John Andaya is an author and blog writer for Visual Altitude and Puff Digital Media. John started contributing to incogneato.ca community since early 2020 and...
Content marketing isn’t about pushing your product enough that you’d also push your potential customers away as you go.
Have you ever heard of saying?
“Sell your products without selling it“
by Wise Marketer
It might sound confusing at first, but I’ll help you understand its essence on the later part.
What is Content Marketing
Content Marketing refers to the contents about your products or services like blog, videos and images that resides only in your website and doesn’t depend on any other media platform.
Understanding Content Marketing
Unlike social media, anything that you’ve posted are owned by the social media platforms. They’ve full control on which post is going to be shown to each members feed.
Imagine if the platform goes blackout, your posts, contents and including your followers will go with it as well.
4 Main purposes of Content Marketing
- By making your content entertaining to your potential customers while your talking about your brand is simply making them stay longer on your site without them noticing. The only way your audience wouldn’t stay as if they find your contents not interesting enough and a total waste of their time.
- Most people prefer to be inspired to help them on their daily lives, this includes positive articles, uplifting stories and real life case studies based on actual events.
- Educate your audiences using facts and concrete information that are related to your product or services.
- Convince your potential customers how your product or services is it going to benefit them, what are the factors the makes you on top of the competition and why they should give your their business.
Benefits of Content Marketing
Here are the icing on the cake.
Cost-effectiveness
Compare when investing your capital on high-cost advertisements with no guaranteed ROI, hiring a digital marketer to write a compelling content blog about your product or services on a regular basis can;
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Developing Brand Awareness
There are four basic stages of marketing funnel, one of the first yet also important is the awareness stage, where customer somewhat have a clue but doesn’t know the value of your product or services you’re offering to the market.
Your contents can bring enlightenment on why your business exist in the first place anyway.
This could potentially lead to consideration and decision stage in marketing.
Building Brand Authority
Now that they knew why your business exist, but still unclear what value you’re offering in the market just yet, you can use content marketing as a tool to show your audience that your business is reputable and you’ve the expert in the line of your field and you’re the right person that they’re looking for.
Your owned materials from your blogs, posts and article will make it clear for them.
Establish relationship and trust with your prospective customers
By leading your prospective customer into the right direction is the same way you give them your honest advise, tips and tricks, and proper knowledge related to your product and services can establish trust that will result to long-term relationship or more so could lead into loyalty.
Improve Search Engine Ranking
Once your website has a valuable contents that are resulting into a high constant traffic from you potential customers, search engines will rank your site higher on the search results without a cost of dime, this is known as non-paid or Organic search.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Content marketing is more likely an effective yet powerful tool to nurture your future loyal customers by providing them the information they’ll need in their buying journey. Moreover, by establishing authority and building relationship with them, can prove that you’re the right person for the job and because you’ve the knowledge and expertise that they can trust you to lead them to the right direction when purchasing the right product.
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John Andaya is an author and blog writer for Visual Altitude and Puff Digital Media. John started contributing to incogneato.ca community since early 2020 and he is been an active since then. John has a degree in Computer Science in 2003, he is also an Aerial Photographer, Video Editor and Web Designer. He is currently in his journey to become a Digital Marketing Analyst. His goal is to share his knowledge and expertise to everyone in his drone community and fellow marketers.
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