{"id":3045,"date":"2015-09-09T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatwhitepaperguy.com\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:46:55","slug":"how-to-repurpose-a-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatwhitepaperguy.com\/how-to-repurpose-a-white-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"How to repurpose a white paper into 5 other formats"},"content":{"rendered":"
That’s a great mantra for stretching your resources and creating less trash.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Did you know you can apply this mantra to your next white paper?<\/p>\n Creating a white paper takes a big\u00a0investment of time and resources.<\/p>\n Here’s how to get the best return on that investment:<\/p>\n Marketers,\u00a0see more on the benefits of repurposing<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copywriters, see more about repurposing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ideally, you can repurpose a white paper into at least five more pieces. It’s not hard, once you get started.<\/p>\n We’re going to show you how. This post is #1 of a series that starts with\u00a0an actual white paper and shows how we repurposed it into many\u00a0different formats.<\/p>\n Our sample white paper was written to support the expansion of\u00a0a new mobile\u00a0app into the B2B market.<\/p>\n The client, Mental Workout<\/a>, makes wellness apps by teaming up with doctors and other professionals who are the go-to experts in a particular specialty. The apps cover mindfulness, stress-reduction, sleep, quitting smoking, and social success.<\/p>\n The company’s aim was to expand\u00a0the apps from the B2C market into B2B by selling bulk licences to HR and wellness directors in large companies.<\/p>\n You can see the finished white paper for yourself by clicking the thumbnail below.<\/p>\n This white paper focused on the Good Night\u2122 sleep app, using a classic problem\/solution format.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We gathered ample\u00a0proof for each section, going all the way back to Thomas Edison.<\/p>\n For the problem<\/strong>, we\u00a0found\u00a0studies that quantified the cost of sleep deprivation per employee, per year.<\/p>\n Next we outlined the traditional solutions<\/strong> employees use to tackle the problem\u2014such as sleeping pills\u2014and why these don’t work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For a\u00a0new, improved solution<\/strong>, we presented the evidence for the cognitive behavioral therapy approach embodied in the app, and\u00a0how cellphone apps can spark changes in\u00a0behavior.<\/p>\n The paper turned out 15 pages long, including five pages of front matter and sources.<\/p>\n A note on the design<\/strong>: The rather\u00a0plain formatting of this paper was done deliberately. The target audience tends to look at medical and HR journals, and the designer wanted to match the same somber look.<\/p>\n Now you know something about the original white paper. The rest of this series shows how we repurposed it into many\u00a0different\u00a0formats:<\/p>\n Click any link in the list above to see how to get a better return on your white paper marketing dollars.*<\/p>\n In the meantime, why not repurpose a\u00a0white paper of your own?<\/p>\n With a little practice, you’ll soon be using\u00a0the 3 R’s to generate many more pieces of interesting content.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * We don’t actually consider a landing page or Tweets to be\u00a0“content” on their own. We consider these to be ways to promote content.\u00a0But since we already had them on hand, we included them in this series.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have you ever repurposed a white paper? What other formats did you create? How did the project\u00a0work out? Please leave your comment below.<\/em><\/p>\nThe 3 R’s for white papers<\/h3>\n
\n
The original\u00a0white paper<\/h3>\n
Some more background<\/h3>\n
How we repurposed this white paper<\/h3>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n