Some very interesting thoughts from Neil Patel about Online Marketing in 2021 - what has changed and what to look out for!
Showing posts with label content marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label content marketing. Show all posts
Friday, 10 September 2021
Friday, 3 September 2021
How to Do Marketing With a Low Budget
Marketing your business online inexpensively is a real possibility. You can practically market your business for free if you know what to do.
Content Marketing
This is one of your most important marketing weapons in your arsenal. In fact, you'll use content for all types of marketing including every inexpensive way mentioned below. Content is needed that sells, educates, engages, informs and excites. You need content for all aspects of marketing - up to and including customer relations.
Social Media
Social media like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram all have a place in your online marketing endeavours. Well, they might. You have to determine which social media networks will work for you and it will depend on your niche and your audience. Where do they hang out? Be there.
Blog Often
Blogging is a big source of traffic and in some instances the only source of traffic for many website owners. It's a great way to get the message out to your audience while not spending much money. It can take time to get used to doing it, but writing a post a day can help gain momentum. But you also want to consider doing longer blog posts, less often, to get results.
Remember SEO
If you are not familiar with SEO (search engine optimization), it's important to learn. SEO changes constantly and is how you optimize your website for search engines. There is both on-page and off-page SEO that you can do for your business.
Perfect Your Website
Your website is your storefront, and even if you have a bricks and mortar storefront, your website is the storefront your customers will likely see first. If it doesn't look great, why would anyone purchase from you?
Join Relevant Communities
Communities are a great way to get your name out there. There are communities you can join on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as self-hosted and owned "inner circles" and mastermind clubs that you can join. They can help you get known as an expert, as well as help you get more links to your website.
Get Listed
There are directories that are free or inexpensive that you can join to help market your business. Ensure that the directory is niche-oriented and that it is run by a reputable person so that you are listed with other reputable business owners. You don't want to be on a list that is associated with spam. Your local chamber of commerce is one such list that you can get on for the price of your membership.
Every successful entrepreneur has made mistakes in their business at some time or another. It's all part of the learning process. Although mistakes are going to happen, you can avoid a number of common marketing mistakes. Download my free checklist, The 10 Most Common Marketing Mistakes at https://jonallo.com/mistakes
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10413221
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
How to Improve Your Content Marketing
Improving your content can grow your email list, because it gives more opportunities for your audience to sign up. Plus, you will be giving them a reason to sign up by delivering excellent content that's targeted toward their needs.
Add Multiple CTAs
Don't just put a box on the right side-bar asking for people to sign up for your newsletter. That isn't enough. Now you need to add CTAs in numerous areas to get their attention and increase sign-up rates. Put one under each post, on the right side-bar, in a lightbox and inside content with content upgrades.
Create Content Upgrades
A terrific and effective way to get more sign-ups is to be more specific by adding content upgrades to the content you offer free. You can do this within a blog post, within articles you publish on LinkedIn, and as a guest writer. A content upgrade is information that helps clarify and make the content the audience is reading more useful. For example, a free MS Excel chore chart template with an article on how to get your family to share chores would make an excellent upgrade.
Cross-Promote Your Content
When you publish content anywhere, have a plan on how you'll promote the content across all channels. This makes your content better because it looks more cohesive. For example, if you write a blog about eating less sugar, you might share recipes on Pinterest that use less sugar, and videos of recipes on Facebook that use less sugar too.
Tweak Titles
If your content is not getting clicked on, you can't get sign-ups. So, make sure your titles are compelling enough to get people to click through. Don't trick them, though. Be straightforward but clear about what's inside the content with the titles.
Remember to Add Appropriate Headers
When people read online, they need a lot more white space than when reading on paper. Add headers that tell them what's inside the next paragraph so that they can be propelled to keep reading more.
Use the Right Keywords
If you're not sure what good keywords are, study more about the proper use of keywords so that you can improve SEO. Search engine optimization is important for building your list because that's how people will find your content in a search.
Use a Lightbox Pop-Up to Gate Your Content
You don't want to turn readers away, but you do want to maximize the potential of the viewer signing up. Add a lightbox pop-up to your website so that it waits a bit, then pops up asking for a sign-up to continue reading. Make it optional so that they can X out of it if they don't want to sign up.
