why content matters in b2b marketing + success stories
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The goal of delivering exceptional content and stories to engage audiences in a company’s brand and value proposition is not new...
but with the growing importance of online marketing and social media to deliver these messages...
it has become essential to consider content development (and storytelling) a primary lever within today’s marketing strategy.
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Introduction
Did you know? On average, B2B marketers employ eight different content marketing tactics to achieve their goals.
On average, 60% of respondents in a recent survey indicate that they plan to increase their content marketing budgets over the next 12 months.
B2B marketers dedicate approximately 26% of their total budgets to content marketing initiatives.
Source: Content Marketing Institute 2012 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends
Do You Have a Content Strategy?
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Now more than ever it seems critical to place strategic emphasis on insights that establish clear messaging frameworks and content strategies...
which then are used to distribute relevant content throughout “the marketing system”.
Despite the growing promotion and advocacy of “content marketing’ — many companies continue to develop and deliver content in silos without a strategy that maps to a larger agreed-upon framework.
11 Case Studies Prove Content Marketing ROI (from BarnRaisers)
Such as...Websites
Search engine marketing
Emails and sales communications
Videos (tutorials, demos, customer testimonials, brand stories, etc.)
Infographics, images
Blogs, tweets, Facebook posts, pins
Presentations, webinars, podcasts and live events
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If you do not have a messaging/content framework or toolkit, it’s probably a smart idea to develop one...
as this sets the stage and tone for how ALL messaging and content will be considered and crafted.
It’s Probably a Good Idea
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It is also a good idea to evolve your content’s impact by testing various messaging components and “content recipes” on your website and social media channels.
Testing is Good Too
The world of online marketing gives marketers more opportunity than ever to...
Test
Gather data
Analyze
Refine
...allowing you to better align with customer/prospect behaviors and interests.
The Point is...
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Creating superb content experiences for your audience is not only vital, but very doable.
If you are not approaching this through a strategic lens, consider changing that...
Use your strategic planning process to obtain and/or refine insights about what’s on your audience’s mind, what motivates them and what they want to hear about.
Align it with your value proposition and use it to create a messaging and content structure that ties to your corporate brand.
Then, effectively build and integrate within your distribution channels.
Clearly there is more to a marketing strategy besides content, but...
it’s hard to argue that focusing on the strategic impact of relevant and engaging content, is not a smart idea.
Let me know if I can help.
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