What is content marketing?

            Content marketing is a form of marketing focused on creating, publishing and distributing content for a targeted audience online. Important concepts of the content marketing strategies are that a brand must give something valuable to get something valuable in return.

In the content should be writing at the following order:

Attract attention and generate leads

• Expand their customer base
• Generate or Increase online sales
• Increase brand awareness or credibility
• Engage an online community of users

Steps for Creating Valuable content:

Find your Audience: Once you’ve identified your audience, you need to know where to find them. The following types of people should reading content in our own styles,

• The blog-reading type
• Hanging out on social media
• Subscribing to newsletters
• Following your competitors’ or partners’ website
• Watching videos on YouTube
• Listening to podcasts

Select Content Topics:  Identify the core topics around which to create content. The most important topic is attracting for the customers, Here are just some of the resources you can use to help plan your topics as well as your overall strategy:

• Your customers: At first you know in which type content expected on your customer, then Send surveys via email, share polls on social media, or talk to your customer-facing employees about the conversations that keep popping up the most.
• Competitor websites: If the competition is doing well , also You’ve got a shared audience, so it only makes sense that you should check to see what’s working for them.
• Social media: Your audience is on social media, if you should be drawing insights about your product. Check out Google Trends, Twitter, Facebook, and join LinkedIn groups where customers and others in your industry sound off on what’s most important to them.
• Keyword search: keyword is the most important one of the content marketing , keyword Finder is a pretty cool tool. Enter a simple keyword or phrase and get long tail keyword results you can use to create related posts. So must focus on your keywords releated to your content.

Content creation:

Creating  your valuable content on your selected keywords, that should  be clearly understood of our customers or new users. Your content must be consist at following the following tricks,

            Should be readable:  In your content should be separated at heading (H1, H2, H3)and links and bulleted sections. It should be attraction on customer .

            Should be relevant: In your content clearly says what our customers expected, and using images releated to the content , infographics, videos and others should be includes on your content.

            Actionable and interactive: Call to Action is the most important part in your content. It can also help improve your website’s reception if you use it strategically. For example, an infographic  that describes a customer pain and leads the reader down to an attractive call-to-action.

Expand your Share:

            Partner with other companies. Beyond the business partnership, you should both be willing to share and engage with each other’s content.

Reach out to authoritative sources looking for guest bloggers and other experts to contribute to their site. This is a great way to expand your reach and get referral traffic from high-traffic niche sites.

Stay active on social and interact with your audience, partners, and other thought leaders—especially if it’s on other people’s high quality content.