Deliver on Your Promises
When people do sign up, remind them of where they signed up, why they signed up, and what you will be sending them. Then deliver on those promises. More people will want to open your email messages if they find them valuable.
When you write and manage your content correctly, it will make your life easier and your business grow. To discover how the most successful online entrepreneurs plan, create and deliver great content, download my free checklist, The 5 Step Content Strategy, at https://jonallo.com/contentplan
by Jon Allo, Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10438264
Friday, 13 August 2021
How To Scale Content Creation
Scaling content creation enables you to get the most out of the content that you spend money, time and resources on. Plus, it allows you to pad that with other people's content to bring to your audience a plethora of content that adds value to them and helps them to make purchase decisions.
Use Curated Content
Collect content that you believe your audience will be interested that you did not write. Include content that is about your niche and other topics you feel that your target audience will find educational and valuable.
Share curated content
Use Curated Content
Collect content that you believe your audience will be interested that you did not write. Include content that is about your niche and other topics you feel that your target audience will find educational and valuable.
Share curated content
Be sure to share this content in order to keep your audience engaged and informed. The great thing about curated content is that it enables you to participate in discussions across the web. It adds interest of your brand by those authors and allows you to impress your audience.
Know your niche
Know your niche
To properly curate content it's important that you understand your own brand and niche enough to choose the right content to curate. Plus, it's important to always give the right attributions and credit to the original author.
Repost Original Content
It costs a lot of money, time and effort to create content for your niche. You need content for everything, and every platform and every form, and you need it on a regular basis. If you're not repurposing and reusing some of your content, you're not getting the most out of your investment.
Share more than once
Repost Original Content
It costs a lot of money, time and effort to create content for your niche. You need content for everything, and every platform and every form, and you need it on a regular basis. If you're not repurposing and reusing some of your content, you're not getting the most out of your investment.
Share more than once
Sharing new content on social media needs to be done more than once to ensure it gets maximum views. With the way social media works, on a feed system it is likely only a very small percentage of followers, or likes, will see the share more than once, or even once.
Use older content
Use older content
Alternatively, if an issue comes up that the old content piece answers then go ahead and share it again, even if it's months old. It's also okay to update the content first to be more relevant if any part of the original piece is out of date. As long as the content is relevant, original, and makes sense at that time, share away.
Use Multiple Platforms
You probably are part of many different online communities and networks - Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook groups, forums, groups and so forth. Make sure to take advantage of this fact. If you find a fresh way to share the same content throughout all these platforms then you can share the same content.
Edit for network personality
Use Multiple Platforms
You probably are part of many different online communities and networks - Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook groups, forums, groups and so forth. Make sure to take advantage of this fact. If you find a fresh way to share the same content throughout all these platforms then you can share the same content.
Edit for network personality
The important thing to do here is to be sure to craft each message a little differently for each network. For example, you might want to share the content in a more visual way on Pinterest than you do on Twitter.
Use different formats
Use different formats
A blog post becomes a slide share, becomes a video for YouTube, and becomes a podcast for iTunes. It really is that simple to reuse your content. After all, the format doesn't change the research you've already done. You're just changing the format and sometimes the mood of the research to participate on multiple platforms.
When you write and manage your content correctly, it will make your life easier and your business grow. To discover how the most successful online entrepreneurs plan, create and deliver great content, download my free checklist, The 5 Step Content Strategy, at https://jonallo.com/contentplan
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10344337
When you write and manage your content correctly, it will make your life easier and your business grow. To discover how the most successful online entrepreneurs plan, create and deliver great content, download my free checklist, The 5 Step Content Strategy, at https://jonallo.com/contentplan
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10344337
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
How Do You Sell Digital Products?
Promoting and selling digital products requires getting your product in front of your audience. It's a lot easier to make a sale when your ideal customer feels as if they just discovered the holy grail because you put it right in front of them so they could not miss it.
Your Website and Blog
Everything starts with your blog or website. It's not a good idea to send people someplace else to make a purchase from you unless you're making money from an affiliate sale.
Social Media Marketing
In addition to a blog, promote everything you offer on each of the social media platforms that your audience uses. Every post you make, every sale you have, every story you can relate to, and so forth should be shared on social media. Also, add sharing buttons to your email marketing messages and blog posts.
