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Building Your Content Marketing Measurement Program From The Ground Up
This document provides guidance on building a content marketing measurement program from the ground up. It discusses selecting key performance indicators (KPIs) by setting organizational goals for content marketing. Some important KPIs include reach, engagement, sentiment, lead generation, sales, thought leadership, and customer loyalty. It recommends tools for measuring consumption, sharing, lead generation, sales, thought leadership, and social media impact. Finally, it offers a 10 step plan for getting started with content measurement, including setting up analytics and social listening tools and integrating them with CRM. The overall message is that measurement is essential for understanding what content is most effective and making improvements.
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Building Your Content Marketing Measurement Program From The Ground Up
- 1. Building Your ContentMarketing Measurement Program From The Ground Up Jon Wuebben CEO, Content Launch
- 2. Content Launch –Who are We? • We develop high quality, search engine optimized, sharable content that converts • 300 U.S. based writers who know SEO and content strategy – all major industries represented, B2B, B2C, non-profits and government • A better alternative to “crowd-sourced” content where quality suffers • Partnerships with over 200 agencies and 50 companies • Also provide content strategy consultation • Founded in 2003
- 3. Marketers don’t liketo measure Why?
- 4. Because we havean aversion to numbers!
- 5. But without measuring, howdo you know if your content is working?
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- 7. Organizational Goals forB2B Content Marketing
- 8. Organizational Goals &Performance Measurement for Content Marketing
- 9. THE 6 MAGICMETRICS THOUGHT LEADERSHIP METRICS LOYALTY METRICS
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- 12. What do wemean when we say Measurement? Measurement in digital terms is the QUANTITATIVE and QUALITATIVE assessment of how a strategic or tactical element has performed
- 13. Challenges of MeasuringContent Marketing • Different channels – how do the channels fit into the overall marketing mix? • Different metrics – “Impressions” is an easy one but there are many that are new and more complex • Volume of data – sorting through the vast amount of data is job #1 • Measurement frequency – how often should it be captured and analyzed? • Lacking measurement fundamentals – Its not taught in schools and…many of us have an aversion to numbers
- 14. The Measurement Processin Practice • Benchmark research – gather data at start of program to inform planning • Strategy development – based on benchmark research, communication strategies should be developed • Tactical elements – all tactics should support the strategy and be rooted in benchmark research • Measurement practice – measuring the tactics to prove if the strategy is successful
- 15. Building Your ContentMeasuring Program 1. Set up your content measuring operation, get accounts on all online tools, setup analytics, CRM tasks, align goals to metrics 1. Create lots of great content and distribute it to all appropriate channels 1. Review analytics and other data in depth daily, weekly, monthly 4. Make changes accordingly 5. Do steps 2-4 over and over again, forever!!
- 16. Outputs, Outtakes &Outcomes • Outputs – example: If setting up a blog, number of posts would be an output • Outtakes – example: if you are trying to convey your commitment to corporate sustainability, how well is it resonating? • Outcomes – What are the quantifiable changes in behavior impacted as a result of the campaign?
- 17. 8 Important KPI’s REACH •Unique Visits • Geography – Where is your content being consumed? • Mobile readership ENGAGEMENT • Bounce rates/time spent • Heat maps & click patterns (Crazy Egg) • Page views SENTIMENT • Comments • Social sharing (Add This or Share This)
- 18. Additional Thoughts onDefining Data Metrics It’s important to define the data metrics that are critical success factors for your organization, common key metrics to measure are: • Compare channel performance to determine where you are getting traction and where you are not. Stop creating content for non-productive channels! • Identify which content producers in your organization inspire the most engagement – have them create the majority of your content. • Evaluate which content posts have generated the most activity to spot keyword trends for future content production.
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- 20. It All Startswith Your Goals Content Marketing Goal 1: Build your brand • • • • Do visitors recognize your brand based on your content marketing? Does your content marketing improve brand recall? Does your content marketing enhance brand favorability? Does your content marketing increase prospects’ intent to purchase?
- 21. It All Startswith Your Goals Content Marketing Goal 2: Attract New Prospects • • • • How many visitors do you have? How many unique visitors do you have? What is your bounce rate? What type of devices do readers use to consume your content? • Do visitors register for email newsletters? • Do visitors sign up for feeds • Do readers call your business?
