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THE ESSENTIALS OF AN
EFFECTIVE INBOUND STRATEGY.
Inbound Certification Class #1
1  Why inbound?
2  Fundamentals of inbound success
3  What effective inbound strategies looks like
4  Key takeaways and resources
AGENDA
WHY INBOUND?1
Remember when your mom
used to tell you as a child that
“it’s inconsiderate and rude
to interrupt someone?”
TWISTEDSIFTER.FILES.WORDPRESS.COM
That’s what traditional marketing & sales
were all about.
Cold Calling
Cold Emails (SPAM)
Interruptive Ads
Marketer - Centric
TRADITIONAL
What I clicked:
What I clicked:
What I wanted:
What I clicked:
What I wanted: What I got:
What I clicked:
What I wanted: What I got:
What I clicked:
What I wanted:
What I clicked:
What I got…
What I wanted:
What I clicked:
Cold Calling
Cold Emails (SPAM)
Interruptive Ads
Marketer - Centric
SEO
Blogging
Attraction
Customer - Centric
INBOUND
vs.
TRADITIONAL
What I clicked:
What I clicked: What I wanted:
What I got:
What I got:
What I got:
What I got:
of business decision-makers
prefer to get company
information in a series of
articles versus an advertisement.
80%
So what is inbound all about?
FLICKR USER WORLDBANK
vs.
Cold Calling
Cold Emails (SPAM)
Interruptive Ads
Marketer - Centric
THEN:
TRADITIONAL
SEO
Blogging
Attraction
Customer - Centric
vs.
NOW:
INBOUND
Don’t interrupt what people
want to consume, be what
they want to consume.
FLICKR USER X1KLIMA
Inbound is about being
a part of the conversation.
Inbound is about being
a part of the conversation.
Being part of that
conversation
means sharing
helpful, relevant
content with
the world*.
By creating content specifically designed to
appeal to your ideal customers, your best
prospects will come to you.
FLICKR USER DON BURKETT
That content acts as a magnet, or beacon, to
capture your prospects’ attention so your
potential customers come to you.
That’s why it’s called ‘inbound,’ after all!
FLICKR USER MAX THINKS SEES
Information empowers people with the
means to make their own choices.
Because even if you don’t, they’re still going to make those choices
anyway – and probably won’t think of your organization when doing so.
So how do
we actually
do inbound?
What that looks like is this:
The Inbound Methodology
Essentials of Inbound Marketing 2014 - Class #1 HubSpot Inbound Academy Certification
Essentials of Inbound Marketing 2014 - Class #1 HubSpot Inbound Academy Certification
Essentials of Inbound Marketing 2014 - Class #1 HubSpot Inbound Academy Certification
Essentials of Inbound Marketing 2014 - Class #1 HubSpot Inbound Academy Certification
Essentials of Inbound Marketing 2014 - Class #1 HubSpot Inbound Academy Certification
What you don’t see written in the
methodology is “Analyze.” Why?
Because analysis should be
inherent in every single thing you
do with your inbound strategy.
FUNDAMENTALS OF
INBOUND SUCCESS.2
Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do
must be tied back to your personas are.
Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your
personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel.
Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find—
and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides
the context to your content.
Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with
your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey.
INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do
must be tied back to your personas are.
Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your
personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel.
Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find—
and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides
the context to your content.
Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with
your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey.
INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
USE BUYER PERSONAS
Your buyer personas are who you’re trying to reach.
Instead trying to attract, convert, close, and delight all 3 billion people
on the internet, focus on those most likely to become promoters.
Semi-fictional representations of your ideal customer based on real data
and some select educated speculation about customer demographics,
behavior patterns, motivations, and goals.
BUYER PERSONAS
Personas help you create the right content.
The right content will most effectively attract your ideal visitors,
convert them into leads, and close them into customers.
Content to
attract visitors
Content to
close customersContent to
convert leads
FLICKR USER INPRAISEOFSARDINES
Do research
HOW TO CREATE BUYER PERSONAS
1
2
3
Identify trends
Create persona profile stories
DO RESEARCH1
Buyer personas must be based off
of research, not assumptions.
FLICKR USER SEEMINGLEE
CONDUCTING
PERSONA RESEARCH
The questions to ask to develop
your buyer personas.
Persona Detail Sample question to Ask
Role What is your job role/role in life? Your title?
Company/Organization
What industry or industries does your company
work/is your role in?
Goals What are you working to accomplish?
Challenges What are your biggest challenges?
Watering Holes
How do you learn about new information for your
job?
Personal Background How old are you?
Shopping Preferences
Do you use the internet to research vendors or
products?