Content Marketing
Write blog posts, guest posts, and how-to articles. Make videos all about your product. What problems does your product solve? Create content about the problem so you can educate your audience about it, then offer them the solution too.
Paid Advertisements
Don't ignore paid ads. They work. Do try to get everything else in place before running a paid advertisement. You need a good landing page, check-out process and so forth to make this worth it.
Influencer Marketing
Once you have your product ready, find some social media influencers to take up your cause. You can pay them, or you can find some who will work for a percentage of sales using an affiliate link. An influencer will simply talk about your product, maybe blog about it, and give their honest thoughts about it.
Affiliate Marketing
This is why your choice of shopping cart tech is so important. If you're selling digital products, you need an affiliate program to make more money. Paying an affiliate half of the price of the product is a small price to pay to get more sales when the product is fully digital.
Creating More Landing Pages
Studies show that having more landing pages is better than having fewer. Create dedicated landing pages for every freebie you have, even your email list subscription, and potentially affiliate products too. This can look like a blog post or a page, but it should be fully dedicated to only one product per page.
Free Trials
Depending on the type of digital product you sell, free trials may work wonders. This is useful for apps, software, and plugins. You may want to offer an example of what your other products look like by creating some freebies that show what you do.
An effective sales funnel can put your business on autopilot and consistently convert leads into customers if you structure it the right way. To help you set up an effective funnel for your business, download my free Sales Funnel Checklist at https://jonallo.com/salesfunnel
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10459795
Your Website and Blog
Everything starts with your blog or website. It's not a good idea to send people someplace else to make a purchase from you unless you're making money from an affiliate sale.
Social Media Marketing
In addition to a blog, promote everything you offer on each of the social media platforms that your audience uses. Every post you make, every sale you have, every story you can relate to, and so forth should be shared on social media. Also, add sharing buttons to your email marketing messages and blog posts.
Content Marketing
Write blog posts, guest posts, and how-to articles. Make videos all about your product. What problems does your product solve? Create content about the problem so you can educate your audience about it, then offer them the solution too.
Paid Advertisements
Don't ignore paid ads. They work. Do try to get everything else in place before running a paid advertisement. You need a good landing page, check-out process and so forth to make this worth it.
Influencer Marketing
Once you have your product ready, find some social media influencers to take up your cause. You can pay them, or you can find some who will work for a percentage of sales using an affiliate link. An influencer will simply talk about your product, maybe blog about it, and give their honest thoughts about it.
Affiliate Marketing
This is why your choice of shopping cart tech is so important. If you're selling digital products, you need an affiliate program to make more money. Paying an affiliate half of the price of the product is a small price to pay to get more sales when the product is fully digital.
Creating More Landing Pages
Studies show that having more landing pages is better than having fewer. Create dedicated landing pages for every freebie you have, even your email list subscription, and potentially affiliate products too. This can look like a blog post or a page, but it should be fully dedicated to only one product per page.
Free Trials
Depending on the type of digital product you sell, free trials may work wonders. This is useful for apps, software, and plugins. You may want to offer an example of what your other products look like by creating some freebies that show what you do.
An effective sales funnel can put your business on autopilot and consistently convert leads into customers if you structure it the right way. To help you set up an effective funnel for your business, download my free Sales Funnel Checklist at https://jonallo.com/salesfunnel
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10459795
Friday, 11 June 2021
Content Marketing: 9 Steps to Successfully Market Your Business With Content
One big barrier to getting sales is not creating enough of the right content on a consistent basis, to help your target audience understand why they should hire you.
Content marketing has been shown to be one of the most effective methods of growing audience engagement, developing your brand presence, and driving sales.
Why is content marketing important?
When you don't share content regularly, your audience can either forget about you or not put their trust in you---or both.
According to Hubspot.com...
"Content marketing is important because it answers your audience's questions. With content marketing, you can build trust with your audience, improve conversions, connect with your customers, and generate leads. Additionally, in today's age, customers expect high-quality, consistent content from their favorite brands... Consistent, high-quality, and engaging content impacts audience decision-making more than any other technique."
Content marketing is absolutely vital, but if you don't have a system for creating it, you're wasting your time. So, here's something that may help - nine steps on how to create content for your business.
