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How to Plan a Full Funnel B2B Content Marketing Strategy?

The Internet revolutionized the world: how we communicate, how we learn, and how we buy things.

Today, a majority of consumers spend hours gathering information and comparing products and services before they make a purchase.

According to Forrester, on average a person consumes 11.4 pieces of content before making a purchase decision. Some of that content is likely an answer to the question, “Should I buy X or Y?” So, how do you market to this research-driven customer base?

Give them the information they’re looking for.

86% of B2B marketers report that their organizations are using content marketing. Custom content is the best way to lead customers through the sales funnel. The trick is to learn what kind of content makes the most impact at which stages of the sales funnel.

Did you know that only 4% of people believe that backlinks can barely influence your rankings?

That means a whopping 96% disagrees with them. These people believe that link building is one of the best ways of making a mark on the top of the SERPs.

But if you think that acquiring just any type of link can get you there, you’ve got another thing coming.

While some links can catapult you to the summit, others go the opposite direction. So, rather than pursue every backlink opportunity that comes your way, you need to distinguish the good from the bad.

In this post, let’s look at this one SEO factor that can make or break your rankings: the quality of your link profile.

Let’s get the ball rolling.

What are the links?

Links can either be internal or external. First, let’s cover internal links. These are links that connect to internal pages of the same domain.

Here’s an example from Mondovo’s blog post on SEO content writing.

Content Writing

When you click the link, you’ll be sent to another page on the same blog.

Simple, right?

Internal links matter because it passes on traffic and PageRank to other pages in your site. Search engine crawlers will also have an easier time discovering them.

If you have a high number of internal links that point to a specific page, you’re sending Google a signal. You’re telling them that your page is important.

As long as you created this link naturally, Google will give that page a nod. Meanwhile, external links are links that point you to a place outside a domain.

If these links point you outside of your site, you can refer to them as outbound links. And if they are pointing to you from another site, you can refer to them as inbound links or backlinks.

The ever-changing trends and technologies in marketing industries bring new challenges every now and then. In the present digital era, it is critical for your business to have a strong online presence.

As per the Hubspot’s State of Inbound 2018, when asked about the top inbound marketing priorities, 61% of marketers believe in improving SEO and growing their online presence.

Marketing Priorities

With almost each and every firm opting for SEO services, the time required to get to among the top 10 search results is comparatively longer than ever before. So, when you are working with an SEO agency, you may not get immediate results. This doesn’t mean they aren’t working.

In such a scenario, you, as a client, will think that your investment isn’t going to be fruitful and you may tend to lose trust your SEO advisor. This brings the need for SEO professionals to have transparency in their work.

“The customer’s perception is your reality. What they think about your products, MATTER. If you don’t put your customer’s perception first, THE GAME IS OVER.” – Sharfaraz Ahmed

Social listening is all the rage, and it is constantly expanding as we learn more about it. We need to start taking what our customers think into account. That includes what they are saying about us and our companies online. The only way to grow is to adapt and evolve. The only way to do that is to actually listen to the people you are trying to engage with. Sentiment analysis is probably the best form of social listening, and it is something I will always vouch for. But what is it, how does it work, and is it actually beneficial to you?

What You Will Learn

Before I hop into all the details, please read through a brief rundown of the topics that I will be covering in this guide:

What is sentiment analysis?
What the point in it is?
How it can boost your business?
The setbacks

According to the famous marketer Russell Brunson, there are 3 types of digital marketing traffic.

Traffic that you control. This is paid traffic such a Google Ads and Facebook marketing where you can control where your ads are placed.

Traffic that you don’t control. This is traffic like SEO, where you write a post in the hopes of Google’s algorithm placing it in front of an interested reader.

And then there’s traffic that you own. This is traffic that you don’t have to pay for and that you can communicate with whenever you want.

When it comes to marketing your business online, an email list is known to be one of the holy grails of traffic.

This is because it is the traffic that you own.

