How to come up with ideas for your Content Marketing

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Finding material for your Content Marketing is often difficult. People struggle with ideas of what to produce, what their customers want and what to create. In this presentation, I suggest you need to: 1. Spend less time sharing other people's content. 2. Spend more time creating your own. 3. Talk with customers. 4. Talk with colleagues. 5. Conduct online research using a variety of tools. Put all of this together and you should never run out of ideas for your content marketing. Good luck!

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How to come up with ideas for your Content Marketing

Andrew Lloyd Gordon

Digital Marketing Trainer, Speaker & Coach

Producing content is stressful

People procrastinate…

They don’t produce their own content

All they do is…

…other people’s content

You lose. They win.

Here are some ideas…

You can use to generate your own content

Design your Sales Funnel

Use Content to move people through

Focus on your customer

What content will they find useful?

Spend time with customers

Understand their challenges

Survey your customers

Run Focus Groups

Gather input from real customers

Ask colleagues for input

What content or ideas do they have?

Ask the Customer Care Team

Which questions do Customers ask the most

often?

Run Content Brainstorming sessions

Involve as many people as possible

Conduct your research online

Read industry research

What are the ‘Top 10’ issues that you could write about?

Check your web analytics

Which pages & content do visitors engage with the

most?

Review your Blog

Which posts had the most comments and why?

What’s trending on Twitter?

https://twitter.com/search-home

Know your Twitter followers

Which of your tweets have they engaged with the most?

Review your Facebook Page

Which content generated the most Comments and Likes?

What’s trending on Facebook?

Be inspired by LinkedIn Pulse

Which articles are being read & commented on the most?

Conduct Keyword Research

What are people searching for?

Google Trends is awesome

See topics rise & fall in interest over time

Ubersuggest is useful too

http://ubersuggest.org/

What’s making the news?

Can you produce content that connects to news stories?

Amazon Bestsellers lists…

What’s of interest to your audience

Need help with Content Marketing?

Please get in touch...

Andrew Lloyd GordonDigital Marketing Trainer, Speaker & Coach

You can find me online at:

www.andrewlloydgordon.co.uk

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