Posted at 12:38h in Content Marketing

Content marketing is all about providing useful, relevant, and valuable content your prospects and customers need to help them solve their issues and problems. This has a host of benefits, including increased brand awareness, engagement, leads, traffic, conversions, brand trust, loyalty, credibility, reputation, and authority, to name just a few. This simple 2 step content marketing strategy involves identifying audience questions and creating content that answers these questions. It’s as simple as that. What’s more, it’s easy to implement and doesn’t require a big budget, so any small business can employ this strategy today to start getting results and reap the benefits of...

Posted at 15:53h in Content Marketing

Email marketing remains one of the most effective ways of engaging and reaching prospects, retaining customers, and encouraging them to take action. This post offers some tips on how to improve results from your email marketing campaigns and optimise performance.   1. Build A List   Prior to any email marketing campaign, you need to build an audience to send your email to by building an email list. Start by asking yourself why your audience would sign up for your emails,  then use this to build a list. This can be done any number of ways, from using a lead generation form on your site,...

Posted at 12:48h in Content Marketing

So you’ve written a piece of fully optimised high-quality, valuable, relevant content that stands out and you’re ready to release it into the world for your content to be read and loved by your audience. Don’t make the content marketing mistake of leaving your amazing content on your site waiting for it to be read and the views to come pouring in. Unfortunately, it’s not a case of building it and they will come, you have to work hard to promote your content and get it in front of those who need to read it, otherwise, your hard work producing the...

Posted at 14:23h in Content Marketing, Social

I have previously written about building a loyal online community through social media, in which I discussed how to leverage social media to help you achieve your business goals. In this article, I go into more detail on some of the best types of content that will boost engagement in order to do this. To boost engagement on social media, you need to share relevant, useful and valuable content to start a conversation, increase trust and loyalty, and build a community. The idea is to build a relationship with prospects, customers, fans and audiences through content, not just through hard selling...

Posted at 14:09h in Content Marketing

Content marketing can be a very effective method to achieve your business goals, but it is difficult to master. Hence, you need to give your content the best chance of success by optimising it to be the best it can be. Making a few small changes to your content can make a massive difference to its overall performance. Optimised content can increase traffic and click-through, and improve bounce rate and visibility. Optimised content can help you build brand authority and reputation and convert readers into loyal customers. So, before you hit publish on your content, make sure you do these 10 simple...