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Quality Content
On Scale
Stacey MacNaught
Tecmark
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100+ Years Earlier…
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http://www.viamichelin.co.uk/web/Restaurants
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www.jello.com/recipes
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Quality is assumed
Over 7 million blog
posts per day
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Over 4,800 blog
posts per minute
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Competition for
audience is tough
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How do we define
“quality?”
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“Quality” varies
depending on your goals
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• Simple
• Unexpected
• Concrete
• Credible
• Emotional
• Stories
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Quality doesn’t always
mean “pretty.”
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29570615
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http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/26/artificial-intelligence-davos-
humanity-internet-yahoo
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It was not pretty.
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But it was original
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It told a story
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It resonated with people
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The data was credible
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It had a shock factor
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Even my Nan cared.
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221 times a
day?! The
world’s going to
shit
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Sometimes, visuals do
matter
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http://www.travelbag.co.uk/a-day-in/dubai/
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The angle was not
original
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So the execution had
to be
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Essential Elements in
Creating Quality
Content
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Audience research
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Audience research
Competitor research
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Audience research
Competitor research
Ideation
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Audience research
Competitor research
Ideation
Production
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Audience research
Competitor research
Ideation
Production
Promotion
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Audience Research
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Facebook Graph Search
Queries for Content Marketers
http://www.tecmark.co.uk/facebook-graph-search-queries/
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Google Display Planner
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answerthepublic.com
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Faqfox.com
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http://sonar.bottlenose.com/
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Make the Data Matter
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Competitor Research
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Facebook Pages to Watch
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Topsy (site: search)
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Backlink Analysis Tools
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Mentions Tools
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Ideation
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“Nothing is as dangerous
as an idea when it’s the
only one we have.”
-Émile Chartier
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We needed an efficient
means of ideas generation
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Where do you look for
inspiration on efficiency?
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These guys have nailed
efficiency
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Introducing Bernd Rohrbach
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And his 6-3-5 method of
brainwriting
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http://blogsession.co.uk/2014/03/635-method-brainwriting/
108 ideas in 30 minutes
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We developed a tool
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http://635.tecmark.co.uk/
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This took us from not having
enough ideas
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To having too many ideas
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(Some people are never happy)
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NUF Testing to ditch the
weakest
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Worst Ideas
Technique
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Content Production
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Remember – either the
angle or the execution
should be original
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Acquiring Original Data
Through Surveys
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Acquiring Original Data
Through FOI
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Build Frameworks for
Efficiency
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One Idea. Multiple Assets
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Think multiscreen
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Especially if you’re promoting
on social media
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http://www.futurebristol.co.uk/
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OMG SHARE ME!!!!!!!!!
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80%+ of Twitter traffic is mobile.
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Managing Production at
Scale
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https://realtimeboard.com/app/
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Content Promotion
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Build it and they
will come
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BOLLOCKS.
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Your content is
not the Eiffel
Tower.
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Put as much into promotion as
production
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http://relevance.com/introducing-the-content-
promotion-ecosystem/
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Paid promotion is often
overlooked
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Sourcing Outreach Targets
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Read these:
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http://blogsession.co.uk/2014/02/freedman-and-fraser-compliance-without-pressure/
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Consider Your Approach
Method
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Read this:
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Thank you
stacey.macnaught@tecmark.co.uk
@staceycav

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Editor's Notes

  • #42: Without any paid promotion, this piece of content became their most engaged with. Would that have been the case if we’d just created a “things to do in Dubai,” list? I don’t believe so.
  • #71: By the end of your competitor research, you should understand what sort of content your competitors are producing, how well it’s working and what people are engaging with.
  • #101: You can increase your efficiency by getting the most out of your big idea. So, if you run a survey, you might have press releases, a blog post, a related Slideshare deck, a visualisation of some sort… But one idea can be repurposed for multiple channels
  • #120: Remember this