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        • B.A.N.T. May Be Old, But It Still Works
        • All The Martech In The World Won't Make You a Marketer
        • 9 Tips For Writing Effective PPC Ads
        • Blogging: 5 Reasons Why & 5 Tips for Success
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      • 06
        • The Lead Management Game - Winning Or Losing?
        • Part 1: Podcasts Should You Start Your Own Podcast?
        • Part 1: Blogs: Should You Start A Blog?
        • 8 Simple Ways to Increase Enrollments
      • 07
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        • Should You Buy or Generate Your Own Leads?
        • How to Overcome the 3 Reasons Most Miss Their Enrollment Goals
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        • 2 Commonly Overlooked Causes for Enrollment Shortfalls - And How to Fix Them
        • Designing and Writing Effective Direct Mail Packages
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        • Developing Your Content Marketing Strategy
        • How Content Marketing Can Increase Enrollments, Retention
    • 2017
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        • Influencer Marketing: More Confusion Over Simple Concept
        • 10+ Reasons Why Most College Marketing/Enrollment Plans Fail & How to Avoid Them
        • Marketing Planning 101 - Are You?
        • Are CMOs' Jobs in Jeopardy?
        • Lead Flow Planning - Getting It Right
        • Omni Channel or Not? Retail Survival or Not?
      • 02
        • Announcing Our New Enhanced On-Demand Services for Adult, Graduate and Continuing Education Programs
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        • Data-Driven Marketing...It's As Old As Index Cards, And Then Some...
        • Why They ain’t buying what you’re sellin’
      • 03
        • New Degree Programs: What You Must Learn from Google, Amazon and Apple
        • Student Recruitment & Retention Goes to the Movies
        • Just Outsource It!
      • 04
        • Why You’re Not Answering Their Questions
        • Adult Students: Are You Serious or Just Screwing Around?
        • Is Your Brand Safe?
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        • Event Marketing for Adult Enrollments
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        • Pros & Cons of In House Agency
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        • Webinar: 7 Proven Techniques for Increasing Adult Student Enrollments
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      • 05
        • Bring Programmatic Adv In House? Yes? No?
        • Call Attribution Tech - Do you need it?
        • Are you losing sales people?
        • Webinar: Adult Student Retention
        • Is ‘eMail Blindness’ Killing Your Business?
      • 06
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        • Marketers Wake Up...Get Those Phone #s
        • The Secret to Successfully Providing Life-long Learning
        • Higher Ed Marketing Podcast 3: Web Forms
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      • 07
        • 2 Secrets to Achieving Adult Enrollment Goals
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        • The Amazon Effect...Are You Ready?
        • Old Ways Don't Open New Doors
      • 08
        • Early Results: Adult Student Recruitment Effectiveness Part I of II
        • Early Results: Adult Student Recruitment Effectiveness Part II of II
        • Webinar: Competitive Intelligence 101
        • How to Say the Right Thing so More Adults Enroll
        • Clear Communications, not Content Marketing, is Key to Achieving Adult Enrollment Goals
      • 09
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        • Missing Unrealistic Goals
      • 10
        • What Are You Putting Into Your Sales Pipeline
        • Competitive Intelligence - What is it? Why do you need it?
      • 11
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        • Enrollment Opportunity: Under-served Segments
        • Why Colleges Are Failing to Achieve Adult Enrollment Goals
    • 2016
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        • Direct Marketing Planning
        • How Many Leads Do Our Sales Executives Need?
        • The Drones Are Coming!
        • New Study Identifies Opportunities to Improve Student Recruitment
        • Outbound Telemarketing Missing Opportunities As Part of College Student Recruitment
        • Student Retention Tips for 2016
        • Advantages of Direct Marketing
        • 6 Tips to Improve Your College's Content Marketing Performance
      • 02
        • Lead Flow Planning - Getting It Right
        • Are You Sitting Around Waiting for Business?
        • Get More Our of Your CRM Investment
        • Tips for Building Affordable, Effective Marketing Research Program
        • Smart College Recruitment Targets Wisely Using Segmentation
      • 03
        • Marketer's Toolkit Goes Mobile
        • A/B Testing: Some Important Rules to Follow
        • Targeting is Not Rocket Science
        • Snap Chat for Student Recruitment
        • Colleges Must Lead the Way in Marketing to Millennials
        • How Many Leads Do You Need?
        • Do You Know What a "Lead" Is?
        • Do You Know How Many Sales Leads You Need? Find Out With...
        • Content Marketing: It's a Mess
      • 04
        • What Is The Best Marketing Channel?
        • Do You Need a Marketing Plan?
        • Data Analytics Improve Enrollment Performance
        • Why Facilitated Strategic Planning Workshops are Most Effective for Your College...
        • Common Social Media Challenges and Solutions
        • 8 1/2 Common Errors in the Student Recruitment Process
      • 05
        • Differentiation - Colleges Need to Be Uniquely Valuable
        • Non-Traditional Students: Tips to Attract & Retain
        • Market Planning Process
        • Market Analysis - Identify Your Target Markets
        • Catalog Business Plan
        • 10 Common Digital Marketing Mistakes & Solutions
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        • How to Lower New Student Acquisition Costs
      • 06
        • Your Website Needs Help
        • Better Adwords Performance ASAP
        • Higher Education Marketing Assessment Tool: A Demo
        • Join Marketing Connection Today
        • Marketers Are Focused On the Wrong Things
        • Marketing...It's About the Numbers
        • Colleges Without Market Research: Penny-Wise, Pound Foolish
        • Top Benefits You Enjoy From a Mystery Shopper Audit
      • 07
        • The Future of Content Marketing
        • Pokemon Go: Student Recruitment & Retention?
        • Whatever the Channel: Marketing Success Depends on 5 Factors
        • When Your Customers Aren't Your Customers - Social Media Pitfalls
        • Content Marketing Success
        • Why You Can't Afford to Pass on a Retention Audit
      • 08
        • Your Trouble With Adwords
        • You Can't Recruit & Retain if You Don't Know Your Audience
        • Facebook Live for Student Recruitment
        • How to Make Significant Improvements to Student Recruitment Results
      • 09
        • Why Facilitated Strategic Planning Workshops are Most Effective for Your College...
        • Video Marketing: Tips for Greater Success
        • The Details Are in the Plans
        • Digital Metrics: How Much is Real & How Much is Bullshit?
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        • How You Can Enroll More Non-Traditional Students
        • Your Email Metrics Are Wrong
        • Too Much Content Too Much Waste
        • How Asking the Right Questions Can Increase Enrollments
        • Content Marketing for Higher Education Recruitment and Retention
      • 11
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Developing Your Content Marketing Strategy

