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An Introduction To Content Marketing

December 2, 2012 by Basil Puglisi 4 Comments

How does content marketing work anyway? If you have been asking yourself this question, then you have come to the right place. Content marketing is done by creating and sharing quality information for free. The content can be in form of articles, videos, newsletters or eBooks. The content that you create should be related to your blog’s niche or the product you are promoting.
Content marketing works in various ways including increasing traffic to your blog and in building trust with your visitors. If you use it effectively, then you will generate traffic from other sites and also the search engines. You will know how this will happen by reading this article.

  1. Promoting Your Blog: You can easily use content marketing to promote your blog. The first thing that you need to do is write quality content and then submit them to various websites. There are some sites that will accept your content and when you submit the content, you will be allowed to insert your blog’s URL. The person who will read your content will visit your blog by clicking the link on your article.
  2. Search Engine Rankings: Writing quality content will help your blog in ranking higher in the search engines. Search engines have started using content to rank websites and blogs. Therefore, with a good content marketing strategy, your blog’s page rank will increase. You will start getting free organic traffic and this is one of the good ways of how content marketing works.
  3. Increase the number of Return Visitors: The other way is that content marketing helps in providing valuable information to the visitor. Several bloggers use content to provide free information to their blog visitors. Therefore, the visitor will always come back for more information. This is good because the blogger will never lose most of their visitors because most of these visitors will join their email list so that they can get updates from the blogger.
  4. Building Customer’s Trust: Content marketing also works by building the customer’s trust. When you providing quality content to your visitors, they will trust you and they will buy your products or the products you recommend. The customer sees that you are providing high quality information, therefore they will know that your products contain more quality information.
  5. Readers Get Information they needed: Your blog visitors will get the information that they were looking for. When you use advertisements to promote your products, the reader will not learn anything. When you are using content marketing, then you will take your time to create the content and you will produce useful information. Your readers will read them and learn something. If you are using videos, then your readers will be entertained and you can easily convert them into buyers.

These are the best ways of how content marketing works. If you want to be successful with content marketing, then you need to learn how to do it effectively. Empower Network has all the training and tools that you can use to take your content marketing skills to the next level. You can also use this marketing strategy to promote their products and earn 100% commissions.

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Eric Welke is an online entrepreneur and internet marketer.  His blog can be found by going to EricWelke.com.

Filed Under: Basil's Blog #AIa, Branding & Marketing, Content Marketing, General, Guest Bloggers Tagged With: Content marketing

Optimizing Content Creation for Conversions

May 8, 2012 by Basil Puglisi Leave a Comment

Content can mean everything to a small business that is based online. While having a high search ranking may bring in more traffic, it doesn’t always equal more sales. However, marketers who make a focused effort on creating only the highest quality content can not only improve their positions on search engine rankings, but also obtain more conversions than those who go with more mass produced, lesser quality content.

Putting Your Content to Work for You

Creating content isn’t just a simple matter of tossing up blog post about your products or services and hoping it promotes or sells itself. In a time where businesses of any size are swiftly becoming media outlets in their own right by publishing their own original insights related to their industries, companies should not ignore the opportunity to be a part of the conversation on their own with high-quality and original content marketing.

However, it is important to remember that just publishing high-quality content is still not enough. It is important to focus on how you can put that content to work to help you attain your personal business goals online, covering everything from attracting relevant site traffic to helping direct your visitors to your most valuable conversion or ecommerce pages. The right content marketing campaign will involve strategic planning and a constant and consistent execution if a business intends to increase online conversions. Optimizing your content

How to Accelerate Lead Quality and Conversion

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What is Content?

By now you likely know that content can be any number of things. Everything from eBooks, blog posts, webinars, podcasts, case studies and more can be very educational, relevant, high-quality content that brings audiences back to your site and with each return, closer to your valuable conversion pages or links. Make sure that your content supports your own business goals and the educational needs or wants of your target audience.

Content Marketing Strategies

There are a few optimal thoughts to keep in mind and keep your websites content focused on.

  • Content should speak to the content audience
  • Identify the goals you expect your content to achieve
  • Create your audience profile
  • Do your keyword research

As with any type of content, anytime, it is incredibly vital to have a content writer who can engage your readers effectively. We have covered some of the best ways to fit a content writer to your specific needs on DBMEi with several of our professional freelance authors and guest contributors content. Take the time to check them out.

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Author:

@BasilPuglisi is the Executive Director and Publisher for Digital Brand Marketing Education (dbmei.com). Basil C. Puglisi is also the President of Puglisi Consulting Group, Inc. A Digital Brand Marketing Consultancy that manages professional and personal branding for Fortune 500 CEOs, Hedge Fund Managers and Small Business Owners.

Sources:

  • Is your Content Delivering Results?
  • Conversion Rate Optimization: Get the Right Traffic, Get Them to Convert
  • Webinar Replay — How to Accelerate Lead Quality and Conversions with Content Marketing Optimization

Filed Under: Basil's Blog #AIa, Branding & Marketing, Content Marketing, Digital & Internet Marketing, General Tagged With: Basil C. Puglisi, Chief executive officer, Content marketing, Conversion rate, Executive director, Hedge fund, Landing page, Puglisi Consulting Group

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