Ahava Leibtag and Amanda Todorovich from Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub gave this workshop at Content Marketing World 2014 in Cleveland on September 11, 2014.
Content Strategy Secrets from the Cleveland Clinic's Health Hub and Ahava Leibtag
1. Hospital Industry Lab
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Ahava Leibtag
President
Aha Media Group
Amanda
Todorovich,
Digital Engagement
Cleveland Clinic
@amandatodo
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Today
1. Meet your tour guides
2. Planning your Content
3. Challenges in Content Creation
4. Publish your Content
5. Distribute your Content
6. Analyze your Content
7. Govern your Content
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Ahava Leibtag
• Author of The Digital Crown
• Owner of 11-person
content firm, Aha Media
Group
• 9 years in healthcare
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Amanda Todorovich
• 15 years in “storytelling”
– 10+ years in
healthcare
• Blogs, social media, email
@amandatodo
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About Cleveland Clinic
• No 2 most visited hospital site in the country
(driven mostly by content) with 80-90 million
visits in 2014
• More than $204 million in annual revenue from
appointments made via leads from
ClevelandClinic.org in 2013
• No. 1 most visited hospital blog with 2.5+
million visits a month
• 1 million+ Facebook fans (only St. Jude’s has
more)
• 250K+ Twitter followers (only Mayo has more)
• Named one of 140 Twitter feeds to follow in
2014 by TIME magazine
• No. 1 in Linkedin followers among hospitals
• 15+ email newsletters with a combined
distribution of 250K+ a month. Flagship Be Well
newsletter has a 55K distribution list.
• 130 active paid search campaigns (using
treatment guide content) that generate more
than $32 million in revenue yearly and an ROI of
24-to-1.
• No. 2 in the industry in organic search traffic
with a projected 38 million in organic search
visits in 2014
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Content Strategy: Two Parts
External Messaging
• To whom are you talking?
• Who are you?
• What are you trying to say?
• How do you say it?
• When and where do you say
it?
Internal Workflow
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External Messaging
External Messaging Questions
• To whom are you speaking?
• Who are you?
• What are you trying to say?
• How do you say it?
• When and where do you say
it?
Content Strategy Tools
• Personas
• Identity Pillars
• Messaging Architecture
• Voice/Tone
• Editorial Calendar
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Plan
1. Discovery:
• Auditing: What are our current assets?
• Stakeholder Interviews: What do people both outside and inside
the organization think?
• Analysis: What’s the business case? What are we trying to
accomplish?
2. Answering the 5 Essential Questions
3. Define Workflow
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Analysis:
How do we want our brand to be
perceived in this conversation?
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External Messaging
External Messaging Questions
• To whom are you speaking?
• Who are you?
• What are you trying to say?
• How do you say it?
• When and where do you say
it?
Content Strategy Tools
• Personas
• Identity Pillars
• Messaging Architecture
• Voice/Tone
• Editorial Calendar
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27. “Jen's kids have had a few cases of
strep this past year so she's reading up
on natural strep throat treatments.”
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“Judy's husband has gout
so she tries to learn all
she can about it.”
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Identity Pillars
• Who are we as a brand?
• What do people think of us currently?
• How do we want to shift that perception?
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Messaging Architecture
• How do our identity pillars map from a
business and patient/family perspective?
• How are we representing those ideas?
• What are our messages that reinforce the
identity pillars?
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Messaging Architecture
Current Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging
CHEAP AFFORDABLE
You can find the products you
want, at the price you are looking
for.
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Messaging Architecture
Current Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging
CHEAP AFFORDABLE
You can find the products you
want, at the price you are looking
for.
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• Our prices are consistently 20%
lower than other retail chains.
• Robust coupon program
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Messaging Architecture
Current Content Pillars Future Content Pillars % Articulation Statement Messaging
CHEAP AFFORDABLE
35 You can find the products you
want, at the price you are looking
for.
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• Our prices are consistently 20%
lower than other retail chains.
• Robust coupon program
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Two Models
Health Hub
• Dedicated team
• One person scheduling
and publishing content
ConsultQD
• Dispersed across
marketing
• Many people scheduling
and publishing content
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• Pick a metric that determines success.
