Creative and interesting ideas are the marketing product of contenrt marketing; however selling a creative concept to clients and stakeholders can be difficult. Particularly when there's no direct commercial model with free marketing content. Hannah Thorpe of theMediaFlow shares tactics and planning tips for building a business case for you creative content assets.

1. How to Create and Sell a
Digital Marketing Asset
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4. generating ideas is
a process, not an
accident

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6. ...understand the business strategy

7. Colonel Tom Kolditz:
Head of Behavioural Science, West Point

8. Commander’s
Intent
Be the lowest cost airline in the US
Business
Tactics
Should we offer an extra bar service each
flight?
Should there be more choice on the menu for
all flights?
Should we provide more leg room for
travellers?
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9. Problem Solving Content Industry Content Analysis
find data to support an idea

10. What’re people talking about?
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11. Problem Solving Content
DataMiner
Chrome Extension
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12. Problem Solving Content
Educational Value
Must-See
Family Holiday
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13. Industry Content Analysis
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15. Story
Clusters
Source
Materials
Idea
Pipeline
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16. Develop data into a creative idea

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18. Q & A on
holiday
activities
High Search
Volume
“UNESCO
sites”
High volume
of content
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20. Explain, demonstrate, Q &A

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25. Image Credits
Process Commander’s Intent Sell Data Creativity Discussion
Chip Heath & Dan Heath: Made to Stick
Joe Pulizzi: Epic Content Marketing
Rod Judkins: The Art of Creative Thinking
Simon Sinek: https://www.startwithwhy.com/
Avinash Kaushik: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/web-
analytics-101-definitions-goals-metrics-kpis-
dimensions-targets/#objectives