A Guide to Content Marketing
Your customers and audience members want valuable content, and it needs to reach them in a way that feels organic. Content marketing helps your business do this successfully. This can benefit you greatly by increasing conversions, improving brand awareness and more!
Here at First Digital Media, we specialise in online marketing. This month’s blog offers a guide to content marketing and how we can help you.
What is Content Marketing?
Content marketing is a long-term strategy. It helps build a strong relationship with your target audience by providing high-quality, relevant content.
Furthermore, it can help boost the likes of brand awareness, sales and customer loyalty. Content marketing shows that you care about your customers.
Types of Content Marketing
There are so many types of content marketing. Depending on the nature of your business, you may choose several. Some popular examples include:
Social Media
There are over 3.6 billion social media users across the globe, so it’s easy to see why many businesses choose social media marketing as part of their strategy. With the number of social media platforms, there are so many ways to create and share content.
Infographic Content
Infographics display content, information and data in a simple way. They are a great way to communicate education or complex topics effectively so your target audience can understand it.
Blog Content
Blogs can be a powerful form of inbound content. They allow room for creativity and you can promote both internal and external content through links, add social share buttons and incorporate information about your products and services.
Paid Ads
Paid ads help you reach a broader audience and enable you to position yourself where you want to be seen. They can be very beneficial when partnered with inbound marketing and can be shared in several places, including social media, landing pages and sponsored content.
Implementing A Strategy
The first step to creating a content marketing strategy is to set goals that are specific to your business and how you can achieve them. These include:
- Improving brand awareness
- Boosting revenue
- Increase conversions
- Improving brand loyalty
- Increasing customer engagement
You should then determine what type of content you will create for your target audience and where you will share it. For some content, the channel you need to work with will be clear. It is also important that you set a budget for the type of content you are creating, and which channels you market them on.
Once you have a plan, the next step is to create and share the content so your audience can consume it and with luck, convert.
Contact Us
To find out how we can help you implement an effective content marketing strategy, contact the team at First Digital Media. Call us on 01524 544346 or fill out our contact form.
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