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4 Marketing Strategies that Every Online Store Owner Needs to Know

Marketing Strategies

In e-commerce, building your digital storefront is no longer the main challenge.

With today’s lineup of e-commerce platforms, plugins, and themes, anyone can set up an online shop without writing a single line of code.

However, just because you can create a fully functional online shopping experience, doesn’t mean you should expect to close your first sale on the same day.

After getting your online store up and running, the bulk of your time will be dedicated to bringing in potential customers. Quite frankly, this is a daunting challenge to those who are untrained in the landscape of online marketing.

If you never ran a successful online marketing campaign before, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we will discuss the top 4 marketing strategies that online store owners can run on a budget.

Let’s begin.

A study conducted by DejanSEO found that four in five people skip over content just to read the relevant sections which interested them. That’s a significant percentage of people that barely skim over your written content.

We now live in an era where most readers like yourself are lazy.

Pure simple fact.

We want the answers upfront to our query. If we want an answer to something, our instinctive nature tells us to hop onto Google and ask Google the question.

We then get presented with a whole string of search results but what really matters is the first top 3 results. Let’s say we click on the first one… and begin by reading the title and then the first paragraph. If the answer is within the title, then great! My search query has been answered and I don’t need to read the rest of your content. But on the other hand, if it’s not there then I’ll be (somewhat) forced to read further just to gauge out the answer. And it could be daunting.

The truth is, most authors don’t know how to write for their website. They focus mainly on writing for the search engines and what they fail to realize is the fact that they should be writing for humans. Yes. Both you and I are regular consumers of content, on a daily basis.

The amount of strain content causes for the average human soul is horrendous. That’s if we can’t find the answer within your content. So why should we stay on and read your content if it’s not interesting… at all?

Touted as the “next evolution of SEO,” there has been increasing buzz showing up online and across social media platforms around cluster content. The idea is simple: create online content that is focused around one central idea, whereby together, the hyperlinks create a cluster of related, interlinking information. You do this by crafting a series of interlinked web pages that are closely related to one pillar idea or broad topic and then have several smaller, but related sub-topics.

Cluster Content Ideas

If it sounds complex, don’t worry, it is simpler than you think. And the simplicity and efficiency of it in allowing you to share content, while simultaneously bringing in more readers and traffic to your site, is exactly why you need to be implementing it into your content marketing strategy. But the first thing is coming up with ideas for your clusters.

While you could simply focus on coming up with cluster topics like you do blog post topics – writing list posts, offering tips, answer questions etc. – before you take that route, there is a more imperative area of your business that needs your attention that presents as the perfect place to find and create pillar content.

Content Marketing ROI

According to a study in 2014, over 2 million blog posts get published every single day. This figure is expected to have increased much more in the last couple of years.

The sheer volume of content available on the internet today has made the job of a content marketer that much harder. This challenge is amplified by an increase in focus on analytics that assesses the ROI of every article you publish. Quite frankly, very few businesses have cracked the code on content marketing.

I have been advising companies on content marketing for over six years now. During this time, we have seen a dramatic shift in the way content gets published and consumed. Five hundred worded articles were fairly adequate a few years back. They do not make the cut anymore.

Content marketing has already become sort of a buzzword. Everyone is talking about it, but very few know what it really is and how to use it right. Some even think that all you have to do is write an article or two, post them online and wait for the leads to start flowing right to your website. Well, not even close.

Our team at Chanty has come a long way as a self-funded startup with zero customers but grand ambitions to take over the team chat world. Trying to put our product in front of the prospective users on a shoestring budget was quite a challenge. We surely got a few bumps along the way! But finally, our efforts are paying off.

That’s why we would like to share the invaluable experience we got along the way with you.

You can be involved in the website business and maintenance for decades and still not know all the secrets about content marketing. Trends change on daily basis and so do the preferences of the audience. Since content marketing captures most of the attention in the digital world, keeping pace with the facts and findings is essential to a robust content marketing strategy.

But, it isn’t enough to just use content as a strategy for your site. The effectiveness of your content will depend on many factors, some of which you probably aren’t aware just yet. There are many other things than keywords and quality research when it comes to content and it is about time that marketers learn this.

Many of them write content based on a single guide they’ll read and expect the best outcome – if you don’t focus on every little detail, this cannot happen’’ – explains Hope Richardson, a content expert at Aussiewritings.com.

To help you gather the information you need to improve your content strategy, we present you with 10 weird and little-known facts you probably don’t know about content marketing.

Content optimization has never been a child’s play and will never be, as long as Google keeps deploying new algorithms. However, being innovative or at least looking at the existing opportunities from a new angle is an effective way to achieve results in SEO.

Everyone knows that content is king and this post will reveal some smart tips on how to optimize your content and make it King of the Kings. What’s more important, this is possible without significant massive off-page efforts (i.e., you won’t need lots of backlinks).

Inbound marketing is the art of attracting customers through alternative methods, such as great content or impeccable branding. It is a proven way of generating leads and sales, and often times, it can be less expensive than traditional marketing techniques.

When compared to outbound marketing, it is the less aggressive approach. It is all about earning a customer’s trust and attention, not buying it. Meaning that you can gain new leads and loyalty in a much more organic way. In today’s world where the Millennial and Gen Z crowd has become desensitized to advertising, finding new measures to capture your target audience is the key.

But getting your inbound marketing right takes research, insight and a good understanding of your customer – as well as a deep knowledge of the market you’re in. Creating useful and compelling content is at the heart of it all, and companies will need to redirect investment and focus on making their brand shine if they want to stand out against the competition.

Here is a guide on how to nail your inbound marketing campaigns.

Content Marketing

Content marketing is the art of using valuable information to promote your brand, and this information has to have relevance and be useful to a good percentage of your site users. There is one way you can provide useful details to your visitors so that they keep coming back for more and that is by providing educational content on your website.

Educational content marketing is where you not only focus on selling or promoting your brand but rather on educating your site visitors’ about important subjects within your niche.

With educational content, your purpose is concentrated more on educating your visitors rather than just promoting your brand on every post. The visitor wields the power to buy, and instead of forcing a sale on them, why not draw their attention to important issues about your niche and drive engaging discussions with them?

So, instead of selling, why not teach?

That is what educational content seeks to do; teaching your visitors so they can become better buyers. In teaching your online visitors about topics related to your niche, you tend to reach a wider audience, because many online visitors come to your site looking for vital information that will enable them to make informative decisions.

So, in providing educational content, you are helping your visitors to solve some of their problems, provided you publish top-quality educational content to achieve that goal.

For the past few years, the world has been actively discussing and gaining an increasing interest in artificial intelligence. The technology has made the world evolve into an era where many of the activities and tasks we used to conduct manually on a daily basis, are now performed by computer programs without any input from any user.

Artificial intelligence is being integrated into many departments of human life, and also in the business world. The technology is being used in many different ways to provide companies and website owners with a method for improving their general operations by offering an opportunity to automate certain tasks; thus leading to a reduced need for physical labor, a faster turnaround time for business operations, and a significant reduction in the costs involved in keeping a business running and successful.

Social media marketing is a particular department where artificial intelligence is becoming more useful in the modern day, with quite a few tools on the market already that utilize artificial intelligence to drive marketing efforts on social media networks.

In this article, we’ll consider how social media marketing can be improved and become more effective through the implementation of artificial intelligence, and we’ll take a look at things you can do to ensure you take full advantage of artificial intelligence to achieve better results.

4 Marketing Strategies that Every Online Store Owner Needs to Know

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