Fundamental Content Marketing Strategies

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Content strategy is the building and execution of the content on the Internet. If your strategy is effective, it will help your business achieve its goals through exposure and acquiring more online traffic. There are many tricks that can help.

If you are just starting out with social media or you are, at the most, a novice, you may be strategizing in a way that is not as effective as it could be. There are many different strategic approaches that you can take but it is important to understand clearly which ones work most effectively for your particular business and which ones you should spend time getting involved with because you won’t reap the benefits for your business in as powerful a way as you hope.

Choose the best target audience

Before you write a single word of content, it is critical that you choose your target audience. If you have the most incredible content that ever existed but you are writing for the wrong audience, it definitely will not achieve the desired results for your business. The goals that you want to achieve are capturing the attention of the search engines, capturing the attention of other websites, and generating a great deal of traffic in turn. It is definitely worth your while to take the time and effort to research your target audience so that you choose the absolutely most appropriate audience possible.

Putting all of your eggs in one basket

It is very important that you diversify when it comes to social media channels and interactions. Of course, your content strategy is an extension of who you are and what you represent. However, it is not enough to merely share well-written content. You must also share valuable links and interact effectively in order to be successful.

Excellent content

If you present top-quality content, you will get a great deal of attention. Your content must be clear and concise and it must make people want to continue reading what you are sharing with them. Under no circumstances should it sound like a sales pitch or have any flavor of insincerity. Of course, it is also very important that you pay close attention to the basics—it should be free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. If you have errors of any kind, people will definitely notice and it will most likely be distracting enough to dissuade them from continuing to read your content.

Place your content in the most effective places

It is not going to help you if you get your content read through the back door. You should not post to websites that need to use other website’s content. You want to promote your business in a direct and sincere manner. Before you post your content anywhere, you should determine the most effective places to put it and you will see that your choices will pay off.

Making your content as appealing as possible

When you post content, you want to make it as appealing as possible for your readers. Don’t be afraid to include images, if you feel that it will enhance the appeal. Depending on your topic, graphics may make all of the difference when it comes to how much your readers pay attention, want to keep reading, and want to share your content with others.

Conclusion

Tricks are very effective when it comes to content strategy and how effective you can be for your business. Of course, it is very important that you use those tricks wisely and that you don’t overdue it. You must not cross boundaries. At the end of the day, your success is a result of the same thing that everyone else’s success is based on: hard work and unlenting, consistent effort. You should also remember to offer an interesting variety of information so that you not only capture the attention of your readers with one article but so that you entice them into wanting to read whatever you are offering whenever they see your name.

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  • Carolyn Cohn

    Carolyn Cohn is the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Services of CompuKol Communications. Carolyn manages CompuKol’s creative and editorial department, which consists of writers and editors. Her weekly blogs are syndicated globally. She has decades of editorial experience in online editing, and editing books, journal articles, abstracts, and promotional and educational materials. Carolyn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.

5 Responses

  1. Michael Lam says:

     

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    Discussion: Fundamental Content Marketing Strategies

    Thanks for your article. It is helpful as content is apparently King for reaching your goal of traffic driving and indexed on search engines.
    Posted by Michael Lam

     

  2. Andrew Brooke says:

     

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    Great article Carolyn! You've made the most important point early on:"Before you write a single word of content, it is critical that you choose your target audience."

    How true that is. The disconnect that happens between what the user needed and what was actually delivered (for both documentation and the product) is wonderfully illustrated in this modernized version of the classic "What the customer wanted" cartoon:
    http://johngushue.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451f25369e20120a513810c970b-pi
    Posted by Andrew Brooke

     

  3. Lisa Kanarek says:

    I agree that content is very important. It's also important to include keywords, but not so many that it hurts the content. While it takes extra effort (and sometimes expense), I that that all blog posts should include a photo. Thanks for the tips.

  4. David Leonhardt says:

    I don't like putting all my eggs in one basket.  On the other hand, targeting is critical or nobody gets the message.  There is a tension between these two in terms of how one writes, who one writes to and where one promotes.

  5. advertising on web says:

    The content in content marketing is king… I think it’s important that marketers understand the basic, fundamental steps of developing and deploying a solid content marketing strategy.