For any business, promotion is its integral part. In this age when online business promotion is as important as offline, content marketing plays a crucial role. However, most of the business owners are not fully aware of its potential, and if they know its importance, they do not understand how to use this technique to their advantage. Content marketing is not just publishing at regular intervals; it has much more to it. Here are a few tips that will make it easier for you to use content marketing to promote your business.
If you are serious about content marketing, you have to push your limits and follow a plan for every content you want to publish, as it will make an impact on your customers, both current and potential. You can optimize your content marketing campaign and achieve better results by following tips. Let’s see what are these tips.
Devise a plan and stick to it
To get maximum advantage of content marketing is to develop a content marketing plan and stick to it. You need to produce content regularly and publish it according to a preplanned schedule. It is better to have a weekly or monthly plan having proper time for brainstorming, research, writing, and publishing. Also, devise plan for each social media platform that you want to target. Your blog is an important channel for information to your customers, so get ideas in advance to create impactful posts.
Focusing the target audience
Irrespective of the kind of business you are running, there is a kind of audience that you are targeting. So, your content should be focused around the interests and needs of that target audience. Unless you fulfill the expectations and needs of your target audience, you won’t be getting any result. You should ask yourself a few questions like who you are your potential customers. Who can read your content and what will they gain from it? How will you convert those visitors to your customers? Answering such questions will help you develop an actionable content.
Create an engaging content
It is not enough just to write an article. In fact, you need to write an engaging article so that your readers can connect with you. If you present a boring article, your visitors will leave the article only after a few sentences. Here you can make use of the visual content such as images, infographics video, etc. to break the text. It gives readers time to digest the information in bits.
Promote the content
Writing and publishing your content is just one part of your content marketing campaign. The major part is promoting the content. It is very crucial to pick a few social media platforms to promote your content. In addition, you need to evaluate the results of the promotion. You need to see what’s working for you and what not.
If you are getting traffic from a particular social media platforms, you should focus on them and abandon those that are failing in bringing results but demanding equal efforts. Just follow a 20:80 rule that says, spend 20% of your time in producing the content and 80% in promoting it. Also, when you publish one post on your own blog, try to publish 3-4 to other blogs.
Develop a variety of content types
These days, you have option to experiment with different types of content forms. At one time, you can create a written post for your blog, other time, you can do a podcast or a video tutorial or an infographic.
One important tip to understand here is that you should work on your strength but for other skills; it is better to outsource it to get the best work done.
Content ideas
You need to think out the kind of content you want to create such as you can publish how-to content, or entertaining, inspiring content, personal stories, latest trends, news and more.
Since content marketing is an ongoing activity, you cannot run out of ideas. You need grab ideas from wherever you can. For instance, you can set up Google alerts, subscribe to blogs and magazines in your field of interest, get what people are talking about in your community.
Be patient
Content marketing is a long-term strategy, so do not look for instant gratification. It requires constant efforts to reap good quality results. It is important to have regular updates, monitoring, and analyzing to take the best course of action.
What tips will you follow for your content marketing? Share with us in the comments below.
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Hi Vandana,
Great connecting to you here. I liked your post which is quite informative for the small biz people. I would say it holds true for anyone doing content marketing.
As a doer, you need to get your programs planned ahead. it helps to stay focused.
I also agree to your target the audience plan. You cannot simply write to everyone. Focusing on someone who is a potential buyer, a potential lead is the key.
Have a great week ahead 🙂
Hi Apoorv,
Welcome to Writeshack! I am glad that this information can help you a bit. Yes, It will definitely work if you plan ahead, but taking action is more important. Have a nice day!
Very informative article. Thanks for sharing. Nowadays, content marketing is one of the important factors for any industry. It has ability to combine with other digital marketing strategies. It helps to connect with target audiences using good content.
Neil, I am glad you found this post informative.
Yes Edwin, small businesses can gain a lot by regular social media marketing.