your content and decide how to measure success Create, maintain, and govern on-strategy content You'll learn how to treat content like the strategic asset that it is. Quality content increases value. Poor-quality content destroys value. It's as simple as that. Meghan's book has specific, practical, and immediately actionable ideas that will help you increase the quality of your content.—Gerry McGovern, CEO, Customer Carewords This second edition goes deep into three integral topics for content leaders—assembling cross-disciplinary teams, evaluating processes, and building a content playbook. If you're looking to build a new practice or retool an existing one, this book will help you succeed.—Natalie Marie Dunbar, Author, From Solo to Scaled: Building a Sustainable Content Strategy Practice |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: The Elements of Content Strategy Erin Kissane, 2011 Explore content strategy's roots, and quickly learn not only how it's done, but how you can do it well. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Return on Engagement Tim Frick, Kate Eyler-Werve, 2014-07-17 In the world of web design, if one wants to create a successful web site, one needs an effective content strategy. Return on Engagement shows web designers and developers how to implement an effective content strategy and how to stay ahead in the rapidly changing industry of web design. It presents best practices in terms of web design through a marketing function: content strategy, SEO, social media marketing, and success measurement to help web designers implement a strategy that ensures success for the site they are building. Return on Engagement shows web designers and developers how to not just design an aesthetically pleasing, functional website. This book shows those professionals how to implement marketing strategies and analysis into their website, thus ensuring its success. Nearly 3 years since the previous edition published, new best practices have been formed. Tools in which web developers use to analyze website metrics have advanced. New social media networks and communities have cropped up. New research in how audiences read and receive content has been done, subsequently refining best digital marketing practices. Return on Engagement features a step-by-step breakdown of how to use new tools, techniques, and technologies. The new edition also includes updated case studies of industry leaders who implement best practices on projects. Return on Engagement also features a regularly updated companion site that offers readers sample content, easy sharing tools, and web-based resources to help measure marketing viability of web properties. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Managing Content Marketing: The Real-World Guide for Creating Passionate Subscribers to Your Brand Robert Rose, Joe Pulizzi, 2011-08-01 Perhaps no function in the business organization has been as fundamentally revolutionized as marketing. The social and mobile Web has completely changed the speed, efficiency, and ease with which consumers can engage with each other and has had a tremendous impact on brands. This new engagement of the consumer with keen awareness of their relationships and emerging social networks now correlates to every single aspect of our business. So, yes, marketing has changed. The question is what are we going to do about it?Content and Subscription: The New Marketing OpportunityAs growth of the social and mobile Web changes the methods of communication, the old lines of hierarchical relationships between business and consumer blur substantially. As consumers publish and share their opinions (both good and bad) with increasing ease, they can become more persuasive than even the company's voice itself. Every one of these groups becomes a powerful ally or enemy depending on what we do. All of them will be constantly in flux developing levels of trust and requiring varying levels of transparency to filter content and determine buying decisions. They will expand and collapse with great velocity, and it will all happen with or without our participation.Content marketing has been around for hundreds of years. But the application of a specific strategic process around content marketing is still new. The amount of budget that is allotted for new content creation is going to become a significant part of your new media budget. And subject matter experts in the organization are going to have new responsibilities. It's a transformative new process and it won't happen overnight. But it can, and should, happen. Get Content Get Customers showed us the light but there's been no book to show us the way. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says a crisis is simply an opportunity riding the dangerous wind. As marketers we now have the opportunity to develop new processes with our marketing strategy, power them with content, and ultimately keep that wind at our back.Successful programs will focus on creating a thoughtful strategy and process to foster this content marketing. This book is a detailed how-to to build that successful content marketing process. