How to Write "The Big 5"
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Presented by: Kevin Phillips • "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
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- Why you need conversion and content offers on your website, no matter what it is that you do or sell at your company
- From checklists to sales appointments, what are the best types of conversion and content offers for businesses
- Specifically what conversion and content offers are most effective at various stages of the buyer's journey
- Why you need conversion and content offers on your website, no matter what it is that you do or sell at your company
- From checklists to sales appointments, what are the best types of conversion and content offers for businesses
- Specifically what conversion and content offers are most effective at various stages of the buyer's journey
- What Google My Business is
- Why Google My Business is important
- How to optimize your listing
- How to review and add images
- How to audit and respond to reviews
- How to create google posts
- How to add videos
- How to measure success using insights
- What Google My Business is
- Why Google My Business is important
- How to optimize your listing
- How to review and add images
- How to audit and respond to reviews
- How to create google posts
- How to add videos
- How to measure success using insights
- Review The Big 5 you learned fromThey Ask, You Answer and gain greater insights into the types of questions all buyers ask
- Taking a closer look at the buyer’s journey
- Help leadership feel at ease knowing that you, the content manager, will be able to provide content long-term
- Review The Big 5 you learned fromThey Ask, You Answer and gain greater insights into the types of questions all buyers ask
- Taking a closer look at the buyer’s journey
- Help leadership feel at ease knowing that you, the content manager, will be able to provide content long-term
- Why these topics are important
- Overcoming objections to answering these questions
- Why SME participation is so important for each topic
- How SMEs can help bring these topics to life
- Important considerations to keep in mind while creating this content
- Why these topics are important
- Overcoming objections to answering these questions
- Why SME participation is so important for each topic
- How SMEs can help bring these topics to life
- Important considerations to keep in mind while creating this content
- What does a content manager do?
- What problems does a content manager solve?
- How can I get the results needed to prove myself in my new role?
- What should I be doing on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis?
- What does a content manager do?
- What problems does a content manager solve?
- How can I get the results needed to prove myself in my new role?
- What should I be doing on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis?
- How to use Google Search Console
- How to use Google Analytics
- How to use Google Search Console
- How to use Google Analytics
- How to create content along the buyer’s journey
- How to optimize your article copy to appear on the first page of Google (including structure, keywords, multimedia, linking, etc.)
- How to optimize your SERP elements (i.e., titles, URLs, meta descriptions, etc.)
- How to optimize the user experience of your blog articles
- How to create content along the buyer’s journey
- How to optimize your article copy to appear on the first page of Google (including structure, keywords, multimedia, linking, etc.)
- How to optimize your SERP elements (i.e., titles, URLs, meta descriptions, etc.)
- How to optimize the user experience of your blog articles
- You’ll learn how to review the copy of your article for SEO and user experience
- You’ll learn how to inspect your multimedia for best practices
- You’ll learn what technical SEO elements you’ll want to analyze
- You’ll learn how to review the copy of your article for SEO and user experience
- You’ll learn how to inspect your multimedia for best practices
- You’ll learn what technical SEO elements you’ll want to analyze
Pardon any old branding! This course was recorded when IMPACT+ was called ThePACT.
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6 Videos • 2h 13m • Intermediate Level • Last Updated: 09/2021
For a content marketer, nothing is more frustrating than churning out content and seeing nothing come of it. Maybe it’s getting some likes on social media, maybe it’s pulling in some healthy traffic, but when it comes to leads and sales, if it’s leaving you high and dry, what’s the point?
For most businesses, it takes a year or more for inbound marketing to start showing real results, but it doesn’t have to. Though inbound and content marketing are long-term plays that compound over time, there is content you can create that has been shown to drive sales immediately. We call these topics “The Big 5” and we have seen their power work with hundreds of clients and companies over the past decade.
The Big 5 addresses the most urgent questions and concerns modern consumers have when making a purchase regardless of industry. They are the questions being searched online and, with the answers in hand, your sales team can tackle objections in their conversations head-on.
In this course, IMPACT’s most tenured content trainer, Kevin Phillips, talks you through what comprises The Big 5, how to execute them for your organization, and examples of them done well.
You will learn:
This course is for anyone struggling to see bottomline results from their content marketing and ready to build trust with their buyers by answering their most burning questions honestly.
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Meet Your Instructor
Kevin Phillips •
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
As IMPACT’s Senior Content Trainer and your favorite instructor, Kevin has taught over 100 content managers the fine arts of content marketing, the philosophy of They Ask, You Answer, and the science of SEO. As a collector of case studies, you can see a gallery of his work by visiting IMPACT’s Real World Results. Kevin’s love for learning is surpassed only by his passion for teaching. From educating clients how to be rockstar content managers, to training other content trainers how to train content managers, to coaching his three kids how to be passably-functional people, Kevin now brings his unique experiences and sense of humor to IMPACT + courses and peer groups. Outside of work, Kevin is still settling into life in the midwest after spending over 3 ½ decades in the Pacific North-North-Northwest. Fortunately, the abundance of disc golf courses, longer summers, and roadside sweet corn stands help with the adjustment. He’s still waiting to see a moose here. So far, they’re just on Minnesota license plates.
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