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Speaker:Welcome to Distribution First, the show where we flip content marketing on its head
Speaker:and focus on what happens after you hit publish. Each week, I
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Speaker:Everybody, welcome to this week's episode of Distribution First. Super
Speaker:excited to have Parthi ladder drop on. We are going to get
Speaker:practical, tactical, really kind of get into the weeds a little bit on
Speaker:how to better repurpose and distribute probably content
Speaker:that you're already creating or most companies are planning to
Speaker:create. And then how you can use those pieces of content
Speaker:to just build a little bit of momentum or build on top
Speaker:of each other to where you're not having to constantly reinvent the wheel, which is
Speaker:what we're all about here on distribution first. So, Parthi, welcome to the show. Thanks
Speaker:for having me, Justin. It's interesting, one of the things we talked about,
Speaker:kind of this evolution of SEO, a little bit of
Speaker:how things have changed, right? Like things have changed a lot. Like
Speaker:Google's releasing new algorithm updates all the time. I'm seeing it
Speaker:like, hey, people are getting hit by know some people are, some
Speaker:people aren't. I think to start, I'd be interested to just kind of get your
Speaker:generalized take on where SEO is headed, what's
Speaker:happening in that space, and kind of where you see it evolving from
Speaker:there. Yeah, absolutely. Happy to share my perspective. And
Speaker:for context, I think my perspective is informed from a couple of different
Speaker:places. A, I used to work on the search team at Google as a
Speaker:product manager there, back around 2016 to
Speaker:2019 or so. And now I'm kind of
Speaker:on the other side in startup land, building businesses,
Speaker:helping companies think about marketing, and helping companies think about SEO. And
Speaker:so I've kind of seen both sides of this. And so one
Speaker:thing remains the same, which is kind of like the ethos behind
Speaker:search, which is try to get people answers to their
Speaker:questions. You search for something, how can we actually search what's out on
Speaker:the web across different types of media and actually give people something
Speaker:that answers their questions? So that has remained true for the past
Speaker:25 years across Search now, how
Speaker:effectively Google actually executes against that is a
Speaker:different question because it's this sort of like Whack a
Speaker:Mole game where a lot of people realize this. They realize that's a great distribution
Speaker:channel to get your evergreen content out there and get people coming to
Speaker:you. And obviously people are trying to figure, okay, like, how do I
Speaker:game the system? And that leads to a lot of bad behavior
Speaker:leads to a lot of people putting out stuff that's not so
Speaker:great, which also makes the search experience worse. So I
Speaker:think when people think about SEO, they should just think about the
Speaker:macro level of this ecosystem and what people are trying to do.
Speaker:So fast forward to today search has definitely
Speaker:changed. It used to be page rank and backlinks
Speaker:and then started looking at the actual content of sites, and
Speaker:that was pretty simplistic in terms of keywords. And now today
Speaker:with LMS over the past couple of years, Google has like their Palm
Speaker:Two model, their Gemini model coming out soon. You've seen Chat? GPT?
Speaker:GP four. Cloud two. All of these models. We have something
Speaker:that sort of resembles understanding of actual
Speaker:content. I think this is like Net good in the sense
Speaker:that it's helping machines actually understand and to
Speaker:differ between bad content and good content instead of actually answering
Speaker:the question. On the flip side of this, you also have the problem
Speaker:where people are abusing the technology and being like, okay, let's just pump out
Speaker:thousands and thousands of pages. It goes kind of both ways.
Speaker:I think at the crux of it as a company, most people
Speaker:should just understand that if you do what is best
Speaker:for your customer first, that's where you need to start. Do what's best
Speaker:for your customer, answer their questions, think about
Speaker:SEO second, and then go back to your content and think
Speaker:about, how do I make this easier for Google to
Speaker:understand as a second step? First step is definitely making sure it's for your
Speaker:customers. I think that will serve you best in the long
Speaker:run, independent of any sort of like Google update. The
Speaker:people who are generally impacted by this stuff over a longer period of
Speaker:time tend to be the people who did something wrong or
Speaker:weren't really thinking about their customers. It might last for six months, for
Speaker:a year, but over the long term, everybody at Google is working to
Speaker:make sure that that doesn't happen. And so that's my general advice.
