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Creating & Executing a Great Content Strategy
ESSAE Annual Meeting 2014
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About Me
Helping organizations communicate online
more effectively since 1996
Hilary Marsh, Content Company Confab, June 5 2013
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LOGO LOGO LOGO LOGO
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Why do people visit your website?
Design? Graphics?
Widgets?
The carousel on your homepage?
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Content lets users do what they need to do
• Take advantage of what you offer • Find out why they should join or stay
• Learn how your association helps them in their profession
• Not need to call you to answer a question
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Content lets you achieve your goals
• Attract prospective members • Retain and engage current members
• Increase use of programs, resources, tools, and information
• Increase awareness of and participation in political advocacy efforts
• Increase non-dues revenue
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Content problems?
• Language/jargon • Prioritized promotion
• Content hoarding
• Bad editorial processes
• New content missing
• Different content on different channels
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Yes, content problems
• Hard to find information • Too many publishers
• Who’s in charge of the home page?
• “4002.pdf”
• Website is based on our org chart
• Not accessible from a mobile device
• “We should be on YouTube”
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Content exercise
What’s in the bag?
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Content lessons
• You are not your member • You are not your audience
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Who What When of publishing Where content online WHY How
What is content strategy?
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Myths your members think about digital • It’s free, instant, and you can do it in your spare time
• Search engines will find your information instantly and display it at the top of the first page of what anyone searches for
• Any video they make will go viral
• Every member wants to share information about the board’s latest initiative
• Your home page and social media posts should be primarily about your association
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The real facts
• Every digital channel needs a strategy and the right identity. The more channels, the more time and complexity.
• Page views are not a goal – the goal is the goal.
• You can’t succeed in your goals unless your users succeed in theirs
• Success builds over time
• Think > plan > do – all three steps are required
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Quality Takes Time Good web writing is
• Short
• Active
• Scannable: uses bullets and subheads
• Leads with the most important information
• Readable – aim for 9th grade
– test at read-able.com
• Free of jargon
• Has compelling headlines that will make sense even out of context
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“I have made this [le.er] longer than usual because I have not had 7me to make it shorter.” Blaise Pascal, 1657"
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Content Lifecycle
Conceive Create Publish Promote Maintain ReHre
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Conceive and create
• Conceive • Set goals
– Business: make or save money
– User: increase satisfaction/encourage use or decrease dissatisfaction/reduce customer service needs & costs
• Create
• Optimize – On-site – Search engines
– Other outlets
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Publish and promote
• Publish – Review process: quality, facts
– Content Management System (Wordpress)
• Promote – On-site: home page, landing pages, topics
– Off-site: e-newsletters, social media, advertising
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Maintain and retire
• Maintain • Measure
– Test and tweak
– Refine
• Retire – Archive/Delete/”Unpublish”
– Renew
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Who’s involved?
• Staff – Technology
– Marketing – Communications
– Membership – Programming
• Committees – All of the above
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Associations are complicated
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Everything is content
• Programs • Products
• Services
• Publications
• Webinars
• Reports
• Events
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Similar topics – are they connected? • Programs • Products
• Services
• Publications
• Webinars
• Reports
• Events
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Be a “deejay” for your content
• Save time • Save $$
• Help members help themselves
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Content strategy for membership
• User goals • Business needs
• Promotion timeline/calendar
• Testing and tweaking
• Content reuse
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Content strategy for events
• User goals • Business needs
• Promotion timeline/calendar
• Testing and tweaking
• Content reuse
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Content exercise
• Create a page table
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Content exercise
• Start filling in a calendar
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Hilary Marsh, Content Company Confab, June 5 2013
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