Step 1- Commit to Regular Content Creation: You need to commit to creating content regularly. That's because, if you want to be viewed as an expert, you need to be showing up like clockwork. Also because search engines like to see content produced on a regular basis. So, consistently produced content is key.
But, in order to do that, you will first need to decide what kinds and forms of content you want to create---based on the needs of your target market.
Step 2- List Your Promotions: Decide on what you will be launching and/or promoting in the next 6-12 months, and when you will promote them, so you can plan out the big events first. Space them out so it doesn't look like you're promoting too often, or back to back. Then add smaller promos such as existing products/programs, other people's affiliate products, and lead magnets.
Step 3- Market Research: In order to be found through the search engines, your content always needs to use keywords that pertain to your niche. Find out what your target market is searching for by using common sense. What keywords and phrases would you search for to find you? Then create a list of these keywords and phrases to be used in your content. You can also take those keywords and plug them into a keyword or search tool to find other related keywords and phrases that people are using. Google, for instance, does this at the bottom of its search pages, under the heading "People Also Ask...".
Other market research to find out what content your audience is engaging with, includes looking at: trends in your industry, popular blog posts, videos, podcasts and best-selling, related books, on your niche topics. You can also visit forums and online groups based on your topic to see what people are discussing regarding your topic, and what words they are using.
Step 4- Create an Idea Bank: From your research, you'll have a much better sense of which topics will be most interesting and compelling for your audience. You can now collect your ideas into an "idea bank." This can act as a repository for content ideas that you can pull from well into the future. But, since content creation is ongoing, resupplying your idea bank should also be ongoing. Some of your ideas can come from the topics discussed in forums, questions that people ask, keyword phrases they are using, and excerpts from your own products.
Step 5- Choose a Calendar: Find a calendar that fits your needs (there are many free ones online). Use it to designate which topics you will use for the next 6-12 months. This may seem like the easiest step, but in fact it can be the hardest. That's because you have to integrate content topics with your projected events, launches, promotions---and, all the while, keeping in mind what will get the best bang for your buck in terms of using your content to build your audience and make sales.
Step 6- Schedule Creation Time: Now that you have your content topics, the next step is to schedule time on your to-do calendar to actually create the content. Designate regular blocks of time to write your content. How often, and how much time per block, will depend on whether you want to do it weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
For example, say you decide to post one piece of content per month, and you want to do the work on it quarterly. You know from experience that it takes about 2 hours to create one piece of (monthly) content. Then every 90 days, you'll need to schedule out 6 hours of time to create your content for that quarter. You may be the sort that wants to schedule doing it all at once---like a day or weekend---or, maybe, in blocks of two hours, 3 days in a row. Or, you may feel more comfortable spreading it out more. Whatever works for you!
Step 7- Produce Your Content: Use your scheduled time to produce your content for at least the next 30-90 days. By keeping your business goals (and mission) in mind when writing content, you'll be able to create the content most relevant to your audience and most lucrative to you. Make use of different formats for your content. For example, you may write a blog post for your monthly newsletter, and then turn it into a video or podcast to distribute later in the month.
Step 8- Optimize: Once it's done, make sure that your content:
- Has the right balance of serving (80%) and selling (20%) - value vs. sales pitch.
- Is optimized with relevant keywords and phrases.
- Balances the various types of content you share, such as, educational, entertaining, inspirational and promotional.
Balance is key to content effectiveness. Perhaps the greatest advantage of your content calendar is that it gives you the big picture. You can see whether you're following the "80/20 rule" of free versus promotional content, used by most successful marketers. And, because you can see the "what and when" plan for all your content, you can ensure that you have a good balance of various types of content and, thus be able to create a professional impression for visitors to all your online resources.
Optimize each blog post, social media post, and video with pertinent keywords and meta descriptions for blogs.
Step 9- Create a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP): Once you've gone through the process of creating your content, now it's time to write down the steps you went through to do it. Make a separate list of instructions for each content form and platform, even if the steps are largely similar. This list helps you create a coherent look, and it ensures you follow all needed steps every time you post.
And, as your business grows, your SOP will be essential for cutting down the amount of time needed to train a new team member.
