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Content Marketing Swiss Federal Railways, SBB Sarah Stiefel Head of Content Marketing, E-Business Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland [email protected] www.sbb.ch - www.cff.ch - www.ffs.ch ENTER 2015 Swiss day

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Content MarketingSwiss Federal Railways, SBB

Sarah Stiefel Head of Content Marketing, E-Business

Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland

[email protected]

www.sbb.ch - www.cff.ch - www.ffs.ch

ENTER 2015 Swiss day

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Sarah StiefelHead of Content Marketing

SBB E-Business

@cielettawww.about.me/cieletta

[email protected]

1. Intro 5’

2. Content Strategy & Platforms 5’

3. Practical Examples 10’

4. Questions

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The biggest Transport Company in

Switzerland.

SBB Passenger

Traffic

967 000 pers./day

SBB Cargo

175‘000 t goods/day

SBB Infrastructure

3138km rail network

SBB Real Estate

3500 buidlings

29 000 employees

from 93 countries of origin

in 150 professions.

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Rail Europe Transport Int.

Excursions Domestic

Switzerland Travel CenterHotels domestic

Holiday Appartements

Travel Agency Intern.

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Domestic Transportation

Strategic Partnership

Swiss Tourism

Transportation Europe

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European tourism marketing organizations of boarder

countries.

International tourism marketing organizations and service

providers.

Domestic Tourism Incoming/Outgoing Tourism

Swiss Travel System Transport Incoming

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Content Marketing SBB Swiss Federal Railways

Swiss eTourism Day

ENTER Conference, Lugano

February 3rd 2015

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Challenge

• Consumers get more and more commercial messages, this leads to information overkill and advertising fatigue.

Mission

• Communication of the right content to the right target groups in the right format and through the right channels to generate traffic on our platforms.

Strategy

• Relevant content told in the form of topics and stories marketed to the right target groups through the most accurate channel mix…

Benefit

• … leads potential customers on our platforms, where they generate traffic and buy our products.

Content Strategy.

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Editorial Planning

• Annual planning with scheduled main-topics and weekly detail planningwith related content chronologically set up arround the main-topics.

Basic Content

• High quality basic content (information content) for every main-topic: SBB wording, translation, grammar, SEO, multimedia, on site UX, conversion process.

Editorial Content

• Editorial content for each main-topic: Interviews, experience reports, background infos, SBB topic related news and interaction stories.

• Aggregation of user generated content (ex. through curated #hashtags).

Content Distrib.

• Content distribution through owned & social media (earned media)chronologically set up according to the annual main-topics schedule.

• Paid Media for marketing campaign topics.

Operational implementation.

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SBB.chm.sbb.ch

Micro-

sites

SBB Newsletter

SBB Blog

Pinterest

Landing-

pages

Instagram

Dialog-Platforms

«Customer Service»

Platforms & Content Distribution

Partners

SBB Homepage

Mobile

App

Vimeo

Google+

Owned Media Social Media (Earned Media)

Content Aggregators

Traffic Destinations Content Distribution-

Platforms

Traffic Generators

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

+ Paid Media (Marketing campaigns)

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News Monitoring

What's going on out there?

What is spoken about?

Where and how are we taking part in the

conversation?

Editorial Planning

What comes from within?

How do we want to position ourselves?

What belongs on the agenda?

Content Creation

What content are we creating?

In which forms? for what platforms?

By what means?

Content Distribution

How do we distribute the content?

On which platforms?

Who reads/shares it and why? Analytics

In a Nutshell: The SBB digital Newsroom

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Practical Cases

- « Leisure Back-pack Real-time Giving»

- « RailAway Groups School-class Trip»

- « Special Offer for Salzburg SBB Mozart»

- « Geneva Cornavin Inauguration»

- « SBB Advent Calendar 2014» (prime example)

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« Leisure Back-pack Real-time Giving»

Owned Media Social Media (Earned Media)

SBB Homepage

YouTube

Twitter

InfluencerConceptReal Time

Giving

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« RailAway Groups School-class Trip »

Owned Media Social Media (Earned Media)

SBB Blog

Instagram

YouTube

Twitter

Paid Media: CHF 0.-

#SBBSchulreise

User Generated Content

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« Special Offer for Salzburg SBB Mozart»

VS.

Advertising Content Marketing

120’000

organic views on

Youtube!

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«Geneva Cornavin

Inauguration»

Storytelling

& User Generated Content

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« Geneva Cornavin Inauguration»

Owned Media Social Media (Earned Media)

Paid Media: CHF 0.-

SBB Homepage

User Generated Content

Over 200 pictures

from participants

YouTube

#CFFMilou

#CFFCornavin

SBB Blog

(Story)

InfluencerConceptBlogger Apéro

Blogposts and

UGC from Bloggers

and Influencers

(multiplicators)

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#CFFMilou

#CFFCornavin

Case «New Geneva Cornavin»

User Generated

Content

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«Hello» from the SBB Content Team!

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Learnings

1. Define a goal and target group for each concept.

2. ROI Calculate your resources: budget & HR.

3. Join forces for more impact & lower prod. costs.

4. Find a trigger to your Story: offline activates online.

Now the prime example:

5. « SBB Advent Calendar 2014»

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«Advent Calender 2014»

Integrated Communication

& Interaction Content

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Case «Advent Calendar 2014»

Owned Media Social Media (Earned Media)

Highest Clickrates

ever!

Most successful

Blogpost 2014

SBB Newsletter

SBB Homepage

SBB Blog

Facebook

YouTube

Twitter

Paid Media: only very little to get the Youtube Video started.

Advent

CalendarLandinpage

92’000 views

YT

Over 300’000

organic reach

FB

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The integrated online communication on "Advent" has

been a huge success. The varied prices reflected the diversity

of the SBB products related to Christmas and what everybody

gets out of it playing it together!

170’000

participants

312’543

Visits

8 Mio.

Impressionen

Case «Advent Calendar 2014»

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Thank you. Questions?