Speaker:And I think there's more of a focus on information
Speaker:and having comprehensive answers to people's questions
Speaker:and being very customer centric and people first in the future of
Speaker:SEO. And I'm very excited about it. I'm with you. I think it's
Speaker:interesting, from the origins of SEO, you talk to
Speaker:anybody who was there when that was really sort of on the
Speaker:upswing. Black hat, white hat, all these things like how do we
Speaker:game it, how do we take this thing and twist it to where we can
Speaker:be number one, right? It's a little bit of a little bit of a game
Speaker:to try to do that. Despite all of
Speaker:the evolution of content, that's still kind
Speaker:of in the background in some of the SEO conversations
Speaker:in some of the world is like, because it's a very clear
Speaker:ranking system, right? There's a winner and there's a loser. There's a number
Speaker:one and there's a number 100. Right? And I've played
Speaker:those games. I'm eight. How do I get to three? What levers
Speaker:hey, everybody, let's get in a room. What levers do we pull to
Speaker:try to do that? While those conversations are
Speaker:fine and maybe valuable, at some point in time, it skips
Speaker:completely past what you mentioned, which is customers and what's useful to
Speaker:the end user. A lot of times the irony of that
Speaker:is to go from eight to five to eight to three, you have to
Speaker:have the best piece of content. It may not be that overnight thing, but if
Speaker:you do try to create the best piece of content for the audience,
Speaker:for the people who click on it, who, when they get there, they get what
Speaker:they need, you're not filtered with a definition and this and a that, and a
Speaker:blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, there, now I finally get my answer. Over
Speaker:the long term, you're probably going to win what you're saying? Right? Like, I think
Speaker:that's maybe the overarching thing that I would think about
Speaker:is with SEO, you have to think long term. It's
Speaker:not always this sort of like which is funny, because I think from
Speaker:the performance metrics standpoint, the thinking around it is keywords. I
Speaker:can get dashboards, I can show it feels short term, but overall it's really
Speaker:like a zooming out to look at the graph of
Speaker:over time growth versus the
Speaker:daily dip. It's like the stock market a little bit. Yeah, I
Speaker:totally agree. And I feel like here's a
Speaker:rule of thumb that we have internally at letterdrop for our own
Speaker:content. If we have a page on our website,
Speaker:we don't feel comfortable sharing it directly with a customer via
Speaker:customer support or in the sales cycle. It's not good enough
Speaker:because you secretly are ashamed of sharing this with somebody. You don't think
Speaker:it's helpful. Then why does it deserve to exist? Why does it deserve to
Speaker:be found via Google? And I don't think a lot of people think about that
Speaker:bar. They're thinking about vanity metrics like traffic. They're like, it's fine if
Speaker:it ranks somehow. Maybe there's low competition, there's nothing
Speaker:else better out on the internet. Or maybe I've tricked Google to get it to
Speaker:rank. But then what? They get to your page. A real person gets to your
Speaker:page, they look at it and they think to themselves, this is garbage.
