In this presentation you will find tips and tricks on how to educate your C-Suite on content marketing, getting buy in from employees so they develop content for you as well as best practices with blogging onboarding.
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Getting Buy In from Employees
•Educate
•Inspire
•Empower
•Promote
•Reward
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Educate
• Value of content for their own resume benefits
• Great way to establish their personal brand
• Sell how the content will get promoted
• Opportunity for becoming a subject matter
expert
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Inspire
• Share how they will be the educators
• Appeal to their higher values
• They can develop content that speaks to
them & their passions
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Reward
• Work with HR to develop reward incentives (Guiding
Star)
• Perks and rewards based on amount of content
shared or developed
• Reward with gear/gift cards
• Helps others see & increases chances of others
getting involved
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Best Practices with Onboarding
Once the employees are committed a few
steps need to be taken:
•Develop blogging guidelines
•Develop release forms
•Develop social media guidelines
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Blogging Guidelines
• What tone the author should take
• Length of content
• List of approved resources to reference
• How to reference properly
• Image requirements
• Bio information and headshot
• Formatting tips
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Social Media Guidelines
• Can associate themselves with the brand
• Conduct yourself appropriately in social
media
• Employees cannot disclose internal news,
financial, legal or operational updates in
social media
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How to Get Leadership Involved
• Show them the value for the company
• Personal branding for them
• Explain how it benefits them as a thought
leader/subject matter expert
• Helps the company as they share their
expertise
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Make It Easy for Them
• Repurpose content they have already developed
• Phone interviews
• Email interviews
• Video interviews
• Ghostwriting
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Ghostwriting Tips
• Set up a call to interview the subject matter experts
• Develop and send questions ahead of time
• Once interview is completed, write up the story and
send to your review team (or other people who can
edit for you)
• Send back to subject matter expert (SME) for final
review
• Make sure to get bio and headshot of byline