how to develop your blog & content plan - milkit blogging webinar by doyle buehler 2015 07

The Digital Leadership Training Series

How To Develop Your Blog & Content

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What’s Important Today?

Content DevelopmentYour PersonaHelping Out Your Blog

What Are YOU Going To “TALK” About?

WHO Are You Talking to?

INFLUENCE To ACTION• Move your “audience” to your own lists and

own pages.• Not about “engagement”• About INFLUENCE• WIIFM?• What Do You Want To Achieve?

What is Content?• Not just a “blog”

– Ebooks, checklists, webinars, videos, web text, images, infographics, stories, books, course, training…

• Educating Your Audience• Creating awareness of ‘you’ (Profile)• Informing about their “environment”• Focused on YOUR keywords

Content – What to Say• From Content Plan?• To Whom? Persona• Are you delivering

your value?

Your CONTENT Drives Your Audience

• What is YOUR Original Content?– Not all sales– Your Business Value– WIIFM? “What’s In It For Me”

• Where is your Digital Leadership? Your Strategy?

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“Your CONTENT is what people READ about you when you’re not around”

What About Keywords?

• Yes, research!– https://www.google.com.au/trends/– https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner– http://www.semrush.com/

More so, they distill out as PART of your VALUE statements, Your digital strategy, and your specific

content!

Defining Your Audience

Identify Your PersonaTARGET PERSONA: ________________________________________ Job title/Role: ____________________________________________ Typical challenge: _________________________________________ Needs Gap: ______________________________________________ Funnel position: __________________________________________ What she cares about: _____________________________________

Place your persona’s picture here and give her a name, to help your content team keep her top-of-mind.

How to Grow you Audience With Content?

• Reciprocity – SHARE LIKE COMMENT– As ‘your’ business & personal profile

• Interest Followers & Leaders – Key People of Influence in Your Industry• Add YOUR content to the mix

– Value from your strategy?– WIIFM?

• Be proactive & Outgoing – “ASK” to connect for personal pages– 5 Minutes/day

How To Launch Your Content Development Program

Step 1 – Define Your PersonaStep 2 – Identify Your Channels – Where IS your audience?Step 3 – Define your Story, Your Goals – The Why, The ValueStep 4 – Develop Your Content Types *BLOG*Step 5 – Create Your Schedule. STICK with it!Step 6 – Create Your Content Matrix - Distribute & Dominate Step 7 – Repurpose, Re-use

Content Creator Worksheet

Blog Detailer

Blog Template – Part 1[Main Detailed Title 3-5 keywords][Subtitle: 2-3 Sentences][URL: Keywords] What you will learn [Introduction content, key bullet points that you will cover]New [company] Blog By [author][Main Blog Content 200-500 words] [Links to 1 or more previous blogs, written into content, where applicable][Links to 1 or more external references, where applicable][1-2 Images, with proper tags, referencing and linking]

[Proper close, conclusion, wrap up with “what you have learned, and how to use it”] Thank you for reading!

Blog Template – Part 2If you need additional help with this topic on [XYZ], or would like more information, just send me a quick email [email address] and I will help you get there. I am always excited to hear from you, and to help you […].

Has this article been helpful? Please comment below or send me an email. I am always excited to hear from people making it happen! What do you find challenging in […]. Ask me now! [Author, website, contact details, main social channels] About [author]:Bio [150-250 words + author photo]

Blog Template – Part 3

SEO Tags/keywords[8-12 core keywords specific to this blog article] Meta Description [Main Introduction: 2-3 sentences, plus…] Find out now in the new blog post about [blog title] by [author, website] Categories [Always select specific blog categories that are related to the actual content]

Analytics You Can’t Measure

What You Can’t See?

Performance• Baseline – take one – use

Google Analytics or Onsite• Objectives – what are they• Optimisation – yes, back

and forth• KPIs – what are you

measuring• ROI – What is it, how?

HOT SeatWhat Is Your

Experience With Blogging? Good?

Bad? Ugly?

Your Homework Notice!To The BLOG, BATMAN!

Trust The Process

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Don’t just stand there staring…

The End of The Story?It’s more about the conversation, the community, as well as the connections that you make

The conversion is the result of having a strategy, having a process, and having all of the pieces in place for your audience.

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