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Content Marketing Expert Joe Pulizzi interviewed by Hubspot

Guest post by: Jeff Ogden

Article Overview: Great video interview with the author of Get Content, Get Customers by the smart folks at Hubspot. Joe shares great advice on content marketing in this interview for B2B marketers.

Content Marketing Expert Joe Pulizzi interviewed by Hubspot

B2B Lead Generation | Content Marketing by a Top Expert At the b2b lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers, we're big believers in content marketing, fans of Joe and Junta42, and passionate about the need to do it right. So without further ado, we share Hubspot's great content below. By the way, we're huge fans of Hubspot too. If you are a small to medium business looking to grow, we invite you to check out Hubspot's inbound marketing software.

P.S Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) of Find New Customers was the featured guest on HubspotTV. (Click the underlined words or image to watch.) HubspotTV airs every Friday at 4:00pm ET.

Someone I hold in high regard, Jill Konrath of Selling to Big Companies was the featured guest on HubspotTV on May 6th. (Jill and I teamed up on the Get Back to Work Faster project.)

Without further ado, here is Hubspot's own unedited post:

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Joe Pulizzi, of Junta42, joins us for episode #16 of Inbound NOW to talk about content marketing and why your company should start thinking like a publisher.

Joe is a content marketing evangelist, co-author of the book "Get Content, Get Customers" and runs the Content Marketing Institute.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why its critically important for marketers to start thinking like a publisher.
• Some of the biggest mistakes companies are making today with their content marketing and how to avoid them.
• The difference between creating content to attract customers and content to retain them.
• We take a look into the future of content marketing and where it is headed.

Joe's definition of content marketing:

"Like it or not, you're a publisher today" Joe says.

Brands have to tell valuable, relevant, and compelling stories to attract and retain their customers.

You need to start thinking about how your company can create content on a consistent basis to stand out from all the noise online and become the go to resource in your niche.

Biggest Mistakes in Content Marketing

No Consistency - Companies that have a one off campaign mentality, usually fail with their content marketing goals. Creating this content is an ongoing process and takes time.

Sales Pitchy Content - Trying to jam too much sales jargon into the content is another huge mistake companies make.

Avoid the jargon and answer questions and be helpful in the content that you create. This will help build up your authority in your niche and help foster business along with it.

Focusing Only On One Channel - Connecting with customers in the places where they consume content is key. Have a multi channel approach and make sure to repurpose or re-imagine your content for different mediums.

Content marketing is thinking about the needs and pain points customers and creating content to help resolve those issues.

How to Get It to Work

You can create or hire an internal team to start creating content or outsource the content creation through a variety of channels.

Joe says "I think it really doesn't matter how you source it. What matters is are you are committed to doing it? Does your C-level marketing team buy into it? And then, are you going to be consistent in doing it and integrate that with the rest of your marketing?"

Where Is the Content in Your Company?

Leverage your customer service teams and your sales department. They are on the front lines on a day to day basis and are treasure troves of content!

Reach out the people in your company who share links frequently via email, find your employees that are active in social media. Pull these people together and start talking about different pieces of content that you can produce.

Collaborate via a shared Google spreadsheet and leverage a content calendar to help facilitate this process.

Inbound Marketing and Content Marketing Start the Same

"Just like everything else. Content marketing, inbound marketing is no different than any other marketing strategy or philosophy.

You have to start with what are my objectives? What behaviors do I want to see out of my customers? How am I going to measure success? You've got to at least start somewhere. You might change it along the way, but if you don't start with where am I going to go with this thing, and what are our ultimate expectations, you're going to fail."

Attraction Content vs. Retention Content

Most content produced by marketers is geared towards prospective customers not the existing customers. This makes sense to a point, but Joe says there is a huge opportunity to start creating retention content to build customer loyalty.

"Attraction content is different than retention content. So with attraction content you're doing all these things. You want to be found on search engines for the right keywords. You're going to be sending out blog posts. You've got content that is being spread through Facebook and Twitter. That's fantastic."

Retention content is also a great opportunity to up sell to existing customers.

Producing Content is Hard!

Where to start? With your customers. You need to discover what your customers major pain points are.

Do a survey of current customers, talk to the people in your company on the front lines.

Listen in to social media and do some research.

Editorial Calendar

Joe is a huge proponent of having a content calendar and have it stocked with at least 3 months worth of ideas moving into the future.

Looking Into the Future of Content Marketing

"Over the next 10 years you're going to see that more and more of the media that's consumed by you and I are not coming from media companies, they're coming from brands.

We're seeing that evolution now. Most companies that I talk to aren't asking, ‘Why should I do it, Joe?' They already know they should do it, they're asking how."

You need to start understanding why you need to do this and start transitioning your thinking about how you are going to implement this.

Connect with Joe online

For more resources on content marketing check out the Content marketing institute, and you can also check out Joe's blog at Junta42.com and follow him on Twitter @JuntaJoe

What do you think? We love comments and our subscribers.

Want to know specifically how Find New Customers can help YOUR business? Check out How We Help You.

Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers.

We help companies with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.

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