Effectively understanding content marketing in 2019

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To talk about advertising and
marketing of your small business,
you need to develop
a content marketing strategy.

To first understand how content
marketing works -
it is important to know how to
collect data and information about
your business and from other
sources to enable for developing
a specific process to organize data.
The information that you need
to acquire:

• Identify your business as B2B
• (Business-to-Business)
• or (Business-to-Customer) B2C
• The main features of your products
• The advantages and usability
• Why your product is the best
• for your customers
• The SEO keywords campaign
• The SEO keyword selection

For example you own a greeting
card business. How would you
perform online marketing?

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First you need a content
strategy that
comes first before
the content marketing.

What is content strategy?

Content strategy is about creating
a plan
to set goals and tasks that
these are
assigned to specific team members
to work on acquiring data and
information so that the plan may be
implemented.

Download Content
Strategy Checklist

Apart from having a detailed
checklist
you also need a content strategy
template that keeps a track of
members who are assigned with
various roles and responsibilities
to execute tasks.

Download Content
Strategy Template

The two templates give you a lengthy
planning for preparing content for
marketing your greeting cards.

In this process, you come up with
questions like - who are my audience?
What are the upcoming celebration
seasons and festivals? And who are
my prospects etc.,

Apart from content strategy
planning,
you also need a Buyer Persona.

What is a Buyer Persona?

A buyer persona is a semi-fictional
representation of your ideal
customer based on
market research and real data
about
your existing customers.
When creating your buyer persona(s),
consider including customer
demographics,
behavior patterns, motivations,
and goals. The more detailed
you are, the better.
(Credit: HubSpot)

Download Buyer
Persona Template

A buyer persona clearly lays
some
of the imprinted facts like -
who can
be your near-customer who is
in need of your products and
much interested in buying.
Analyzing+ a detailed persona
gives you more clarity and
understanding to market to
the right audience.

Once your content strategy plan
is ready, the next part comes as
content marketing strategy.
Why? Because, the content strategy
makes you understand how to
go about your business
marketing strategy and the
required input and layout of work.

As the data and information
is collected, the next phase of
marketing is to design
content marketing strategy.

What is a content marketing
strategy?

This will tell you why and
what type
of marketing is required.
Some
of the goals include to
generate leads, sales, turnover,
increase customer base and perform
brand management.

Whatever may be the predetermined
objectives of a business,
it is required to have a clear
set of planning for undertaking
content marketing.

This strategy also talks about
content type, channels,
medium of
marketing, budget,
responsibilities of teams
and time-frame for completing
each task.

Download content
marketing strategy template
& checklist

With all of the ground work done,
you are ready to set off for
marketing
your greeting card business.

To simply state, the following
presentation would help you
to give you a quick start:

 For earning profits and grow your customers, you are choosing
 the most popular Internet
 marketing and that is the 
fastest mode to achieve results. 

The only requisite is to
 ensure that you execute each plan systematically with good quality content and that is entirely in the interest of audience. Here exactly, buyer persona comes into
 play to guide you in the content preparation.
Many say that it may take time to produce optimized results to generate leads. But with social media as a primary source to find your right customers, your business very less idle time.

With systematic approach and methodology, both content
 strategy and content marketing flow in a cycle, content plan is executed for fast-paced results.

Conclusion
Effective implementation of content marketing that reaches the audience enabling
to meet their needs achieves success for a business. It is also important that
content planning requires excessive amount of critical analysis to understand the
likes, dislikes, interests, needs and problems of customers.

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