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13 Ways to Increase the ROI of Your Content Marketing

Maybe this should infographic could have been one giant recommendation… get readers to convert! Seriously, we’re a bit confounded on how many companies are writing mediocre content, not analyzing their customer base, not analyzing their competitor’s content, and not developing longer-term strategies to drive readers into customers.

My go-to research on this is from Jay Baer who identified years ago that a single blog post costs a company $900 on average. Compound this with the fact that 80-90% of all blog traffic comes from 10-20% of the posts you publish. Those two stats point to how important is to spend more time and effort on every piece of content you publish.

Even though content marketing is touted as an über effective tactic that generates three times as many leads as traditional outbound marketing, only 6% of marketers consider their efforts “very effective.” So how can we refocus our content marketing efforts to make sure they’re really impacting the bottom line? To find out Pure Chat partnered with the local content marketing experts at Clearvoice to (makers of an awesome content marketing platform!) to create these tips that will help you improve your marketing funnel from content creation to conversion.

Arielle Hurst, Pure Chat

11 Ways to Increase the ROI of Content Marketing

This infographic from Pure Chat and Clearvoice called Drive Sales with Content provides 11 tips to refocus your effort on driving sales.

  1. Stick to the Funnel – Google calls these moments… the times when the buyer is looking for information and you can be present to help guide them in their purchase decision.
  2. Include Testimonials – An influencer of purchase decisions is understanding who has already made the decision. By promoting those companies, you’re letting your reader know that other people have safely come to the conclusion that the purchase was a great one.
  3. Expand on Successful Posts – We do this all the time! We utilize a blog post that’s taken off in popularity and engagement and then do a micrographic to share on social, an infographic, and maybe even a webinar or ebook.
  4. Experiment with Niche Ads – social ads and long-tail keywords can provide very low cost-per-click rates and drive very relevant traffic to your content.
  5. Forge Content Partnerships – We work with a ton of authors to promote their leadership advice, share about their platforms, and share their research. They, in turn, promote our articles from Martech Zone.
  6. Leverage Industry Experts – Our Interview Podcasts are all about trading audiences and building credibility within our industry. As well, these pros provide amazing advice to our audience!
  7. Don’t forget the CTA – If I can read your content and there’s no path to engage with you further (or any other options like an email subscription form), then why publish?
  8. Add Live Chat – Writing isn’t enough. Promoting isn’t enough. Sometimes you need to prompt your readers and ask them how you can help. You will be amazed at the response!
  9. Retarget Leads – As buyers are making purchase decisions, they often bounce around search results, social networks, and other resources. Retargeting keeps your brand and the opportunity top of mind!
  10. Follow Up with Authenticity – 30-50% of sales go to the vendor who responds first. Are you even responding at all?
  11. Use Email Nurture Campaigns – Not everyone is ready to buy on the first engagement, but they may be ready to engage with you down the road. Email nurturing is the best way to keep in contact with them and they’ll reach out when they’re ready!

I would add two more ways to this:

  1. Repurpose – Too many companies design and publish one piece of content per channel or medium. If you can develop a strategy to repurpose content, you can make an investment in a single piece of content to drive down costs everywhere else. An example is investing in infographics… you can get the infographic designed and use those graphics in videos, social media posts, sales collateral, presentations, email communications, and on your website!
  2. Content Library – Stop producing endless streams of content and, instead, build a content library and maintain it.
Increase Content Marketing ROI

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is CMO of OpenINSIGHTS and the founder of the Martech Zone. Douglas has helped dozens of successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to assist companies in implementing and automating their sales and marketing strategies. Douglas is an internationally recognized digital transformation and MarTech expert and speaker. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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