6. BuildYour Buyer Personas
Segment your audiences into
personas.
Personas represent your ideal
customers based on demographics,
consumer behaviors, pain points and
motivations.
Personas determine the problem to
solve, what’s needed most and
information searched online.
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8. Monitor Conversations
Assess Overall Sentiment
Target New Stakeholders
Identify Opportunities
Identify & Monitor Keywords:
Google Alerts, Hootsuite or
Tweetdeck, Social Mention
Audit Your Online Reputation
14. Create a Content Strategy
CheckYour Inventory
DetermineYour Audience
Develop Content based on
consumer interest
What if your customers looked
forward to receiving your marketing?
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17. Map Content to Buyer Cycle
Awareness:
Blog posts and social media updates
Research:
eBooks, webinars and whitepapers
Comparison:
case studies, demos and testimonies
Purpose:
Product Information, analyst reports
Marketing studies have shown that certain content works better in different stages of the buying cycle than others.
Social media has blown apart yesterday ’ s top-down communication funnel and replaced it with a peer-to-peer model of empowered citizens and producers. People are tiring of mass media and prefer to listen to their peers ’ recommendations about products, services and causes.Spend some time listening to the conversations your supporters, stakeholders or customers are having about your brand Assess overall sentiment. In the main, do people know what your organization is about? Do they like your goal but not how you ’ re going about it? Do they love your platform but don ’ t connect emotionally to your cause? Take the temperature of the room! - See more at: http://www.socialbrite.org/2011/01/10/guide-to-monitoring-social-media/#sthash.LGMeFng3.dpuf Keywords: Organization ’ s name Name of your chief executive or other individuals associated with your organization Names of key services, programs or brands Name and url of your blog or online community Name of key events you put on or attend Names of key terms or phrases in the sector Names of your competitors or other organizations in your space Anything else that ’ s distinctive to your mission or business objective - See more at: http://www.socialbrite.org/2011/01/10/guide-to-monitoring-social-media/#sthash.LGMeFng3.dpuf
Content Marketing means creating and sharing valuable content to attract and convert prospects into customers, and consumers into repeat buyers. Inventory: I s something you tabled and filed away 3 years ago useful in an e-book or newsletter? Audience: What you or your team find personally motivating/interesting/persuasive is not likely to be the same as what drives your customers and prospects. You have a unique, rich, second-nature, short-hand grasp of your industry, services, and benefits – your customers don ’ t. Google has a bevy of tools you can use to figure out what keywords and phrases your potential customers are using to find information when searching.
Prepare to be disappointed. There ’ s no secret formula. Be incredible. Have an excellent product or service. People don ’ t get passionate about the ordinary. Create great content. No, wait. Create incredible content. Create content that ’ s so good, so unique, informative, entertaining, heartwarming and hysterical that your targeted community won ’ t be able to NOT share it.