Developing your Content Marketing Strategy

Your business’s superpower is having a well-defined content marketing strategy!

Why?

A well-defined content marketing strategy means you know your business goals, target audience, and understand where they are online, what content they are most likely to engage with, and when the best time to publish, socialise, and promote your content.

Surprisingly a large amount of business’s do not have a documented content marketing strategy. Therefore, leading to a decrease in success of search engine optimisation (SEO) ranking, return of investment (ROI), and an increase in traffic, leads, and/or conversion rates towards the business.

Explained

A content marketing strategy refers to a strategic plan that focuses on distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content that in turn attracts and retains your business’s target audience. The end goal of a content marketing strategy is to ultimately drive a profitable call-to-action (CTA), and high ROI.

Before you start publishing content across your business’s digital channels, you need to formulate a plan to best optimise and reach your audience at the right time and place.

Our Six Steps

1. Establishing your mission, goals, and key performance indicators (KPI).

The first step to any content marketing plan is to understand your business goals. Would you like to generate more leads and sales? Do you want to drive increased traffic to your website and/or create awareness about your products/ services? Once you have clearly defined your goals, you will be able to quantify your published content and statistics.

2. Understanding your audiences’ desires and needs.

Who is your audience and what do they want to hear? Where and when are they online? Knowing your audience and not just their demographics; gender, age, etc. but their psychographics e.g., activities, interests, and opinions, you will be able to grasp a better understanding of who they are and how best to engage with your audience.

3. Researching and discovering the best content platforms and types of content to publish.

Now you know your audience, it is time to understand what digital platforms they are generally on, most commonly use, and current trends that will capture and engage their interest in your products and/or services.

4. Establishing a content calendar and creating your content.

Creating content for the first time is exciting! But, before you fall down a rabbit hole of creative ideas and content that does not really flow, start developing your content plan of attack. This is achieved through choosing a topic per month or campaign and choosing which content, whether this be a article, blog, social post etc. on what days and time to be published.

5. Identify and allocate resources.

Fantastic! You have your content schedule but, now you need the right resources and individuals to help you develop the content. Once you have created your content schedule, add a point where you add the individual responsible for that piece of content.

6. Publish, socialise, and measure results.

Ready, set, publish! Woho! you have now created your content, now it is time to publish your content into the online world, watch your audience engage, and measure the success of your posts.

Still struggling to develop and deliver a content marketing strategy suited to your business and target audience?

Get in contact with our team to discuss how we can help optimise your business online, through organic forms of marketing.

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