Speaker:You're not giving them a chance to even understand
Speaker:what's going on. Build trust, be like these people, know what they're talking
Speaker:about, and then look for a CTA, click
Speaker:through, explore your site. And eventually what you're looking
Speaker:for with SEO is to become a customer to get them educated. And
Speaker:so I think it's that kind of short term thinking that's
Speaker:going to really hurt people or why SEO
Speaker:gets a bad rep. And I feel very strongly about this. Having worked in the
Speaker:search team. I feel like SEO is a dirty word now, and
Speaker:it really shouldn't be. It's a great way to search for information. It's
Speaker:just been abused quite a bit. Yeah. And I think sometimes
Speaker:people have internally have the wrong
Speaker:idea about SEO, which I think skews a lot of those things. I
Speaker:know just personally, as somebody who built content engines around
Speaker:SEO, you can fudge the numbers great, look at all
Speaker:these keywords we're ranking for, look at all our top ten pages, blah, blah, blah,
Speaker:blah, blah. But unless those things are
Speaker:converting or drawing people in or driving
Speaker:traffic, who cares? I've audited companies where they're ranking
Speaker:for lots of terms and they're number one or they have the
Speaker:snippet, and then you go there and it's just some tangential
Speaker:piece of content that doesn't kind of relates. But
Speaker:ranking number one really isn't doing anything for that other than you
Speaker:saying you're sort of padding your stats a little bit in terms of what that
Speaker:looks like. So I'm curious. And then we'll get
Speaker:into some of the practical stuff. What are some of the
Speaker:elements, things that people as you're building out this
Speaker:SEO content? Because I think that's the other thing too. Maybe when people think SEO
Speaker:content, this giant wall of text, 2000 words
Speaker:cram as much information on this page as I possibly
Speaker:can get all the FAQs on the end,
Speaker:I'm assuming that's evolved. What are some of the things that when you
Speaker:all are creating content, letter drop, when you're talking to other people, what
Speaker:are those things you advise they include? How should people sort
Speaker:of evolve their thinking around an SEO blog post? I
Speaker:think everything essentially revolves around search intent. So
Speaker:when someone searches for something, what is the underlying thing that they're
Speaker:looking for? If you put yourself in their shoes, what's the quickest
Speaker:way you can give them an answer and then kind of expand on
Speaker:that in a way that's relevant to them? And
Speaker:the way you answer search intent might be in different formats. It's not just
Speaker:like long walls of text. Sometimes search for how to
Speaker:tie your shoes. It's probably a YouTube video, for example. Certain things are better
Speaker:addressed by video, by charts
Speaker:illustrations, by first party opinions on
Speaker:reddit or quora, or by detailed
Speaker:research PDF. Search intent really matters. And
Speaker:so what I would say is, first put
Speaker:yourself in the shoes of your visitor and figure out what can
Speaker:I give them? I think it is useful to
Speaker:look at what Google is currently surfacing to people
Speaker:and understanding like, hey, is this a
Speaker:video? Is this a chart? What does Google think the right way to
Speaker:answer this is? And there's a lot of tooling out there,
Speaker:including artists, which does this in varying ways. But I think what's
Speaker:more important here is also figuring out how are you going to actually
Speaker:tell a story or say something that's unique, especially
Speaker:over the past couple of years with LLMs and it becomes easier and easier
Speaker:to just copy people skyscraper content. And so
Speaker:earlier this year, Google has said they launched
Speaker:Perspectives. They're really on perspectives. How do we get more people on
Speaker:YouTube videos, TikTok Reddit, Quora, first party opinions, and how do we
Speaker:surface that in search results? So you want to think about how do you embed
Speaker:real live opinions from experts in your pages.
Speaker:So think about multimedia, think about how do I pull in a
Speaker:quote for somebody, how do I do a podcast with somebody, how do I extract
Speaker:that, how do I embed that in my page? That's going to help you with
Speaker:search. And the second big thing is information gain.
Speaker:How do you stand out? How do you say something that nobody else is saying?
Speaker:If we say the same thing and HubSpot says the same thing, and
Speaker:HubSpot is HubSpot massive presence, like defined
Speaker:inbound marketing, there is no way or no reason for
Speaker:Google to say pull letter drops content up there when HubSpot is
Speaker:saying the same thing. There is a reason for Google to pull up our
Speaker:content or something that we say. If we say something that HubSpot isn't
Speaker:saying that answers search intent. So can we pull that unique customer
Speaker:perspective? Can we run an original study? Can we do something that's
Speaker:unique that warrants being pulled up? Especially
Speaker:with Google rolling out their search SGE experience, their sort
Speaker:of like AI experience on top of search, it is reading all these
Speaker:pages and it's trying to construct an answer based on what it's seen
Speaker:out there. And if it sees the same definition,
Speaker:what is X? Time after time across every page, it's
Speaker:just going to be like, okay, I got what is X from that first page.
Speaker:I don't need to get what is X from page number seven, but page number
Speaker:eight is talking about this really unique perspective that none of these other
Speaker:pages are talking about. I want to pull that up and surface it to people.