SAMPLE PERSONA RESEARCH QUESTIONS
.	
  
Always focus on the ‘why’..
FLICKR USER E-MAGIC
Motives, not actions.	
  
WHO TO INTERVIEW
Your current customers, former customers, prospects and even your co-workers.
IDENTIFY TRENDS2
Bucket research findings.
FLICKR USER SHEEP R US
Patterns and similarities in
answers to persona research
questions indicate who your
personas really are.
How much research does it take to create personas?
FLICKR USER DEMANDAI
As much as it takes to identify trends. Be on the lookout for commonalities
and similarities between the types of answers you're getting.
How many personas
should you have?
As many as needed, but if you feel
like you have too many, remember
to always focus on why.
CREATE PERSONA
PROFILE STORIES3
PERSONA NAMEBACKGROUND:
•  Basic details about persona’s role, key information about the persona’s company
•  Relevant background info
DEMOGRAPHICS:
•  Gender, age range, HH Income (consider a spouse’s income, if relevant)
IDENTIFIERS:
•  Buzz words & mannerisms
GOALS:
•  Persona’s primary & secondary goal
CHALLENGES:
•  Primary and secondary challenge to persona’s success
HOW WE HELP:
•  How you solve your persona’s challenges & help achieve their goals
	
  
COMMON OBJECTIONS:
•  ID the most common objections your persona will raise during the sales process
REAL QUOTES:
•  Include a few real quotes (taken during interviews) that well represent your persona to make it easier employees to relate
to/understand to them.
BACKGROUND:
•  Head of HR, married with 2 children (10 and 8)
•  Worked at same company for 10 years; worked up from HR Associate
DEMOGRAPHICS:
•  Skews female, age 30-45, suburban, dual HH Income: $140,000
IDENTIFIERS:
•  Calm demeanor, usually assistant screening calls, wants collateral mailed/printed
GOALS:
•  Keep employees happy and turnover low, support legal and finance teams
CHALLENGES:
•  Getting everything done with a small staff, rolling out changes to the entire company
HOW WE HELP:
•  Make it easy to manage all employee data in one place
•  Integrate with legal and finance systems
COMMON OBJECTIONS:
•  Worried will lose data moving to a new system, doesn’t want to have to train the entire company on it.
REAL QUOTES:
•  “It’s been difficult getting company-wide adoption of new technologies in the past.”
•  “I’ve had to deal with so many painful integrations with other departments’ databases and software.”
SAMPLE SALLY
It’s not enough to know just who you’re
trying to reach, you also have to know
what they want to see.
Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do
must be tied back to your personas are.
Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your
personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel.
Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find—
and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides
the context to your content.
Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with
your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey.
INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
USE THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
The Buyer’s Journey
The active research process someone goes through leading up
to making a purchase.
THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do
must be tied back to your personas are.
Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your
personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel.
Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find—
and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides
the context to your content.
Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with
your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey.
INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
CREATE REMARKABLE CONTENT
Content
 Context
Inbound Marketing = Content + Context
Your content is your marketing toolkit. Things like blogs,
interactive tools, photos/infographics, videos, and eBooks/
presentations work to attract, convert, close, and delight.
CONTENT
FLICKR USER DAVID | POOLE
CONTEXT
Context is who you’re creating it for: you can’t just write any posts,
you have to write the right ones – those tailored to who you’re
trying to reach and what they’re interested in.
FLICKR USER CINDEESNIDERRE
Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do
must be tied back to your personas are.
Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your
personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel.
Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find—
and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides
the context to your content.
Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with
your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey.
INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
LEVERAGE YOUR CONTENT.
It’s not enough to just
have great content.
You need to have a way
to get that content out
into the world.
Distribution makes content relevant.
LEVERAGING CONTENT
VIA DISTRIBUTION
The right distribution technique gets the right content in front of the right person at
the right time.
Landing
pages
Calls-to-
action
Business
blog
Website
pages
Social
media
Marketing
emails
Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do
must be tied back to your personas are.
Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your
personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel.
Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find—
and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides
the context to your content.
Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with
your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey.
INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
WHAT EFFECTIVE
INBOUND STRATEGIES
LOOK LIKE.
3
INBOUND EXAMPLE:
WHO ARE P&G’S PERSONAS?
Multiple personas, multiple messages,
multiple sites.
1
2 3
1  Restaurant industry (business-to-business)
2  Homemaker (business-to-consumer)
3  Hospitality industry (business-to-business)
P&G Corporate Homepage
The face of the brand and
their digital storefront.
Optimized to have the right
content and positioning to
attract their ideal buyers.
P&G’s business-to-consumer
persona: The Homemaker.
