WMTW 011: Flagship content and uncovering your customer magnet [podcast]
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The early days
- We had mentors, peers and friends all recommend Verne’s One-Page Strategic Plan story.
- We loved the plan and then read his book and attended his events.
- In fact we have travelled the world to see Verne at various event oner the years.
We wanted to emulate Verne
- We wanted to solve our own problem which was to help explain to our clients how all the web marketing prices fit together.
- We distilled the dozens of conferences, 100s of books and blogs we’d read, and the expert interviews into diagram of the web universe and a template to document buyer personas.
- This formed our flagship Web Strategy Planning Template
A stroke of luck with David Meerman Scott
- We saw David Meerman Scott via satellite at the Growth Summit in 2010, and he validated what we’d been experiencing with our clients.
- We read his book and he provided a language and framework to explain these new rules of marketing and PR.
- His ideas heavily influenced the template, so Toby decided to show it to him
- David said he loved it and had been working on something similar, so we collaborated on it.
Web Strategy Planning Template
- We decided to sketch it our on and paper
- Luckily we had a talented designer Sarah who turned into something simple and easy to understand
- Toby shared it with David Meerman Scott
- He offered to co-brand it with us and release it under Creative Commons and blog about it
- Included it in his 3rd edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR (which has sold over 200,000 copies)
Its impact on Bluewire’s marketing
- It gave our marketing teeth.
- It bridged the gap between our blogging efforts and our email subscribers.
- Plus knew us because of the template.
- Nearly everyone we’ve subsequently done business with has downloaded the Web Strategy Planning Template.
- Our best clients have said that they did business with us because of the Intellectual Capital we had shared on that template.
Advice to uncover flagship content
- Look at what you use with prospects or customers already.
- See what you can release on the web for free (to serve as your customer magnet).
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