6 Steps Toward Creating Great Marketing Content for Consumers
Your audience is important. Knowing the types of people who are consuming your products and services is imperative to the success of your company. Those who ignore their audience and do not discover their buyer personas may soon be serving Tofu to a bunch of Texans, (and that is not going to go over well).
It’s not that Tofu is all bad; some people love it and clever marketers have turned this high-in-protein, coagulating soy juice into an acronym to represent the Top of The Funnel (inbound marketing) — an important first step in understanding your audience.
At the top of the funnel are all of your new customers. By sending these brand-new potential customers the right message and tailoring that message so that it changes as the customers go farther and farther through the funnel, you can be sure that happy clients will ultimately emerge. These happy customers will then spread good cheer on your name, returning and becoming a repeat customer. Right here is as good a place as any to point out that “quality” of product or service is a huge component of the equation, actually the most vital message.
One of the ways that we get to know our customers and create the correct message for them is through content marketing. Content marketing creates and shares valuable content for free. This free, creative information attracts customers like bees to honey (or vegetarians to Tofu) and convert these prospective customers into clients.
When content is created and posted, we can monitor the activity on this particular piece of content. By measuring the interaction with the content, we know if this subject matter, topic, and style appeals to or bores our audience.
Content is where we get the first impression of our buyers; it helps us to reach out and shake their hands and say “nice to meet you.” And then we move forward creating more and more content that we know is popular with our particular audience.
Sounds delicious right? You probably want to dig in right away. Well, here are six steps to help you serve up your very own delectable content marketing campaign:
1. Persona Development
The first step is persona development. Get to know who your buyers actually are. It is amazing how many companies skip this step and it ends up hurting them in the end. By developing your buyer personas, you target and get linked to the people who actually have the power to affect your bottom line.
2. Strategy
After you have created all this great content, you need a strategy to make it very visible. Post your content on Pinterest, Facebook, Google +, and blogs—wherever and whenever you can. The more exposure the better. Have a strategy that helps you stay organized so your content is posted consistently.
3. Mediums
Remember that even the most remarkable content will fail without a proper promotional plan. Your blogs have to been read, your emails need to get open, and your videos must be viewed. Every piece of content must be properly promoted in order to obtain the proper value from the valuable content that you are painstakingly creating.
4. Content Types
When we talk about content, it isn’t just the written word. We live in a very visual world, so the content should include videos and infographics to name a few.
5. Resources
Your content marketing will not be successful if you do not have the correct people and the right resources. You need SEO experts, writers, marketers, videographers, PR managers, and digital artists to create a team that can get powerful results. This can seem a little daunting, but there are experts out there that can help you.
6. Metrics
Besides creating engaging, organic content, the next most important step is evaluating the metrics. If you don’t measure the worth and the direction of your content, then it will all be created for naught, and you will not get to know your customers better.
Conclusion
When starting to dig into your TOFU content marketing campaign remember that your core objective is to get to know your actually buyer persona so that you can be target the right audience for your industry. By following these six steps, you will get your content marketing campaign off to the right start and soon be sitting down to enjoy the scrumptious fruits of your labor.
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