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Youtility Jay Baer, 2013-06-27 The difference between helping and selling is just two letters If you're wondering how to make your products seem more exciting online, you're asking the wrong question. You're not competing for attention only against other similar products. You're competing against your customers' friends and family and viral videos and cute puppies. To win attention these days you must ask a different question: How can we help? Jay Baer's Youtility offers a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit Joe Pulizzi, Robert Rose, 2017-09-08 Killing your current marketing structure may be the only way to save it! Two of the world’s top marketing experts reveal the next level of breakthrough success—transforming your marketing strategy into a standalone profit center. What if everything we currently know about marketing is what is holding us back? Over the last two decades, we’ve watched the entire world change the way it buys and stays loyal to brands. But, marketing departments are still operating in the same, campaign-centric, product-led operation that they have been following for 75 years. The most innovative companies around the world have achieved remarkable marketing results by fundamentally changing their approach. By creating value for customers through the use of owned media and the savvy use of content, these businesses have dramatically increased customer loyalty and revenue. Some of them have even taken it to the next step and developed a marketing function that actually pays for itself. Killing Marketing explores how these companies are ending the marketing as we know it—in favor of this new, exciting model. Killing Marketing provides the insight, approaches, and examples you need to understand these disruptive forces in ways that turn your marketing from cost center to revenue creator. This book builds the case for, literally, transforming the purpose of marketing within your organization. Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose of the Content Marketing Institute show how leading companies are able sell the very content that propels their marketing strategy. You’ll learn how to: * Transform all or part of your marketing operation into a media company * Integrate this new operation into traditional marketing efforts * Develop best practices for attracting and retaining audiences * Build a strategy for competing against traditional media companies * Create a paid/earned media strategy fueled by an owned media strategy Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson, Disney and Arrow Electronics have succeeded in what ten years ago would have been deemed impossible. They continue to market their products as they always have, and, through their content-driven and audience-building initiatives, they drive value outside the day-to-day products they sell—and monetize it directly. Killing Marketing rewrites the rules of marketing—enabling you to make the kind of transition that turns average companies into industry legends. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter, and Win More Customers by Marketing Less Joe Pulizzi, 2013-09-27 Reach more customers than ever with TARGETED CONTENT Epic Content Marketing helps you develop strategies that seize the competitive edge by creating messages and “stories” tailored for instant, widespread distribution on social media, Google, and the mainstream press. It provides a step-by-step plan for developing powerful content that resonates with customers and describes best practices for social media sharing and search engine discoverability. Joe Pulizzi is a content marketing strategist, speaker and founder of the Content Marketing Institute, which runs the largest physical content marketing event in North America, Content Marketing World. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content - The Atomic Particle of Marketing Rebecca Lieb, 2017-06-03 DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: NYC Big Book Awards 2017 Content, in all its forms, is the single most critical element of any marketing campaign. Finding a successful equilibrium between content marketing and content strategy is difficult, but essential. Content - The Atomic Particle of Marketing goes beyond superficial descriptions of how to produce engaging social media content to offer the results of many years of deep quantitative research, and hours of interviews with senior marketers at some of the world's leading brands. Written by a recognized industry thought leader, Content - The Atomic Particle of Marketing explores how content functions in the broader framework of all marketing, as well as organizational concerns and IT decision making. It demonstrates the value content brings not only to owned media initiatives, such as a company website or blog, but also the essential role content plays in all other marketing initiatives, from social media to advertising to offline channels. It will enable readers to make the organizational, staffing, tools and process decisions necessary to get content up and running across divisions and organizational silos. Deeply researched and insightful, Content - The Atomic Particle of Marketing is, quite simply, the definitive research-based guide to content marketing. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Get Scrappy Nick Westergaard, 2016-05-02 Marketing is changing rapidly, so sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Don’t get frustrated, get scrappy. It’s an exciting time to be in marketing, with an array of equalizing platforms from the Internet to social media to content marketing, that have reset the playing field for businesses large and small. Yet, it's also a challenging time, with much work to do and an ever-changing array of platforms, features, and networks to master--all on tighter budgets than ever before. In Get Scrappy, chief brand strategist Nick Westergaard weaves hacks, tips, and idea starters together to provide a plan of attack for businesses of any size to: Demystify digital marketing in a way that makes sense for your business Do more with less Build a strong brand with something to say Create relevant and engaging content for your social media platforms Spark dialogue with your community of customers Measure what matter The result will be a reliable, repeatable system for building your brand, creating engaging content, and growing your community of customers. Don’t wait for marketing to reinvent itself. Instead, proactively reinvent your company’s marketing to maximize its reach! |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Master Content Marketing Pamela Wilson, 2016-10-21 Are you afraid to hit publish?Content marketing is how marketing happens today. You know you want to use it, but you're unsure about where to start. You may not feel confident about your writing abilities, either.Master Content Marketing is a step-by-step guide through the content marketing process. Pamela Wilson's 30 years of marketing experience infuse the guidance in the book.Scores of people profess to be content marketing experts. Who can you trust? You can trust Pamela Wilson. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Business Model Generation Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, 2013-02-01 Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to the business model generation! |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Chemistry Andy Crestodina, 2012 The result of thousands of conversations about web marketing with hundreds of companies, this handbook is a compilation of the most important and effective lessons and advice about the power of search engine optimization, social media, and email marketing. The first and only comprehensive guide to content marketing, this book explains the social, analytical, and creative aspects of modern marketing that are necessary to succeed on the web. By first covering the theory behind web and content marketing and then detailing it in practice, it shows how it is not only critical to modern business but is also a lot of fun. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Master Content Strategy Pamela Wilson, 2018-10-25 A masterclass in content marketing strategy for content creators at every stage of the journey |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Content Rules Ann Handley, C. C. Chapman, 2010-11-11 The guide to creating engaging web content and building a loyal following, revised and updated Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other platforms are giving everyone a voice, including organizations and their customers. So how do you create the stories, videos, and blog posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success as a one-stop source on the art and science of developing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies successfully spreading their ideas online—and using them to establish credibility and build a loyal customer base. Find an authentic voice and craft bold content that will resonate with prospects and buyers and encourage them to share it with others Leverage social media and social tools to get your content and ideas distributed as widely as possible Understand why you are generating content—getting to the meat of your message in practical, commonsense language, and defining the goals of your content strategy Write in a way that powerfully communicates your service, product, or message across various Web mediums Boost your online presence and engage with customers and prospects like never before with Content Rules. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Marketing Strategy In The Digital Age: Applying Kotler's Strategies To Digital Marketing Milton Kotler, Tiger Cao, Sam Wang, Colllen Qiao, 2020-08-26 The market changes faster than marketing. In essence, marketing strategy has undergone only two eras, the entity era and the bit era, also known as the industrial age and the digital age. In the age of digital society, all CEOs, CMOs and senior marketing executives must consider how to change their strategies, improve the role of marketing and adopt emerging technological and data tools to integrate with the Internet. The goal of digital marketing strategy is not to disrupt existing marketing strategies, but to complement, integrate and develop the two at the same time.In this book, the authors provide detailed discussion and practical analysis on the relationship between marketing and digital technologies and propose a marketing implementation framework for digital strategy platforms. Standing for Recognize, Reach, Relationship and Return, the 4R system is a powerful strategic trading tool for digital implementation, especially for CEOs and CMOs. All other tools, such as data platforms, content marketing, DSP digital advertising and digital marketing ROI design essentially serve the 4R system. As such, the authors advocate for firms to restructure their digital marketing strategy around the 4R system. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: The Content Advantage (Clout 2.0) Colleen Jones, 2018-07-11 In The Content Advantage (Clout 2.0): The Science of Succeeding at Digital Business Through Effective Content, expert Colleen Jones argues that in the age of digital disruption, your company faces an important choice. The choice is not whether to do content. Every business function–from marketing to sales and from support to recruiting–demands content. The choice is whether to make your approach to content strategic and, consequently, an advantage. This book, which is the second edition of the pioneering content book Clout, offers a modernized and comprehensive approach for planning, creating, delivering, and optimizing content that will make your business thrive. Executives and practitioners alike will find value in this book as they face increasing pressure to deliver the right content to the right customers at the right time. Drawing on her in-the-trenches experience with organizations ranging from the Fortune 50 to small and medium businesses to government and nonprofits, Jones offers: Guidance on creating a content vision A primer on conducting content analysis Techniques for developing a competitive content strategy Elements and principles of effective, influential content A blueprint for developing content intelligence A maturity model for content operations Examples from diverse companies and contexts |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Digital Marketing Strategy Simon Kingsnorth, 2016-05-03 The modern marketer needs to learn how to employ strategic thinking alongside the use of digital media to deliver measurable and accountable business success. Digital Marketing Strategy covers the essential elements of achieving exactly this by guiding you through every step of creating your perfect digital marketing strategy. This book analyzes the essential techniques and platforms of digital marketing including social media, content marketing, SEO, user experience, personalization, display advertising and CRM, as well as the broader aspects of implementation including planning, integration with overall company aims and presenting to decision makers. Simon Kingsnorth brings digital marketing strategy to life through best practice case studies, illustrations, checklists and summaries, to give you insightful and practical guidance. Rather than presenting a restrictive 'one size fits all' model, this book gives you the tools to tailor-make your own strategy according to your unique business needs and demonstrates how an integrated and holistic approach to marketing leads to greater success. Digital Marketing Strategy is also supported by a wealth of online resources, including budget and strategy templates, lecture slides and a bonus chapter. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Dream Teams Shane Snow, 2018-06-05 Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together. You'll learn: * How ragtag teams--from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates--beat the odds throughout history. * Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships. * What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving. * Pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together. * The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded. Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about people, progress, and collaboration. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Pilot to Profit Lisa Larter, 2016-01-05 Ready to generate sales, build brand buzz, and watch your cash flow soar? Entrepreneurs, prepare for takeoff! Pilot to Profit clears up the confusion of modern entrepreneurship—so you can build a smart, successful, and sustainable business with sky-high returns. If you find yourself overwhelmed with questions—Do I really need to be on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter? How do these other people command such high fees (and how can I)? How do I double my profits this year without doubling the work?—this book can provide answers to help you get unstuck, as well as proven strategies to help your business get found and turn connections into paying customers, whether you’re an established enterprise or just starting out. Learn how to: Gain a stronger money mindset and stop sabotaging your ability to be paid what you’re worth for the work you do Set your money-making “radar” on high alert Create a clearly defined business model that maximizes what comes in, with less effort put out Find the right channels to grow your business so you can reach more people Create content that raises your credibility and puts you on the map (because without great content, your business might never be found) Use email and social media to grow your fan base Lastly, you’ll walk away understanding how to sell what you do, whom to sell it to, and precisely how to find and connect with those people. This book takes you step-by-step on your journey to building a successful, profitable business you love. With Pilot to Profit, you’re officially cleared for takeoff. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Ten Years to Midnight Blair H. Sheppard, 2020-08-04 “Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.” —Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership. Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: 10x Marketing Formula Garrett Moon, 2018-03-26 The dream of content marketing is that it's going to be a magical funnel that drips money into your bank account. Its lure is that it will create an inbound sales machine. But what should you do when it doesn't work like that? Or even at all? Garrett Moon presents the formula he used to grow his startup CoSchedule from zeroes across the board to 1.3M+ monthly pageviews, 250k+ email subscribers, and thousands of customers in 100 countries in just 4 years. Learn to overcome a lack of time, struggling to produce content, an inability to engage your audience, and so many more marketing roadblocks. