If you don’t establish a good foundation now, I bet you you will struggle in the months, or even years to come. Why?
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Why invest in Content Marketing now?
Running a business has never been easy, and it has become particularly difficult now a days because there’s so much more to manage. You have Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter (X), TikTok, and I haven’t even mentioned ad buying and your website.
Why consider content marketing?
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What is the power of Content Marketing?
I know you have been researching about Content marketing, trying to understand how it differs from digital strategies. I also know that you’ve likely tried shooting your own video, but hasn’t seen much performance. You’ve been looking for downloadables but they haven’t really helped you put anything into action.
Back in the day, a brand can simply scream out their product edge and offers, and people would resonate. That’s known as traditional, or outbound marketing. Now, however, people look for true value in the things they consume. Their attention span is tiny, and unless what they see genuinely arouses curiosity, they do not care.
When did Content Marketing became popular?
Although John Deere published the first issue of The Furrow, a publication created to serve as a resource for farmers, in 1895, it wasn't until 1996 when John F. Oppedahl used the term "content marketing" at a journalism conference.
Content marketing is, therefore, nothing "new." The internet, which helped promote Content Marketing as a mainstream strategy for organizations during the 1990s, is mostly responsible for it becoming widespread. Businesses then began utilizing websites, blogs, and email marketing as part of their marketing strategies and began to grasp how to engage with and impact their customers through these channels.
Because of its resounding success, content marketing has become a mainstay of the commercial world. The three main purposes of content are to drive awareness, prompt interest, and encourage action. The explosion of social media only accelerated the growth that content marketing can produce.
Want to learn why content marketing is effective?
There is a lot of art in creating content that attracts our contemporary audience, but for this first episode, I want to focus on why this is the time to get yourself a strong content marketing foundation.
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1. Everybody is going online.
No, I mean EVERYBODY is going online.
With COVID, even your neighbourhood grocery shop is considering to go online. Big brands are either completely shutting down, or abandoning their offline storefronts and moving into e-commerce. This means the already slim chance of people seeing you online is getting even slimmer. You can’t just go around posting random organic content and still get promising results. As a matter of fact, you shouldn’t even be wasting your time on that now because it’s that competitive.
If you haven’t truly spotted your content patterns, and know your target audience from back to front, you wouldn’t even be able to score a successful ad. This means, with the limited budget that you already have, unless you have a strategy, those money are likely going to waste, driving in no awareness, let alone, any potential leads.
2. Some young fresh graduate is pumping out platform-appropriate content
... like ten times every day.
You’re not just competing with competitors online, you’re competing with every human being out there with a social media account. The only way for your brand to have a seat is if you have a comprehensive content creation, platform-focused, and media distribution plan.
Don’t place yourself in the same pool as everyone else, you need to find your niche, and milk the hell out of it. You need to be creating content for these people, not for your own pleasure, and always leave cookie crumbs for them to find you. The is where a content funnel is key, and this is how you can strategically not waste any money, and drive those whom you have already previously paid to reach back into your content bubble, and land on your website or wherever they can make a purchase.
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3. No one is falling for a slogan or a tagline anymore, they really research the brand.
And if the content doesn’t match up, well, you’ve lost them forever.
And I’m not exaggerating. I can bet whatever you’re trying to sell, there are other companies selling the same thing. Even if your quality is much better, if you haven’t bid for the right word on Google, your potential leads won’t even find you. And if you have bid the right word? Well, if your website doesn’t live up to their expectations with enticing content related to their word, then guess what? They’re gone, and clicking into the next best option down the list.
Consumers now a days really spend time researching their purchase. They are price-sensitive, and brand-sensitive. However, what people misunderstand is that consumers are no longer loyal. To me, that is not true. If the brand is able to continuously and consistently offer quality triggers, whereby one huge part is content, consumers DO stay loyal.
Think about it, even when McDonalds is making tweets about Burger King, you should realise that big brands are also concerned about their brand image online. This is the why they keep pushing for creative content to keep their consumers loyal. So how can anyone still feel like they can succeed with just a good product and annual discounts?
Content marketing is a commitment, not a campaign
I can keep giving you evidence as to why now is the time to really think about your content marketing strategy. And I hope that you would stop wasting time and money pumping out posts just for the sake of it. That is the worse thing you can do!
Whether you have just succeeded on your kickstarter campaign, or already has a small team working under your startup, I know you have the same struggle. You have the passion to want to do things better, but don't have the time to explore all content marketing tools, and you really need a professional to help you out. Especially, at an affordable budget. Well, this is where I come in.
If you wish to learn tips and tricks on content marketing, keep yourself posted for my next podcast episode, or visit other pages on joycetsangcontentmarketing.com, where I have written explanations of different online strategies, blog posts, and uploaded free downloadables for you to try and kickstart your own content.
Until then, I am Joyce Tsang, a content marketer here for entrepreneurs.
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