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Checklist for Scaling Content Operations Establish a Content Marketing Lead & Center of Excellence Team Is someone accountable for “content marketing”? (43% of companies have a content marketing lead) bit.ly/CMTactics2014 Have you hired a team with the right skills and characteristics? bit.ly/CMAnatomy Do you have a team charter to create valuable content and enable the rest of your organization to be great content marketers? Have you identified roles and responsibilities for your team members, and opportunities for growth? 1. Define Content Marketing & Build Internal Support Do you have a definition of content marketing that matches your company’s and customers’ needs? Does management understand the value of content marketing? Have you secured short-term content marketing wins to demonstrate success? Have you engaged with other content marketers across your company? Additional Resources Curation 101 Webinar: Attend a webinar hosted by Curata CMO Michael Gerard to learn the basics of content curation. bit.ly/curation101webinar The Comprehensive Guide to Content Marketing Analytics & Metrics: This eBook explains how to measure content against 8 dierent metrics. bit.ly/CMmetrics Does the rest of your company know what your team does, and are you aligned with them? 3. Develop a Content Marketing Supply Chain Have you mapped our your content marketing supply chain with a process flow diagram? Is the Content Marketing Pyramid TM used to optimize reuse and repurpose of content? bit.ly/CMPyramid Are you using metrics to determine the impact of content on the pipeline? Do you use a mix of 65% created, 25% curated and <10% syndicated content? bit.ly/CMTactics2014 Are you marketing your marketing? (e.g., social media, influencer marketing, newsletters, sales enablement) Consolidate and Integrate Content Marketing Applications Is your content marketing team collaborating with marketing operations? Have you completed a content marketing technology audit? Are content marketing applications integrated with marketing and sales automation platforms? Do marketers have freedom to experiment with new applications? Has a content audit been completed? (e.g., personas, buying stage) 4. 2. © 2014 Curata, Inc. ! www.curata.com ! Email: [email protected]

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Checklist for Scaling Content Operations

Establish a Content Marketing Lead & Center of Excellence Team

Is someone accountable for “content marketing”? (43% of companies have a content marketing lead) bit.ly/CMTactics2014

Have you hired a team with the right skills and characteristics? bit.ly/CMAnatomy

Do you have a team charter to create valuable content and enable the rest of your organization to be great content marketers?

Have you identified roles and responsibilities for your team members, and opportunities for growth?

1.  Define Content Marketing & Build Internal Support

Do you have a definition of content marketing that matches your company’s and customers’ needs?

Does management understand the value of content marketing?

Have you secured short-term content marketing wins to demonstrate success?

Have you engaged with other content marketers across your company?

Additional Resources

Curation 101 Webinar: Attend a webinar hosted by Curata CMO Michael Gerard to learn the basics of content curation. bit.ly/curation101webinar

The Comprehensive Guide to Content Marketing Analytics & Metrics: This eBook explains how to measure content against 8 di!erent metrics. bit.ly/CMmetrics

Does the rest of your company know what your team does, and are you aligned with them?

3. Develop a Content Marketing Supply Chain

Have you mapped our your content marketing supply chain with a process flow diagram?

Is the Content Marketing PyramidTM used to optimize reuse and repurpose of content? bit.ly/CMPyramid

Are you using metrics to determine the impact of content on the pipeline?

Do you use a mix of 65% created, 25% curated and <10% syndicated content? bit.ly/CMTactics2014 Are you marketing your marketing? (e.g., social media, influencer marketing, newsletters, sales enablement)

Consolidate and Integrate Content Marketing Applications

Is your content marketing team collaborating with marketing operations? Have you completed a content marketing technology audit? Are content marketing applications integrated with marketing and sales automation platforms? Do marketers have freedom to experiment with new applications?

Has a content audit been completed? (e.g., personas, buying stage)

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What’s your Content Marketing Challenge?

Content Marketing Tools, The Ultimate List

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Social Media Analytics4

Website Analytics4

Marketing Automation

Marketing Automation & CRM Ecosystem

Email

Email Marketing Tools

Social Media Management

Social Media Management & Listening

Tools

Sales Enablement

Promoting

Sponsorship & Ad Buys

Web Analytics4

Created

Content Agencies

Funnel Analytics4Personalization

SEO Analytics4

Curated

Social Bookmarking

Media Monitoring

Social Media

Blogging & CMS

Optimizing Enriching Localization Collaborating

Content Authoring Tools

Presentation Audio

eBooks Graphics Video

Other

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Digital Asset Management

Webinars Syndicating

Analytics

Sourcing

PRODUCING

Composing By Form

ORGANIZING

DISTRIBUTING

By Channel

MEASURING CMS

Ecosystem