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The Top 4 Content Marketing Trends to Expect in 2019

The concept of content marketing is changing with each passing day. With the emergence of new strategies, technologies, and ideas, the world of content is on a consistent rise. Hence, 2019 is expected to come up with some innovative content marketing trends. In fact, it is being estimated that the content marketing industry is here to stay for a significant period of time more and it might become worth more than $ 400 billion by 2021!

With such a continuous growth of content marketing, businesses are approaching towards the process to optimize content in a pretty mature way. The content marketing experts believe that this scenario is going to be even better in 2019. Some effective content marketing trends and strategies are going to rule.

What is going to be such excellent content marketing trends in the coming year?

Let’s know!

HTTPS

You use the internet for everything, right? It is common knowledge. We all do that. Finding out potential competition? Do a Google search. Feeling the need to remodel your home? Google it. Want to buy a book you can’t get in real stores? Internet. Like I said, everything!

In the midst of your internet experience, you might have noticed something but chose to ignore it. If you have ever waited for your site to load, you might have looked at the URL bar and noticed that the sites you visit generally fall into two categories: one has an “HTTP” written on it, while some other site might have had an “HTTPS”.

At face value, these things would not matter. In fact, why would they even matter? You are browsing the internet for information, or for making a purchase, the HTTP and HTTPS are the least of your concerns, right? Well, kind of. These “protocols” are irrelevant, but they are important.

The HTTP and HTTPS protocols are important. They are related to website security. For regular folk, it can determine the authenticity of the site, and for site owners and digital marketers, having a correct (Spoiler Alert, it’s HTTPS) protocol can boost your traffic and sales considerably.

Today, I will be writing about the SEO advantages of using HTTPS. But before that, we have to begin at the basics.

One of the most important things for brands today is to make sure they are present in social media. It’s the best way to expand your business, find new clients and customers, evolve your marketing campaign, and it provides a number of amazing benefits every business owner should use. However, with the internet expanding so fast, and with the development of new technologies, it has become imperative to ensure the safety of your brand’s social media.

If you’re a business owner, social media can provide you with all the necessary tools and resources which can help you expand your business quite a lot. However, if you’re not careful with your social media accounts, your business can suffer greatly. With so many brands falling victim to brand-damaging situations on social media, you have to learn the best way to deal with this problem.

As a freelancer who works solely from home for the last 5 years, I can tell you – mastering social media presence and branding isn’t an easy task, but it’s not impossible to achieve either. You will need to put some time and effort into learning and understanding the most important things about branding in social media, but there is quite a lot to gain. I’ve made this short guide through some of the ways business owners use to protect their brands on social media. So, let’s not waste time and let’s get straight to it.

The integration of direct and digital marketing is a recent challenge that has many people choosing sides instead of embracing the merge.

The primary reason for this negligent behavior is not arrogance but rather misunderstanding.

Here are 4 tips that we came up with to show how the integration of direct and digital marketing can help boost sales, conversion rates, and overall success.

With its soaring active user count, Instagram has become the hottest social media property. And a lot of the platform’s growth can be attributed to the rising popularity of ephemeral content. As more and more people gravitate to both creating and consuming this type of content, brands have also jumped on the bandwagon.

If you haven’t crafted an ephemeral content strategy yet, this article serves as a guide to how you can use the trending format to grow your brand, and ultimately, your business.

Have you ever played or heard of a battle royal game called Player Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG)? Bunch of players dropped on a large map with a constantly changing environment, fighting to be the last one surviving. Either you adapt to the environment and fight for your survival, or you die.

This could be an exaggerated comparison. However, considering the competition and desperate need for survival, the game is not different from the eCommerce market today. In the eCommerce arena, you are not just competing with the players of your corresponding level but also the pro players who have already captured a huge section of the map. If you are not watchful, the opponents will take no time to load their AWM (eCommerce marketing ideas) and outrank your business after looting your body (customer base).

Just think about where are you in the map of current eCommerce adventure. Maybe you have just set up an eCommerce store recently, or maybe you have been in the market for a while now. Regardless of your business age, nothing works better without building an impressive plan. A plan that will help you leverage every marketing opportunity of what that is left of 2018. More importantly, a plan that will help you to stay prepared for what 2019 have in its store for you. Aside from marketing, you can also start using other platforms like ShippingTree to meet the needs and expectations of your customers.

Hence, here are the five biggest eCommerce marketing trends of 2018 that will also help you to survive the market in 2018 and generate innovative eCommerce marketing ideas for the next year as well.

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.

Be it any successful lead generation formula or an academic conference, a webinar is something which is one of the most buzzing digital trends of the contemporary era. But, all the perks of any webinar goes into vain when there’s no qualified audience available for it. So, if you are going to lead a webinar at any time soon then to ensure that there is a perfect audience for you is quite obligatory. In such a scenario, if you want to entice a remarkable section of people then social media could be one of the finest options!

Yes! You read it right. Social media is not just for communication and promotion. It can be even an integral approach to increase the webinar attendance.

Do you want to know how? Then, just read ahead:

E-Commerce SEO Strategy

According to Statista, global e-commerce sales reached $2.3 trillion in 2017 and they’re expected to jump to astounding $4.88 trillion by 2021. Given these facts, we can conclude that the e-commerce sphere is expanding impressively fast. And, with it, the number of your competitors also grows.

As most of your customers never scroll past the first page of Google’s search results, just having a nice e-commerce site is not enough for you to increase sales. To grab your target audience’s attention, you need to optimize it for search engines and boost your rankings.

Here is how to build an SEO strategy that will skyrocket your sales.

Marketing Strategies

It almost seems trendy nowadays to say that people spend tons of money on marketing than any other aspect of their business. We hear large businesses spend hundreds of thousands to improve their advertising to increase audience exposure, or a couple thousand more just to produce mindblowing content.

That’s good and all, however, if you’re a startup or a small business that’s struggling to get by, the thought is in the realm of impossibility. The great thing about modern marketing strategies, however, is that a lot of the effective ones aren’t costly, and even sometimes free (yay!).

In this post, we’ll be covering seven strategies that are sure to delight penny-pinchers or business owners looking for a way to cut back on marketing costs. They’ll give you the opportunity to re-invest your savings back into your business or perhaps use it for a different venture you have in mind.

The Top 4 Content Marketing Trends to Expect in 2019

The SEO Advantages of Using HTTPS

How to Set an E-Commerce SEO Strategy to Explode Your Sales

7 Marketing Strategies That Can Get You More Sales While Spending Less