This document contains quotes and advice from speakers at the MozCon 2015 conference around topics like content strategy, marketing, personalization, and analytics. Some of the key points include: marketers are shifting to branded/paid content; content strategy should answer questions like why, how, when for the content; remarketing works best with a frequency of 2-3 ads per day; and personalization is important to avoid a one-size-fits-all approach on the web. Effective use of analytics, email, meetings and time were also discussed.

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2. Rand
Fishkin
In 2015, survey respondents in the
Moz industry survey spent more time
on brand strategy, content curation,
managing people, PR, and social –
but less time on link building.
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3. Good marketing makes people make
decisions that they’re unconscious of.
Every time your brand slips up, it’s a
distraction from that.
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Dana
DiTomaso

4. When you’re writing a brand strategy,
start with what the brand isn’t. It’s
easier for people to say “that’s not us.”
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Dana
DiTomaso

5. A lot of companies expect their
customers to be loyal to them, but
they are not loyal to their customers.
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Dana
DiTomaso

6. Kristina
Halvorson
Content strategy is about answering
not just what, but why, how, when,
for whom, by whom, with what,
where, how often, and what’s next.
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7. Kristina
Halvorson
There are four parts to getting strategy done.
1. Assessment, analysis, and strategy
2. Architecture and editorial: content and
structure piece
3. Implementation: how do we get it done?
4. Maintenance: what do we do next?
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8. Kristina
Halvorson
If you want to get buy-in for content
strategy, focus on the pain points.
Where does it hurt, and where can
content strategy deliver a smart
solution?
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9. 79% of marketers are shifting to branded or
paid content. NYT paid post was 35% of their
shares in the vertical. Users didn’t just read it,
they shared it, even though it was an ad. NPR
paid post was 55% of their shares in the
vertical. No one cares if content is paid or
sponsored if it’s good.
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Matthew
Brown

10. Old Content Promotion: get all the
links and shares to the hub.
New Content Promotion: Publish to
all the streams that work for your
audience.
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Matthew
Brown

11. Every site and brand could have a
different secret sauce. It takes 12-17
months to figure this out. Content
programs are not usually something
that’s going to work in the first 90
days.
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Matthew
Brown

12. Duane
Brown
Remarketing is a marathon,
not a sprint. Keep your daily
frequency to 2-3 ads per day to
avoid brand fatigue.
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13. Easy SEO tip using PPC data: Identify
your content gaps - see where paid
search is the only entrance path and
adjust SEO accordingly for more
organic traffic.
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Stephanie
Wallace

14. Analytics is hard – it’s a bit of a data
black hole. We collect a lot of data, it
kind of just sits there, and we don’t
know what to do with it.
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Adrian
Vender

15. Just a small handful of things that are
easier to track with Google Tag Manager:
• Content scrolling.
• Outbound links.
• YouTube and Vimeo.
• URL Fragments (i.e., AJAX pages)
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Adrian
Vender

16. Marta
Turek
Quick ways to stop wasting time in meetings:
• Decline meetings with no clear agenda.
• Avoid last minute invites.
• Avoid 30-min gaps between meetings.
• Block off your own 2-4 hour work invites in
your calendar.
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17. Marta
Turek
Stay focused to use time more effectively:
• Switch off all pings, popups, & notifications.
• Do not check email. It takes 20 minutes to get
back to the level of focus you had after a
distraction.
• Time yourself - understand how long work
actually takes.
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18. Marta
Turek
Email is not a storage container.
It’s a shipping container. Email is
where information goes to die.
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19. Marta
Turek
Use email more effectively:
• Use more detailed subject lines. You’ll see this
reciprocated.
• You don’t always need to send an email. Instead, you
want to move your communication to the relevant
platform.
• Use a shared Google doc to collaborate on and house
agendas. You’ll also keep your meeting notes there.
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20. The one-size-fits-all web is dead… and lazy.
“
Email and remarketing] are proven channels to
get people to do what you want them to do,
and you need to start personalizing them.
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Cara
Harshman

21. B2B SaaS? Quick personalization idea:
• Give larger potential customers a higher
touch CTA – “Request A Demo”.
• Give SMB potential customers a lower-
touch CTA – “Try it Now”
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Cara
Harshman

22. A framework for web personalization:
• Figure out who to target.
• Decide what to show them.
• Prioritize your testing efforts.
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Cara
Harshman

23. Prioritizing your web personalization has 3
components:
1. The potential business impact
2. Technical effort to execute
3. The requirements to sustain it
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Cara
Harshman

24. Marty
Weintraub
If your audience is large enough,
focus on combining two root
behaviors to further segment. For
example, people with mortgages from
2000-2008 who are also veterans.
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25. Marty
Weintraub
New expectations for the modern
marketer: If you spend any time or
money on sending traffic to a URL, you
need to hand that over to a
performance marketer via cookie pool.
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26. Marty
Weintraub
Just like brand terms are a brand asset,
so are our curated lists of audiences that
we’ve built from customer profiles & traffic
to our website. We call these owned
audience cookie pools.
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27. Marty
Weintraub
If you’re going to retarget everyone
that comes to your website, why
not retarget the ones that are rich
and love to buy that shit?
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28. Marty
Weintraub
If you’re not willing to segment
your creative, you need to ask
yourself why you’re bothering with
segmentation in the first place.
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