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RETHINKING MARKETING
How CMOs Are Building Media Companies Within
Their Marketing Departments
Joe Pulizzi
Founder, Content Marketing Institute
(A UBM COMPANY)
THERE IS ONE KEY
TO A SUCCESSFUL
PRESENTATION
EXPECTATION IS
THE ROOT OF
ALL HEARTACHE
William Shakespeare
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
ONE
@JoePulizzi@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
JEFF ROHRS CHANNELS SLIDE EXAMPLE
Courtesy Jeff Rohrs
Content Marketing
Instead of communicating through
someone else’s channel, we create
and distribute
our own amazing information and
build audiences.
@JoePulizzi
SUCCESS RATE
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
• ARROW’S SLIDES
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
STEP 1:
BUILD AN AUDIENCE
STEP 2:
MONETIZE IT
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
SWEET SPOT
K N OW L E D G E / S K I L L
PA S S I O N /
C U S TO M E R PA I N P O I N T
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
The Furrow
By John Deere
CASE STUDY
#MKTGNATION
FARMERS
A G R I C U LT U R E / T E C H
O P E R AT I O N A L
C H A L L E N G E S
O N A FA R M
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
100 YouTube Subscribers
January, 2012
ANN REARDON
3+ Million Subscribers
March, 2017
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
EVERYONE STOPS AT
THE SWEET SPOT…
HARDLY ANYONE TILTS
THE CONTENT.
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
AUDIENCE F O O D S C I E N T I S T E D U C AT I O N
@JoePulizzi
I M P O S S I B L E F O O D
C R E AT I O N S
CONTENT TILT
CREATE A
CONTENT MARKETING
MISSION STATEMENT
Indium Corp.
Blogs
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Indium
Corporation
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
1. CORE TARGET
AUDIENCE
2. WHAT WILL BE
DELIVERED
3. THE OUTCOME FOR
THE AUDIENCE
@JoePulizzi
“Welcome to Digital
Photography School – a
website with simple tips
to help digital camera
owners get the most out
of their cameras.”
#MKTGNATION
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
(1) Content Type
(1) Main Platform
Long Period of Time
Consistent Delivery
THE BASE
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi
Copyblogger
#MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi
ONE CONTENT TYPE
One Platform
Consistent Delivery
OVER TIME (12+ MONTHS)
#MKTGNATION
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Facebook
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Google+
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi
FOCUS ON SUBSCRIBERS
AS A KEY METRIC
#MKTGNATION
CASE STUDY
@JoePulizzi
Copyblogger
#MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi
YAY!
BOO!
#MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi
@JoePulizzi
MUST HAVES
Amazing E-Newsletter
Exchange of Value
(Ebook, Research Report, Etc.)
#MKTGNATION
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
THE
CONTENT INC.
MODEL
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
MARKETING SHOULD BE A
PROFIT CENTER
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
• Advertising
• Subscriptions
• Content Services
Arrow Revenue Model
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
• Advertising
• Subscriptions
• Syndication
RBMH Revenue Model
@JoePulizzi
UNDER THE HOOD:
CONTENT MARKETING INSTITUTE
#MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi
UNDER THE HOOD:
CONTENT MARKETING INSTITUTE
2010 Revenues - $75,000
2015 Revenues - $10+ million
#MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi #MKTGNATION
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi
@JoePulizzi
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
The Furrow
By John Deere
@JoePulizzi
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi
Rethinking Marketing - Turning Your Marketing from Cost Center to Profit Center
@JoePulizzi
CREATE VALUE
FOR YOUR AUDIENCE FIRST
THEN
YOU CAN EXTRACT VALUE
@JoePulizzi
TAKEAWAYS
• Find a niche where you can be
the leading expert in the world
• Develop your content mission
• Focus on content type, platform
and deliver consistently
• Don’t build your house on rented land
• Build an audience of opt-in subscribers
• Need an amazing E-Newsletter
and remarkable download
• Diversify after building the audience
• What do your subscribers do differently?
• Diversify Revenue Streams
@JoePulizzi
TAKEAWAYS
• Set Your Goals for Sales, Savings or
Sunshine
• Why Are You Using Each Channel?
• Focus On the Reader’s Outcome
• Create the Content Mission Statement
• One Content Type, One Main Channel Per
Audience
• Need an amazing E-Newsletter
and remarkable download
• Don’t Build Your House on Rented Land
• What do your subscribers do differently?
• Think About Buying vs. Building
• BE PATIENT!!!
TheStoryofContent.com
ONE
@JoePulizzi@JoePulizzi
Thank You!
@JoePulizzi
For Book & Podcast visit
Content-Inc.com
Joe Pulizzi
joe@contentinstitute.com

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