Guidelines On Content Marketing

By Carlyle Randel


It's not enough to just create content anymore. Content must be current, interactive and interesting for people to really take a look at it. Interactive content might take the form of a poll or survey on an industry trend, or a contest for a new tagline or new product idea. Interactive content creates value in the interaction itself, actively earning the disclosure of lead information instead of passively requesting it. An online visitor will be looking to be engaged in order to keep their attention.

Social media has made the already important interactivity on websites even more important nowadays. Nowadays, having an entertaining and compelling experience is imperative for a website. People will leave you invaluable information through a myriad of ways, including Twitter, Facebook, your company site, blogs, emails, the list goes on.

Conversations are usually the best way to build relationships. If a company interacts with their customers and they share views on the industry, interests and other ambitions, they feel more connected and are more trusting. By asking questions through polls or surveys, for example, brands can quickly open the floor to customer or community opinions and react accordingly to any expressed needs, wants or trends.

Leads are gathered in a variety of ways, but collaborative content has been proven to be one of the best. Sales can work with Engineering to make a blog, or Project Management can work with Quality Assurance to make a great video; these are examples of what can happen when departments work together efficiently. When all departments contribute their knowledge, content will be much more informative. When these departments share their knowledge and experience, everyone at the company gains a deeper understanding of the business. These professionals can brainstorm and find new solutions and marketing ideas, as well as research the projects to increase accuracy, and to critique each other's content to improve it. When people actually talk and more importantly, listen to each other, they will learn so much more, and the projects born of the collaborations will be quite unique.

Many content marketing strategies end up failing when the different departments of the business don't collaborate and contribute to it. That's a huge challenge. It is not easy to get all of the different personalities in different departments to work together at times, but it's important that this is orchestrated.

The benefits of developing a set of ideal buyer personas are huge if you're looking to attract more prospects and generate more leads for your company through content marketing. The benefits of good buyer personas are more effective lead generation and customer retention. Well-designed offers and engaging content is highly beneficial, so take time in researching and having a solid understanding of who your customers are.

Marketing has aspects that are related to buyer personas in many ways, including prioritizing marketing investments, messaging plus targeting, sales enablement, and segmentation. Do buyer personas right and your content marketing will be well served.




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