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13 Winning Tactics On Content Marketing

Published on 16 September 14
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Days are gone when marketing drills mainly took beautiful folks to parade the trade fairs with a company's merchandise. Days are also gone with the wind when screaming colors, company logos and branded t-shirts made people sway to a company's business language.

Nowadays, all that has changed.

As you read this article, you will discover that brands are now where people are. In other words, they target customers with what the latter want: specific information that will prove useful to them.

Even before we launch on some 13 tactics that will improve your marketing campaigns, here are

some of the advertising approaches you may no longer see oftenly on the web:

● Pop up windows that distract readers' attention on webpages.

● Irrelevant video or pictorial content.

What you are pretty sure to be seeing quite often on the digital marketing scene include:

● E-newsletters under subscription.

● Blog articles that follow search engine optimization promotions.

● Podcasts and articles on the social networks.

Having taken a look at those two opposing trends above, here now are some of the ways in which businesses will drive sales through, among others, social shares:

1. By Being Familiar with your Community, you will be able to tailor information
that concerns it relevantly. For instance, if you are adept at IT, you can give hints and suggestions to your audiences from an expert viewpoint. You can also mine ideas on what your community likes and target them on this material.

2. Take the word of Influencers. You only have to go through sites like Viral Nova
as well as BuzzFeed to find why their posts get fast circulation. It is because they are already influencers, in their own right. Source ideas from them and you may succeed, too.

3. You Don't Build a Fanbase Overnight. Sure, you will come across rare lucky
instances when Internet millionaires build their empires in one night, but this is hardly a deliberate occurrence but rather chance.

This is why you need to start from day one building followers.

1. There are Days when Business Will Drag Its Feet. By understanding that just like in life your content may not garner visitors, you will not back down. You will continue to explore and exploit a topic, understand what does not tickle people, and come up with a winning strategy.

After the above discussion on sharing tactics, below now is how blogging comes into the picture:

How Essential are Blogs?

1. Blogging platforms Increase your Visitor Count. They do this because, of all channels of distributions, they are the ones that utilize SEO best. This is why you need to dedicate time and effort to produce valuable, legible and navigable web pages that will garner attention even if the Age site does not link to them.

2. Be Diverse in Content. By giving diverse approaches to your content, including guide articles and bulleted lists, you will be able to take advantage of Twitter readership as a recent study identified these as the forms they like best.

3. Exploit Audience Tastes for Content. Do they love statistical information over prose?

Give it a try if it is what your visitors incline towards.

4. Apportion Pictorial and Audiovisual Material in Content. You ought to give text a
break by distributing supporting images and videos. These garner attention because they are fast to understand, and relieve the monotony of text.

Now that we have touched on blogging, how do you boost your content? Here is how to do it:

How To Upgrade Your Posts

1. Enhance Your Information. You will rarely garner audiences if you become proficient on a single content format. Rather, enhance your posts by including statistics, sketches and even maps if they are necessary.

2. Discover the Clues to Sales. If you use your analytics well, you will be able to not only edit but test new ideas successfully on the road to finding what converts and what does not.

3. Know what channels/Electronics Your Audiences Use. Due to the fact that the online marketplace utilizes a number of browsing networks, gadgets and content formats, you will find the need to come up with a responsive design that will see your posts be easy to share and read on any of these media.

4. Quality wins the Battle Over Numbers. Rather than focusing on lengthy posts, research widely and come up with brief but highly useful posts that garner traffic.

While at it, overlook the following mistakes:

● Use of direct sales language. Rather, indulge in subtle persuasive means that uses

information as the driver.

● Commit to optimal SEO rather than filling the page with keyword stuffing.

In summary, you will find that audiences are never easy to reach with direct sales drives. What works is a combination of the above 13 tactics in tandem with the most useful tool of all: useful content. This way, you will ingratiate them to your brand and they will keep coming back for more information.

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