Deconstructing The Most Successful Content Marketing Teams With Jennifer Pepper From Unbounce [AMP 147]

- Unbounce: Leading landing-page platform with drag-and-drop feature to easily make changes and better control conversions
- Content Strategy: Driven by marketing team’s strategy, needs, and best practices
- Balance and Alignment: Marketing strategy with business to prioritize content
- Content Machine: Set foundation, create funnel, and focus on content services
- Content Updates vs. Neverending Creation: Serve everything, and keep it fresh
- Different Departments: Work well with others to align content marketing priorities
- Unbounce’s Future Goals:
- Attract target segments with core content that’s difficult to replicate
- Regain organic traffic
- Improve discoverability of evergreen content
- Become exceptional at multimedia content
- Makeshift Marketing: Who’s doing what? Using what tools?
- Content Creation Process: Editorial calendar for blog, roadmap for long-term projects, and project manager to keep staff on schedule
- Team Size Matters: Requires ruthless prioritization and alignment on projects
- Defining and Measuring Success: Monthly results for direct and organic traffic, number of new subscribers, and keyword positioning on Google
- Psychological Safety Net: Supportive and fun culture of content marketing team
- Competition-free Content: Stand out by creating useful, value-add, quality, and compelling content that can’t be replicated
- Unbounce
- Unbounce Call to Action Conference
- Unbounce Marketing IQ
- Unbounce Conversion Benchmark Report for Marketers and Agencies
- Unbounce Page Speed Report
- Andy Crestodina
- Content Jam
- Content Marketing World
- Your Blog Is Not a Publication
- Vidyard
- Disney’s Toy Story
- 10X-Marketing Formula by Garrett Moon
- Google Analytics
- KISSmetrics
- New CoSchedule Marketing Suite
- Write a review on iTunes, and send a screenshot of it to receive cool CoSchedule swag!
- “I love helping Software as a Service (SaaS) brands execute on amazing content.”
- “We have a literal ocean of content available over 10 years of existence.Our content strategy needs to encompass serving up everything evergreen versus making more things.”
- “It would be so cool to solely focus on the demand gen side of content, or traditional content marketing (i.e., grow-your-reach-all-the-time-always).”
- "There’s always this understanding that if you’re asked to take something new on, it’s a matter of, what are we giving up to accommodate that new thing? I’m not just going to keep piling it on."
Transcript:
Eric: Question. What does content marketing look like at your company? Do you have a team of marketers working just on content? Do you have designers? Do you have copywriters? Do you have a project manager making sure you hit your editorial calendars right in the notes? Or do you wear multiple hats and you do it all? Do you not have a strong content marketing presence yet? If you do, however, how are you measuring success? What is your process look like? How do you make sure you publish on time, every time? These are big questions and we want answers. I think we can learn a lot from those marketing content engines that do it right. We have got the perfect guest. Her name is Jennifer Pepper. She’s the head of content marketing at Unbounce. They have got a fantastic process and content engine going at Unbounce. I want to hear more about it, I know you do. We’re going to break down all those questions. Jennifer really shares some behind the scenes that’s taking place at Unbounce who are just fantastic at the whole content process. I think you have tons to learn about how they do it. You can apply it to your business. […] I’ll be a goodie. Jennifer’s such a fun guest. My name is Eric Piela. I’m the head of the Brand and Buzz here at CoSchedule and the host to the Actionable Marketing Podcast. We’re going to break down what a content marketing department should look like and how it might operate efficiently. Giddy up. It’s time to get AMPed! Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Actionable Marketing Podcast. I have an awesome guest lined up today. Can’t wait to introduce you to her. Her name’s Jennifer Pepper. She’s the head of content marketing at Unbounce. Jennifer, welcome to the show. Jennifer: Hi, Eric. Thank you so much for having me. Eric: Absolutely. It’s great to have you. I think, maybe you’ve been on this podcast. I was looking through it. We’ve done 150 or so episodes. Maybe you’re on a couple years ago. Thanks so much for coming on this show. I know things that probably changed in your career and in your role, perhaps since then, but it’s great to have you on. Jennifer: Thank you so much. Congrats on so many episodes. That’s great. Eric: Thank you. I can’t take all the credit. I have a couple of predecessors, but it sure has been a lot of fun to be the host of the show. It’s such a pleasure for me because I get to interview wicked, smart, marketers, like yourself, Jennifer. Just to get to know you a little bit, the same challenges, grinds, opportunities, and moments for rejoice that come with being a marketer, that was the show is really about. I know you’ve got tons of experience across the board whether it be doing some branding campaigns, doing content. I know you held a number of different roles in your career. I think it’d be cool if we just start it off by you sharing a little bit about yourself, Jennifer, how you got thrust into this marketing world and a little bit about your role at Unbounce. Jennifer: Sure. Technically, I could have gone on to get a PhD and go be “The Dr. Pepper.” Eric: I love that. Jennifer: I know, me too. Instead, I love helping SaaS brands execute on amazing content. Together with my team, I’ve created dozens of campaigns for recognizable SaaS brands. I’ve worked on everything from onboarding at one end, to customer research, lead gen, and even brand overhauls as you mentioned. I think it’s the part of me that’s a bit of a producer or the 8-year-old who wanted to be working for Disney. This way I get to make things for our marketing audience, but I got my start working in video and content marketing over at Vidyard, if you’re familiar with them.



