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What is Content Marketing?

Hardy Haberland

September 12, 2023
5:30 am

Content marketing is a marketing strategy that gains the attention of an audience through the creation and distribution of relevant articles, podcasts, reels, shorts, videos and other media. It demonstrates expertise, increases brand awareness and sales.

A content marketing strategy builds trust with your target audience. It also increases the perceived status of your business. Moreover, it not only attracts potential customers, but also engages existing customers with your business.

Therefore, content marketing is one of the most effective and efficient inbound marketing strategies.

Content Maketing Definition

Content marketing focuses on creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract and retain a certain audience. If implemented correctly, clicks will convert to customers. It can also increase the likelihood that an existing customer will stay with a company because problems are being addressed through content giving them value as a byproduct.

Why is content marketing important?

Your audience most likely interacts with online content on a regular basis so they can solve their problems or discover new services or products. The real question is, will they actually discover your content?

Here are content marketing examples:

Search Engine Optimization: search engines need content, so they reward the best.
Social Media Marketing: Content marketing cannot be separated from social media marketing. It’s essential to social media marketing.
Email Marketing: Good content leads to increased open rates, response rates and purchase numbers.
Press Releases: The best press releases focus on the problems of the target audience rather than the status of the company.
Ads: Poor content reduces click-through rates (CTR). High-quality content increases the click-through rate.

Which companies use content marketing?

In the meantime, quite a few small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have discovered the impact of content marketing, but countless large companies are also focused on it.

Here are three examples of companies using content marketing:

How does content marketing increase sales and create value for customers?

Relevant and valuable content grabs your audience’s attention, builds trust with them, and converts clicks to customers. It addresses the problems of potential and existing customers. Thus, as a byproduct, it strengthens loyalty to your brand and increases purchase numbers and customer retention.

Summary

The expertise you possess is key to attracting potential customers and increasing customer retention. You can demonstrate this expertise most effectively and efficiently through content marketing.

Haberland Social can develop a content marketing strategy for you that is tailored to you and your needs. We can analyze your market for you, your positioning in your market, and your customer avatar. These facts and figures guide the most intelligent content creation and distribution so we can make data-driven decisions. We can also create this content for you to lead you closer to your goals.