Wednesday 4 January 2017

Tips for Content Marketing for Small Businesses

·         First and foremost, understand the audience intimately you are trying to reach. Do this first, else your content marketing efforts could be a wastage.

·         Plan your content marketing strategy. According to the research, those having a documented strategy are more effective than those without one.

·         Publish the content regularly and focus on quality content. You don’t have to blog every day to succeed with content marketing. Not all small businesses have a marketing department that can create and distribute content as often as some say you should. The struggle for a rate that works for you and publish useful content.

·         Be accurate, based on your resources, how much time you can spend on content marketing. Consider outsourcing if you don’t have the time to content marketing experts, who can produce the content and distribute it for you. Just make sure you manage the process so what is being created make even with your beliefs and vision.

·         Publishing quality, evergreen content will continue to drive traffic to your website over a longer period of time. Hence, producing content that is eternal so that it continues to work for you long term.

·         Keep in mind who you are writing for and focus on how your content can advantage them. When someone has to buy a product, he or she starts with a search. Become the brand that answers each and every question of the customer thoroughly, so that they would left with no choice but to contact you.

·         Repurpose your content across different content types. Make a blog eye-catching by turning into a presentation infographic, podcast, and a video. You can increase your search by sharing the different media on different platforms to increase your reach.

·         Prepare your email list so you can reach interested parties on your terms. Reach people to subscribe to your list by offering some type of content that is very useful to them. You can then provide your content to them, once you have them signed up, directly via email which can increase your business.

Content marketing is a long-term strategy that takes time for the results to be visible. Have patience.