Content marketing strategy guide

Create a structured plan to reach and convert more using the power of online content

How will the content marketing guide help me and my business?

We believe creating engaging content is one of the most powerful online marketing techniques available today, since it fuels many inbound marketing techniques:

SEO
Paid search marketing
Social media marketing
Email marketing
Conversion rate optimisation

A content marketing strategy has the benefit that it doesn’t seek to improve one channel in isolation—which is the case if you have separate SEO, Social media or email marketing or company website ‘strategies'—instead, it gives a multi-channel life-cycle engagement strategy, unifying ALL your digital marketing communications to support customer acquisition, retention and growth goals. A coherent content marketing plan will reduce the need for separate plans for individual digital marketing activities.

Yet our research shows that less than half of businesses have a content marketing strategy, so are missing out on the opportunity to plan, manage and optimise their content marketing.

This guide shows you both how to develop a strategy to deploy content across all your online marketing and gives practical tips to make it happen. The Ebook features:

Workbook format and checklists to makes it quick to scan to develop a strategy
Covers both content marketing strategy and practical implementation tips
Shows you the tools and techniques needed to create your social media hub
Key recommendations important to strategy are highlighted
Examples to inspire you from a range of B2C and B2B markets

Who is the Content Marketing Strategy Guide for?

The content marketing strategy guide has been designed to be useful for those using content marketing to fulfill all manner of digital marketing objectives, such as SEO, CRO and Social Media Marketing. It will be highly useful for those working in a number of marketing roles, including:

Content Marketing Managers
Marketing Managers
Digital Marketing Executives
SEO Managers
Email Marketing Managers
Content Marketing Consultants

What does the guide include?

The 7 steps covered in this download are:

Step 1. Content Marketing capability audit and setting goals.
Step 2. Define audiences and personas.
Step 3. Create your content marketing strategy.
Step 4. Editorial management.
Step 5. Create compelling content for your content hub.
Step 6. Content distribution.
Step 7. Evaluate and measure ROI.

Resource Details

Authors: Content Marketing Consultant, Stephen Bateman and Dr. Dave Chaffey
Format: 30,000 word, 96 page A4 page PDF Ebook with content marketing frameworks and checklists
Related guides: Editorial calendar spreadsheet, Measuring content marketing ROI

About the authors of the Content Marketing Strategy Guide

Dr. Dave Chaffey

Dr. Dave Chaffey is the editor of all Smart Insights resources. He has advised on SEO since he created his first site in 1997 when Altavista was the leading search engine and he switched to Google in ‘99. Ten years ago he ran the first SEO training courses for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and for several years was the tutor on the Econsultancy Advanced SEO course and also created the original Econsultancy Best Practice guide to SEO.

Stephen Bateman

stephen-bateman

Stephen Bateman is the founder of Concentric Dots Ltd, a specialist content marketing agency helping small businesses in Exeter, Bristol and Plymouth get more customers by increasing their understanding of how real buyers really buy, and then giving them a solid framework to stand out in a crowded marketplace, and be more attractive than their competitors.

His strengths are in customer profiling, buyer lifecycle mapping, content planning, content creation, and helping managers to be more productive with their social media and blogging, using tools and techniques that save them time and effort to achieve stand out marketing in a busy marketplace with limited resources.