06 June 2013

Advice On Marketing Content

By Carlyle Randel


Nowadays, the basic act of making content is no longer enough. Content must be current, interactive and interesting for people to really take a look at it. Some great ideas on interactive content would be things like holding a contest for the customer to name a product or come up with a slogan, or surveys and polls work well. There is an added benefit to interactive content, in that the customer gives you some personal data during the process, and they freely give this data up which generates leads for you. People that visit a website look for an interesting experience, so companies are wise to provide it.

Interactivity on websites has always been effective, but with social media being so widely used now, it's become crucial. People need to be involved and feel engaged on the internet, it's a crucial element. Important information will be left by your potential customers on your site, blog, through emails, or of course on Twitter or Facebook, and this data is really valuable.

When you want to create a good relationship with a customer, interacting with them in a conversation is a good way to do it. 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. After the results of surveys or polls are examines, the company can solicit further information from the client or customers, and then can deliver a better product or service.

Collaborative content has proven to be extremely effective in driving leads. When everyone is contributing content, all of sudden Sales is collaborating with Engineering on a blog and Project Management is partnering with Quality Assurance on a video. Everyone shares a piece of their expertise and the content gets better. As teams begin collaborating and sharing information, the environment evolves into a culture of learning. The staff will find more information from other professionals to research the content, and they will also get a lot of new ideas from collaborating with each other. Because of the speed of play that comes with a culture of collaborating, learning, teaching, listening and communicating, the environment breeds a mentality of continual improvement.

Many content marketing strategies end up failing when the different departments of the business don't collaborate and contribute to it. It's not an easy thing to accomplish. There can be problems that arise when trying to orchestrate all of the different departments during content marketing content creation.

The personas of your buyers should be carefully considered, and the strategy should be coordinated in order to facilitate this, and that will make content marketing more effective which will result in more sales leads. Buyer personas that are carefully constructed will result in higher customer retention and better lead generation. Creating content and offers that your customers are interested in is key, so you need to understand who they are.

Marketing has aspects that are related to buyer personas in many ways, including prioritizing marketing investments, messaging plus targeting, sales enablement, and segmentation. When a company has effective buyer personas, the content marketing can be carefully tailored to suit them, and will be much more effective.




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