Rocket Readings: 12 Essential Content Marketing Tips For Fortune 1000 Companies

12 Essential Content Marketing Tips For Fortune 1000 Companies:from Online Marketing Blog by Ashley Zeckman
Managing content plans for large companies is no easy undertaking. However, many of the same principles that apply to small businesses, are also best practices for large corporations. TopRank Online Marketing was able to tap into the smarts of some of today’s top digital marketers to gain their insight into creating long-term and sustainable content marketing plans.
In this post you’ll find 12 essential tips for managing content creation from companies such as Intel, SAP, Kraft, and the Content Marketing Institute.

Joe Pulizzi – Content Marketing Institute

Tip #1 – Understand the Why
Why are your creating content in the first place? What impact can you have on the customer that doesn’t involve your product or service? What is your higher purpose? This creates your content marketing mission statement.
Tip #2 – Find Alternate Resources
Don’t be afraid to outsource. Most companies outsource some part of their content marketing.
Tip #3 – Find Your Niche
You can’t be everything to everybody. Focus on your content area that you can be the leading expert in the world, and focus on a specific buying group when you do it.
See Joe’s Full Interview: Agent Joe Pulizzi

Pam Didner – Intel

Tip #4 – Plan Ahead
An editorial calendar is essential.
Tip #5 – Stories Resonate
As long as you can find stories that resonate with your audiences, then you can create content. Stories are everywhere, the key thing is to listen and observe. Be open-minded.
Tip #6 – Communication is Key
Reach out to different groups (internal) and customers (external), or even your management. For examples, challenges on product development, customer testimonials and founding father’s stories, even company values. Frankly, there is a lot to talk about.
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Michael Brenner – SAP

Tip #7 – Be Inspirational
Companies have to inspire their existing experts to start building their personal brands and becoming content creators.
Tip #8 – Distribute in Multiple Channels
Businesses need to build dynamic content destinations. Become like a publisher and think like a digital news site.
Tip #9 – Curate Content When Appropriate
You eventually realize that using your own resources is not enough. You don’t know everything and will never have enough budget to create all the content your audience seeks. So content curation is a core component of effective marketing and content strategy.
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Julie Fleischer – Kraft Foods

Tip #10 – Budget for Content
Great content doesn’t just happen. It takes copywriters, designers, photographers, directors, editors…and in our case, culinary professionals. There are absolutely ways to be cost-efficient in the development of content, but don’t underestimate the need to invest
Tip #11 – Engage Your Followers
20,000 recipes on KraftRecipes.com have been contributed by our member community. Engaged, passionate consumers can be your best source of content. So long as you have a content management system in place that enables smart curation and you have business rules around that curation, your consumers can be more than your best advocates, they can be your best creators.
Tip #12 – Follow Up Regularly
Remember that you can’t just drop a piece of content into cyberspace and forget it. Leverage SEO and integrated support to get the most possible out of each piece of content you promote.
See Julie’s Full Interview: Agent Julie Fleischer
Proper planning and execution are both essential pieces to the content marketing puzzle. What tip above did you find to be the most helpful in creating a content plan? Also, what additional tips would you include as steps for creating a killer content plan?
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