Online tips & social media nieuws

Content marketing is obvious. If you’re here reading Small Business Trends, odds are that you’re engaged in content marketing.

Your websites, apps, and updates probably try to offer something of value — information, humor, tips, advice, how-to instructions, or even well crafted opinion — that people actually want to read.

Obvious, however, doesn’t mean easy. Of course, creating a useful blog post, comment, update, or article doesn’t take the millions of dollars the big brands typically spend on 30-second television ads. But if it’s really good content, it takes expertise, thought, editing, time, and effort.

It doesn’t

“What do you do?” It’s a simple question that kicks off conversations at networking events, parties, and family gatherings—but it can be deceptively difficult to answer. How do you respond when non-content people ask you what your job’s about? Do you slip into marketing jargon? Do you stutter through a long-winded reply? If your attempt to explain content marketing returns blank stares and dismissive nods, then your layman’s interpretation is falling short.

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As marketers, we know that a message has to be customized for its intended audience. And since your audience has little to no exposure to content marketing, you must cater your explanation accordingly. Use these four tactics to help you educate and impress industry outsiders:

Marketing has progressed a lot in the past decade: from TV, radio, newspaper, and billboard advertising to SEOs, pop-up ads, and banner ads. The public has moved on from traditional advertising. We can skip over commercials with DVR or avoid them entirely with online shows. Radio commercials can now be bypassed with an iPod or satellite radio. Programs like AdBlocker negate pop-ups, and newspaper readership is slowly declining every year.

So how do you market today, when everyone can easily choose to ignore you?

Content marketing is of much more importance today than it ever has been.

Did you know that 90% of all organizations use content marketing in their efforts now? This infographic is filled with vital information on content marketing such as – 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing and 86% B2C marketers are making use of it.

Content marketing is here to stay and these stats definitely prove the fact.

Digital marketing has become one of the most focused on streams of marketing in the last few years. Three of the biggest digital marketing issues include social network marketing, mobile, SMS marketing, and content marketing. Here’s a brief look at each:

Social Network Marketing

As a marketing, you can rely on social media to connect, engage, and build relationships with current and potential customers.

Mobile / SMS Marketing

Mobile marketing is a term that covers several different methods of marketing through mobile devices. Mobile marketing can take several different shapes but one of the most popular is SMS marketing.

Content Marketing

Content marketing is the development of interesting and helpful materials to engage customers and clients. Examples of content can be blogs, infographics, online tools, YouTube videos etc.

This infographic displays some eye-opening statistics about these 3 digital marketing streams and might get you thinking more about including these streams into your marketing mix.

Between the endless Euro drama and the Bitcoin brouhaha, currency has been much in the news of late. Most people would probably name the US Dollar as the dominant currency in this day and age.

Not only are GIFs fun and funny, but for content marketing they are surprisingly functional. To help you better incorporate the animations into your content marketing strategy here are a dozen awesom…

Landing Pages for Content Marketing

Online content has become a mainstay of today's small business marketing strategy. Are you equipped with the tools you need for the job? Here are five essential content types that no content marketer should be without.

If you’ve been around for a while, reading about Content Marketing and Social Media best practices, you sure have stumbled with the 80/20 rule. Blog posts, articles, infographics… And every now and then this 80/20 rule would appear. That’s why we decide to do some proper research to find out how did this rule comes out and how does it arrives to social media.

Content Marketing is the New SEO.

Having a Content Marketing strategy for your online business is key to online success in 2013. However, Content Marketing should be done correctly by following certain guidelines.

Take a look at this infographic which shows the Do’s and Dont’s of Content Marketing.

The Internet is full of people sharing interesting things all day. From liking pictures on Facebook to retweeting cool articles, sharing is something everyone enjoys doing in one way or another. Yet receiving likes and retweets can seem impossible.