Speaker:And this is why I'm excited about the future with this,
Speaker:as scary as it is, is because it is generally moving in the
Speaker:right direction in terms of getting people unique information and getting people
Speaker:closer to answers from first party. Google understands that people are appending
Speaker:reddit at the end of searches for a reason and they're trying to
Speaker:really address that. It gets me really excited too, because I think one of
Speaker:the downfalls or the maybe
Speaker:more boring aspects of SEO content that
Speaker:I've lived through is that it does sometimes feel
Speaker:like you're trying to just copy and paste what
Speaker:one, two and three are doing. Even to
Speaker:all the title tags are the same seven ways, four ways,
Speaker:eight ways, and it's just like a different number and they're all the same.
Speaker:It all just kind of ends up feeling the same
Speaker:to where now if you can stand
Speaker:out and be unique even from a title tag.
Speaker:I'm sure you're this way. I'm sure most users you know
Speaker:what to avoid at this point, right? You're scrolling a LinkedIn
Speaker:feed. You know what ads look like before it takes you like a
Speaker:millisecond to, oh, that's an ad. I'm going to keep going. Google Search
Speaker:no different. I know by that title tag what type of post that is. It's
Speaker:not giving me what I want. That's going to be generic. And so having those
Speaker:unique perspectives, those unique ways of doing content, I think
Speaker:is going to be massively important. A, because
Speaker:you're competing with other people, and LLMs for
Speaker:generic answers, but B, people
Speaker:engage with other people. We want to know what other people think. We want to
Speaker:know it's why Reddit is so popular. You know what I mean? I've even
Speaker:found myself doing that more. And I'm not even a massive engagement
Speaker:on Reddit by any means. I type something in. I want to see what is
Speaker:this person's real life perspective on this thing that
Speaker:I'm searching for? For me, inherently, it might be wrong. I have
Speaker:to use some brain cells to figure out like, do I agree with that? Is
Speaker:that correct? Is this right? But it at least is a unique
Speaker:perspective versus the sort of canned answer I may get if I
Speaker:just click on the number three blog post that's ranking for
Speaker:that. Sometimes Surfer Dude 97 from
Speaker:Reddit is more trustworthy than your HubSpot
Speaker:blog. You never know sometimes because, honestly, Surfer Dude 97 is probably
Speaker:in the trenches right now trying to figure it out where that HubSpot blog hasn't
Speaker:been updated in two and a half years and stuff changes totally, which is
Speaker:wild. So I think that's a great transition point, like going to
Speaker:unique. How do we do that? One of the things you had mentioned to me
Speaker:was being able to use things like case studies
Speaker:or sales calls or things like using these
Speaker:pieces of content that are happening.
Speaker:Every company is doing sales calls consistently. How do we think about
Speaker:using those for sales enablement? How do we think about
Speaker:repurposing or distributing those things out for adding
Speaker:them into blog posts for SEO, for instance, to add that unique
Speaker:perspective? I think that's one of the things like, oh, how do I get
Speaker:unique perspective? Man, sales calls feels like a gold mine to me to be able
Speaker:to start mining, to be able to do that. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:And I think taking a step back, what is the purpose of
Speaker:content at a business? Right? Primary purpose is like customer education.
Speaker:How do you get someone to go from unaware
Speaker:to problem aware to solution aware, to product aware,
Speaker:eventually buying your product? That's pretty much it. That is
Speaker:universally true of content. Now, how you distribute that
Speaker:content and what types of content belong on different channels, that is
Speaker:a separate problem. And so I think a lot of people start thinking
Speaker:about SEO as its thing on its own, or like LinkedIn as
Speaker:its thing on its own or Podcast as its thing on its own. But the
Speaker:same ideas can work on all of these different channels. They're packaged
Speaker:differently. But the same ideas can work on all these different channels. And
Speaker:all of these content ideas come from the same places. Sales
Speaker:calls or essentially conversations with your customers or
Speaker:conversations with your teammates, conversations with partners.
