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Follow These Brilliant Content Marketing Ideas From July 2019

With the first half of 2019 already over, one thing about content marketing that has become quite sure is it’s going to become more and more important to digital marketers.

While many companies are still contemplating its effectiveness, the content marketing tools, channels, and strategies are continually evolving to create a bigger and better impact in the digital domain.

As you can see from the image, only 37% of B2B marketers invest in a proper digital and content marketing strategy, while others are still lagging in some way or another. Content marketing improves customer engagement and helps in conversion. It is the most efficient form of marketing that works today.

So, before you start marketing your content, you should know what are the latest content marketing ideas and how to implement them in your content marketing strategy. In this post, we will try to find the answers to these questions.

#1. Create Relevant Content

The first suggestion that you’ll ever get from any content marketer is to create original and relevant content. Take inspiration from your competitors, but generate your own ideas. If you cannot produce unique ideas or content, hire a consultant or an agency that can help you with fresh and meaningful content for your marketing efforts.

Remember that your audience is smart, and they would not fall for anything that looks like clickbait. If you want to build and improve trust amongst your customers, you need to be consistent and develop content that they want to read.

A lack of relevance in content can drive away more than 80% of your audience. Being in 2019, you need to figure out ways to make your content more personalized so that your audience can connect to your brand easily.

It’s pretty common knowledge that Instagram is one of the most powerful platforms for promoting products and services. With that in mind, many businesses choose it as a helpful marketing tool that:

increases engagement;
boosts brand exposure;
brings more your traffic;
gives a competitive edge;
improves communication with the target audience;
makes advertising easier;
increases conversions;
and more.

If you want to bump up your business, try doing so by means of Instagram as a marketing channel. It may become your new source of relatively inexpensive yet high-quality leads.

Still, launching a business profile and posting to Instagram is not enough. It is also important to keep up with the latest updates and understand the algorithms to reach more audience, ensure more visibility, increase engagement, and make your page more effective overall.

If you get a clear understanding of the algorithms, you’ll be able to use them to your benefit and grow the account. Before deep dive into the topic, let’s consider how the algorithm actually works.

It can estimate how many users like a certain post. If a publication receives lots of comments and likes, it’s going to appear earlier in the feed. Thus, it is important to ensure high-quality and engaging content, so that your target audience would like to engage with it.
It can define relationships between Instagram users. Responding to the post comments gives a clear signal to Instagram that you’re actively engaging with your followers. Then, your posts will appear more often in their news feed.
It shows newer posts first. It’s still not exactly chronological, but posting on a schedule will give you more chance to appear earlier in the user feed.

The algorithm is known to have been changing, but that’s to the best of our knowledge. Along with that, there are other important Instagram news and upcoming features that could help you use the social network’s algorithm to your benefit.

Local SEO allows your business to appear at the top of the search listings for relevant information as customers in your company’s geographic area search for products and services that you provide.

There are a few reasons why your local SEO strategy might not be working as well as it could be. Knowing what SEO strategies will be the most effective for your business can drive traffic towards your company and make your information more accessible to find by current and potential customers.

Streamlining your SEO effort isn’t as complicated as it seems, and even fixing a couple of small things could really make a difference. Here are a few reasons why your local SEO strategy may not be helping your business:

You have duplicate listings
You don’t utilize local citations
You have unoptimized metadata
You aren’t getting customers’ Google My Business review.
You’re underutilizing or not using social media in your SEO strategy

Going down the list, we’ll explain how each of these strategies can harm your existing SEO efforts as well as give you tips on how to change the situation to best benefit your company.

Social media is huge as it has grown faster than the internet itself.

Social media giants such as Facebook and Instagram have millions of users worldwide and they are growing with every passing second. The data suggests that the number of active Facebook users was at a whopping 2.38 billion in 2018 whereas the active user-base of Instagram has also touched the mark of 1 billion in June 2018.

The data shows huge numbers in favor of both the platforms but we have to understand that all the active users are not just individuals who like to post details about their daily activities.

Many profiles on social media platforms are self-employed professionals, part-time/full-time bloggers, and business organizations. Social media platforms are presenting good business opportunities by extending their reach and marketing their products and services.

Since almost every business has its presence on social media, it is vital for businesses to keep themselves relevant by consistently updating the audience about their marketing campaigns, CSR activities, and other corporate initiatives.

However, posting content on social media can be frustrating as it is not easy to create different types of content for diverse platforms and facing a creative block is considered normal.

This is probably not the reason you are reading this post. Don’t worry! Even experienced marketers need some encouragement for consistently producing original posts for social media. This post contains a vast number of ideas that can cover a very type of social network. Let’s begin!

“The customer’s perception is your reality. What they think about your products, MATTER. If you don’t put your customer’s perception first, THE GAME IS OVER.” – Sharfaraz Ahmed

Social listening is all the rage, and it is constantly expanding as we learn more about it. We need to start taking what our customers think into account. That includes what they are saying about us and our companies online. The only way to grow is to adapt and evolve. The only way to do that is to actually listen to the people you are trying to engage with. Sentiment analysis is probably the best form of social listening, and it is something I will always vouch for. But what is it, how does it work, and is it actually beneficial to you?

