More and more businesses are realizing that content marketing is a necessary means of communicating with customers. But it’s hard to know what effect content marketing has on the bottom line. To make sure you’re posting the most effective content, make sure it serves a purpose for the customers—giving them relevant information that they need—to keep them coming back to your business.
Wonder what the most important is when starting your content marketing strategy? It's easy to get lost in all the noise there is on the topic but Jason Miller makes it simple for you. After all, his first point is to not over complexity content marketing: a lot of people try to make it sound harder than it is but as Jason puts it, it's funda et tally about answering your customers' questions. What are they looking for? What are they asking you? Every marketer and business should know these so starting to write your own answers or curate other people's great answers shouldn't be a major headache.
So if you're still wondering whether you can effectively get started with content marketing or if you want to ensure you're on the right track, this post is a great read.
And if want to go further, make sure to download our Lean Content Marketing Handbook for SMBs, an eBook to which Jason kindly contributed to as well.