Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.
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The Content Marketing Institute, an online resource for any information you might want on content marketing, defines content marketing thusly:
“Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.”
Content Marketing is projected by MediaPost to expand by 116% from the $144.81 billion spent in 2014 to $313.42 billion by 2019. Since consumers are less responsive to normal advertising and “hard sale” sales tactics, this should come as no surprise. Consumers want well-written, informative content to help them make the right buying decisions, without being “sold”. According to a recent marketing study by industry leader Hubspot, “70% of customers prefer getting to know a company through articles over advertising”.
The core of our Content Marketing service is to turn your small business and brand into a publisher of engaging and useful content assets for your prospects by building an information-rich website (if needed) that will give search engines like Google and Bing content assets to assess, then properly index for the keywords relevant to your customers, and therefore your business.
Content Marketing is, above all else, the art and effort of understanding what your prospects and customers are searching for, then strategically delivering optimized content to them. This process must be based on the keywords that you have discovered, through proper research, are driving organic search traffic and conversions.
Next, our strategy is to share that optimized content in a way that is relevant and compelling to your prospects. You do this by socializing your content through your organization’s properly optimized and deployed social networks. The objectives are simple: grab attention and then traffic for your website, generate social signals from social media channels, and earn quality links from other websites.
When we design a Content Marketing campaign for a client, we consider SEO and Content Marketing to be inseparable. Weaving SEO best practices throughout your content ensures that we’re obeying Google best practices, which makes it more likely that your website will move up the rankings list.
Traditional marketing and advertising is great at the second two steps of your online sales process, but Content Marketing is much better at tapping into those first two stages. The buying process has to be addressed step by step, or it’s a failure. You can be great at one step or two steps of your online sales process, but if you miss any of the other steps, you’re leaving money on the table. Content Marketing keeps that from happening.
When you do your content marketing campaign right, your prospects find your content, find value in it, and by the time they contact you, they’ve already decided that they want to work with you (or buy your product or service). You don’t have to engage in high pressure sales tactics, because most of the “sales convincing” work is already done. Now, it’s just a matter of working out the details, sign the agreement, and get started.
The trust you need for good sales and good service is critical. Good Content Marketing builds that trust. On the other side, the trust that you would usually have to build during a normal sales cycle is already created before you’ve ever talked to the prospect.
The return on investment for a properly implemented content marketing strategy for an Austin area small business can be phenomenal, but you have to work at it. It’s not easy. It takes research, focus, and consistency. You have to be willing to keep getting back up and dusting your self off after you learn lessons. That, or you have to hire an expert so that you don’t have to learn the lessons the hard way.
Content marketing provides additional benefits for your Austin business. You may not have considered this, but Content Marketing supports your other digital marketing channels, if you do it right. Different Content Marketing types (like blogging, landing pages, etc…) provide supporting content for your social media marketing while also contributing to SEO efforts by providing natural magnets for natural backlinks.
You know that you need to build up good content on your website so that it gets found in search engines. For most Austin companies, the bulk of your SEO efforts should be focused on the right content marketing plan. What’s yours?
There are lots of Austin companies and individuals that offer content marketing strategy services, sometimes paired with SEO or PR services. If you’re too busy to do it yourself, or you just want to be secure in knowing that you’re starting off on the right foot (and don’t want to manage it in-house), hiring a firm might be a good option for you.
But if you want to start doing your own content marketing, the easiest way is to just start blogging. It’s a great content marketing example that is almost foolproof. It will be hard at first, unless you’re one of those savants that can just bust out content with no effort (there are not many). The more you do it, though, the easier it will get. Follow blogging tips from Copyblogger, and you’ll learn the basics of how to build content for your site or blog that will engage prospects and turn them into clients.
Content Marketing: Final Thoughts
The right Content Marketing plan is important for your Austin small business. Just starting is probably the most important step you can take. We offer consulting to help you on your way, with the added benefit of having Sales and SEO wrapped into that, so that you can rest assured that you’re getting started right.
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