So that's the 9 steps to basic content creation. If these steps are enough, that's great---go do it! But in case you need more help figuring out how to find the time, come up with the topics, and/ or create a plan for distributing your content, check out "The Ultimate Content Creation Toolkit."
It's a comprehensive training package that helps you learn how to plan and create 6-12 months' worth of core content---such as blog posts, podcasts, videos, and emails---that your audience will find valuable, and that also will increase your search engine rankings.
Just go to: www.ContentCreationToolkit.com
About the Author: Jeannette Koczela, Founder of the International Association of Professional Life Coaches®, provides business and marketing resources, tools, and training life coaches so that they can run their business more profitably. Download the free "Essential Coach Kickstart Business Guide" HERE, and get weekly tips, strategies, and guidance on how to create a thriving coaching business.
Learn how to plan and create 6-12 months' worth of core content---such as blog posts, podcasts, videos, and emails---that your audience will find valuable, and that also will increase your search engine rankings with "The Ultimate Content Creation Toolkit" at: https://ContentCreationToolkit.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10454350
Thursday, 13 May 2021
How to Do Marketing With a Low Budget
Content Marketing
This is one of the most important marketing weapons in your arsenal. In fact, you'll use content for all types of marketing including every inexpensive way mentioned below. Content is needed that sells, educates, engages, informs and excites. You need content for all aspects of marketing - up to and including customer relations.
Social Media
Social media like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram all have a place in your online marketing endeavours. Well, they might. You have to determine which social media networks will work for you and it will depend on your niche and your audience. Where do they hang out? Be there.
Blog Often
Blogging is a big source of traffic and in some instances the only source of traffic for many website owners. It's a great way to get the message out to your audience while not spending much money. It can take time to get used to doing it, but writing a post a day can help gain momentum. But you also want to consider doing longer blog posts, less often, to get results.
Remember SEO
If you are not familiar with SEO (search engine optimization), it's important to learn. SEO changes constantly and is how you optimize your website for search engines. There is both on-page and off-page SEO that you can do for your business.
Perfect Your Website
Your website is your store front, and even if you have a bricks and mortar store front, your website is the store front your customers will likely see first. If it doesn't look great, why would anyone purchase from you?
Join Relevant Communities
Communities are a great way to get your name out there. There are communities you can join on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as self-hosted and owned "inner circles" and mastermind clubs that you can join. They can help you get known as an expert, as well as help you get more links to your website.
Get Listed
There are directories that are free or inexpensive that you can join to help market your business. Ensure that the directory is niche-oriented, and that it is run by a reputable person so that you are listed with other reputable business owners. You don't want to be on a list that is associated with spam. Your local chamber of commerce is one such list that you can get on for the price of your membership.
Every successful entrepreneur has made mistakes in their business at some time or another. It's all part of the learning process. Although mistakes are going to happen, you can avoid a number of common marketing mistakes. Download my free checklist, The 10 Most Common Marketing Mistakes at https://jonallo.com/mistakes
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10413221
Sunday, 9 May 2021
How to Improve Your Content Marketing
Improving your content can grow your email list because it gives more opportunities for your audience to sign up. Plus, you will be giving them a reason to sign up by delivering excellent content that's targeted toward their needs.
Don't just put a box on the right sidebar asking for people to sign up for your newsletter. That isn't enough. Now you need to add CTAs in numerous areas to get their attention and increase sign-up rates. Put one under each post, on the right sidebar, in a lightbox and inside content with content upgrades.
Create Content Upgrades
A terrific and effective way to get more sign-ups is to be more specific by adding content upgrades to the content you offer free. You can do this within a blog post, within articles you publish on LinkedIn, and as a guest writer. A content upgrade is information that helps clarify and make the content the audience is reading more useful. For example, a free MS Excel chore chart template with an article on how to get your family to share chores would make an excellent upgrade.
Cross-Promote Your Content
When you publish content anywhere, have a plan on how you'll promote the content across all channels. This makes your content better because it looks more cohesive. For example, if you write a blog about eating less sugar, you might share recipes on Pinterest that use less sugar, and videos of recipes on Facebook that use less sugar too.
Tweak Titles
If your content is not getting clicked on, you can't get sign-ups. So, make sure your titles are compelling enough to get people to click through. Don't trick them, though. Be straightforward but clear about what's inside the content with the titles.