What You Will Learn

Before I hop into all the details, please read through a brief rundown of the topics that I will be covering in this guide:

What is sentiment analysis?
What the point in it is?
How it can boost your business?
The setbacks

According to the famous marketer Russell Brunson, there are 3 types of digital marketing traffic.

Traffic that you control. This is paid traffic such a Google Ads and Facebook marketing where you can control where your ads are placed.

Traffic that you don’t control. This is traffic like SEO, where you write a post in the hopes of Google’s algorithm placing it in front of an interested reader.

And then there’s traffic that you own. This is traffic that you don’t have to pay for and that you can communicate with whenever you want.

When it comes to marketing your business online, an email list is known to be one of the holy grails of traffic.

This is because it is the traffic that you own.

The Purpose of Collecting Emails

The purpose of collecting emails is so that you build a list of relevant users that you can ultimately sell to and make money from at the end of the day (by helping them of course!). With an email list, you can email your list with messages whenever you want, with whatever you want.

This is extremely powerful in terms of online marketing because whenever you need to make a sale, nurture a lead, or establish rapport with a potential customer – all you have to do is email them (for free).

This is precisely why businesses need to learn how to boost their email opt-in rates. It is a valuable asset that should not be overlooked.

Let’s discuss 5 ways in which you can increase your email opt-in rates on your own website.

You are doing everything right, but still, your content is not having the impact you had envisioned. There is a massive amount of content- articles, videos, photos, etc posted on the Internet and social media every second. That is a lot of noise and you need to be heard above the din to be effective.

Consider this: according to BuzzSumo’s Content Trends Report 2018, a majority of the content gets zero backlinks. Only authoritative research gets more links over time. An analysis of 100 million posts published in 2017 revealed that social sharing has decreased by half since 2015.

What’s more, here are the number of blogs posted at the time of writing this article. The screenshot is taken from Worldometers.info and gives you a fair idea of the huge amount of content that is daily generated on the internet and the competition you are dealing with.

Worldometers.info

While creating quality content still matters, it will not get you the required traction without proper distribution. So, if your content marketing is not delivering on its promise – the reason may be because you are not distributing your content effectively.

Just posting doesn’t make your content effective no matter how well written and informative it may be. What matters is the exposure it gets and this is only possible if you have a good content distribution strategy in place.

In this article, we have discussed some content distribution ideas which can help you to create an effective plan for content distribution for your business.

Businesses have long looked for the best strategies to push their businesses on social media. Long gone, for many companies, is solely relying on their social media accounts to promote their products and services – in comes the social media influencer.

A social media influencer is a user who has reliable traction amongst their audience. Generally, their followers (audience) engage with them regularly and value their opinion. Marketers love to leverage the fact that they can use an influencer to promote to a target market, while users are influenced by someone they can relate and look up to.

Influencer Marketing Global Spend & ROI

According to Mediakix’s influencer marketing spend study, the influencer marketing global spend is projected to increase to $10 billion by 2020!

Also, according to a survey conducted in 2017 by Celebrity Intelligence, for every USD 1.27 spent on an influencer, their ROI per influencer was USD 11.15!

So, based on Mediakix and Celebrity Intelligence’s data, you can see how much money is being dished out by influencer marketers and how much return they are getting for their investment.

For you marketers looking to implement influencer marketing, it is the right time to do so!

Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of which type of influencer is best for your business, we will explain the two different types of influencer – a micro-influencer and a macro-influencer.

Okay, so you’ve created an AWESOME video that you’ve uploaded to YouTube. Problem is, traffic is down. No one seems to give a fig!

This is where Youtube SEO comes in. YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine, while videos themselves will account for 80% of all search traffic by the end of 2019.

This is great news if your content marketing strategy already consists of the video content. Videos drive traffic to your website, boost your online visibility and help your marketing campaigns gain more traction, and in the result – bring in more sales.

With stats like these, there’s only one thing left for you to do: Rank your videos as highly as possible on YouTube.

Of course, it isn’t easy. It doesn’t matter how fabulous your video is, you’ve only done half the work so far. The next step is doing the right things on YouTube so that your video is visible to lots of the right people.

The good news is we’ve broken down what you need to do into small, actionable steps. Let’s take a look at how to rank your videos on YouTube in 2019.

Content is the pillar on which a content marketing strategy pivots. Creating avant-garde and audience-centric content is the best way to earn worth and leadership in a niche.

Let’s find out how to avoid creating fluff that no one cares about and create content that’s close to being revolutionary:

Strategic Tips

1. Share your personal experience. A narrative about what you have learned or achieved helps put across a unique perspective about a topic.

2. Fix a goal for content creation before starting – the strategy helps prevent thin content. Decide if you want to create awareness, drive engagement or get conversions.