Module 2- Content marketing Flashcards
How does content marketing add value to a business?
Drives valuable search traffic and email and social media engagement to increase the number of valuable actions taken by your target audience
Benefits of effective content marketing?
Grow awareness
Recruit advocates
Increase and improve SEO
Generate new leads
Nurture sales prospects
Convert customers
Enhance understanding of your business
Qualities of effective content marketing
relevant
personalized
Educational
Useful or entertaining
Address needs or interests
Include ctas
Demonstrate that you are the solution
What is topical content?
Happening now, short lifespan .
Short written pieces
Tweets and social media posts
Memes, videos, and images
Audio content, podcasts
What is evergreen content?
Longer lifespan, timeless, high value.
How to articles,
Video tutorials
Beginners guides
FAQs
Case studies
List articles
Checklists
What is a content marketing strategy?
Determines content needs of audience
Defines their user journey
Aligns to business objectives
Can always be tweaked and modified
Sets out objectives and scope of projects
What are the five main types of content marketing goals?
Awareness
Consideration
Conversion
Affinity
Advocacy
What are some key factors when aligning content marketing goals with overall business goals
Consistency
Timing
Input
Website
What is a buyer persona?
An imaginary character based on research and data that represents your ideal buyer or target audience
What are some considerations when creating a buyer persona?
Objectives
Location
Demographic
Job details
Platforms
Devices
Purchase behaviors
Interests
What are six key steps in creating a content campaign
Use social listening and competitor research
Do keyword research
Write creative brief
Create content themes and topics
Share
Review engagement metrics
What is social listening
Method of tracking online conversations in relation to keywords topics or phrases to derive key insights about your target audience
What are some benefits of social listening?
Identify talking points
Spot potential risks
Understand brand sentiment
What is competitor monitoring
Refers to the process of tracking and analyzing the online strategies and tactics of competitors
What are some benefits of competitor tracking
Define content that works well
Spotify content gaps
Identify innovation
Avoid clash of content
Track competitors online reputation
What are some tools for social listening and competitor content analysis
Tweetdeck
Buzzsomo
Google alerts
Fanpage karma
Sprout social
What is keyword research?
Helps guide content development. We can look at what people are searching for
What are key steps for carrying out keyword research?
Pick a topic
Brainstorm ideas
SEO keyword tool
Review relevance
Prioritize keywords
Group related keywords