The Purpose of Collecting Emails

The purpose of collecting emails is so that you build a list of relevant users that you can ultimately sell to and make money from at the end of the day (by helping them of course!). With an email list, you can email your list with messages whenever you want, with whatever you want.

This is extremely powerful in terms of online marketing because whenever you need to make a sale, nurture a lead, or establish rapport with a potential customer – all you have to do is email them (for free).

This is precisely why businesses need to learn how to boost their email opt-in rates. It is a valuable asset that should not be overlooked.

Let’s discuss 5 ways in which you can increase your email opt-in rates on your own website.

It’s time to get controversial: SEO might not be right for you.

This is difficult to imagine, considering how heavily SEO is pushed from all sides. But, it’s not always a practical solution. It may be a great recommendation in many cases, but possibly not for you. Let’s take a look.

Businesses have long looked for the best strategies to push their businesses on social media. Long gone, for many companies, is solely relying on their social media accounts to promote their products and services – in comes the social media influencer.

A social media influencer is a user who has reliable traction amongst their audience. Generally, their followers (audience) engage with them regularly and value their opinion. Marketers love to leverage the fact that they can use an influencer to promote to a target market, while users are influenced by someone they can relate and look up to.

Influencer Marketing Global Spend & ROI

According to Mediakix’s influencer marketing spend study, the influencer marketing global spend is projected to increase to $10 billion by 2020!

Also, according to a survey conducted in 2017 by Celebrity Intelligence, for every USD 1.27 spent on an influencer, their ROI per influencer was USD 11.15!

So, based on Mediakix and Celebrity Intelligence’s data, you can see how much money is being dished out by influencer marketers and how much return they are getting for their investment.

For you marketers looking to implement influencer marketing, it is the right time to do so!

Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of which type of influencer is best for your business, we will explain the two different types of influencer – a micro-influencer and a macro-influencer.

If you’ve spent time in the sales or customer service departments, you’ve probably thought a lot about how customers come to interact with your company. If you haven’t, it’s important that you think about it not only from your perspective but from the customer’s perspective. There are a couple of different business terms that can help you delineate and describe as well as understand what that means.

Let’s start with the marketing funnel. This is a way of describing how customers come to know about and finally to turn from leads into sales. Of course, a lot of people are familiar with this and older iterations of the marketing funnel were just that — a funnel-like process where there were a lot of leads of various sorts at the top of the funnel, then a narrowing of the funnel as some people stayed and some people left. But what does the funnel look like today and how does it differ from the customer journey? This graphic below explains it.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Ranking Your Videos on YouTube in 2019

Okay, so you’ve created an AWESOME video that you’ve uploaded to YouTube. Problem is, traffic is down. No one seems to give a fig!

This is where Youtube SEO comes in. YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine, while videos themselves will account for 80% of all search traffic by the end of 2019.

This is great news if your content marketing strategy already consists of the video content. Videos drive traffic to your website, boost your online visibility and help your marketing campaigns gain more traction, and in the result – bring in more sales.

With stats like these, there’s only one thing left for you to do: Rank your videos as highly as possible on YouTube.

Of course, it isn’t easy. It doesn’t matter how fabulous your video is, you’ve only done half the work so far. The next step is doing the right things on YouTube so that your video is visible to lots of the right people.

The good news is we’ve broken down what you need to do into small, actionable steps. Let’s take a look at how to rank your videos on YouTube in 2019.

Branded Content and Native Advertising

The preferences of today‘s generation are no longer the same as they were in the past. They have changed over time, and as a result, marketing has changed too. Traditional ways of advertising are no longer effective as millennials don‘t respond well to intensive selling techniques. They are more attracted to brands that provide a pleasant experience. Based on their skills, they build a relationship with the brands they like. It is more about relevant and meaningful connections than just buying something and forgetting about it at the end.

Brands do just that using branded content. In an era when the audience is blocking the 24*7 advertisement chase using ad blockers, branded content has become a saviour that has a positive impact on people.

Let’s know more about it in detail and differentiate between branded content and native advertising. Read More

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