Remember to Add Appropriate Headers
When people read online, they need a lot more white space than when reading on paper. Add headers that tell them what's inside the next paragraph so that they can be propelled to keep reading more.
Use the Right Keywords
If you're not sure what good keywords are, study more about the proper use of keywords so that you can improve SEO. Search engine optimization is important for building your list because that's how people will find your content in a search.
Use a Lightbox Pop-Up to Gate Your Content
You don't want to turn readers away, but you do want to maximize the potential of the viewer signing up. Add a lightbox pop-up to your website so that it waits a bit, then pops up asking for a sign-up to continue reading. Make it optional so that they can X out of it if they don't want to sign up.
Deliver on Your Promises
When people do sign up, remind them of where they signed up, why they signed up, and what you will be sending them. Then deliver on those promises. More people will want to open your email messages if they find them valuable.
When you write and manage your content correctly, it will make your life easier and your business grow. To discover how the most successful online entrepreneurs plan, create and deliver great content, download my free checklist, The 5 Step Content Strategy, at https://jonallo.com/contentplan
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10438264
Thursday, 29 April 2021
How to Market Your Blog Articles
So, you've written a great blog article for your business and you want to share it with the world. Why not? Everyone should know about your great product or service, right? While that's certainly true, let's take a few steps first to ensure you know how to market your blog articles. After all, you wouldn't want to put so much time and effort into your blog articles and have them fall flat.
Review Your Blog Article
Is your blog article interesting to others? Do you speak clearly and in a comfortable tone? Do you get to your point quickly and support it with relevant information?
You'll want your blog article to be interesting to others and shareable on social media. So, take the time to look at it with a critical eye. And be sure to correct any spelling, grammar, and clarity issues with your copy. You don't want to be misunderstood or turn someone off because your blog has numerous errors.
Better yet, have a professional review your blog article and proofread/edit it for you. They'll catch things you may not have, and your blog will be exponentially better for having a professional review it.
(HINT: Spell-check is not your friend. It won't catch everything, and neither will you. Even proofreaders need proofreaders.)
Know Your Audience
Do some research about your audience, preferably before you start writing. Who are they? What are their dreams, hopes, desires, worries, and fears? What is their problem and how do you solve it? How would they want you to relate to them? Should your copy be casual and conversational or more formal and educational? Create a detailed customer profile, down to what they eat for breakfast, how they sleep and exercise, and what they do for fun. Get to know your audience first, and it will pay off later.
Optimize Your Blog Articles
You can have the greatest blog in the world, but if no one finds it then what does it matter? Before you post your blog, be sure you're taking every step to optimize it so that it shows up in search engine results. Here are a few things to keep in mind.
Choose a longtail key phrase and use it in multiple places. Think about what people type into a search engine. Simply type your subject matter into a search and see what auto-populates. This will give you some clues about what people are looking for. (HINT: It's best to do this before you start writing.) Of course, you can also invest in keyword research for your website and subject matter. That way, you don't waste time trying to rank for low-volume searches (practically no one is searching for that) or high-competition searches (you're competing against the big guys here).
When you've decided on a key phrase, be sure to use it in the following places:
- Headline (H1)
- First 100 words, ideally first paragraph
- At least one subheading (H2, H3)
- Several times throughout
- Call to Action
- URL (blog page web address)
- Title Tag (page name in search engine results)
- Meta Description (description in search engine results)Add Imagery
Plan on using one to three royalty-free images for your blog article. You'll want to designate one as your feature image and, depending on the length of your article, add one or two more to break up long sections of text. Choose images that enhance your writing and add visual interest. Remember that the image may be the first thing people notice before reading your article, so keep it interesting.
Post It, and Don't Forget About It
Once your article is posted, pay attention to any engagement. If your blog receives comments, take the time to comment back and engage with your followers. They want to feel noticed and valued too. Answer questions and encourage continued communication.
More on How to Market Your Blog Articles
Posting your blog is only the beginning of your marketing efforts. At Precise, we encourage you to create three different social media posts for each blog article. Optimize your post for each channel (e.g., 280 characters or less plus 2 - 3 hashtags for Twitter, additional hashtags for Instagram) and use an image with each post too.
