Content Marketing: The Power at the Heart of Social Media, Search, and Sales [Chart]
The three S's of content marketing: social media, search, and sales.
The three S's of content marketing: social media, search, and sales.
Content marketing is gold for marketers. Content marketing attracts prospects, customers, fans, and the public enabling you to engage and build relationships with them. Content marketing is important because advertising and promotions are less effective and more costly than ever because marketers don’t trust them!
Content marketing is the power at the heart of social media, search, and sales.
To leverage the effectiveness of content marketing for your plans, it’s critical to understand how it interacts with social media, search, and sales. In essence, content marketing is the food fueling these three elements to attract, engage, and convert prospects, customers, and fans. Further, content marketing provides support in the form of information potential buyers seek at every stage of the purchase process. Equally important, content marketing enables you to track your marketing’s effectiveness directly. (For a better understanding of how content marketing achieves this, read the “4 Pillars of Content Marketing.”)
Here’s how content marketing interacts with social media, search, and sales and salient ways to track its effectiveness.
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3 Elements Content Marketing Must Include
Three elements are critical to maximize content marketing effectiveness across social media, search, and sales. They are:
The bottom line is content marketing has a symbiotic relationship with social media, search, and sales that strengthens your ability to attract and convert prospects into customers over time. These activities extend beyond your owned, internal media onto social media and search engines without outright promotional messaging or advertising.
What examples do you have that support how content marketing powers social media, search, and sales? Please add them in the comment section below.
Happy marketing,
Heidi Cohen
Note: I will be at SES in New York City tomorrow, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. I’m holding one-on-one content marketing sessions in the exhibit hall as well as at the Meet the Experts: Roundtable Forum on Content Marketing. Please stop by with your questions or to just say hi! Get a 15% discount on the admission price to SES – New York here.