September 20, 2014

DerekMarketing Team, Social Media Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Eloqua, Oracle Content Marketing, Oracle Marketing Cloud

Content Marketing is on everyone’s radar

This past week I met with a publishing customer using Oracle Marketing Cloud (Eloqua). The team from Oracle joined us at this meeting to demonstrate Oracle Content Marketing.

I’d previously had a conversation with our customer and asked them if the following resonated with them:

“Are your various pieces of content sitting on the team’s C:drives, network drives and are you managing the approval process via email through various members of the marketing team and legal?”. They laughed and said yes.

It’s time to untangle the mess

If you had a chuckle to yourself because the description above also resonated with you, then there is a solution to the problem. In a nutshell, Oracle Content Marketing provides you with a platform to drive the 5 Principles of Content Marketing. What are they? You’re probably aware, you’re already doing it today.

Technology alone is rarely the solution

Earlier this week, a customer who is the CMO at a financial services firm tweeted a link to a blog post from the eConsultancy. In addition to the post my customer tweeted, I discovered additional blog posts that covered various aspects of Content Marketing. Three posts in particular caught my attention:

A careful review of these three resources got me excited. Ok, I’m a geek, I get that. However the world of content marketing is fraught with many traps and pitfalls. Significant time can be invested in developing content either by an individual or worse, by an entire team. With no measurement in place or a defined process to measure against, this investment can be wasted.

Marketing is not a dark art, however we’re amongst the last in most businesses to apply a process to what we do.

Our colleagues in finance, support/service and sales have had clear business processes for many years. Finance has an ERP to support them. Sales and Service have the CRM. What about Marketing? Once you understand your buyer’s journey and integrate content with the buying stages as outlined in your organisation’s opportunity management process, you can begin to develop content that will have the most impact on your buyer’s journey.

Introducing The Periodic Table of Content Marketing from eConsultancy

Chris Lake from the eConsultancy developed this brilliant tool. I’ll certainly be sharing with my customers as we talk more about Content Marketing. I see this, and the other resources from Chris listed above, as tools to help support the idea of a process for content marketing.

Using technology to help drive your content marketing strategy

Going back to my conversation earlier this week with my publishing customer, their excitement around Oracle Content Marketing was palpable. I think they were geeking out as much as I was. Oracle Content Marketing is built on the 5 Principles of Content Marketing as listed below.

The 5 Principles of Content Marketing

PLAN: Define your strategy on a single intuitive content calendar.
Putting content planning into one intuitive calendar-based tool to reduce the steps it takes to plan content lineups.
- Fully integrated with Eloqua to organise and view all content, campaigns and social promotions on one marketing calendar.
- Enhance relevancy of individual content pieces by mapping to process.
- Organise by personas and customer position in the engagement cycle.
- Schedule content, writing, and editing assignments from one dashboard.
- Use in-depth topic modelling features to develop content creation plans.View upcoming content by day, week, month, or year.
- Set up custom rights and roles for users to align with security policies.
- Store ideas and keep them ready until it’s the perfect time to publish.
PRODUCE: Make it easy to use so everyone in the organisation can participate.
Creating compelling content and reimagining exisiting content to better engage your customers.
- Make everyone in your organisation a content creator with a comprehensive suite of tools that motivates and rewards them for their contributions.
- Assign data attributes to each piece of content such as persona, engagement stage, campaign category, and topic.
- Set up custom data attributes to align with business needs.
- Receive a content score to ensure each best practice is followed and keywords are used in each piece of content.
- Create and organise content based on a variety of content types such as images, videos, or text.
  Ask customers to share their experiences.
PUBLISH: Push content to your website, blog, and marketing automation system.
Publishing content to website, blog, email, landing page, or wherever your consumers need to view it in one simple step.
- Capitalise at the moment of engagement with dynamic calls to action based on author, category, campaign, or other variable.
- Choose platforms that produce results on a campaign-by-campaign basis.
- Leverage custom created content hubs built to reflect your brand’s valuable image.
- Minimise the time required of your IT team with simplicity of integration.
PROMOTE: Schedule and promote content to any channel including social.
Getting the word out quickly once you’ve got something to say accelerates the process and your success.
- Use Dynamic Cloud Content to pull in the most relevant pieces of content into your Eloqua emails and landing pages.
- Produce content that’s optimised for search engines on your corporate website and associated blogs.
- Create metadata tags, title tags, and keyword descriptions that attract visits.
- Place and promote stories on established social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
- Build out Content Buckets to promote content in a newsletter like format or to build custom content landing pages.
- Re-promote content with evergreen content available at your fingertips.
PROVE: Quantify to justify with reporting on a content marketing dashboard.
Proving your content marketing program’s success with reporting and tracking features to show ROI using metrics.
- Review a multitude of critical metrics from a single dashboard.
- Gain insights, results, and customer sentiment from a one-stop hub.
- Know which stories generate the widest reach and most cost-effective sales conversion.
- Refine, modify, test, and evaluate content to determine incremental increases and greater engagement.
- Maximise your search engine optimisation (SEO) success in all major search engines with optimised content.

Acknowledgement & disclaimer

Portions of this blog post have been reproduced with content developed by eConsultancy and Oracle Corporation. I’m not employed by either of these organisations, but I do work for Marketing Cube an authorised Gold Level Partner and certified Oracle Marketing Cloud Business Partner. I blog regularly for Marketing Cube.

Content Marketing is on everyone’s radar

This past week I met with a publishing customer using Oracle Marketing Cloud (Eloqua). The team from Oracle joined us at this meeting to demonstrate Oracle Content Marketing.

It’s time to untangle the mess

Technology alone is rarely the solution

Introducing The Periodic Table of Content Marketing from eConsultancy

Introducing The Periodic Table of Content Marketing from eConsultancy

Using technology to help drive your content marketing strategy

The 5 Principles of Content Marketing

Acknowledgement & disclaimer

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