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: The Nonprofit Marketing Guide Kivi Leroux Miller, 2010-05-13 A nonprofit's real-world survival guide and nitty-gritty how-to handbook This down-to-earth book shows how to hack through the bewildering jungle of marketing options and miles-long to-do lists to clear a marketing path that's right for your organization, no matter how understaffed or underfunded. You'll see how to shape a marketing program that starts from where you are now and grows with your organization, using smart and savvy communications techniques, both offline and online. Combining big-picture management and strategic decision-making with reader-friendly tips for implementing a marketing program day in and day out, this book provides a simple yet powerful framework for building support for your organization's mission and programs. Includes cost-effective strategies and proven tactics for nonprofits An ideal resource for thriving during challenging times Fast, friendly, and realistic advice to help you navigate the day-by-day demands of any nonprofit Written by one of the leading sources of how-to info and can-do inspiration for small and medium-sized nonprofit organizations, Kivi Leroux Miller is,among other things, a communication consultant and trainer, and president of EcoScribe Communications and Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Marketing Strategy Jenna Tiffany, 2021-05-03 WINNER: The BookFest Spring Book Awards 2022 - Marketing category WINNER: Business Book Awards 2022 - Sales & Marketing category Tasked with creating marketing strategy? This book is for you. Learn about the most useful tools and models, dodge common mistakes, and optimize your marketing strategy success, with this practical and adaptable framework from award-winning thought-leader Jenna Tiffany. Create an effective marketing strategy for your business with Marketing Strategy, which offers a clear, easy-to-follow overview of why strategy is important, how to create it, how to implement it, and - crucially - how to measure its success. Packed with global examples and case studies, the book opens by discussing the role strategy plays in any organization's long-term vision. It also discusses the key models and frameworks that can be used to analyze the marketing environment, and offers information on segmentation, targeting and positioning. Importantly, it will outline some of the key challenges likely to crop up, and gives pre-emptive tools for avoiding them. Marketing Strategy is highly practical in approach. Chapters are supported by short tasks to complete throughout, to cement the reader's understanding of the concepts discussed. Put together, these tasks create an easy to follow, step-by-step framework for creating a marketing strategy. The framework is adaptable and can be applied to any industry or business. Marketing Strategy also includes input from leading marketing strategists including Mark Ritson and organizations such as Mailchimp, the CIM and DMA. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Talk Triggers Jay Baer, Daniel Lemin, 2018-10-02 Talk Triggers is the definitive, practical guide on how to use bold operational differentiators to create customer conversations, written by best-selling authors and marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin. Word of mouth is directly responsible for 19% of all purchases, and influences as much as 90%. Every human on earth relies on word of mouth to make buying decisions. Yet even today, fewer than 1% of companies have an actual strategy for generating these crucial customer conversations. Talk Triggers provides that strategy in a compelling, relevant, timely book that can be put into practice immediately, by any business. The key to activating customer chatter is the realization that same is lame. Nobody says let me tell you about this perfectly adequate experience I had last night. The strategic, operational differentiator is what gives customers something to tell a story about. Companies (including the 30+ profiled in Talk Triggers) must dare to be different and exceed expectations in one or more palpable ways. That's when word of mouth becomes involuntary: the customers of these businesses simply MUST tell someone else. Talk Triggers contains: Proprietary research into why and how customers talk More than 30 detailed case studies of extraordinary results from Doubletree Hotels by Hilton and their warm cookie upon arrival, The Cheesecake Factory and their giant menu, Five Guys Burgers and their extra fries in the bag, Penn & Teller and their nightly meet and greet sessions, and a host of delightful small businesses The 4-5-6 learning system (the 4 requirements for a differentiator to be a talk trigger; the 5 types of talk triggers; and the 6-step process for creating talk triggers) Surprises in the text that are (of course) word of mouth propellants Consumers are wired to discuss what is different, and ignore what is average. Talk Triggers not only dares the reader to differentiate, it includes the precise formula for doing it. Combining compelling stories, inspirational examples, and practical how-to, Talk Triggers is the first indispensable book about word of mouth. It's a book that will create conversation about the power of conversation. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Digital Relevance A. Albee, 2018-11-02 Digital Relevance teaches readers the knowledge, strategies, and skills need to create content, instantly engage customers, and compel them to action by sharing ideas so seamlessly matched to each audience's context that they can't help but take next steps toward purchase. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Known Mark Schaefer, 2017-01-28 In today's world, there is a permanent advantage to becoming known in your field. Those who are known get the customers, the better jobs, and the invitations to exclusive opportunities. But can anybody become known? In this path-finding book, author Mark Schaefer provides a step-by-step plan followed by the most successful people in diverse careers like banking, education, real estate, construction, fashion, and more. With amazing case studies, dozens of exercises, and inspiring stories, KNOWN is the first book its kind, providing a path to personal business success in the digital age. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: Video Marketing Strategy Jon Mowat, 2018-03-03 Harness the power of video and create effective video marketing campaigns that will raise brand awareness, increase sales, drive website traffic and deliver ROI on marketing budgets, with this invaluable guide to creating engaging content. Written by the experienced and award-winning video marketer, Jon Mowat. Video is the single most effective tool that marketers can use to cut through the noise and deliver measurable results. Driven by consumer demand and with the backing of the largest social media platforms, our world is becoming 'video first'. Video Marketing Strategy allows marketers to harness the power of video, with an in-depth look at the world's most powerful medium and how it can radically magnify a brand's voice by creating a level of emotional engagement that can't be achieved any other way. Exploring both theory (why are humans so affected by video on mobile devices?) and practice (what's the key to making videos that deliver results?), this book looks at how multiple videos can form wider campaigns, while exploring content hubs, activation strategies and testing. Filled with invaluable advice, tips and strategies for incorporating video into a wider content marketing plan, plus insights from prominent industry practitioners and case studies from around the world, across sectors and industries, this book offers readers the magic formula for using video campaigns successfully. |
| content strategy vs marketing strategy: F#ck Content Marketing: Focus on Content Experience to Drive Demand, Revenue & Relationships Randy Frisch, 2019-02-28 F#ck Content Marketing isn't a book forcontent marketers.Instead, it's for everyone in the organization who needs better context and direction for how to drive demand, revenue, and relationships with content. Truly effective companies (and marketers) create content experiences, drawing the customer into an immersive infinite scroll that mirrors the consumer experience of Netflix, Spotify, and other billion-dollar brands.Randy Frisch will push you to rethink how you approach content for complex buyer journeys. The current mindset is all about volume-the more content created, the better. But the reality is that almost 70 percent of content created within an organization is never used, and there's little point investing in content marketing if you're not leveraging the assets you create.In this book, Frisch unpacks the Content Experience Framework, arming your organization to deliver personalized experiences that leverage your content to engage your audiences at scale-as well as identify and ramp up the key players in your organization who need to own this process. |
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Steps that will teach you wildly profitable content marketing and strategy skills. Skills that guarantee you will thrive. Skills you can take to the bank, to earn respect from your boss or …
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An effective digital marketing strategy helps you drive business growth by expanding and reinforcing your customer engagement in the most competitive online arenas. But every …
The Content Strategy & Marketing Course / Curriculum
The Practical Content Strategy & Marketing Course is a proven, tested 6-week online training course that teaches you the actionable steps and implementation methods you need to make …
Content marketing strategy
This chapter looks at content marketing strategy from a holistic perspective, as a process that includes an understanding of all the content your brand is creating, those for whom it is …
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strategy and marketing Practical Content Strategy Marketing is your go to guide on a practical content strategy and marketing education created by author Julia McCoy as a written …
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a documented content marketing strategy. What does this mean? A documented plan is critical to the effectiveness of your content marketing programs. Most marketers or business executives …
Content marketing strategy and its impact on customers …
Content marketing is a long-term strategy where results can be seen about up to several months, in some cases after years of work. The most common task of content marketing is to attract …
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BUILDING A KILLER CONTENT …
Content plays a critical role in every stage of the inbound marketing process, from generating awareness about your company to helping convert leads into customers.
An easy guide to Developing an Effective Content Strategy
What products or initiatives will your content marketing program support? What core company values and strategic objectives should influence the development of your content?
