“Work on your business, not in your business.
This is an approach I came across in a business group a year before I read the book by the author who made this phrase the credo it has become for small business owners worldwide.
Show your brand some love by giving it an edge in the online space.
Because you’re doing great work already and content marketing is the way you ensure people know about it.
Join our One Day Workshop on Friday, 24 August to discover how to use stories, content and social media to elevate your online offering from mediocre to memorable.
Yes, that is a clickbait title. But you don’t have to signup for anything or click on more or first figure out how to block the popups to find out what that thing is. And, sorry to say, you probably won’t be blown away by the answer… One of the most effective content marketing tools is a newsletter.
Do you have an online shop but you’re somehow just not driving the sales you thought you would?
While a functional, user-friendly and beautiful e-commerce platform is an essential part of your online selling efforts, a shop in itself will not sell your product.
Content marketing can help your sales by creating brand awareness and nurturing a community of people interested and inspired by your offering, which ultimately creates brand recognition and loyalty to drive those sales.
“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential”, Winston Churchill once said.
These wise words are especially relevant to content calendars. The content calendar itself is not as important as it is to use it for guiding your content production and dissemination.
In Part One of this post, we went over the basic SEO boxes your website needs to tick. Think of these as the bare minimum your website must do methodically and consistently in order for Google to rank your site. Ironically, many so-called “SEO specialists” stop here, and a basic website build often (alarmingly) may not even include all of them.
But to leapfrog from SEO circa the 2000s to SEO today, the “bare minimum” is not enough.
So once you’ve ticked your boxes there are a few more magic ingredients, and it starts with this:
Understanding the importance of content marketing for your brand or business is one thing, but coming up with actual content ideas and topics is another. We shared 5 ideas to get you started and now, in the spirit of good content marketing practices, we share 5 more!
Content marketing is an essential part of growing your brand and business, but it can be a very time-consuming – and even challenging – task if it’s not your main area of expertise.
When it comes to optimising and streamlining your content marketing efforts using the right tool for the job can improve your productivity tenfold
Here are some of our favourite and most frequently used tools. Many of them are free or come at a minimal fee.
“Content marketing is great but I don’t know what my content should be about.”
This a common concern we hear from brand and business owners.
The short answer is that almost anything can be turned into content, so here are some prompts.