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Agenda

TRENDS & OPPORTUNITIES

HOW WE CAN TRANSFORM

MEASURES AND GUIDELINES

TECHNICAL INFORMATION AS A PROFIT CENTER

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Key Questions

1What’s the cost of poor documentation?

Do you know?

2Is content the new sales opportunity?

How?

3What’s the true value of Content or RoI?

Any guesses?

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Become a CONTENT CHAMPION

Instruction Manuals,Guides, PDFs, HTML help,

Tools, Publishing

USEFUL and RELEVANT

CONTENT

Become a CUSTOMER ADVOCATE

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SALEABLE PRODUCT CUSTOMER ACQUISTION AND

SATISFACTION

INCREASED BRAND SUCCESS

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CUSTOMER

CONTENTEXPERIENCE

The Value of CONTENT

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OpportunitiesInvolve in the Buyer journey

Track performance and Repeat

Expand the reachEdu, Service, UX, CX

Customer First Content Amplify and be a thought leader

Content as acquisition engine

Solve pain points

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GEORGE STENITZER Content Strategy / Understanding Your Audience4 Ways to Model the Buyer’s Journey

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Questions??

and some answers too!

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Senior Information Services Engineer

[email protected]

Ravi Kumar Adapa

@ravikumaradapa