Speaker:Conversations like this essentially, right? It's like people talking to
Speaker:people, educating each other about how to do something and
Speaker:helping them get work done. And that's what B, two B
Speaker:buyers for the most part really care about it's just like how do I do
Speaker:my job? I do think every marketer should be really
Speaker:thinking about beyond just like keyword research because nobody really needs
Speaker:another top of fun. What is X in your category? I can guarantee
Speaker:unless your category is completely brand new, it's saturated to hell. That's not
Speaker:what you need. What you really need is trying to figure out, hey, what do
Speaker:our actual customers care about? What are the problems they're coming to us with? What
Speaker:are the questions that they're asking? You're going to find these
Speaker:in customer success calls, you're going to find these in sales calls, you're going to
Speaker:find these in communities, you're going to find these on
Speaker:LinkedIn, you're going to find these out there in the world where
Speaker:people are actually asking these questions. And that kind of stuff
Speaker:is a great source for what you should be creating content
Speaker:about. So at Letter Drop, for example, a lot of our
Speaker:content is influenced by what we hear from people
Speaker:in the community and on our sales calls, which is why
Speaker:we even bothered to build tooling to automate that as well.
Speaker:And so I think what people should
Speaker:really be focusing on is once we have these right ideas,
Speaker:how do I now maximize and going back to what your podcast is
Speaker:completely about is like repurposing distribution. How do I take this
Speaker:nugget of good information and how do I just put it out in as many
Speaker:places as possible where it makes sense? And so
Speaker:if you get a quote from a customer on a sales call, you sure as
Speaker:hell want to post that on LinkedIn, maybe anonymize if they are not comfortable
Speaker:with it. But here is what somebody who looks like you, who's
Speaker:another whatever CTO or another product
Speaker:marketer is saying and you want to post that on LinkedIn, or
Speaker:maybe you include that as a quote in your blog post, or maybe you even
Speaker:have a clip of that recording. You put that on
Speaker:YouTube and clip it and put on social media or Instagram or TikTok or whatever
Speaker:you have you. And so I think the really important part is
Speaker:going back to what I said earlier about unique perspectives. Those unique perspectives
Speaker:are going to come from these conversations happening in your
Speaker:community or with your customers. You want to make sure you are a
Speaker:noticing them, b saving them, c extracting them, and
Speaker:then D actually putting them out into all of your content to make it
Speaker:unique. Because this is essentially what's going to make you stand out from your
Speaker:competitors. If your competitors can say the same, if you
Speaker:take your content and post it on your competitors website or
Speaker:LinkedIn or what have you, your content is not
Speaker:sufficiently differentiated and you need to think a little bit more
Speaker:carefully about how do I use our internal resources to tell
Speaker:our unique story. Distribution in
Speaker:repurposing is only as good as the content you have to
Speaker:distribute or repurpose. And so one of the things I always try to work with
Speaker:from the jump is what are your strong points of view, which is kind of
Speaker:what you mentioned earlier, and using
Speaker:that to reverse engineer and using that as a gut check to the content
Speaker:you are even thinking about creating. So if you have a list out
Speaker:of your top points of view and sometimes the bigger the, the harder it is
Speaker:to maybe come up with those things or get alignment on those things. But it's
Speaker:still super important. This doesn't even have to be for the
Speaker:company moving on. It could be for a campaign. Hey, we've got this campaign going
Speaker:out. What is our sort of stake in the ground for this campaign? What are
Speaker:we trying to get across? And then you find the things to support that
Speaker:and then you start building those things around that to be able to
Speaker:actually make sure that point of view is getting out. Because sometimes it's
Speaker:easy to say, yeah, we believe that. And then you audit the content and you
Speaker:say, oh, we haven't said that in a year, we believe this. And I said,
Speaker:well, if you audit what's on your LinkedIn page right now, you don't believe that
Speaker:just because, you know, you believe that nobody else knows. You believe that because you
Speaker:haven't said it. And so it's like being able to understand that and then
Speaker:just ten x it because it's going to take ten to 20
Speaker:times of repetition over months and months to be like, oh,
Speaker:I get it. I'm just now seeing this a year into this.
Speaker:Justin, distribution first. Yes. So. Justin's. Justin.