A mom who wants quality
products for her family and
home, but doesn’t want to
spend a fortune on them.
CONTENT TO ATTRACT
Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better
identify or understand her issues works to attract her to their site.
AWARENESS STAGE
Provides persona
general tips on her
issue: keeping the home
clean for her family.
CONSIDERATION
STAGE
Persona can learn more
about the specifics of
her problem: here,
doing the dishes.
CONTENT TO ATTRACT
Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better
identify or understand her issues works to attract her to their site.
AWARENESS STAGE
Provides persona
general tips on her
issue: keeping the home
clean for her family.
CONSIDERATION
STAGE
Persona can learn more
about the specifics of
her problem: here,
doing the dishes.
How should this content get distributed?
CONTENT TO CONVERT
Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better
identify her issues, explore them in more detail, and convert into a lead.
AWARENESS STAGE
Persona can download
tip sheet with general
organization ideas and
convert into a lead.
CONSIDERATION
STAGE
Persona can download
5-step guide to learn
about the specifics of a
particular element of
her problem.
CONTENT TO CONVERT
Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better
identify her issues, explore them in more detail, and convert into a lead.
AWARENESS STAGE
Persona can download
tip sheet with general
organization ideas and
convert into a lead.
CONSIDERATION
STAGE
Persona can download
5-step guide to learn
about the specifics of a
particular element of
her problem.
How should this content get distributed?
CONTENT TO CLOSE
Decision-stage content nurtures and closes P&G’s persona into a customer by
providing information and resources that help her choose a brand/provider.
DECISION STAGE Coupons for a product or closely related
products can help P&G’s persona make the decision to go
with one of their brands.
DECISION STAGE
Product reviews
can provide P&G’s
persona with the
information
necessary to make
a brand decision.
CONTENT TO DELIGHT
P&G creates a great inbound experience for their current customers by creating
and providing content relevant to them, too.
What stage of the buyer’s journey
do you think this falls into?
Any stage, depending on what
P&G would like to happen.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
AND RESOURCES.4
KEY TAKEAWAYS
1  Inbound marketing is a fundamental shift in the way we do business.
2  Your buyer personas are who you’re trying to attract, convert, close,
and delight.
3  Personas must be based on research.
4  The buyer’s journey is the active research process a buyer goes
through leading up to making a purchase.
5  Successful inbound strategies must take personas and the buyer’s
journey into consideration.
6  Make sure the right people get the right message via your distribution.
RESOURCES
1  Why Inbound Matters: INBOUND13 opening video [video]
2  Buyer Persona Creation Template [downloadable template]
3  The Buyer’s Journey: The Marketing Funnel, Evolved
[webinar series]
4  45 Terms Every Inbound Marketer Should Know [blog post]

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Essentials of Inbound Marketing 2014 - Class #1 HubSpot Inbound Academy Certification

  • 1. THE ESSENTIALS OF AN EFFECTIVE INBOUND STRATEGY. Inbound Certification Class #1
  • 2. 1  Why inbound? 2  Fundamentals of inbound success 3  What effective inbound strategies looks like 4  Key takeaways and resources AGENDA
  • 4. Remember when your mom used to tell you as a child that “it’s inconsiderate and rude to interrupt someone?” TWISTEDSIFTER.FILES.WORDPRESS.COM
  • 5. That’s what traditional marketing & sales were all about.
  • 6. Cold Calling Cold Emails (SPAM) Interruptive Ads Marketer - Centric TRADITIONAL
  • 9. What I clicked: What I wanted: What I got:
  • 10. What I clicked: What I wanted: What I got:
  • 12. What I wanted: What I clicked:
  • 13. What I got… What I wanted: What I clicked:
  • 14. Cold Calling Cold Emails (SPAM) Interruptive Ads Marketer - Centric SEO Blogging Attraction Customer - Centric INBOUND vs. TRADITIONAL
  • 16. What I clicked: What I wanted:
  • 21. of business decision-makers prefer to get company information in a series of articles versus an advertisement. 80%
  • 22. So what is inbound all about? FLICKR USER WORLDBANK
  • 23. vs. Cold Calling Cold Emails (SPAM) Interruptive Ads Marketer - Centric THEN: TRADITIONAL SEO Blogging Attraction Customer - Centric vs. NOW: INBOUND
  • 24. Don’t interrupt what people want to consume, be what they want to consume. FLICKR USER X1KLIMA
  • 25. Inbound is about being a part of the conversation. Inbound is about being a part of the conversation.
  • 26. Being part of that conversation means sharing helpful, relevant content with the world*.
