The cost can range dramatically, up to $250k for a custom piece on The NY Times. However, the whole campaign could be much more. Another grouping would be around $25k – $75k. With the upper end getting you a piece on BuzzFeed. Then, trade magazines will be a bit lower with packages often $7.5k-$15k. Often with a lead generation or webinar opt-in attached. Working with influencers can then range again from as low as $50 and up. Continue reading
A brand approaches a publisher and asks them to sponsor their content. This could involve creating a new piece of content, sponsoring an existing section or the brand supplying content. The most effective way is to create the content in partnership with the publisher. Then the brand gets the benefit of delivering the story within the publishers environment, that context, and audience can easily engage in it. Further the partner can promote and distribute the content to their… Continue reading
Good content does the job the marketer wants from it. Make sure you have an effective content marketing strategy first. This will help you understand if a piece of content is doing its job. So when creating your content, reference your strategy, will this content help deliver on that goal. Then once you have published it, check the data, are people consuming it. Are enough people seeing it? It is likely you will need to make one or two rounds… Continue reading
Go and download our example strategy doc. Fill it in. Follow the best practices in the spreadsheet. Then each month, update and revise this, continue to develop it. Build on it, simplify it and remove it. Continue reading
Marketing metrics are tracked and measured by your marketing analytics software. To track the metrics, you need to install the code provided by your marketing analytics partner. Some metrics may need additional configuration, for example tracking conversions, or engagement rates. Which may need defining with additional o’clock actions. Once you have installed the code, you will need to QA it to make sure it is tracking correctly. Then after a few hours, you should be able to log in and… Continue reading
Get a report created on your campaign, and go and evaluate it. Sounds easy huh. You’re probably reading this because you had a report of some sort and you’re trying to re-figure out, what should I do here. What is important. So let’s go back to basics 1) Why did you do this campaign? 2) What were the objectives? 3) How did you deliver on those objectives? 4) How did you measure the delivery of those objectives? 5) What did… Continue reading
Get a dashboard together, that pulls in all of your data. Executing a campaign today often means having content and advertising in multiple places at once. So find a dashboard solution that combines all the data in one place. Or as few places as possible. So that you can better analyze it. Then use the right tool for the job, who is going to measure this, to give me the insight, to make decisions, that impact our business objectives. Continue reading
Install content analytics that enables accurate data collection on your content. You want to establish how people are getting to your content, how many you are getting, what they do once they got there and is the content effective? This means measuring metrics like scroll, attention, traffic sources. And using a system like Nudge that takes the data and turns it into automated insights. Read more in our guide to content measurement. Continue reading
This one is harder, how can you measure earning media and its impact? There are a suite of tools available for measuring press mentions. Because of the separation of church and state, that is the division between commercial arms and journalist arms in publishers. The data has to be from third parties or inferred using other signals. Often the number of social shares is a signal, to go if this media coverage was effective it should have generated some shares. Continue reading
Using a third-party specialist marketing analytics tool will enable you to measure your effectiveness. In particular, when marketers reference effectiveness, understanding benchmarks is helpful. Where am I sitting as an organization against my competitors? Because yes, you need to be effective in driving results but are we doing better than our competitors (or not). This is useful nuance and context. Because hey, who doesn’t want to beat their competitors? Technically you are going to need a few things… Continue reading