Have you been struggling to make content marketing work for your company despite the time and effort you’ve put into strategy, planning and content creation? If so, you might be missing the one ingredient essential to any successful content marketing effort: valuable content. It seems like a no brainer, but many marketers forget that to be truly valuable to their target market, content must be relevant, useful and solutions-oriented. Here’s how to make sure your content fits the bill:
- Make your content relevant. Who is your target customer? What do they do in their day-to-day lives? What do they care about? Answer these questions, and then tailor your content to fit into the lives of your customers.
- Make your content useful. Does your content help your customer learn something new, get ahead or work more effectively? If not, why should they care? Make sure your content addresses a unique need in your target market that no one else has approached in quite the same fashion.
- Make your content solutions-oriented. Particularly in the B2B world, customers don’t consume content just for fun. They read your white papers, watch your videos and flip through your case studies because they are looking for new solutions to the problems they face. Focus your content around the challenges that your target market is likely to encounter, and then provide advice and solutions.
No matter what business you’re in, your target market is busy and overloaded with information. Following these tips for content creation will help you to build something truly valuable that your customer will be happy to make time for.
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