Speaker:Content hamster. Get off the content hamster wheel. Okay, well, I've only
Speaker:said it a million times over the last year and a half, so finally is
Speaker:starting to hit a little bit. But I'm curious,
Speaker:with the sales calls, like, you go into Hrefs, you go into
Speaker:Samurai, you're like, nobody's looking for this. How do you balance that in
Speaker:terms of being able to prioritize this is what people are actually
Speaker:asking versus like, well, we're getting a zero
Speaker:back. How do you kind of take that leap to be able to actually create
Speaker:that piece of content? Or is it in that case, maybe not a blog
Speaker:post? Is it something else? I will always pick the customer question
Speaker:over any data from SEMrush or Href. Case in point.
Speaker:And I've seen this across our customers. I've seen this across ourselves. Our
Speaker:best performing blog post from SEO
Speaker:perspective, that has brought us in probably three or four
Speaker:customers in the past month or so, has
Speaker:zero search volume. Like NA on SEMrush.
Speaker:As far as SEMrush is concerned, no one is searching for it. It doesn't
Speaker:mean no one is searching for it. What it really means is that the methods
Speaker:SEMrush or Ahrefs use to estimate
Speaker:and these are estimates, estimate search volume are off.
Speaker:They're putting click trackers on people's web pages, all that stuff.
Speaker:Maybe people who are my customers
Speaker:aren't in that representative sample of people have these click trackers. And so
Speaker:from SEMrush's perspective, looks like no one's searching for it.
Speaker:So that's my first point. So even if no people
Speaker:on SEMrush are Hrefs, or even like 30 people are searching for it,
Speaker:it's fine. I would rather get 30 qualified people
Speaker:to my site and have five of them convert and actually
Speaker:drive revenue for my business than go for some
Speaker:super fluffy term where they're in the unaware stage, has
Speaker:20,000 people searching for it, but they're never going to be customers, at least
Speaker:in the near future. And so I would always listen to your customers
Speaker:over any of that data. That data is just a gut check. More
Speaker:so than anything, I think a lot of SEO strategies which
Speaker:start purely from keywords, especially in
Speaker:2023, are kind of like doomed to fail. Like you really should be starting from
Speaker:your customer and not from keywords. Keywords are secondary. They're just a data
Speaker:point. The second thing I will say about this
Speaker:is SEO is a pull channel
Speaker:demand capture. Someone's searching for something, you just happen to be there, you get in
Speaker:front of them, and then you have your push channels, which are like social
Speaker:media, newsletters, all those kinds of things, where you're pushing
Speaker:something out into the world, and that's more so demand
Speaker:generation. And I think these work in tandem. You
Speaker:push a lot of stuff out into the world, you repeat yourself
Speaker:a million times, and people finally get distribution first, and then they go
Speaker:Google it, and then you kind of capture that later. And so both of these
Speaker:work in harmony. And so in some ways, you can actually
Speaker:create that demand on your push channels
Speaker:by saying distribution first, distribution first, so many times to
Speaker:the point where you start creating that demand, and now you can capture it
Speaker:via SEO as well. So even if there's no one searching for it, you can
Speaker:now create it. There are companies, reverse ETL. There are a couple of
Speaker:companies in this space that was not a thing which existed two years
Speaker:ago, people made it a term, they started using it a lot.
Speaker:People start googling the term and the companies which made
Speaker:the category or the term capture that as well. So you can
Speaker:see how this cycle works. And so I think the
Speaker:TLDR here is always be customer centric. If a customer asks
Speaker:you something that's way more important than what you're seeing on SEMrush,
Speaker:it can be a blog post, it can also be a social media post. Once
Speaker:again, a good idea is a good idea and the way in which
Speaker:you layer that on or capture it is different. So maybe you do the social
Speaker:media post first because you're not in
Speaker:the demand capture phase of content, but then you also create
Speaker:the blog post later to actually capture that demand. And
Speaker:so going back to your point, just like good
Speaker:idea, once get it out everywhere.
Speaker:How do you maybe think about using webinars podcasts?
Speaker:These more multimedia. I mean, obviously I've got this show,
Speaker:so I've got my own ideas on it. But I'd love your take on it.
