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What Is The Difference Between Content And Content Marketing? by Nobody: 12:17pm On Oct 12, 2016
The answer is the destination you will use to attract and build an audience.

Content marketing is about attracting an audience to an experience (or “destination”) that you own, build, and optimize to achieve your marketing objectives.

Content is everywhere. There’s product content, sales content, customer-service content, event content, employee-generated content, marketing and campaign content. Even advertising is content.

With content marketing you are attracting an audience to a brand-owned destination versus interrupting or buying an audience on someone else’s platform.

The problem with content

I talk to people every day on the subject of content marketing. And I find the concept of having a content marketing destination, owned by the brand, to serve as the property for its content efforts, is too often lost.

Most marketing teams are focused on creating content that supports the brand or its products. We create this content mainly because someone asked us to. Not because it meets a customer need.

The problem with content is the same as the problem with campaigns. The average half-life of content on Twitter is less than three hours. On Facebook, five hours will give you 75% of all the views you will get. An average article reaches just about everyone it’s going to reach in 37 days.

Thanks to social media, our attention spans are now around 8 seconds. That’s 4 seconds less than a goldfish.

Like content, campaigns run for a short period and then they die. And if you’re like most organizations, 60 to 70% of the content your company creates goes unused.

The problem with most content is that it is created for the boss. It isn’t created for the audience you are trying to reach, engage, and convert. So stop creating content that sells....Stop creating content no one will ever see....Stop creating campaigns that have a short shelf life.

Stop creating content. Create a content brand.

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The difference is the destination

OK, so now you’ve got the message. You’re committed to moving beyond just creating better content to acting like a publisher. But how do you go about building an effective content marketing destination? Follow these eight steps:

Determine your content marketing mission statement. It should support your brand mission and put your customers at the center.
1.Define who your target audience is, what topic or topics you support, and what value you provide for your audience.

2. Pick a URL. Consider whether your content marketing destination should be your company’s brand domain (www.yourcompany.com ) or on an unbranded site.

Determine how branded your site will be. This is a similar but different question than No. 2. An on-domain content site should contain at least some elements of your corporate brand.

On an off-domain content site, your creative direction should support whatever topic you want to become an authority in.

4. Think about the components of an effective content marketing destination. Your site should include all the components typically included on any publisher site such as:

Categories across the top to show what topics you cover

- Articles published frequently with visible authors and publication dates
- Heavy use of images to support the topic and break up the text
- A strong focus on growing your owned audience by including calls to subscribe in your updates
- Highlights of top-performing content so readers can easily discover your best content
- A call to action, an offer, or a contact-us page for those who want to reach you directly.
- Social-sharing options so your readers can easily help promote your best content.

Image is Every thing....

Re: What Is The Difference Between Content And Content Marketing? by Nobody: 12:48pm On Oct 12, 2016
5. Build the site to focus on subscriptions. I know I am repeating this step. But this is so important it is worth repeating. Subscribers are a measure of reach, engagement, and conversion. They represent the audience of readers who invite you into their overflowing email inbox. Optimize for them. Build your list. Then build trust by consistently producing great content.

6. Publish consistently. If you cover one topic, publish at least once a week. If you cover two topics, publish at least twice a week. If possible, publish every day on the categories of content that will attract the right audience.

7. Create a plan to support visual content. Getting all of the above done is hard enough. But once you do, you will find that visual content is a challenge. You don’t need to break the bank to incorporate visuals. You can cover and embed other people’s visual content. You can create SlideShare decks for little or no budget.

By following these steps, you can build a content marketing destination to reach, engage, and convert new customers for your business.

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