  • 27. By creating content specifically designed to appeal to your ideal customers, your best prospects will come to you. FLICKR USER DON BURKETT
  • 28. That content acts as a magnet, or beacon, to capture your prospects’ attention so your potential customers come to you. That’s why it’s called ‘inbound,’ after all! FLICKR USER MAX THINKS SEES
  • 29. Information empowers people with the means to make their own choices. Because even if you don’t, they’re still going to make those choices anyway – and probably won’t think of your organization when doing so.
  • 30. So how do we actually do inbound?
  • 31. What that looks like is this: The Inbound Methodology
  • 37. What you don’t see written in the methodology is “Analyze.” Why? Because analysis should be inherent in every single thing you do with your inbound strategy.
  • 39. Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do must be tied back to your personas are. Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel. Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find— and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides the context to your content. Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey. INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
  • 40. Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do must be tied back to your personas are. Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel. Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find— and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides the context to your content. Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey. INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
  • 42. Your buyer personas are who you’re trying to reach. Instead trying to attract, convert, close, and delight all 3 billion people on the internet, focus on those most likely to become promoters.
  • 43. Semi-fictional representations of your ideal customer based on real data and some select educated speculation about customer demographics, behavior patterns, motivations, and goals. BUYER PERSONAS
  • 44. Personas help you create the right content. The right content will most effectively attract your ideal visitors, convert them into leads, and close them into customers. Content to attract visitors Content to close customersContent to convert leads FLICKR USER INPRAISEOFSARDINES
  • 45. Do research HOW TO CREATE BUYER PERSONAS 1 2 3 Identify trends Create persona profile stories
  • 47. Buyer personas must be based off of research, not assumptions. FLICKR USER SEEMINGLEE
  • 48. CONDUCTING PERSONA RESEARCH The questions to ask to develop your buyer personas.
  • 49. Persona Detail Sample question to Ask Role What is your job role/role in life? Your title? Company/Organization What industry or industries does your company work/is your role in? Goals What are you working to accomplish? Challenges What are your biggest challenges? Watering Holes How do you learn about new information for your job? Personal Background How old are you? Shopping Preferences Do you use the internet to research vendors or products? SAMPLE PERSONA RESEARCH QUESTIONS
  • 50. .   Always focus on the ‘why’.. FLICKR USER E-MAGIC Motives, not actions.  
  • 51. WHO TO INTERVIEW Your current customers, former customers, prospects and even your co-workers.
  • 53. Bucket research findings. FLICKR USER SHEEP R US Patterns and similarities in answers to persona research questions indicate who your personas really are.
  • 54. How much research does it take to create personas? FLICKR USER DEMANDAI As much as it takes to identify trends. Be on the lookout for commonalities and similarities between the types of answers you're getting.
  • 55. How many personas should you have? As many as needed, but if you feel like you have too many, remember to always focus on why.
  • 57. PERSONA NAMEBACKGROUND: •  Basic details about persona’s role, key information about the persona’s company •  Relevant background info DEMOGRAPHICS: •  Gender, age range, HH Income (consider a spouse’s income, if relevant) IDENTIFIERS: •  Buzz words & mannerisms GOALS: •  Persona’s primary & secondary goal CHALLENGES: •  Primary and secondary challenge to persona’s success HOW WE HELP: •  How you solve your persona’s challenges & help achieve their goals   COMMON OBJECTIONS: •  ID the most common objections your persona will raise during the sales process REAL QUOTES: •  Include a few real quotes (taken during interviews) that well represent your persona to make it easier employees to relate to/understand to them.
  • 58. BACKGROUND: •  Head of HR, married with 2 children (10 and 8) •  Worked at same company for 10 years; worked up from HR Associate DEMOGRAPHICS: •  Skews female, age 30-45, suburban, dual HH Income: $140,000 IDENTIFIERS: •  Calm demeanor, usually assistant screening calls, wants collateral mailed/printed GOALS: •  Keep employees happy and turnover low, support legal and finance teams CHALLENGES: •  Getting everything done with a small staff, rolling out changes to the entire company HOW WE HELP: •  Make it easy to manage all employee data in one place •  Integrate with legal and finance systems COMMON OBJECTIONS: •  Worried will lose data moving to a new system, doesn’t want to have to train the entire company on it. REAL QUOTES: •  “It’s been difficult getting company-wide adoption of new technologies in the past.” •  “I’ve had to deal with so many painful integrations with other departments’ databases and software.” SAMPLE SALLY
  • 59. It’s not enough to know just who you’re trying to reach, you also have to know what they want to see.
  • 60. Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do must be tied back to your personas are. Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel. Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find— and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides the context to your content. Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey. INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
  • 61. USE THE BUYER’S JOURNEY
  • 62. The Buyer’s Journey The active research process someone goes through leading up to making a purchase.
