5 Steps to Strategically Reboot Your Brand’s Content Marketing

5 Steps to Strategically Reboot Your Brand’s Content Marketing

Content is a brand’s currency to demonstrate relevance and, with emerging channels and interfaces like chat and voice, it’s bringing brands closer to their customers. Here’s the formula to strategically evolve your brand communication: 1. Rearticulate your brand story Your brand story is the emotional narrative that expresses the vision and purpose of your organization. Define your verbal strategy Most marketers know they need a visual strategy, but few apply the same rigor for a verbal strategy, detailing these key components: Some key components you should build: Messaging themes The biggest ideas driving the brand are converted into actionable guidance for marketers and communicators. Brand voice Messaging is what you say, voice is how you say it. A consistent voice should be applied across touchpoints and experiences from marketing to customer service. Naming and nomenclature Naming companies and offerings to support your value proposition and business strategy is the first step. Engage through signature content opportunities Certain content experiences can have a disproportionately powerful impact for key brand messaging. Salesforce is a good model, offering a clear call to action at every step on its website and in engagement tools like its chatbot Astro. McDonald’s was among the few brands in our research with a newsletter pop-up on its About page to build a relationship beyond the visit.

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Content is a brand’s currency to demonstrate relevance and, with emerging channels and interfaces like chat and voice, it’s bringing brands closer to their customers. But to succeed, company-driven content needs a more strategic approach that rebuilds a brand’s foundational and experiential elements.

Here’s the formula to strategically evolve your brand communication:

1. Rearticulate your brand story

Your brand story is the emotional narrative that expresses the vision and purpose of your organization. Adapted for different stakeholders, this story shapes understanding of your mission and value proposition.

There’s no better place to express it than on your About Us page. More than half of the 100-plus pages we examined were under-leveraging this 24-7 canvas.

The good examples range from the mission-driven Patagonia to the surprisingly unconventional General Motors.

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General Motors Example

2. Define your verbal strategy

Most marketers know they need a visual strategy, but few apply the same rigor for a verbal strategy, detailing these key components: Some key components you should build:

Messaging themes

The biggest ideas driving the brand are converted into actionable guidance for marketers and communicators. With proof points, copy blocks, and usage considerations, messaging flexes across touchpoints, channels, and content – while equipping you to tell a cohesive story that helps audiences understand who you are and what to expect.

Brand voice

Messaging is what you say, voice is how you say it. Voice also can modulate for different channels and subject matters – e.g., imagine how an insurance company’s voice might shift talking about the loss of a spouse versus talking about routine billing. A consistent voice should be applied across touchpoints and experiences from marketing to customer service. And yes, that includes call center scripts.

Naming and nomenclature

Naming companies and offerings to support your value proposition and business strategy is the first step. Next, you need to create naming logic across your portfolio to drive understanding and clarity. Sophisticated marketers also consider web navigation and audience experiences across the business’s offerings.

Portfolio thread

Storytelling is often done in silos at the business unit or market level. In a transparent, digital…

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