Ultimate Content Marketing Collaboration Model with Daryl’s House
Being a music buff, I love all the options we have for catching new and classic music:
Recently I watched back-to-back episodes of Daryl’s House on Palladia with a few of my favorite classic rock guitar legends, Billy Gibbons and Joe Walsh. I have to admit that am not a huge fan of Hall & Oats but can appreciate their music and even dig a few of their songs. With all the music options we have today, I have not purposefully played a Hall & Oats tunes but after seeing these two episodes with a few of my guitar heroes, I have a new appreciation for Daryl Hall.
Daryl’s House is a good blueprint for content marketing. The genius behind this show is leveraging the popularity of a big brand with a lesser-known and sometimes less sexy brand. By making it easy for the big names to just show up and do their thing, Daryl’s House is able to easily persuade big names that may be out of his league or music genre to make his brand hipper while elevating both brand’s popularity. This, my friends, is how we all should be creating marketing fodder for our brands.
Here is how it works:
- Make It Easy To Participate – You bring all the resources to the table
Reality Check – Offering to publish a guest post on your blog/social media channels can be flattering, but if you are making the guest do all the work you have a flawed model and participation will be a lot less. You will not get the big boy brands to play along and the old Tom Sawyer approach to getting someone to paint your fence will not always work here.
Best Plan of Attack – Use video with Google Hangouts, Join.me, GoToMeeting, etc. and record the interview. You will have a transcript that you can transcribe that is, in most cases, a word-for-word ready to publish the piece.
Bonus – By doing a video, you now have a multi-media marketing campaign with video, audio, photos (screenshots of video), blogs and potentially PR for this single event experience. By taking on all the work, it is hard for the other party to say no. Once they get a feel of your promotion strategy, they will now be looking for ways to participate and now willing to help paint your fence!
2. Tell Them Exactly How To Participate and Do All The Pre-work
Reality Check – If you are doing a collaboration piece with a big brand or big personality (expert), make it as easy as possible for them to participate now that they have your buy-in. Do the work for them!
Best Plan of Attack – Once you have your interview approved and published, send your guest all the content they need for helping you with the promotion of this campaign event. Write headlines for social networks; send photos with content for photo sharing and possibly a shortened and original piece with the video embed code for publishing on their blog.
Bonus – You will grow your marketing database by getting indirect access to your expert/guest’s social networks and blog subscribers. Their participation will elevate the visibility and overall response rate.
3. Share the Love (Results)
Reality Check – Once the content is published, we tend to move on and forget about our past marketing efforts. The perception is we should not promote the same post, video, etc. at a later date because it is old news and people will see this and get turned off by the repetition.
Best Plan of Attack – Turn this single event into a two month plus marketing campaign by writing headlines that can be published over a period of time. Turning single events into ongoing campaigns is best practices in content marketing. For example, I subscribe to multiple Fast Company newsletters and in the same day I often get the same article with varied headlines and images and I appreciate this creative repurposing strategy.
Bonus – In hopes of getting more collaborative pieces with big brands / online personalities, share the success with your collaborators and turn these results into case studies for making it easier to repeat the process and recruit new collaborators.
Content is tough and finding time to do it can be a challenge. If you share this feeling with me, try the approach above on one of your customers or business partners to build out the process. Once you run through a few interviews, you will find the effort is worth the reward and you may even have fun while creating new business opportunities along the way!
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Billy Gibbons
- @BillyFGibbons
- https://www.facebook.com/BFGBrand
- https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=78
- Great collaboration Tune with Will Lee (see below) – “Get Out of My Life Woman”
ZZ Top
- @ZZTop
- https://www.ZZTop.com
- https://www.facebook.com/ZZTop
- https://myspace.com/ZZTop
- https://www.ZZTop.com/events
- ZZ Top at AZ Bike Week
Joe Walsh
- @JoeWalsh
- https://www.JoeWalsh.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/JoeWalshOfficial
- https://myspace.com/xJoeWalshx
- https://www.youtube.com/user/JoeWalshOfficial
- https://www.JoeWalsh.com/events
- https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=75
- New Song Analog Man: https://analogeur.com/2014/04/26/the-true-analogeur-joe-walsh/
Live from Daryl’s House
- @LFDHcom
- https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/
- https://myspace.com/livefromdarylshouse
- https://www.youtube.com/user/LiveFromDarylsHouse
Daryl Hall
Hall & Oates
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