  • 69. Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do must be tied back to your personas are. Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel. Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find— and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides the context to your content. Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey. INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
  • 71. Content Context Inbound Marketing = Content + Context
  • 72. Your content is your marketing toolkit. Things like blogs, interactive tools, photos/infographics, videos, and eBooks/ presentations work to attract, convert, close, and delight. CONTENT FLICKR USER DAVID | POOLE
  • 73. CONTEXT Context is who you’re creating it for: you can’t just write any posts, you have to write the right ones – those tailored to who you’re trying to reach and what they’re interested in. FLICKR USER CINDEESNIDERRE
  • 74. Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do must be tied back to your personas are. Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel. Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find— and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides the context to your content. Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey. INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
  • 76. It’s not enough to just have great content. You need to have a way to get that content out into the world.
  • 78. LEVERAGING CONTENT VIA DISTRIBUTION The right distribution technique gets the right content in front of the right person at the right time. Landing pages Calls-to- action Business blog Website pages Social media Marketing emails
  • 79. Use buyer personas. Know who you’re trying to reach - everything you do must be tied back to your personas are. Create remarkable content. Content that tailored to both who your personas are and where they are in the buyer’s journey is inbound fuel. Leverage your content. Make that content available for them to find— and to serve your business goals: content distribution is what provides the context to your content. Use the buyer’s journey. Make sure every interaction your persona has with your organization is tailored to where they are in the buyer’s journey. INBOUND BEST PRACTICES
  • 82. WHO ARE P&G’S PERSONAS? Multiple personas, multiple messages, multiple sites. 1 2 3 1  Restaurant industry (business-to-business) 2  Homemaker (business-to-consumer) 3  Hospitality industry (business-to-business)
  • 83. P&G Corporate Homepage The face of the brand and their digital storefront. Optimized to have the right content and positioning to attract their ideal buyers.
  • 84. P&G’s business-to-consumer persona: The Homemaker. A mom who wants quality products for her family and home, but doesn’t want to spend a fortune on them.
  • 85. CONTENT TO ATTRACT Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better identify or understand her issues works to attract her to their site. AWARENESS STAGE Provides persona general tips on her issue: keeping the home clean for her family. CONSIDERATION STAGE Persona can learn more about the specifics of her problem: here, doing the dishes.
  • 86. CONTENT TO ATTRACT Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better identify or understand her issues works to attract her to their site. AWARENESS STAGE Provides persona general tips on her issue: keeping the home clean for her family. CONSIDERATION STAGE Persona can learn more about the specifics of her problem: here, doing the dishes. How should this content get distributed?
  • 87. CONTENT TO CONVERT Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better identify her issues, explore them in more detail, and convert into a lead. AWARENESS STAGE Persona can download tip sheet with general organization ideas and convert into a lead. CONSIDERATION STAGE Persona can download 5-step guide to learn about the specifics of a particular element of her problem.
  • 88. CONTENT TO CONVERT Awareness and Consideration stage content that helps P&G’s persona better identify her issues, explore them in more detail, and convert into a lead. AWARENESS STAGE Persona can download tip sheet with general organization ideas and convert into a lead. CONSIDERATION STAGE Persona can download 5-step guide to learn about the specifics of a particular element of her problem. How should this content get distributed?
  • 89. CONTENT TO CLOSE Decision-stage content nurtures and closes P&G’s persona into a customer by providing information and resources that help her choose a brand/provider. DECISION STAGE Coupons for a product or closely related products can help P&G’s persona make the decision to go with one of their brands. DECISION STAGE Product reviews can provide P&G’s persona with the information necessary to make a brand decision.
  • 90. CONTENT TO DELIGHT P&G creates a great inbound experience for their current customers by creating and providing content relevant to them, too. What stage of the buyer’s journey do you think this falls into? Any stage, depending on what P&G would like to happen.
  • 92. KEY TAKEAWAYS 1  Inbound marketing is a fundamental shift in the way we do business. 2  Your buyer personas are who you’re trying to attract, convert, close, and delight. 3  Personas must be based on research. 4  The buyer’s journey is the active research process a buyer goes through leading up to making a purchase. 5  Successful inbound strategies must take personas and the buyer’s journey into consideration. 6  Make sure the right people get the right message via your distribution.
  • 93. RESOURCES 1  Why Inbound Matters: INBOUND13 opening video [video] 2  Buyer Persona Creation Template [downloadable template] 3  The Buyer’s Journey: The Marketing Funnel, Evolved [webinar series] 4  45 Terms Every Inbound Marketer Should Know [blog post]