How to Create Content That Will Drive Results
To be successful, you need to think like a client. The best content will achieve results for your clients. You need to find the right audience for your clients and write articles that will meet their needs and help them achieve success.
You created content that didn’t meet goals.
We can't always write the best stuff when we are faced with a deadline. Sometimes, you need to think of creative ways to solve a problem. For example, if you have a project that needs to be completed on time or by a certain date, thinking of new ways and solutions will help the project move forward and ensure completion.
How do you explain this to clients or the c-suite? Next steps?
How do you explain this to your clients or the c-suite? How do you get them to understand your objective, rationale and message? How do you get their buy-in for the idea?
In this part of the introduction, we will discuss complex concepts on how to explain these issues and solutions. We will start with some basic concepts like audience understanding and empathy. In the next two sections, we will deal with ideas like customer journey mapping, content marketing plan and more.
What is the most common reason why a content marketing strategy may not bring the result a company needs?
There is a great deal of confusion surrounding the marketing process. But if we look at the differences between marketing and advertising, there will be a clear difference to the decisions that are made. The most common reason why an effective content marketing strategy may not be effective, is because of lack of understanding and knowledge about it.
There are many different types of content marketing strategies: media based strategies, offline strategies and online strategies. Each one has different advantages and disadvantages but all have their own unique qualities. Which one works best for you? How do you know?
If you had unlimited resources, what would be an ideal set up for a high-performing content marketing team?
We need to have a high performance content marketing team in order to get better rankings and to increase revenue. A set up that maximizes the productivity of the team could be:
The workload of a team is continuously increasing. It is now not advisable to have a large team working on a single task, and instead to spread the workload across several teams. This will allow each team to focus on its own work but still be motivated to work together towards the same goal: delivering quality work.
In this section, we will discuss the role of an effective content marketing team and what makes a team high performing.
In the most well-known example, Jay Baer (CEO at The Content Marketing Institute) interviewed the Director of Product Development at Buffer for a guest post that he wrote on his blog. This guest post was published in September 2017. In this article, he describes what he calls a "Content Marketing Genius." A Content Marketing Genius is someone who has discovered a secret formula to sell content in an efficient way and is now helping other companies to do it as well.