The Basics of Content Marketing

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Blue Fountain Media Marketing Strategist Stephanie Walton discusses the basics of content marketing. This presentation explores what content marketing is and why you should be putting it to use for your business.

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Blue Fountain Media 102 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10016

Phone: 212.260.1978 Fax: 800-278-0816

www.BlueFountainMedia.com

Content Marketing The Basics

What is Content Marketing?

What is Content Marketing?

The Free Economy

What is Content Marketing?

The Free and Re-Purposed Economy

What is Content Marketing?

Content Marketing:

The sharing of stories, knowledge, and/or information in a way that encourages brand

engagement, evangelism, and sales.

What is Content Marketing?

What can we give away for free?

The Role of Content Marketers

The term “content marketing” was first used in 1996 at a roundtable for

journalists at the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The Role of Content Marketers

Content Marketers

Editors

The reader is the priority. Not the

client.

(Read New York Magazine)

Curators

Total immersion in what our clients

do.

(Go to museums.)

Marketers

Messaging, persuasion, and distribution are

key.

(Know your channels.)

The Role of Content Marketers

What is included in content marketing?

What is included in content marketing?

Evaluation Creation Distribution Analysis

What is included in content marketing?

Evaluation Creation Distribution Analysis

• Knowledge of our client and business.

• Messaging and Branding

• Audience Modeling

• Set Goals

• Hurdles

What is included in content marketing?

• What’s the story?

• Media Types

– Blog posts, infographics, SlideShares, webinars, ebooks, white papers, case studies, newsletters, videos, etc.

• Gathering your resources – Designers, interview with the client, time to research the

topic, a PR person

Evaluation Creation Distribution Analysis

What is included in content marketing?

You can’t do content marketing without a distribution channel.

Evaluation Creation Distribution Analysis

Social Media

SEO

PPC

Public Relations

Content

What is included in content marketing?

• What’s performing? What’s not?

Evaluation Creation Distribution Analysis

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Average of % Social

Examples of Content Marketing

We are

helpers and storytellers.

THANK YOU.

Stephanie Walton Marketing Specialist

Visit us at: www.bluefountainmedia.com

Get to know us: @BFMWeb / www.facebook.com/bfmweb

Speak with us: 212.260.1978

102 Madison Avenue, Floor 2, New York, NY 10016