Speaker:How do you use those for blog content, for
Speaker:SEO content? I think one of the pitfalls is
Speaker:the classic we just throw the recording up after,
Speaker:or we throw up the recording and we also include the entire transcript underneath
Speaker:it. And it's like, well that's not great. Again, going back
Speaker:to user experience, not the best. I can't tell you a time
Speaker:I've ever read a transcript underneath a video unless I
Speaker:was watching the video and had to actually consume it as it was
Speaker:scrolling. How do you think about that Parthi? How do you think about using
Speaker:these? I mean, man, I was just on a call this
Speaker:morning creating six webinars a
Speaker:quarter. And what are we doing with them? Well, not much.
Speaker:We're building all this momentum up toward them and then fading them
Speaker:out. And so how do you think about repurposing those type of things for blog
Speaker:content, for SEO content, et cetera? I think for the vast majority of
Speaker:digital webinars and stuff like that, not a lot of people actually attend them
Speaker:live. A lot of people actually watch them later. And so your leads
Speaker:are not coming in. I feel like a lot of demand gen and sales folks
Speaker:are like, oh yeah, throw up a gated webinar and then we're
Speaker:going to get a bunch of emails and then we're spam the hell out of
Speaker:them. And I'm not saying you shouldn't collect emails and do. And I understand where
Speaker:sales is coming from with that, for sure. Our sales team also pressures us
Speaker:to do that. But I think there is a lot you can do with the
Speaker:actual content. I think the great thing about webinars is it's first
Speaker:party data. It's like people to people. It's human connection, people sharing their
Speaker:experiences. It is incredibly unique. It's a little bit of work
Speaker:to get going. You have to. Schedule time, have a conversation, all that kind of
Speaker:stuff. But this is where you're really going to stand out from having this kind
Speaker:of content. So I think the first thing people should be doing is thinking about,
Speaker:okay, how do I just really juice it for all it's worth? How do I
Speaker:get these insights out of there? How do I go back, audit all of our
Speaker:content, figure out the insights from this webinar, do
Speaker:snippets of these fit into our blog posts?
Speaker:Right? Can I take a snippet from this? Can I upload it to
Speaker:YouTube, clip it down? Can I take the quote, put it there and put it
Speaker:into a blog post somewhere? So that's going to help the blog post rank higher,
Speaker:it has more unique perspectives, all that kind of stuff. How do I take this
Speaker:and share it on social media? How do I once again take insights
Speaker:from here, clip it down, take a single insight, share it on
Speaker:LinkedIn, and then repetition matters. You can use that clip as many
Speaker:times as you want, post it every month if you want. Actually, social media is
Speaker:ephemeral. People forget really easily. And so I
Speaker:think a lot of people just leave their podcasts and webinars to
Speaker:die, just like somewhere on your website. Best case scenario,
Speaker:you maybe have a transcript, which to your point, nobody reads. You're missing
Speaker:out on SEO from that podcast or webinar not being
Speaker:discoverable because it doesn't have an easy to read
Speaker:text or blog companion to it that can be discovered via
Speaker:search. It is not being discovered via social media beyond maybe the
Speaker:initial launch because it's not being repurposed. Then insights from that are not being
Speaker:reposted. And I think a single webinar over a twelve month
Speaker:period can actually generate a lot of business for you if you take
Speaker:the energy to actually repurpose it. And so even
Speaker:me, I think we've probably talked about a lot of great stuff
Speaker:on this podcast. Once you publish this, I would love to take
Speaker:this. We're going to drop it into our own tool. We're going to turn into
Speaker:a blog post, we're going to clip it up, put into LinkedIn, and we will
Speaker:sure as hell have some of these insights. Whatever I'm seeing right now, our writers
Speaker:probably pull those put into our blog post and also post this
Speaker:to our social media. And I think content
Speaker:repurposing this way of getting one good idea and sharing it as many times
Speaker:as possible is going to really help companies, especially
Speaker:in this market, like do more with less and all that stuff. Instead
Speaker:of spending more money on new content,
Speaker:make sure you're collecting the sort of exhaust from your existing
Speaker:company, what's happening around you, in your community, within your
Speaker:company. Take that exhaust, recycle it, and put it
Speaker:out into the world again and you'll just get a lot more
Speaker:from writing that. Next, what is X Blog post
Speaker:love it Parthi. I'm just going to throw that on my website now and
Speaker:just have you explain the whole repurposing distribution
Speaker:value prop and then I can stop doing that.