• Use tools that give you actionable
information.
• Actually look at the data.
– Review as a team.
– Identify themes and trends.
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Avoid Auto-Pilot Mode
• It’s dangerous.
• Free-falling. Blind.
• No idea where you’ll land.
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What is content governance?
Content governance is the day-to-day
detailed management of content delivery
and style, as well as the long-term execution
of content strategy tactics.
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Content governance
• Determines priorities
• Provides detailed guidelines and standards on
how content should look, behave, and interact
with customers
• Assigns ownership to people within the
organization so they can make strategic
decisions about content
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Judy is 65. Married to John. Retired. Has a good pension.
Lives in Virginia.
Has two grown children and 5 grandchildren.
She LOVES Facebook and uses it on her desktop computer. Has an iPhone that she is still learning how to use.
Walmart shoppers. Big savers.
Willing to travel for better healthcare. John has gout. Judy has an auto-immune disorder.
Trying to eat healthier – doctor said she and her husband need to follow a heart-healthy diet.
Jen is 36. Married to Mark. 3 Children under the age of 8. Lives in Cleveland.
Lives on her iphone. Facebook and Pinterest junkie. Gets more email than she’s able to read.
Aspires to be the “super” mom and have it all.
Works in marketing.
She cooks her family’s meals and is always trying to find ways to get her kids to eat healthier.
Takes of her children and husband before spending time for herself or worrying about her own health.
Taylor is 27. She works for an SEO agency in California.
Fitness freak.
Obsessed with health recipes.
A little bit of a foodie.
Single.
Focused on staying healthy.
Your website is the home for your content.
Use the proper tools and materials to build it and make it big enough for the whole family.
You need a blueprint and you need the right team in place to do it right.
What’s the process ?
Who’s involved or should be?
Bring all needed expertise to the table.
Assemble a team and determine what the ideal process would be and drill down from there to determine what you’ve got to work with and what you might need to invest in moving forward.
We work with designers, developers, writers, analytics and social media teams on publishing. All have different needs and ideas that are a part of the process. All involved in discussions and decision-making from the beginning.
No right way.
Limitations and challenges with both approaches.
Just need cl
Doesn’t have to be fancy.
We use Google Drive for HH.
Sharepoint site for CQD.
Communicate to stakeholders – talk about our email alert system.
Submission forms ask writers to provide all needed info – metadeta, tweets, character counts for titles and sticky titles, etc.
Writers also work directly in WP.
Use Atomic Reach tool to maximize engagement.
Social engagement is a HUGE focus for us.
Scores help us make sure our content is optimized for the most engagement BEFORE we publish it.
This is new ground for us. We are in total experiment mode with distribution right now.
10x as much reach and engagement.
Don’t assume you “know your audience” or that your instincts are always right.
Measure everything and develop a culture of continuous improvement. Go beyond the basics. Don’t just ask what is happening, seek why it is happening – and then use this information to make better decisions. Share the info broadly and in a highly transparent way.
Make sure there the important people in your organization understand and buy-in to what you are doing, why you are doing it and how you are measuring it.
For HH right now, it’s all about traffic. Our big objective is national brand awareness.
We use the data to help us determine what is getting the most traffic.
Social media focus is on growth and scaling the size of our audiences to lead to more traffic to lead to brand awareness.
If the focus was on patient acquisition, totally different set of metrics and strategy.
Use the data to adjust.
Don’t be afraid to change things.
Don’t go on auto pilot.
Don’t just “check the box” – have a strategy and a clearly articulated point of view and defend it resolutely against mission creep. Don’t be random. Don’t think of it as “one more thing I have to do.” Be thoughtful. Use the data to be insightful.
Chartbeat. Real-time. Use to see immediate impact of social posts, email, etc. Can react/adjust plan for the day.
GA is such a powerful tool for content marketers. Can drill down into so many things – AFTER THE FACT.
Use it to monitor for trends.
Impacts overall site strategy and decisions.
In it every day.
Look at what distribution methods are working. ONLY if you set up tracking to do this.
What content is getting the clicks. Identify trends. Look for ways to do more with the strong content – collections, updates, different format, leverage on another channel or platform.