Marketing automation supports content marketing by getting 4 jobs done for you: Track users’ interests to recommend relevant content streams. Assign scores to users to decide which are ready to contact and qualify. Offer content that helps buyers qualify themselves. Enable reverse engineering of successful content-to-customer conversions. Track users’ content interests Once buyers give you […]
“How long to convert people to customers using content marketing?”
That’s a tricky question. Why? Because how long it takes to convert people to customers depends on a big variable – your product’s sales cycle. Sales cycle length is unique to your company, your customers, and your products. Generally, content marketing takes 1 to 2 years, plus or minus, to show its full effects. The […]
“How to balance the investment between content and lower-funnel activities?”
This question, “How to balance the investment between content and lower-funnel activities?” assumes that content is only for the top of the sales funnel. Not true! Marketers use content marketing all through the sales funnel The 2019 Content Marketing Institute (CMI)/Marketing Profs research offers insights into how B2C (business to consumer) and B2B (business to […]
“How do you connect content marketing to revenue?”
To clearly connect content marketing to revenue, take 4 steps: Prove the effectiveness of content marketing by ring-fencing one specific market where the only marketing is content marketing. Before you create any content, find out which content buyers need the most through buyer persona research. Point all rented, paid and earned content to the content […]