Great B2B Content Isn’t Great if No One Sees It: Here’s a Solution

Great B2B Content Isn’t Great if No One Sees It: Here’s a Solution

If you want B2B content to be great, across channels you must integrate. That’s why business content promotion must go hand in hand with content creation. “But we don’t have the resources to do that”, you say. I say there’s a solution: Bake core organic content amplification features into the content creation process itself. That’s why I’m sharing a high level checklist for you to see how content, SEO, PR, social media and influencers can fit into an integrated content marketing process. Research and Strategy: Identify program objectives Research market, competition, current situation Define target audience segments Research audience goals Research topics, keywords, messaging themes Research questions buyers ask Identify influencers Identify publications Research Ed Cals Develop integrated strategy Audits: Keyword Audit: Map topics/keywords to buying cycle Content & Digital Assets Audit Tech SEO Audit External Link Audit Social Media Audit Competitive Audit Earned Media Audit Identify internal and external influencer advocates Content Planning: Customer segments inform personas Create hub and spoke content campaign architecture Map topics/keywords & buyer questions to buying cycle / content, outcomes Map influencers to content types, topics, outcomes Create optimized content plan: site, blog, social profiles, media Plan off-site content: guest posts, byline articles, content marketing (ebooks, infographics, video, reports, interactive, email) Plan content types for amplification Content Creation and Optimization: Leverage SEO data, CRM data to create optimized owned, earned, paid media / content Influencer outreach, engagement, content capture, creation, curation, integration Pitch content stories to media with and without influencers Tech SEO optimization: GSC crawl, page speed, structured markup & data, HTML/code, URLs, internal links, mobile Optimize for external link signals: acquisition, reclamation, disavowal, management Digital asset optimization: images, videos, audio, MS Office docs, PDF, social content Attraction and Promotion: Distribution/promotion via brand social channels, email, ads Engage influencers to promote content Engage broader social networks for sharing Cross-publish content to LinkedIn, Medium, guest posts on other blogs Repurpose content in other media formats Promote media placements Run paid search, social ad campaigns Measurement and Performance Optimization: Attract: SEO, social, content, ads, email, influencer and earned media KPIs for visibility, awareness, inbound & media placements. Page views, interactions, time spent, shares, social & media citations. That insight drives content planning, creation and promotion with the right mix of media coverage, influencer engagement, social network engagement and SEO built in. The key is to understand the right mix for your audience and objectives. Hopefully this broad checklist will give you some ideas on how to optimize and integrate your content creation and promotion to be as helpful for you as it has been for our B2B content marketing efforts.

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B2B integrated content marketing

If you want B2B content to be great, across channels you must integrate.

In B2B marketing, the expression “great content” should mean relevant, useful and maybe even inspiring information that connects with the intended reader. The problem is, even when business content fires on all of those cylinders it falls flat if few people ever see it.

That’s why business content promotion must go hand in hand with content creation.

While the previous sentence makes sense to just about everyone reading it, we also know that in practice, content promotion is more often an afterthought than a key part of content planning. It should be a special case to improve organic search visibility, social engagement, industry media pickups and influencer shares of your content for all the (relevant) world to see, but the standard when it comes to B2B content marketing.

“But we don’t have the resources to do that”, you say. I say there’s a solution: Bake core organic content amplification features into the content creation process itself.

Speaking of process, there is no getting around the importance of following guidelines in any content operation for translating best practices into action. That’s why I’m sharing a high level checklist for you to see how content, SEO, PR, social media and influencers can fit into an integrated content marketing process. While this checklist is presented in general terms, it’s something that can point you in the right direction for achieving “Best Answer” brand status from of your content investments.

Research and Strategy:

  • Identify program objectives
  • Research market, competition, current situation
  • Define target audience segments
  • Research audience goals
  • Research topics, keywords, messaging themes
  • Research questions buyers ask
  • Identify influencers
  • Identify publications
  • Research Ed Cals
  • Develop integrated strategy

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