Making Better Marketing Decisions – Page 2

How to Make Your Content More Valuable

The value of your content isn’t about the amount of time you spent creating it.

It’s about your ability to understand what actually matters to your audience, and making it easy for them to learn something new and useful.

Going Beyond “Top of Funnel”

Content marketing isn’t just “top of the funnel.”

You can use it to improve your customers’ experience at every step of their journey.

What Does “Valuable Content” Even Mean?

Value is such a subjective term.

How do we define “value” as it relates to content marketing? It’s just so…vague, right?

Analytical vs Creative Content Marketing

Creating great content requires, well…creativity!

It also requires an analytical mindset.

But focusing too much on the analytical side can actually make us less creative.

How Do You Measure Success in Content Marketing?

How do you measure success when evaluating your content marketing? What are the specific metrics that matter most?

What Top Content Marketers Do

They ignore generic, “color by numbers” best practices.

They push past the easy, automatic answers.

They challenge their assumptions.

They see past their blind spots.

Content Marketing Isn’t About…

Creating effective content marketing can get overwhelming really quickly.

So, how do we focus our attention on the 20% of potential actions that will produce 80% of our results?

Does Your Content Stand For Something?

We all talk about the importance of cutting through the clutter. Breaking through the noise. Being unique and different and relevant to our audience.

But how do we create content that actually stands for something? That connects our brand’s purpose to the needs of the customers we strive to serve?

What’s Your Content Marketing’s Purpose?

It’s easy to get so bogged down in the details of content marketing that we forget the point of it all. The primary objectives. What exactly it is that we’re trying to achieve.

Creating Great Content Can Be Really Uncomfortable

Producing great content requires taking creative risks.

And taking creative risks is usually uncomfortable. It means facing uncertainty.