Are you a content marketer who is looking for a strategy to be successful?
Do you think that by just creating content you can attract traffic?
You need to understand one basic thing that no one will visit your blog until you know about what you have created.
Always focus on these three things when creating content:
Today I will share with you the result of a content marketing survey conducted on over 300 marketers at various US businesses. Clutch has conducted this survey. The result provides reviews and research on marketing and advertising agencies also other firms.
1) Brand story: priority of Content:
When it comes to blogging business or an online business brand story is the most important thing. Survey result shows that 18% marketers are agreed with this. Other than this there are some other important factors are:
It is a surprise to see such a low personas, that most of the people think as top priorities of an online business to create a powerful consumer focused strategy. So focus on understanding your users/readers and create quality content that satisfies their expectations, desires, needs, concerns, and interest.
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2) Brand Awareness: Always the top Goal
According to the survey, 49% companies are focused on Brand Awareness, including me also. Only 30% businesses count high search engine ranking as the top priority and only 21% consider lead generation as the top goal.
I always say that focus on your goal when creating content for your blog or site. You may be focused on organic traffic, social media engagement or high conversion, always focus on your goal and write accordingly. This will make thing easy for you.
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3) Research original data: the most effective content format
18% content marketers consider original data and research as the best content type. It got the first place in content marketers survey.
Some other content formats are:
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4) Sales: The Top Success Metric:
32% content marketers agreed that sale is the top success metric. They always focus on how many people actually buy their stuff.
Content Marketers also focused on:
- Tracking consumption such as page views, downloads
- Lead generation
- Social sharing
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5) Paid Promotion: Top Content promotion
71% marketers trust paid advertising more than anything else. They do pay to advertise on social media and also use native ads.
Some other top ways of promotions are:
Remember: Even the best thing can`t attract a single buyer if not promoted.
Focus more on distribution than content creation. If you can`t go for paid advertisement then optimize your content for more social media shares and to attract influencers.
So you see, these are the 5 big content marketing strategy trends that you should know to improve your marketing.
What is your content marketing strategy? What do you do to improve your bussiness?
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