content marketing 102
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2nd in Our 3-Part Series
Content Marketing 102
In this guide we’ll cover:
Goals for your content
Different content formats
Creating the right content mix
Creating your ‘Voice’ - Tone & Style
Goals for your content: Ultimately, we’ll assume we want
leads and customers
But interim goals might include: • Building awareness for your brand • Building Trust • Engaging your target audience through: • Informing • Educating • Entertaining
Goals for your content:
Other Purposes: • Content designed for a particular
marketing campaign • Content designed for a particular customer
segment • Or even one particular customer
Different Content Formats:
Video/Audio!
Written
Different Content Formats:
Written • Web Pages • Blogs • eBooks • Checklists • Cheat sheets • Expert Guides • Tip Sheets • FAQ’s • Industry Reports • White Papers • Full length Books
Different Content Formats:
• Visual slide decks
• Infographics
• Podcasts • Webinars • Videos
Different Content Formats:
Video/Audio!
Content expert Ann Handley of Marketing Profs �uses the analogy of
food groups, to help think through
What a balanced mix of content looks like:
Creating the right content mix:
Types of Content:
POT ROAST
large content piece like a large eBook,
or definitive guide
Types of Content:
CUPCAKE fun, entertaining
indulgent - infographics, videos
Types of Content:
HOT SAUCE spicy, provocative
asks hard questions; usually in a blog post
Types of Content:
SPINACH nutrient-rich
thought- leadership – industry reports
high-level eBooks
Types of Content:
Types of Content:
RAISIN BRAN fast and easy,
checklists best practices
Creating a recognizable brand voice
will help you stand out from the noise
Creating your ‘Voice’ Tone & Style
Your brand persona is the tone or feeling you want your brand to convey. It depends you your company, how you want to represent yourself. Also may depend on your industry.
Source: Dayna Rothman, from Marketo
C o n v e r s a t i o n a l
Humorous Informal
Use Jargon
Direct!
Formal
Technical
Voice can be:
Your brand persona is the tone or feeling you want your brand to convey. It depends you your company, how you want to represent yourself. Also may depend on your industry.
Harendra Kapur of Velocity Partners
(a leading content agency in London) wrote a recent blog post �
about voice. She says that our writing �voice comes from our
opinion about what we’re writing
about. So we need to develop an
opinion to be able to develop a voice.
Where ‘Voice’ comes from:
https://velocitypartners.com/blog/b2b-writing-aint-just-writing/
“Voice is a demonstration of how you feel about something.
It’s a way of signaling what’s important to you and what isn’t. ”
Where ‘Voice’ comes from:
To learn a lot more, check out the
Content Marketing Institute
especially their really cool documentary, here:
youtube.com/watch?v=dBnpr3pkFlk
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This wouldn’t be complete without a word about us: M Source Ideas provides B2B consulting and services to take you from where you are now, in inbound, content and digital
marketing, to where you’d like to be.
We focus entirely in the food industry.