Drive your content marketing campaign toward success
Blogs and social platforms are all the rage right now–especially for strategists looking to cultivate influence among target audience members through content marketing. Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies explains how you can use content marketing to gain an edge over your competition, even in the most crowded of marketplaces. This timely text introduces you to the Five C Cycle: Company Focus, Customer Experience, Content Creation, Channel Promotion, and Closed-Loop Analysis. The Five C Cycle drives the creation and documentation of a targeted content marketing strategy, and allows you to approach your content marketing campaign with confidence. By helping you determine your company’s focus, uncover your customers’ experience with data, develop channel promotions across social platforms, create actionable online content, and use closed-loop analysis to build on previous success, this will become your go-to content marketing guide.
Content marketing entails creating and curating content online via blog posts, social media platforms, and more. The goal is to acquire and retain customers by creating content that brings value to their lives, and that encourages them to engage with your brand. This easy-to-understand guide will help you do just that.
* Analyze customer data to better understand your target audience’s journey
* Leverage social platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, to develop channel promotions
* Create and curate intelligent, engaging content that leads to action
* Build upon your previous success with closed-loop analysis
Whether you work for a large corporation, are part of a small business, are a solo thought leader, or are an educator, Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies tells you how to gain a critical, competitive advantage through targeted content marketing strategies.
Table des matières
Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Content Marketing Strategies 5
Chapter 1: Establishing Your Content Marketing Strategy 7
Chapter 2: Capturing Your Customer’s Attention 31
Chapter 3: Understanding Your Business Model and Brand 49
Chapter 4: Facilitating Buy-In from Your Team 73
Chapter 5: Putting Your Content Marketing Plan and Presentation Together 85
Part II: Uncovering the Customer Experience 99
Chapter 6: Dipping into Customer Data 101
Chapter 7: Discovering Buyer Personas 113
Chapter 8: Taking the Buyer’s Journey 135
Chapter 9: Embracing Sales Enablement 157
Part III: Creating Actionable Content 169
Chapter 10: Examining Your Content Plan 171
Chapter 11: Exploring Content Types 189
Chapter 12: Storytelling for Content Marketers 213
Chapter 13: Creating Processes and Systems for Your Content 225
Part IV: Developing Channel Promotions 241
Chapter 14: Examining Channel Plans 243
Chapter?@15: Sharing Your Content 259
Chapter 16: Looking at Paid, Earned, Shred, and Owned Media 279
Chapter 17: Delving into Syndication and Guest Posting 297
Chapter 18: Working with Influencers 315
Part V: Using Check-Back Analysis 337
Chapter 19: Reassessing Your Business Model and Brand Value 339
Chapter 20: Reviewing Your Content Marketing Strategy 351
Part VI: The Part of Tens 359
Chapter 21: Ten Problems Content Marketers Face 361
Chapter 22: Top Ten Blogs on Content Marketing 365
Chapter 23: Ten Free Tools for Content Marketing 369
Index 373
A propos de l’auteur
Stephanie Diamond is a marketing professional with more than 20 years of experience building profits in over 75 different industries.
A strategic thinker, she has worked with solopreneurs, small business owners, and multibillion-dollar corporations. Follow her blog at Contentmarketingtoolbox.com/blog.