- 22. It All Startswith Your Goals Content Marketing Goal 3: Increase customer engagement & lead generation • • • • • • How much time do visitors spend with your content? How many pages do visitors read on average Do your readers share your posts via email? Do readers share your content via social sharing? Do readers comment on your content? Do you get leads or inquiries from your content marketing? (downloads, form completions) • Does your content marketing help build prospect relationships? (keeping leads warm through emails/phone calls)
- 23. It All Startswith Your Goals Content Marketing Goal 4: Build thought leadership • • • • • • • • • Is your content gaining traction?(Look at performance over time) Which content clicks with your audience? Do other thought leaders link to your content? Do other thought leaders engage with you in the comment section of your content or on social media? Do you get media requests for your insights? Do you get requests to contribute to your content offering? Are you asked to contribute to other content in the industry? Do you get asked to present at industry events? Do you get work requests you can attribute to your content marketing?
- 24. It All Startswith Your Goals Content Marketing Goal 5: Drive Sales • Can you track sales to your content marketing? • Include links to relevant product pages. Also link to your content from your product pages. • Do you support sales with how-to and specific product information? • Track product page print outs, targeted promotion codes used and clickthroughs to purchase or place in cart. • Does your content marketing reduce time-to-purchase? • Do you link to it from your emailings and other websites? • Does your content generate advertising sales including banners, Google Adsense and sponsorships? • Does your content marketing generate affiliate sales?
- 25. It All Startswith Your Goals Content Marketing Goal 6: Increase Customer Loyalty • Does your content reduce returns with post-purchase support? • Do your customers buy additional or related products after consuming your content? • Do your customers share your content with their family and friends? • Do your customers contribute content in the form of ratings and reviews on your website? • Do your customers share photos or images using your product?
- 26. RedBull: A ContentMarketing Measurement Miracle • • • • • • A publishing empire that just happens to sell a beverage Create storytelling material that attracts viewers & listeners Red Bull Media House: print, TV, online & feature films 5,000 videos and 50,000 photos to users free of charge “We give wings to people and ideas” What types of content? • Feature film: “The Art of Flight”/Magazine: The Red Bulletin • Aligns the brand with extreme sports & energy fueled lifestyle • Sell 5 billion cans a year KEY TAKEAWAY: REDBULL MEASURES EVERY PIECE OF CONTENT, POURING OVER THE DATA, SEEING WHAT WORKS & MAKES IMPROVEMENTS WHERE NECESSARY
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- 28. Measurement Tools toUse CONSUMPTION 1. Google Analytics 2. YouTube Insights 3. SlideShare & Scribd 4. CRM Platform 5. Social: Radian6, Sysomos LEAD GENERATION 1. CRM Platform/URL Tracking 2. Email provider 3. Feedblitz 4. Disqus/LiveFyre SHARING SALES 1. Facebook/Twitter/Google+, etc 1. Online sales: eCommerce System 2. Google Analytics 2. Offline sales: CRM/Unique URL’s, 3. Open Site Explorer Analytics program 4. RavenTools 3. Act-on or other Content Automation tool 5. Majestic SEO
- 29. Measurement Tools toUse THOUGHT LEADERSHIP 1. Google Analytics (Performance over time) 2. Open Site Explorer 3. Majestic SEO 4. Blog Analytics 5. Guest posting requests/Media inquiries 6. Speaking requests LOYALTY 1. eCommerce System 2. CRM Platform 3. Facebook/Twitter/Google+, etc 4. Ratings & Reviews
- 30. 2 Awesome AnalyticsTools to Use CHART BEAT • Great dashboard makes it easy to visually follow what’s happening with users engaged on your site • Is user reading, writing, responding on a page or idle? • How many pixels on a page has the user scrolled? • Real time data WOOPRA • Most sophisticated real time analytics tool in the industry • Everything ChartBeat does plus it allows you to isolate and segment key categories of site visitors • Know what content works with what specific audience • Real time monitoring of key success events & conversion goals
- 31. One Other MeasurementTool to Use… Talk to your customers and prospects!
