Post on 17-Oct-2014
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Selling #RCS to your boss…
Wil Reynolds Associate
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I’m an SEO, not a
“sales guy”
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Wrong Answer!
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We are all in sales!!
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Wise up, Life is a pitch!
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Selling Hope, Belief, Value BRAND
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Real Company Stuff #RCS
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Step 1 – The idea
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Where do good ideas come from?
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Addressing an unmet need
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Help B
usinesses
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I can’t mention a competitor!
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Doesn’t change the fact customer is looking for a
SOLUTION
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Go Onelogin!
+ Quora?
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Some Cray Ideas
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VhJSHUB415g
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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Look at the shares!
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Where do you keep “inspired” marketing?
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Here’s mine… http://bit.ly/inspirationstarts
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Red Tettemer + Partners 42 Ads of the world Entertainment 72 and Sunny Trendhunter Simplyzesty Springwise
Mullen
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Step 2: The PITCH
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How the heck did they get the $$ to do that?
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THEY PITCH BIG
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Students of the pitch and of aligning marketing ideas to company goals…
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Consultants Framework Tim Wilson @tgwilson
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We believe that… If we are right then… To test this we will need…
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Pitching The needs of others
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Path of
least resistance
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Execs don’t care about
“link building”
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Open their Eyes
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Social Proof
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“According to a recent study”
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Celebrate V
ictory!!!
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@wilreynolds “You created an infographic”
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Jo Ling Kent
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@wilreynolds You created an infographic
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Company Mission?
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Align marketing with the bigger vision…10-k
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How does link building
align with corporate strategy?
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What is the corporate strategy?
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Stalk the CEO/CMO CNBC, NYT, Google News
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Make friends 2 teams
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Team 1 Public Relations
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You can still help
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Target Influencer List – what words do they use
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What are their most popular tweets?
STALK!.
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@AndrewMeyer8 HARO analysis over time “for a story” over time
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@stephbeadell
@wilreynolds New Friends in PR
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Team 2: Branding
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Value Consistency?
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Make friends? Fix Inconsistency
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Step 3: Analyze
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Consultants Framework Tim Wilson @tgwilson
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We tested… [idea] As a result we… [data] Which resulted in [outcome]
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Based on this, next we recommend…
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Momentum
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They Spinnin’
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Content Acceleration Idea + Pitch + Analyze
in action
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Netw
ork: Taboola
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Idea, take existing content w/ social
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SPEND: $1700 DAYS: 26 CPC: .15 CAPS: $75/Day
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IMPRESSIONS: 20,050,570 CLICKS: 11,006 CTR: .0549% LINKS: 82 SOCIAL SHARES: 1,000*
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Idea + Pitch + Data + Next Winning
About me.
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Wil Reynolds Founder