let's get it on- relationship marketing is content strategy
DESCRIPTION
Find out how a fully developed content strategy allows for the easy implementation of an inbound/relationship marketing strategy. Make your content a profit center by driving leads and moving your clients through the purchase process; establish relationships with clients not ready to purchase now to keep your organization at the top of their minds until they are ready. By utilizing the tools of content strategy and a variety of communications channels (blogs, email and social media), you can use already existing content or plan new content to implement a relationship strategy that supports your business goals. In fact, without content strategy, relationship marketing can’t work!TRANSCRIPT
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Let’s Get It OnRelationship Marketing IS Content Strategy
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What’s Going On?• Who & Why• What• Why• How
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Joe LopataContent Strategist, Quicken Loans
#jlo #RarelyCommon#NotSlimShadyEvenThoughWe’reBothFromMetroDetroit
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My Name Is
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Quicken Loans
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What People Feel When They Need a Mortgage
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The Buying Cycle
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Quicken Loans Zing Blog
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• Building bridges between content strategy and marketing
• Turning your content into a profit center
• Alternative ways to get your content strategy implemented
Why This Topic?
(For fun, Google “Why Must I Cry”)
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Can I Get a Witness?
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What Is Relationship Marketing?
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Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
“Relationship marketing is a strategy designed to foster customer loyalty, interaction and long-term engagement. It is designed to develop strong connections with customers by providing them with information directly suited to their needs and interests and by promoting open communication.”
Forbes 5/9/201311@JLopataCS
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Example: Business Travelers
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This Is the Expectation
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But, Reality
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Content Focused
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Relationship marketing is designed around developing strong connections with customers by directly providing them with information that is tailored to their needs, wants and interests.
Gregory Ciotti, HelpScout.net
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Pause
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Why Relationship Marketing?
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Short answer: Step 1: Decide to do relationship marketingStep 2: ?Step 3: Profit
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“Relationships” Are Different in the Digital Age
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Ain’t That Peculiar?
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The bottom line: We don’t want to be sold to, we want to be educated.
Mike Lieberman, Hubspot.com
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Profit
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Profit
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It costs 6 to 7 times more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing one.
Bain & Company
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Profit
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The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60 – 70%. The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20%.
Marketing Metrics
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Profit
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An additional 5% retention in customers over their collective lifetimes results in an 85% to 125% increase in company margin over that same time period.
Frederick Reichheld, “The Loyalty Effect”
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Got to Give It Up
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70% of businesses agreed that “it is cheaper to retain than acquire a customer.”Econsultancy/Responsys Cross-Channel Marketing Report 2013
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You’re All I Need to Get By
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Don’t forget about #DatBuyingCycle
Right contentRight timeRight toneRight personaRight format
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Pause
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How Relationship Marketing?
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5 Keys to Relationship Marketing
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1. Goal is relationships, not immediate conversions
2. Must be client focused
3. Must be long-term focused: Lifetime, not transactional, value
4. Must foster two-way communication
5. Must be emotionally focused -Aiming for loyalty and trust
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Emotional Connection
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If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
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In It for the Long Haul
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Repeat Business
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Communication
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Customer Service Must Be a Conversation
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• Client feedback: Surveys and other tools
• Social communities
• Overarching guidelines: Must be in your DNA
• Continuous improvement
• Innovation
• Talk to customers, not at them; let them know they are valued
• Follow up
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Customer Service Must Be a Conversation
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Are you really as customer focused as you claim to be?
“With so much customer focus why am I not drowning in thank you cards?”
Maz Iqbal, CustomerThink.com
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How Sweet It Is
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Content Strategy Is Relationship Marketing
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Content Strategy and the Blog
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• Editorial calendar
• Style guide
• Voice and tone guidelines
• Personas
• Multiple uses of content
– Social
–Nurturing
– Source of video and podcast content
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Home Works Email
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How Social Media Fits In
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Three ways to use social media to support relationship marketing:
• Cultivate relationships
• Manage expectations
• Real-time engagement
Andrea Nica, SocialMediaStrategiesSummit.com
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Social
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How We Decide What to Write
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• Info resource for clients in market
• Client pain points
• Things outside of our core business (life, home, money)
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Success
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• Visits: Started at 60K, now around 150K
• Leads: Around 4,200 per month
• Email success
– Two audiences for Home Works
– Other email uses
• Boosts SEO
• #WhiteElephant
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But Don’t Sacrifice the Marketing for the Relationship
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Relationship marketing is about getting the customer to stick around long enough to keep shopping. And it’s about making sure that customer comes back next time to buy more stuff.Naomi Dunford, CopyBlogger.com
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Other Examples
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NASCAR
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O2 Max Fitness
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Conclusions
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Good content can help you build relationships and drive sales, if…
• You think about the bigger picture and can be patient.
• You can create an emotional connection.
• You listen.
#JustLikeRealLife