- 32. The 6 MagicMetrics & What You Need to Know
- 33. Consumption Metrics How manypeople viewed, downloaded or listened to this piece of content? • • • • Page views: Easy to measure with Google Analytics Video views: YouTube Insights Document views: Slideshare and Scribd Downloads: Measure through your CRM platform or Google Analytics (when un-gated) • Social Chatter: Radian6, Sysomos, Viralheat BUT THIS IS SIMPLY THE FIRST STEP…
- 34. Sharing Metrics How impactfulis this content and how often is it shared with others who matter? • Likes, shares, tweets, +1s and pins: sharing tools track these; Google Analytics offers additional insights • Forwards: Your email provider and Google Analytics track email forwards • Inbound links: Blogging software (Wordpress), OpenSiteExplorer, RavenTools, MajesticSEO, SEOMoz or BrightEdge Key: Improve sharing by making it easy with share buttons on every piece of content, configured to focus on channels your audience uses most often
- 35. Lead Gen Metrics Howoften does content consumption result in a lead? • Form completions & downloads: Through your CRM & URL tracking, how often visitors access gated content is simple to measure • Email subscriptions: Your email provider or CRM tracks how many visitors sign up to receive your emails • Blog subscriptions: You can measure blog subscriptions through services like Feedblitz or your CRM system • Blog comments: A strong comment platform helps here (like Disqus, Livefyre or one built into your blogging software. ie. Wordpress) • Conversion rate: How often do visitors who consume content become leads?
- 36. Measuring Indirect LeadGen Not all content produces leads directly, but all of your content can contribute to lead generation behavior Set goals in Google Analytics to measure how content contributes indirectly to lead gen: • For key behaviors that don’t produce revenue immediately (like email signup), assign a specific dollar value • Set custom reports to show goals for each piece of content • Look at the new “page value” data in Google Analytics, which assigns value to each page corresponding to how often it is viewed “on the way” to a conversion
- 37. Sales Metrics Did weactually make any money directly because of this content? • Online sales: Typically measured through your eCommerce system • Offline sales: Track via CRM & unique URL’s measured by analytics program • Act-on and similar solutions can record which pieces of content customers consumed, allowing you to put a $$ value on each component • Manual reporting: Record those handshake deals! Note: In order to track leads & sales, you have to do something that’s trackable. To understand the impact of a Facebook status update, include a call to action unique to that piece of content Don’t forget customer retention: Your most important content audience? Your current customers! Give them first access. Make them feel special.
- 38. Thought Leadership Metrics Isour expert status, used in our content helping to generate leads and sales? • Is your content gaining traction? Analyze performance over time: Use Google Analytics • Do other thought leaders link to your content? Use OpenSiteExplorer & MajesticSEO, SEOMoz or BrightEdge • Do other thought leaders comment on your content or on social media? Use your blog analytics • Do you get media requests for your insights? • Do you get requests to contribute to your content offering? • Are you asked to contribute to other content in the industry? • Do you get asked to present at industry events?
- 39. Loyalty Metrics Does ourcontent inspire repeat purchases from loyal customers? • Does your content reduce returns with post-purchase support? Help buyers by offering instructions and other information for using your products. • Do your customers buy additional or related products after consuming your content? Encourage this behavior with links to your product pages. • Do your customers share your content with others? Include social sharing buttons and a call-to-action. • Do your customers contribute content in the form of ratings and reviews on your website? Use post-purchase emailings to persuade customers to submit reviews. • Do your customers share photos or images using your product? Ask customers to share their photos and stories on social media.
- 40. A Word AboutSEO Is your content important in Google’s eyes and is it placed high in the search results? • Known & unknown keywords – are they driving people to your site? An opportunity to further optimize your content? • Known & unknown branded keywords – which brand words are used most often? • Total visits – tracking it in your analytics platform, but could fall under organic search bucket too • Total conversions from known keywords – if you properly optimize content based on keywords people are using, conversion should increase • Average search position – based on top known, unknown and branded keywords
- 41. A Word AboutSocial Metrics You can learn several important things about your brand including: • Location of conversations – can see geography and channel • Sentiment – can gauge brand perception • Key message penetration – resonating with key stakeholders? • Key influencers – who is driving brand perceptions?
- 42. The ROI ofContent Marketing
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- 45. Content with theBest ROI
- 46. How Often ShouldYou Measure Content?
- 47. Sample Executive Scorecard– Social Media Campaign
- 48. Sample Full Scorecard– Cross Channel Impact (1 Qrtr)
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- 51. Social Media ResponseFlowchart
- 52. Bringing it AllHome
- 53. Getting Started Today:10 Steps 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Setup Google Analytics (or setup more advanced measuring tools) Consider using ChartBeat or Woopra Setup YouTube Insights Setup Slideshare Setup Hootsuite (smaller company) or Radian6 (SalesForce Marketing Cloud…for larger companies) 6. Setup integration with your CRM tool 7. Review Open Site Explorer 8. Setup SEOMoz, RavenTools or BrightEdge 9. Setup Act-On or similar solution 10. Don’t forget to produce awesome, relevant consistent content!
- 54. Contact Me Jon Wuebben: (909)437-7015 mobile [email protected] Twitter: @jonwuebben
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