Test and measure each social media post to see which ones perform the best. Take your best performers and continue to schedule these posts on social media in the months to come (on different days and at different times).
Repurpose Your Blog Article Content
Next, make your blog articles work quadruple time for you by repurposing your content. You can take your social media post a few steps further for even more promotion. Here are a few ideas:
- Create graphics using a few key takeaways from your blog
- Create a video short with key points as well
- Record a video of you talking about your blog. Include a few extra tidbits.
- Record a YouTube video version of your blog.
- Record a podcast version of your blog, or chat with another expert on the subject matter.
- Link to other related blogs on your site to keep visitors interested.
- Use your blog in promotional materials.
- Add an email opt-in/sign-up on your blog posts.
- Add social sharing buttons for each blog post.
- Link to your post with a teaser in an e-newsletter.
- Add your profile to your blog. Let people know who you are.
- Create an infographic to go with your blog.
- Submit your blog to an e-zine.
- Submit your post to RSS directories.
- Join a social sharing group.
- And more! Take action on a half dozen or more of these ideas, and you're sure to garner attention for your blog article.
Still not sure how to market your blog articles? Need assistance in promoting your latest blog?
Give Precise a call today! We're happy to help! https://precisecreative.marketing/
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10438765
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Exploit Internet's Amazing Marketing Powers: 4 Most Important Tips
We are living in the age of Internet Marketing, also known as Content Marketing. Here, online visibility is a must, to stay on top and relevant, and make more money.
If you don't have a good web presence, and aren't busy promoting and expanding your business, via effective Internet Marketing, you won't survive for long.
What's Internet Marketing?
It's the new age marketing of a business or brand and its products and services over the Internet, through different tools, employing content, e-mails, search and paid media strategies, to help drive traffic, leads and sales.
Internet Marketing techniques are mostly organic by nature, but these (the techniques) could be paid as well.
Organic internet marketing may not lead to great results instantly, but it would help businesses grow and expand eventually if done the right way.
Content Marketing is the Future
As per a study, 91% of businesses, across the globe, believe that Internet Marketing is an indispensable and exciting marketing tactic.
Content Marketing involves offering valuable, readable and steady content. It's the marketing of the present and future.
It stimulates, educates, and guides prospects, and builds trust, authority and connections. When it happens, and when you offer help and value to your customers and prospects, they reward you by becoming your customers and utilizing your products & services.
Content Marketing vs. Traditional Marketing
Content Marketing is Inbound Marketing and not Outbound Marketing, also called Traditional Marketing. By and large, the latter is interruptive, obstructive, and invasive, besides being costly.
Research shows that, presently, 615+ million devices in the world have adblockers.
What does it mean?
It means traditional marketing may not be very effective.
As per another study, Content Marketing or Internet Marketing is 62% less costly, vis-à-vis the traditional marketing though it pulls over 3 times more business and profits.
Visuals & Videos Rule
Visuals--in the form of exciting videos and infographics--are comparatively more powerful in attracting new customers and others. Brain processes visuals 60,0000 times faster than texts.
As per another report, people are consuming over 500 million hours of video content daily across the globe.
In an age where the majority of us suffer from an attention-span problem, it certainly pays to make videos and visuals--that informs, empowers and entertains--a crucial element of our content creating & promotion strategies.
Online videos swiftly increase awareness, stays top of mind with new customers, and also leads to conversions from high-intent viewers.
These also give any brand the power to reach, engage, and convert its most prized audiences in the right moments - whether they're exposed to a completely new brand for the first time, or are just a few minutes away from striking a deal, and making a purchase.
When brands are present and useful in those moments, the chances of the results following are high.
4 Exciting Tips for Successful Content Marketing
To harness the amazing powers of Internet Marketing, in the most fruitful way, make Search Engine Optimization (SEO), grammar & spelling, storytelling, and videos an important part of your overall content marketing strategy.
- SEO: Optimize your content for better visibility and improved performance on the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). If your content fails to find a place on the first page, it won't lead to the results you could be keen on.
- Grammar & Spelling: Ensure that your blogs and articles are grammatically correct, and have the right spellings. A piece of content--with glaring grammatical errors and misspellings--won't' impress your readers and prospects even as your brand's value will diminish.
