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HOW TO CREATE A CONTENT MARKETING STRATEGY ');
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1. Define our objective and goals. ');
document.write(' What is our objective for developing a Content Marketing Plan? Why do we want to produce content and create a content marketing plan? Know our goals before we begin planning, and what is best for our strategy.
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2. Conduct persona research. ');
document.write(' To develop a successful plan, we need to clearly define our content\'s target audience - also known as our \'audience persona\'.
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document.write(' This is especially important for a
startup marketing plan. By knowing our target audience, we should be able to produce most relevant and valuable content to galvanize potential readers/customers.
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document.write(' If we are an experienced marketer, our target most likely should be modified, re-structured, updated:
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document.write(' - Is our objetive to target a new group of people or expand our current target market?
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document.write(' - Is our objetive to promote loyalty while keeping the same target audience?
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document.write(' Revisiting our audience parameters by conducting market research on a regular basis -every 6 months, yearly- is crucial to growing our audience.
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3. Run a content audit. ');
document.write(' Most professionals start out with blog posts, but if we want to venture out and try producing other content pieces, we must identify which pieces we wish to generate. For instance, if we have been drafting weekly blog posts for the past year, creating an e-book that distills all our blog posts into \'one ultimate guide\' would be a fresh channel to offer information in a different format.
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types of Content Marketing in the template (stage #6).
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document.write(' If we have been in business for over 2 years, we should review our content marketing efforts and the results from it in the last year. Analyse what we can do differently in the upcoming year and set new goals to reach.
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***CM\'s tip: now is a great time to align our team\'s goals with the our organization\'s goals and mandate.
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4. Choose a Content Management System. ');
document.write(' Identify an effective system where we can manage our content. A few vital parts of content management include:
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document.write(' 1. Content creation
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document.write(' 2. Content publication and
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document.write(' 3. Content analytics
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document.write(' A customer is able to plan, produce, publish, and measure results in the same platform - using the appropriate software.
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document.write(' 2 content management systems we recommend are
HubSpot and
WordPress website hosted on WP Engine.
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5. Brainstorm content ideas. ');
document.write(' This stage #5 will support our Team to come up with innovative ideas for our next content project. Below we enumerate some tools to
get the wheels turning:
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document.write(' - BlogAbout
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document.write(' - Blog Post Headline Analyzer
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document.write(' - BuzzSumo
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document.write(' - Feedly
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document.write(' - HubSpot\'s Blog Ideas Generator / HubSpot\'s Website Grader
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