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How to Create Engaging Content in the “Boring” Industries

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One of the strategies that you can implement when preparing a marketing strategy is content marketing. Many marketers are stuck on the phase of developing an editorial plan because they cannot come up with any topic that wouldn’t bore the readers to death.

This article gives you a way out of this situation.

What are the Boring Industries?

First things first, let’s define what boring industries are. Accounting, insurance, banking, and law almost certainly fall under this category. Plumbing, roofing, real estate and many others do as well.

In fact, most industries can be called boring because the content they can produce is not newsworthy. What are the interesting industries then? Eco-friendly shopping bags or hipster shoes? They’re not interesting, they’re trendy. CarbonClick is one site you can see list of sustainable and ethical fashion brands.

If you continue to describe industries as interesting and boring, think of crab fishing. It is an industry, where lots of bearded men sail the sea in gloomy weather and perform a series of boring and repetitive tasks to get some crabs out the water and sell them. Yet it has its own Discovery Channel documentary that millions of people enjoyed.

It is not about the industry itself. Rather, it is about your ability to show the most interesting things in the industry. If the oil industry could do it, as a case study in Forbes suggests, you can do it too.

What does content mean for you? Is it just something you create, or someone else creates for you to publish? So you publish it and promote it. Then what? Do you abandon it?

No.

Content is your asset.

Like any other brand, yours also strives to develop an online presence. That’s why you focus on posting on your blog and website, as well as on other blogs where you appear as a guest.

As Seth Godin once said, “content marketing is the only marketing left.” Content is not just something you publish and abandon. It’s your biggest marketing asset, and you have to learn how to take care of it. This means finding ways how to reinvent existing content assets and breathe new life into them.

We’ll give you four tips on how to do that.

Robot to Create Content

Commonly, when people think of robots, they imagine large pieces of machinery constructing cars or appliances on an assembly line. This may be true, but automation has slowly worked its way into every industry. Now we have little robots in our pockets that have the ability to handle a wide range of tasks usually facilitated by humans. The fear of robots taking our jobs is a concern most people have, but can bots really replace people who generate content?

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?

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.

Email marketing is one of the easiest and most effective methods to reach potential customers. And, with an ROI of $44 for every $1 spent, it’s great for your business, too. That’s why most marketers include it as a part of their marketing tactics, and you probably should too. However, there’s a chance you might miss out on utilizing the long-term benefits of email marketing.

If you’re into sending out a newsletter or promo emails or maybe even both to your customers, it’s just not enough. There’s a whole array of different email types out there that can be really effective for your business and which will help keep your customers engaged and interested.

To help you get started, check out this infographic 7 Emails B2C Businesses Should Send. And here are two examples from the infographic to give you some inspiration.

Great UX = Great SEO

If you’ve worked at all on your site’s SEO at any point in the last ten years or so, you’re probably already aware that search engine optimization is always changing. The things that make for great SEO today could be completely worthless efforts tomorrow.

But recently, there’s one trend that can be considered as the most consistent of all – search engines are determining more and more that the sites providing the best user experience should be the ones that rank the highest in search results.

Consider these SEO signals (both good and bad) that prove how important great UX is.

Online marketing is a constant race to come up with something that would help your business stand out. But as soon as you do and it works, your rivals copy you so you need to start all over again. Luckily, there still are techniques that have stood the test of time and proved to continuously work and bring results. One of such tactics is influencer marketing.

And right now we’re living in its golden age. Brands in different domains cooperate with popular personalities to get access to their followers and it works like a charm. But the truth is that some products and services are much easier to promote this way. Often all you need to do is buy sponsored posts from a popular girl on Instagram and enjoy those leads coming in. But what if your target audience doesn’t make buying decisions based on what a model on Instagram tells them?

Well, then you need an algorithm for finding the right influencers who will bring real value to you and your business. These days there are influencers in pretty much any business niche and they are eager to cooperate with entrepreneurs and marketers. So let me show you how to find and choose the ones that are likely to help you make money. But first…

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).

How to Create Engaging Content in the “Boring” Industries

What are the Boring Industries?

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