It’s not the content, it’s you | Catherine Toole | Sticky Content | Festival of Marketing

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Think you’ve got content problems? Chances are, they’re actually people problems. You can devise the cleverest content strategies known to man but if your colleagues and bosses won’t buy into them, they’ll remain lost forever in PowerPoint. ​ Come and learn the persuasion techniques used by content strategists around the world to overcome organisational inertia and: - create internal content advocacy - build a culture for content - win hearts and minds, budget and buy-in for improved content marketing - stop senior management interfering with content quality View Econsultancy’s content strategy trainer and chairman of Sticky Content's (now part of the Press Association) presentation on how to deal with the people mostly likely to mess up your content.

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Sticky Content does this…

…with these people

From Content Strategy for the Web by

Kristina Halvorson & Melissa Rach

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You can redesign a home page. You can buy a

new CMS. But unless you treat your content with

strategic consideration, you can’t fix your

website. It’s a pain point everyone shares

and content strategy offers relief.

From Content Strategy for the Web by

Kristina Halvorson & Melissa Rach

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The content strategy quad

Core

strategy

Substance

Structure

Workflow

Governance

People

components

© Brain Traffic 2011

Content

components

“Supplying content is not a priority for

people, not our culture”

“There is huge resistance to change –

we’ve always done it this way”

“Resource (it’s no one’s job)”

“We haven’t really defined our key

audiences”

“Politics: people want control of their

content”

“We produce content on demand“

“People ignore our guidelines“

“We can’t seem to communicate the

ROI of better content”

“We create content for print first”

“There’s pressure to generate immediate

leads“

“They want to push messages the users

aren’t interested in”

“Stakeholders make changes to content

which makes it crap”

Pain points

Pain points categorised

“We do content on demand “

“People ignore our guidelines “

“We can’t seem to communicate the ROI of better content”

“There’s pressure to generate immediate leads“

“They want to push messages the users aren’t interested in”

“Stakeholders make changes to content which makes it

crap”

“Supplying content is not a priority for people, not our

culture”

“There is huge resistance to change – We’ve always done it

this way”

“Resource (it’s no one’s job)”

“Politics: people want control of their content”

“We haven’t really defined our key audiences”

“We create content for print first”

Get your DUQS in a row

D ictate

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U pskill

Invest in an education programme

• workshops

• lunch & learn

• guest speakers

• boast posts

• event summaries

• competitive audits

• bring & share sessions

• training

Seek out content influencers.

Somewhere in that crowded canteen are

people who blog, tweet, pin and post –

but not necessarily about work.

Seriously, you’re Guido Fawkes?

Q uantify

Recognise real engagement

Bring in the brainiacs

Quantify your savings

Know the I of your ROI

Dr R.I. Singh of the University of Alberta

found that when people read complex

information on an iPhone-sized screen, their

comprehension levels drop to 48 per cent

of their desktop scores.

Bring in the brainiacs

Gather every proof point

• +32% conversion rate

• 4% increase in conversion from mobile site

• Reduced call time (1 second = > 10k per year)

• Faster booking time

• 5.5% increase in NPS (Customer sat) score

• Potential worth about 8M per year post migration

S ell it in

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Make focs and influence people

An extract from the foreword to Content Strategy

for the Web (2nd Edition) by Kristina Halvorson &

Melissa Rach by Sarah Cancilla, Facebook’s first

content strategist.

‘Mere hours after I made my quick-

and-dirty changes, we rolled out the

new version of the content module.

The result? Net traffic to this area of

the page rose 56%. Which is to say,

six million more people found friends,

invited friends, and tried Facebook

Mobile every week, purely as a result

of those tiny improvements...’

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DUQS in brief

Dictate: win trust & editorial power

Upskill: teach & seek other evangelists

Quantify the value of content

Sell it in: encourage a culture in which

content thrives

For a free copy of our ebook ‘40 clever ways to build

your business case for content’ visit:

www.stickycontent.com/fom

Complete our State of digital content survey to win a

Sticky Content audit

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