Speaker:No, that was totally, totally agree. I think two
Speaker:huge things there. The one is being more strategic
Speaker:with what you're creating. I think a lot of times it feels
Speaker:like as content folks, we have to constantly be creating
Speaker:everything. So we have to do in tandem three blog
Speaker:posts a week and a webinar every month and a podcast and
Speaker:this and that. The more I'm
Speaker:working with other companies and reflecting on sort of
Speaker:my life in the past, but then also looking ahead to where content is
Speaker:going, it feels much more like there
Speaker:are seasons of content for the creators
Speaker:and for the content marketers out there. Where
Speaker:your audience? I know this is not an original thought, but your audience doesn't
Speaker:care about your publishing schedule. I promise you they don't. I promise you they
Speaker:don't. They have no clue that you have six webinars
Speaker:coming this month. They have no clue that you are
Speaker:doing this video series and hey, we release it every Tuesday and if we release
Speaker:it on Wednesday, they'd freak out because they're expecting it. No, they don't care.
Speaker:You're not stranger things. You're not great British. Breakup. You're not
Speaker:that. So you can get over that people aren't bated breath waiting for your thing
Speaker:to drop. But also the idea of
Speaker:understanding what content you have to
Speaker:revitalize SEO, that's a huge I have done
Speaker:that for years is what was once
Speaker:ranking started to drift. Let's go update it. That
Speaker:means refreshing the content, but that also means to your point,
Speaker:what multimedia content have recreated recently that we
Speaker:can inject new life into that old piece of content? What
Speaker:original thought can we put out there? It helps to
Speaker:reframe the way you're doing content to where it's how you get off the content
Speaker:hamster wheel honestly, is like understanding
Speaker:the purpose of the content and understanding going back to
Speaker:the customer centric nature of it is why are we doing what we're doing?
Speaker:A lot of times it's like, well when you think internally it's revenue
Speaker:growth and MQLs SQL. That agreed. But at the end of the day,
Speaker:especially for content teams, like you said, it's education. It's helping people
Speaker:view themselves as the ability to be a new type of
Speaker:person. This transformation, this idea that I was once this
Speaker:now I can be that. That's how you get buy in. That's how you
Speaker:more and more especially for people selling
Speaker:products, products are there's so many products now, it's
Speaker:unbelievable. And feature sets and all that can be cannibalized, right? Like you
Speaker:said with HubSpot example, right? Or you're just going to go up against Google will
Speaker:come in and do something and you're like, well now I'm going against Google. But
Speaker:if you have those unique takes, if you have those unique thoughts. If you have
Speaker:this unique perspective, people will buy in or they won't.
Speaker:And that's okay because the people who aren't going to buy in, they're probably not
Speaker:going to be your customer anyway, right. It goes back to that 20,000
Speaker:versus 30 clicks a month, while 20,000 that converts
Speaker:at zero. I'd rather have the 30 that convert at five.
Speaker:Absolutely. Totally. This has been super fun Parthi. I
Speaker:say this, I feel like after every episode and so I'm eventually going to have
Speaker:to start doing it. We will have to do around two at some point because
Speaker:I feel like there's a lot we left out on the table. But super pumped
Speaker:to have you on. I think you gave a lot of people really good insights
Speaker:in terms of how to do SEO the right way, how to think
Speaker:about content and think about SEO as just a distribution channel. In a lot of
Speaker:ways. It's just a piece of how you're doing content. It's
Speaker:not an end all, be all. It's not a content strategy and it's not
Speaker:keywords aren't a content strategy. So I think lots to take away here
Speaker:and super fun to have you on. Thanks party. Thanks for having me, Justin. It
Speaker:was a blast.
Speaker:All right. I hope you enjoyed this episode of distribution
Speaker:first, and thank you for listening all the way through. I appreciate you
Speaker:so, so much and I hope you're able to apply what you learned in
Speaker:this episode, one way or another, into your content strategy as
Speaker:well. Speaking of strategy, we have a lot of things going on this year that
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Speaker:until then, take care and I'll see you next time.