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Content Marketing is a strategy in which businesses/websites create and distribute valuable, relevant, and entertaining content for their target market. (The keyword is “valuable”.) The goal …
What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? - Adobe Experience …
Content marketing is the process of creating and publishing content that is intended to provide value to a target customer segment. The content is typically free and is intended to get …
Developing your content marketing strategy & measuring its …
Aligns communication across channels so that web content, print collateral, social media conversations and internal knowledge management are working toward the same goals (in …
The Beginner’s Guide to BLOGGING AND CONTENT STRATEGY
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Content Marketing Strategy explains what top brands are doing to streamline their content and how marketing strategists can scale their methods to create business success The chapters …
MASTER’S THESIS Content Strategy - FH JOANNEUM
Established content strategy and marketing methods are applied and adapted to discover how content products can be ideated, validated, implemented, evaluated, and promoted.
Developing an Effective Content Marketing Strategy
A content marketing strategy establishes brand standards and editorial direction for all content including web, email, blog, and social channels while always addressing your customers’ …
KEY ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING A CONTENT STRATEGY
Content development is tasked with creating, sourcing and curating content, while content marketing is responsible for delivering that content to the right audience, on the right channel, …
The Content Strategy & Marketing Course / Curriculum
Steps that will teach you wildly profitable content marketing and strategy skills. Skills that guarantee you will thrive. Skills you can take to the bank, to earn respect from your boss or …
CONTENT STRATEGY - cypres.com
At the summit, content strategy was defined as follows: ‘Content strategy is the practice of planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.’ We would also …
Content Marketing Strategy. Definition, Objectives and Tactics
“Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience – …
Understanding digital marketing strategy - Adobe …
An effective digital marketing strategy helps you drive business growth by expanding and reinforcing your customer engagement in the most competitive online arenas. But every …
The Content Strategy & Marketing Course / Curriculum
The Practical Content Strategy & Marketing Course is a proven, tested 6-week online training course that teaches you the actionable steps and implementation methods you need to make …
Content marketing strategy
This chapter looks at content marketing strategy from a holistic perspective, as a process that includes an understanding of all the content your brand is creating, those for whom it is …
Content Strategy Vs Content Marketing (Download Only)
strategy and marketing Practical Content Strategy Marketing is your go to guide on a practical content strategy and marketing education created by author Julia McCoy as a written …
Build Your Content Marketing Plan: A 10-Step Guide - Right …
a documented content marketing strategy. What does this mean? A documented plan is critical to the effectiveness of your content marketing programs. Most marketers or business executives …
Content marketing strategy and its impact on customers …
Content marketing is a long-term strategy where results can be seen about up to several months, in some cases after years of work. The most common task of content marketing is to attract …
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BUILDING A KILLER CONTENT …
Content plays a critical role in every stage of the inbound marketing process, from generating awareness about your company to helping convert leads into customers.
An easy guide to Developing an Effective Content Strategy
What products or initiatives will your content marketing program support? What core company values and strategic objectives should influence the development of your content?
Content Production Master Resource Guide - Neil Patel
Content Marketing is a strategy in which businesses/websites create and distribute valuable, relevant, and entertaining content for their target market. (The keyword is “valuable”.) The goal …
What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? - Adobe Experience …
Content marketing is the process of creating and publishing content that is intended to provide value to a target customer segment. The content is typically free and is intended to get …
Developing your content marketing strategy & measuring …
Aligns communication across channels so that web content, print collateral, social media conversations and internal knowledge management are working toward the same goals (in …
The Beginner’s Guide to BLOGGING AND CONTENT STRATEGY
THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO BLOGGING AND CONTENT STRATEGY The first rule of blogging is know who you’re talking to. The second rule of blogging is know why they should care. To …
Content Strategy Vs Content Marketing - wiki.morris.org.au
Content Marketing Strategy explains what top brands are doing to streamline their content and how marketing strategists can scale their methods to create business success The chapters …
MASTER’S THESIS Content Strategy - FH JOANNEUM
Established content strategy and marketing methods are applied and adapted to discover how content products can be ideated, validated, implemented, evaluated, and promoted.
