Let’s face it: the Internet is becoming a pretty noisy place and building an audience from scratch can take a very long time today. Getting content cited and covered by prudent media outlets with massive built-in audiences can break through the noise, get your content seen and drive meaningful returns, quickly. Chad Pollitt reveals the results of how converging owned, paid and earned media can drive millions of media impressions while drastically improving brand awareness, conversions and traffic, and ROI in the quarter the campaign is launched. In this SEMrush guest webinar (that originally aired on December 9, 2014), you'll learn: Why most content marketing campaigns are ineffective How to succeed with content promotion Which tools and channels are available to help facilitate success How to budget for content promotion

1. #CONTENTPROMO
How Content Promotion
Changed Digital Marketing
Forever
Chad Pollitt
VP of Audience & Co-Founder,
Relevance

2. CHAD
POLLITT
@chadpollitt
VP of Audience, Co-founder

3. AGENDA
1 Content Failure Fatigue
2 The Problem
3 The Solution
4 The Content Promotion Ecosystem
5 Success Stories
6 How it’s Done
7 How to Budget

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1 Content Failure Fatigue

5. Great Content Goes
Unread Every Day
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6. #CONTENTPROMO
Only 13
Unique
Views

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How Does It Make
You Feel?

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Some people
might feel
ANGRY

9. Others might
just roll their
eyes in
FRUSTRATION
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10. #CONTENTPROMO
A feeling of
DISGUST
would be
perfectly
normal, too

11. Some people
might feel
DEMORALIZED or
EMBARRASSED
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12. #CONTENTPROMO
…Or maybe
just THIS?

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2 The Problem

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Every Minute of Every Day

15. - Mashable
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Every Minute of Every Day

16. 571 websites are launched
- Mashable
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Every Minute of Every Day

17. 571 websites are launched
350,000 tweets are tweeted
- Mashable
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Every Minute of Every Day

18. 571 websites are launched
350,000 tweets are tweeted
48 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded
- Mashable
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Every Minute of Every Day

19. #CONTENTPROMO

20. Over
2.73 million
blog posts are written and
published daily
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The Content Promotion Manifesto

21. Many Industries
are Oversaturated
with Content
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22. #CONTENTPROMO
Facebook’s organic reach is at 6% and dropping
- Ogilvy & Mather

23. With other networks following suit
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24. 42 of the top 50 SEO ranking factors are off-page
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Including the top 12 factors overall
- Moz, 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors

25. On-page content only has an indirect
impact on off-page signals
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26. SEO is not something you do anymore, it’s what
happens when you do everything else right
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27. #CONTENTPROMO
The Internet is…
a VERY noisy place
for a brand to
stand out and be
found today

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Only
37%
of marketers believe they’re
using their content effectively
CMI

29. This isn’t a
CONTENT PROBLEM
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30. #CONTENTPROMO
It’s an AUDIENCE
PROBLEM

31. So what should
marketers do
about it?
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32. #CONTENTPROMO
Should they
produce more
content?

33. How about
increasing its
quality?
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34. Brands can actually step down content
production and step up distribution
[promotion] to get better results
Ryan Skinner, Forrester
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“

35. Better distribution [promotion] improves
content’s quality, as the feedback cycle
accelerates
Ryan Skinner, Forrester
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“

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3 The Solution:
Content Promotion

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38. #CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations

39. #CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach

40. #CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles

41. #CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication

42. #CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
Native Newsletter

43. Native Newsletter
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
Native Advertising

44. Native Newsletter
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication
Native Advertising
Native Social

45. Native Newsletter
Native Advertising
Native Social
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials

46. Native Newsletter
Native Advertising
Native Social
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Press Releases

47. Native Newsletter
Native Advertising
Native Social
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Social Media
Press Releases

48. Native Newsletter
Native Advertising
Native Social
#CONTENTPROMO
Media Relations
Influencer Outreach
Bylined Articles
Syndication Advertorials
Social Media
Email
Press Releases

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4 The Content Promotion
Ecosystem

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Content
Promotion
Tools
bit.ly/promotion-ecosystem

51. It has been found that the less an
advertisement looks like an advertisement
and the more it looks like an editorial, the
more readers stop, look and read
David Ogilvy, the “Father of Advertising”
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“

52. #CONTENTPROMO
• Adproval
• BlogHer
• Blogsvertise
• BuySellAds
• Cision
• GroupHigh
• HubSpot
• IZEA
• Markerly
• Sway Group
• The Syndicate
Advertorial Networks

53. #CONTENTPROMO
5 Success Stories

54. The Greatest
Hoodie Ever Made
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55. #CONTENTPROMO
American
Giant
Earned coverage
from Slate.com
and Esquire

56. #CONTENTPROMO
forced a
15 to 20x
increase in production and
still barely met demand.
Inc.com

57. American
Giant
Very difficult to
get media coverage
for a product, but
Bayard Winthrop
pulled it off
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58. #CONTENTPROMO
Great product and
story with purposeful
promotion

59. How Rodon Beats
Chinese Pricing
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60. #CONTENTPROMO
The Rodon
Group
Earned coverage
from virtually every
major media outlet
“Cheaper than China” Ebook

61. The Rodon
Group
…BECAUSE of
an in-person
endorsement
from the POTUS
#CONTENTPROMO

62. Great content with purposeful promotion
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63. #CONTENTPROMO
Content that
Advanced an
Industry

64. #CONTENTPROMO
Slingshot SEO
Earned coverage
from academia,
media outlets and
industry influencers
around the world

65. Even an onstage endorsement from Rand Fishkin at INBOUND 2012
#CONTENTPROMO

66. #CONTENTPROMO
Slingshot SEO
Research and
media relations
enabled the study to
advance an industry

67. #CONTENTPROMO
Great content and
research with purposeful
promotion

68. Content promotion
that drove eight-digits
of incremental
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revenue

69. #CONTENTPROMO
Teradata
Earned coverage
from 46 media
outlets and trade
publications
“Big Data Marketing Hero” Ebook

70. Over 3 million media impressions
25% landing page conversion rate
30 global brand prospect meetings
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71. #CONTENTPROMO
Teradata
A full-on owned,
paid and earned
media blitz drove
36x return on
investment

72. Great content and
promotion on all three
media channels
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73. #CONTENTPROMO
The Bottom Line
for You?

74. Start with GREAT
Content and
Promote It
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75. 800+ incremental leads
in 14 days from one
mention on Inc.com
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6 How it’s Done

77. Research
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Define Personas
Media Assessment
Audience Assessment
Content Assessment
Influencer Identification
Research

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Creative

80. Create content and all
supporting assets
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Creative

81. Promotion
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82. Promotion
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Finalize Pitch Angles
Editorial Outreach
Influencer Outreach
Paid Media
Email
Social Media

83. #CONTENTPROMO
Conversion

84. A/B Testing
Retargeting
Marketing Automation
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Conversion

85. 7 How to Budget for Content
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Promotion

86. Half the money I spend on advertising is
wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which
half
John Wanamaker, the “Father of the Modern
Department Store”
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“

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63%
of marketers believe they’re NOT
using their content effectively
CMI

88. 2013 Spending on Content Promotion
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89. 2013 Spending on Content Promotion
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On average,
brands spent at least…

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15.2%
of content marketing budgets on
promotion
Content Promotion Manifesto

91. This is a Recipe for
FAILURE
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92. Our Premiere Sponsor’s Clients Spent
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93. Our Premiere Sponsor’s Clients Spent
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40% of their content
marketing budgets
on promotion

94. 40% to 60% is a
Recipe for SUCCESS
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95. #CONTENTPROMO
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