- Stories: Master the art of storytelling for higher traction. Most of us love stories. If there's a beautiful and inspiring story woven cleverly in your piece, it will pull the 'emotional trigger', and lead to better 'connections' with your readers and prospects.
- Videos: As per a report, in India, online video is behind over 70% of the nation's total data usage. As the nation's online population continues to increase, so will the figure of the video-famished consumers, browsing the web. So, use videos and attractive designs to create persuasive visual content!
Summing up, make Internet Marketing a vital cog in your business establishment and expansion wheel. Follow the marketing strategy tips shared to make more money, and get the best possible business results.
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Sunday, 25 April 2021
Follow These 5 Top Content Marketing Strategies, Generate More Leads!
Digital Marketing experts employ many path-breaking strategies to generate leads and improve business. While some of them are paid ones, some of them aren't.
Many industry experts claim that paid marketing fetches better results and is faster as well.
Is it true? No!
Free Digital Marketing strategies--if followed rightly--can fetch better results and generate higher leads.
For example, let's take the case of Content Marketing!
It's 3 times more effective, vis-à-vis paid search. It's far less costly as well. Besides, you don't have to proffer freebies and discount codes for e-mail and other important details of your prospects & visitors. In addition, it's easy to start, and much more popular with clients.
No wonder, as high as 88% of the B2B marketers rely on the Content Marketing tool even while as high as 96% of the first-time visitors don't buy your products, or use your services straightway, without, at first, checking-out competition, and discovering which brands suit them the most.
Now the important question: what exactly Content Marketing is?
It's a kind of marketing that requires you to generate and share valued, appropriate, and consistent online content, through videos, webinars, blogs, social media posts, and infographics. Though these don't openly promote a brand, these DO--in many cases--arouse interest in your products and/or services.
The goal behind Content Marketing remains to entice and retain clearly defined readers - and, eventually, to spur gainful customer action.
Content Marketing: What strategies to follow for lead generation?
Follow these 5 proven strategies for a highly effective lead generation exercise:
Summing up, follow these 5 most important Content Marketing Strategies, and generate more business leads online!
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No wonder, as high as 88% of the B2B marketers rely on the Content Marketing tool even while as high as 96% of the first-time visitors don't buy your products, or use your services straightway, without, at first, checking-out competition, and discovering which brands suit them the most.
Now the important question: what exactly Content Marketing is?
It's a kind of marketing that requires you to generate and share valued, appropriate, and consistent online content, through videos, webinars, blogs, social media posts, and infographics. Though these don't openly promote a brand, these DO--in many cases--arouse interest in your products and/or services.
The goal behind Content Marketing remains to entice and retain clearly defined readers - and, eventually, to spur gainful customer action.
Content Marketing: What strategies to follow for lead generation?
Follow these 5 proven strategies for a highly effective lead generation exercise:
- Build social reputation: Publish long and well-researched content to emerge as an industry leader, and enjoy a good reputation in your niche. Posting and sharing bigger, braver and bolder content will help you win trust and draw potential customers and niche audiences towards your brand. To build and grow your social reputation, take the help of the different popular social media platforms, including LinkedIn and Facebook. Social media will help you locate your community, promote better relationships, and build a society you may trust. Going social will also make your brand become more personal and powerful.
- Publish appropriate and right content: With right pages, carrying relevant right content, you can target the right audiences and prospects, and motivate them to share their personal details, including e-mail and phone numbers.
- Provide useful content in exchange for vital statistics: Carry in-depth and appropriate content but don't reveal complete content, if your readers are unwilling to provide their e-mail ids or phone numbers. For this, though, you will have to publish highly engaging and effective content. If your content isn't interesting or useful enough, your readers won't read it further, and not share the data either which you could be seeking for lead generation.
- Connect with your readers on an emotional level: Trigger your readers' and prospects' emotions, through engaging content, and the right timing. If you manage to do so, they will do what you may want them to do, and respond to your Call to Action (CTA).
- Get them to speak: Inspire your readers and prospects to like and share your pages, and post comments on them as well. When your targeted groups get involved--through shares, likes and comments--your posts will not only become viral, you will also get useful data. You will learn about their age brackets, social & economic backgrounds, expenditure, etc.
Summing up, follow these 5 most important Content Marketing Strategies, and generate more business leads online!
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