Nov 21, 2018

Content Strategy

Developing your content marketing strategy is key to your ability to implement a successful content marketing program.

Define your content marketing goals.

What do you need to accomplish with your content marketing efforts?  Generate more leads that become customers? Generate more site traffic?  Increase awareness? Other?

Though setting up content marketing goals sounds basic and may have many of you rolling your eyes - it is the failure to start here that causes so many organizations to waste a large amount of their limited resources and fall far short of their sales and profit goals.

Your goals need to be focused and measurable.

Focused means that you should have two to four in number on the same outcome.  A couple on lead generation that generates new customers might be:

  • To generate # leads by DATE
  • To convert #/% of the new leads into new customers by DATE
  • To generate $ income from the new customers.

Develop Personas

Now that you know what you must produce, you need to understand who you need to focus on to achieve those goals.

If your audience is consumers, you want to gather information that gives you a solid understanding of their demographics, psychographics behavioral and geographic factors.

However, if your audience is other businesses, you have a two-step process that addresses the consumer with business factors.

For more specifics, check out this post about personas.

Content Audit

Most will focus on digital content - I strongly recommend any and all content.  Offline and online.

The reason is simple.

Most organizations develop unofficial communications and communications channels that share content/information with members of the target audience/personas and that leads to a lot of incorrect information being given to your audience/personas.  That is not good and should not be allowed.

Alright, grab some popcorn and your favorite beverage - this short 4-minute video will explain the process, offer suggestions and more.

What is your content management system?

Your system will oversee your on-going content creation (what is the topic, the media, the tasks and owners, due dates, deadlines, budget, etc.), content publication and analytics.

Some of the leading web/digital content management systems include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and TYPO3.

The challenge is that they aren't designed to address your traditional content needs.

Add More Meat to the Content Marketing Plan

Now that you know what you have, it's time to start laying out what content goes to which segment or persona at which stage of their decision-making process. That will help identify what you have, what you need to tweak/improve and what you need to create new and fresh.

Do you need more blog posts, white papers, checklists, ebooks...

When do you need them? For which personas are they needed?  When? Distribution channel?

What are the offers/calls-to-action for each piece of content, for each persona at each stage of their decision-making process?

Create, Review, Publish, Distribute and Manage Your Content

The next few steps are all about getting the content created and into the hands of your audience, so you can measure results and determine next steps.

Who is involved in the creation, review, and approval of content internally?  What are the tasks, milestones, owners for creation, review, modify and approval?

Once approved how is responsible for publishing and distributing via owned, earned, paid and social media channels?

And then once the content has been distributed, how are the key data points captured, stored and analyzed?

Conclusion

There is a lot of work to do but tools like our Editorial Calendar and Production Schedule will help.  Check out the "walk through" video that walks you through the automated features in the Calendar and Schedule.

And, of course, you can call us for assistance – we can help you with guidance or we can jump in and do the heavy lifting like the content audience and development of the plan.  



Tags: Higher Education Marketing, Content Marketing, B2B Marketing, B2C Marketing
Category: Content Marketing

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Patrick McGraw is VP of Higher Educaton Marketing Services and has more than 25 years experience in market research, competitive intelligence, business intelligence including database marketing and CRM, strategic planning, brand development and management as well as operations/campaign management. His work has consistently helped his clients and employers develop and implement more efficient ways to attract and retain profitable customers, enter new markets and launch new products. His areas of focus include the education, hospitality, travel and tourism, hi-tech, telecommunications, financial services, and retail industries on both the agency and customer sides.


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