WHO's that?
Basically Basic
In the Lead
Content w/ Content
Chris-isms
100

A common way used by marketers to “market to many by marketing to one,” often with cute names like Molly Mom or Salesman Sam

What is a persona?

100

The image that should come to mind if someone says ToFu, MoFu, or BoFu

What is a (sales and marketing) funnel?

100

Before we can turn audience members into leads, we usually have to get them ON our website. This is a webpage where visitors ENTER a website, whether they came from digital ads, social media, SEO, or some other channel. 

What is a landing page?

100

The use of marketing content for INBOUND purposes

What is content marketing?

100

This is one of two crucial pre-marketing questions, right alongside “What precisely are we trying to achieve?”

What is "WHO exactly are we marketing to?"
200

A brightly-colored button within a piece of digital content with an action-driving phrase like “Buy Now" that you want your audience to click on?

What is a CTA button?

200

The last of three steps in the buyer’s journey

What is Decision?

200

A lead deemed by marketing as qualified for additional marketing action/pursuit

What is an MQL?

200

When your content strategy fits the persona, product, channel, and objective – all at the same time

What is marketing alignment?

200
Stop talking about visitors and leads. Chris said to start talking about this instead. 

What are the RIGHT visitors and leads?

300

Marketing content and business communications need to conform to the expectations/needs of the audience. So, this system is used when writing press releases -- which tells the whole story in the first paragraph.

What is the inverted pyramid system?

300

The three elements of the digital mix, or your digital tools and assets for promoting your org

What are paid, owned, and earned?

300

A high-value piece of content that companies put behind a form/"gate." Visitors are then able to download/access the content, usually related to an earlier piece of content they engaged with, by providing some information like an email address. (The word "content" is in the correct answer.) 

What is a content upgrade?

300

The three Hs of the Triple-H content framework

What are hero, hub, and help

300

Many times Chris has said, while this may not be everything in marketing, it IS the beginning of everything in marketing.

What is attention?

400

We're marketing to PEOPLE. Which means we need to use people-centric methods for writing/creating our marketing content, like the AIDA framework. AIDA stands for this.

What is attention, interest, desire, action?

400

The four steps is how companies often DO marketing today, that helps companies turn strangers into visitors, visitors into leads, leads into customers, and customers into promoters. 

What are attract, convert, close, delight?

400

Case studies are a popular means of getting leads and even turning those leads into customers. These are the three parts of a case study Chris said you should always have. 

What are problem, solution, results?

400

When you pay third-party platforms, like Outbrain or Taboola, to distribute content you created across the web. 

What is content syndication?

400

There's A LOT of congestion in content today. Whether you're blogging, emailing, posting, etc., you must get above the congestion. Chris has emphasized two ways of doing this. One is to make truly outstanding content, the other is to make truly ________ content.

What is innovative?

500

This is the "tagline" (i.e., basic meaning in one memorable phrase) for the transactional bank account concept discussed in class. 

What is "give something to get something"?

500

This is a belief held by marketing guru Seth Godin that your business should cater to a narrow (sometimes very narrow) market of potential customers -- to REALLY be something to that niche.  

What is the smallest viable audience?

500

Lead generation is especially common among businesses with this?

What is a long sales cycle? 

500

This tells Google (and others) what webpage is the MAIN webpage in the event of duplicate content

What is the canonical tag/link? 

500

Ann Handley provided a formula for creating quality content, and Chris added an element to her elements. These are the four elements of quality content.  

What are utility, inspiration, empathy, and achieving a business objective? 

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