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What can
content marketers do to take advantage of this trend?
Too many content marketers don't do the right keyword research before they begin the creation process and questions are an essential part of that process.
Content strategists do some things that content marketers don't, and vice versa.
The one thing many content marketers don't know to this very day is the longer the pages they publish and the more meaningful relationships they build, the faster they improve their natural search engine rankings, the faster they improve their advertising revenue from promoting affiliate programs on blogs and websites, the more likes they get from people on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, and free advertising from people on social networks by way of sharing links to their published Evergreen pages on social networking profiles.
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While, 47 % of the least effective
content marketers did not.
Not exact matches
«While some
content marketers might assume they know what's of value to the target audience, the best way to identify the best opportunities is to
do market research before any
content is created.
As a
content marketer, you will never be able to develop a successful marketing campaign by
doing the same things you've been
doing or copying your competitors.
In fact, over 75 % of B2B sales and
marketers are planning to create more
content in the coming year than they
did in 2015.
While I
do like promotions and offers, I'd appreciate it if
marketers send me some useful
content as well.
What might great
content marketers know that you don't?
We highly recommend video
content in particular, since it enables
marketers to retarget prospects who showed interest (e.g. a user who watched part of the video but didn't engage with the post).
Every
marketer relies on great
content, so if you don't have good product marketing, then your demand generation, marketing communications, and field marketing will be that much less effective.
Pixar's «Inside Out» doesn't only entertain; it also teaches valuable lessons for
content marketers.
The report goes on to state that 70 percent of
content marketers are now creating more
content than they
did a year ago.
The majority don't provide anything particularly useful or actionable for typical
marketers trying to justify their
content marketing expenses to the CFO.»
The key to a successful
content marketing effort is the ability to measure and trackyour return on investment, so don't be one of the 80 % of
marketers that can't tell whether or not they're succeeding.
You can't hire a winning
content marketer unless you know what you need them to
do and how to work with them to get it
done.
Personalization also gives
marketers more freedom with their
content - they don't have to stick to a rigid
content schedule organized by theme.
In general,
marketers would
do well to partner with an outside agency that can help them create, distribute, and analyze
content professionally and at scale.
After analyzing 100 million pieces of
content for social sharing, social traffic referrals, and backlinks, the team has one clear takeaway: What most
content marketers are
doing is no longer working.
I know a lot of bloggers and
content marketers who generate thousands of organic search engine visitors to their blogs each month, yet they don't rank highly in the search engine results pages (SERPs).
Although many
marketers claim to know their audience, the truth is a lot of them aren't
doing much more than throwing social
content and media spaghetti at the wall hoping it sticks.
Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts so you can understand what more - experienced
content marketers are
doing.
«But sometimes [
marketers] don't acknowledge subscriber preferences and send
content that doesn't match what the subscribers want.
New tailored audiences or custom audiences allow Twitter and Facebook users to upload their own audience lists for social ads to promote
content, which Kim said is superior to email marketing because
marketers don't have to worry about consumers opting in or unsubscribing and it eliminates tons of unqualified recipients.
A majority of
content marketers never take the time to fact - check their posts — and many don't think it's even feasible given their strict time and budget limitations.
Besides all the awesome things he is
doing for
content and marketing, Ash is also building an analytics application for
content marketers and bloggers, PostReach.
I think
content marketers, especially, should be digging into account - based methodologies, as everything we
do revolves around forging stronger ties with individual audience members.
Given (1) you don't know when the consumer starts the journey, (2) the consumer rarely follows a neat path, and (3) the consumer who eventually buys usually learned of his or her brand choice early on, what's a
content marketer to
do?
Unfortunately, documentation and effectiveness
do not automatically create clarity — 61 % of the most effective nonprofit
marketers say they have clarity on what successful
content marketing looks like within their organization.
This pressing need for brands and
content marketers to consciously plan for multiple iterations, orientations and context for their
content doesn't just apply to Snapchat and vertical video.
Why
do B2B
marketers in general (and tech
marketers specifically) seem to be paying less attention to the buyer's journey when crafting
content?
They've often «
done more» of everything — experimented with more types of
content marketing, become among the first to document their
content marketing strategy and use social media platforms to distribute
content, etc. — thus, we consider tech
marketers «early adopters.»
Audiences are messy, and don't all want the same things, so
content marketers are going to have to start learning some new skills from other media and begin to construct marketing that audience - driven, not message - driven.»
According to our latest research, as reported in Technology
Content Marketing 2017: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends — North America, sponsored by IDG and IDG Enterprise, 64 % of technology marketers say their organization's overall content marketing approach is much more or somewhat more successful compared with one year ago; 92 % of those marketers attribute that success primarily to doing a better job with content cr
Content Marketing 2017: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends — North America, sponsored by IDG and IDG Enterprise, 64 % of technology
marketers say their organization's overall
content marketing approach is much more or somewhat more successful compared with one year ago; 92 % of those marketers attribute that success primarily to doing a better job with content cr
content marketing approach is much more or somewhat more successful compared with one year ago; 92 % of those
marketers attribute that success primarily to
doing a better job with
content cr
content creation.
The growing tendency for niche printed
content, like a magazine specifically aimed at
content marketers, is a direct result of why
content works: when it's
done right, every single page should be relevant to the audience it's trying to reach.
Instead of getting frustrated, Westergaard advises
content marketers to get scrappy and embrace having to
do more with less.
Not only
do they need to know how to develop a good keyword list for PPC and SEO, but smart
content marketers use keyword research to find out what topics they should write about and what phrases they should use while writing.
Do you think we are going to see a big shift towards SEOs primarily becoming
content marketers seeking referral traffic with links (and Google rankings) coming in as a secondary goal?
The need to optimize
content for mobile is unarguable, yet
marketers still seem to be struggling with finding the best ways to
do so.
What
does this say to us as
content marketers?
At this stage, the work of the one or two
content marketers on your team remains about the same as it
does with a team of one —
content creation, SEO, and social media.
Smaller business owners are forced to sink or swim by their own efforts or take risks employing SEO agencies who themselves often don't have skilled
content marketers able to produce the right level of
content.
Pick any day of the week, and there's one thing on every inbound
marketer's to -
do list: creating new
content.
CMI research consistently shows that
marketers who document their strategy achieve more overall
content marketing success than those who
do not.
With so many consumers numb to brand messaging and increasingly blocking advertising, how can
marketers do a better job of connecting with and engaging customers with
content?
p.s. Notice in that paragraph above how I
DID N'T say «the best «
content marketers» install
content as a cornerstone...»?
I think
content marketers (or maybe I'm just talking about myself)
do a fairly poor job of explaining what they
do in terms that their actual customers can understand.