What Is Content Marketing?

By Julie Moore  |   Submitted On April 13, 2016

  

Content marketing is a marketing approach aimed at creating and distributing valuable and consistent content with an aim of attracting and maintaining new customers. Today's clients buy goods after doing thorough research on the goods, to ensure they are making a wise decision buying the commodity. Content marketing programs are on social media, blogs, premium content assets like eBook, and visual content. It is not about renting social media platforms; it owns them.

Content marketing is the act of communicating with your clients without actually selling. It is equipping the clients with the knowledge to make them more intelligent. When businesses offer valuable information to their clients, the clients reward the firm with their loyalty and become life-long customers to the firm, and this is the essence of content marketing.

Content marketing is quite complex. It requires the right manpower to run it. The person in charge of marketing should create the content, optimize it for SEO, and manage social media. Once you have your content designed, acquire the right technology to publish the content. One of the technologies is the CMS which is required to set up blogs, add website pages, and adding blog posts. Analytics are also needed so that you can gauge your performance against your set goals. Other technologies required are project management software and design software. With this, your company is ready to go forward with content marketing.

Education-based marketing is a marketing strategy that aims to establish trust and credibility using informative messages. It is a revolution from traditional-based marketing strategies which used selling based messages. People nowadays want information that will educate them more about the commodity you are selling before they purchase it. When you teach people about a certain commodity, you are initiating the urge to buy that product. When you educate clients about your commodity, you build trust with the prospective client. However, the information has to be important.

Education-based marketing and content marketing are the same. They both aim to educate the customer about the products before the customer buys the product. However, informing people more about the product is not enough. Businesses should be positioned for the sale. The quality of the content also matters a lot. If the content is great, the sales will also be appealing. Having good content influences people to purchase the products.

We are all tired of being sold and we want information that will allow us to make an educated decision on what we should buy! Content Marketing is a way for us to show our expertise on a given topic.

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One Simple Technique to Adopt If You Are Struggling for Product Ideas

By Nick James  |   Submitted On March 11, 2016

  

I don't usually watch daytime TV. In fact I hardly watch live TV at all these days. However, one day I did find myself flicking through the TV channels for something to watch as I replied to various support tickets and forum questions that had been posted overnight.

Just as I clicked open for one particular support ticket from a website member, the program Cash In The Atticbegan.

Why am I telling you this? Well, as I read through the support ticket, which essentially was asking: "Where to find inspiration and profitable product ideas?", I thought about the story that was unravelling before me on TV. Essentially we investigate the forgotten treasures that have been in store and forgotten for years in someone's attic and end up turning the items into cash by sending the various items to auction.

That got me thinking. Could the very same formula I was seeing on TV be used to help my customer overcome their problem of coming up with their first product idea about what to sell online for profit?

It might be that you are already sitting on a goldmine of information, ideas, old articles and experience that is slowly gathering dust. Don't think of these as boxes of old papers, think of them as your pension! Your greatest asset is the knowledge, experience, education and intellectual property that you have accumulated over time.

However it can only realise its true potential and you can only 'cash in' if you repurpose it and turn it into a product you can sell online.

What have you got hidden away in your virtual 'attic' that you can quickly identify and turn into cash?

Think about the following points to help jog your memory: 

• Hobbies past and present
• Jobs you have done past and present
• Holidays, vacations and travel destinations
• Interests you've had past and present
• Stories you have been told
• Your Family history and genealogy
• Life changing experiences
• Your health trials and tribulations

If your 'material' is in your head then you need to get it out of your head as quickly as possible. One such method of doing this is to speak your thoughts into a microphone and record everything. Later this can be easily transcribed. Or perhaps if you already have some of your original articles and reports from the 'good old days' on paper already, then you need to get these typed or use some OCR (optical character recognition) software to digitise your old masterpieces and unlock the gold that they contain within.

Using the Cash In The Attic technique is just one way you can overcome inertia and procrastination that prevents you from choosing and selecting a product idea to begin your Internet publishing career. Whilst it cannot be guaranteed your first product will necessarily reach or exceed your financial income target... It will give you a real and hands on experience of developing your first product and help you reach your epiphany moment more quickly.

So, how many forgotten yet profitable ideas do you have locked away in your attic?

Discover how to engage and excite new customers into taking action and spending money with you by using these simple free marketing tips from Nick James, The Internet Business Coach http://Nick-James.com

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