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Australian-based Pilbara Group provides academic resource management tools to higher education institutions worldwide that support costing and budgeting processes vital to financial sustainability and survival. They have been a TME client since 2016.
First, define gaps between internal BI and target need-to-knows
In the beginning of 2017, Dr. William Massy, Pilbara’s longtime advisor and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, interviewed more than 50 individuals to better understand what academics and administrators need to support their involvement in the financial management of their institutions.
Second, build content your audience actually wants/needs
As a result, Dr. Massy and Pilbara’s Michelle Brooke were able to distill eleven shared data governance requirements. This was critical content that Pilbara wished to disseminate to its community of prospects and customers to demonstrate how its solution meets all of the requirements uncovered by Dr. Massy.
Third, determine best distribution strategy and schedule
At this juncture, TME recognized that this content could very easily be translated into an 11-part series that would enable them to feed the bi-weekly newsletter and blog posts as well as LinkedIn. The series would then culminate in the complete report which would be gated content on the website.
Fourth, deliver content in channel-appropriate formats
The report was quite extensive so an abridged version was also created as a quick teaser to be used at industry events. The one-pager pointed back to newsletter subscribership and the Pilbara blog as well as a new interactive online demo. The full report was also produced, but only for highly qualified prospects.
Finally, keep readers hooked with consistently strong content
Since the series launched almost one year ago, Pilbara has consistently seen a 20-25% open rate on its biweekly newsletter. President & CEO of Pilbara, Lea Patterson, reported a spike in direct inquiries and demo requests tied to readership as well.
This success story shows how powerful content can be to an overall marketing program when the RIGHT content is generated and then extended properly and thoughtfully to target audiences through all relevant channels.
In summary:
When a client works with TME to define its prospects/customers need, the content can be created and disseminated in the right format and right frequency allowing the upfront investment of time to be maximized.
This “build once” strategy proves time and again to be one of the most effective ways to feed marketing channels over an extended period of time while successfully maintaining community interest and motivating movement within a sales pipeline.
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