So how can your brand stand out from the crowd?

With a appropriate content marketing strategy, you will be able to connect with your consumers and build a trusted relationship with them, which will eventually lead to greater sales.

This is how it is done:

Content marketing is essential to all brands in order to stand out. But for an effective content marketing strategy with an increased ROI, you need a clearly defined strategy roadmap to create epic content and successfully reach your consumers.

What is content marketing and why is it essential for your brand?

Content includes articles, posts, images, videos, infographics, illustrations, games, product descriptions, tutorials, case studies, advertisements, testimonials, and any information regarding your brand, brand benefits, products, product functionalities, category or industry. It can be posted in blogs, websites, social media, magazines, and any other medium.

But what will you gain from creating content?

Through creating targeted and valuable content, you will:

Connect and engage with your consumers like never before.

Build trust between your consumers and your brand, by demonstrating your knowledge and expertise.

Attract, convert and retain them to your brand and products.

Positively influence your brand perceptions.

Build and consolidate your brand identity.

This will lead to greater sales, increased loyalty towards your brand, and additional brand advocates.

Developing a content marketing strategy to increase sales

<1) Allocate a specific budget and team Plan to allocate a budget and resources for content marketing. This critical and too essential for your business and your brand to be managed when time arises. Do not juggle this among other priorities. A dedicated team with direct responsibility needs to be set to developing a strategy roadmap and to execute the content strategy. To be most effective, you need to integrate your content strategy within your marketing strategy, and you need to build your content strategy alongside your marketing strategy. This will enable you to be consistent in your marketing efforts and to effectively meet your marketing objectives. 2) Define consumers To master content marketing, you need to follow one simple rule: Place your consumers at the heart of your content strategy. Place your consumers at the heart of your content strategy. You need to tailor each content piece to each of your consumer segments. You may need to personalise your content to your target audience as different targets with different needs will require different content. 3) Understand consumer needs and wants Once you have defined your different targets, you need to understand them. Who are they? What are their needs, their issues and challenges, and their aspirations? How do they behave towards your category and brand? Where are they in the consumer journey? How do they make a buying decision? What information are they after? What are their social media habits? 4) Define goal(s) Before creating content, you should define the goal of your content strategy, and the goal will depend on your target audience. Each target will require different goals. The goal will also strongly depend on where your audience is in the consumer journey. Is your aim to raise brand awareness among your potential consumers? Increase your sales among your occasional consumers? Shift your brand image among one of your consumer segments? Or better engage with your loyal consumers? 5) 4 golden rules Once you have defined and understood your audience, and outlined the goal of your content strategy, you will need to create relevant, valuable and targeted content. The relevancy and value of your content should be defined, not by yourself, but by your consumers. The content you create should be of interest to your audience and helpful to them. The secret to creating good content is to: Provide solutions to your consumers: Understand your audience, needs, issues and challenges. Help them solve issues and answer challenges. The endeavour should be to create content that will provide consumers with solutions. Be knowledgeable: Your content should be created by experts with knowledge and experience in the topic discussed, and your content should be engaging and inspiring. In doing so, it will be perceived as credible, authentic and valuable by your audience, and this will positively reflect on your brand. Communicate your brand message: You should always place your brand message at the heart of your content. Your brand message should be personalised to your target and their needs, and be impactful and resonate with them. And through your brand message, you should educate your audience about your brand, and your products and their benefits. This will lead to your content and your brand being memorable, and to building stronger relationships with your consumers. Write in your brand’s tone of voice: Finally, your writing style and tone should adhere to your brand’s tone of voice. A brand should be consistent across all touch points, and content marketing is no exception. The writing style of your content should therefore reflect your brand and reinforce your brand values. What’s the bottom line? Different target audiences with different needs and challenges require different content with different messages created by different experts. Through this epic content, you will differentiate your brand and products from the crowded marketplace. 6) Do not forget distribution In order for your content to have the required impact and for the content to increase its ROI, you need to distribute it in the right places to reach your audience. By understanding your target audience, you will understand their habits, the platforms they use and the information they search for. Your content needs to be easily found by your audience, even when they are not looking for it. If not, you will never reach your consumers and all you content strategy efforts will be in vain. In order to distribute even more effectively your content, you should reach out to your consumer’s influencers and work with them to develop, create and distribute your content. Influencers will enable your content to be distributed exponentially and to be perceived as even more credible, authentic and compelling. In addition, you should develop and cultivate your brand advocates, they will help you share and amplify your content and your brand message. 7) Optimize your content to increase consumer engagement: You should also optimise your content according to the platform you distribute it on. Certain types of content will be better received and more impactful on certain platforms, and not others. You will thus need to adapt your content to the different platforms you will be sharing it on. 8) Increase your ROI: 5 ways to track effectiveness: In order to understand the success of your campaign and to increase its ROI, you need to track its results. You should define your tracking measures when planning your content strategy and before your content campaign starts. And the measures to track your content effectiveness will depend on the goal of your content strategy. Here are 5 measures to track your content marketing effectiveness:

Engagement:

For any content marketing campaign, you need to track its engagement. All content should be engaging and inspiring in order to effectively attract and retain its audience. How many people are sharing your content? Who is sharing your content? How many are reacting and interacting with your content? How many people are now following your brand on social media? Distribution: If your content strategy goal is brand awareness, you should also measure your content’s distribution. How many people are viewing your content? Who is viewing your content? How much time do they spend viewing your content?

Click through:

Again if your goal is brand awareness, you should additionally track your content’s click through rate. How many people are clicking on your call to action? Who clicks on your call to action? What extra information are your target audience looking for? Sales:

If your goal is growing sales, you should track your sales. What are your conversion rates? How are your consumer journeys changing? How are your consumers’ baskets evolving?

Brand image change:

Finally, if your goal is changing your brand image, you should measure your brand image and associations and how they are shifting in the mind of your consumers.

What’s the bottom line?

Content marketing is essential to develop and grow your brand. With a content strategy, you will be able to connect with your consumers and build a trusted relationship with them, which will eventually lead to greater sales. And in order to master content marketing, you need a clearly defined strategy roadmap with your consumers at its heart, to create compelling content and successfully reach your consumers.

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