Content Marketing Content Marketing – Is it just another marketing buzzword or does it have some significance? Before we dwell further into it, let’s first get back to the basics of marketing. Usually people tend to feel that marketing starts with a product or service offering. But quite contrary to that thought marketing actually begins with the customer and his requirements and expectations. One of the best definitions that we have come across is
‘Marketing is the act of connecting customers to products’
Speaking about connecting, advertisement is one of the important means of making that connection. The traditional form of advertising generally comes into picture when the company launches a new product or looks to promote special
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They can switch channels, record and fast forward using digital set top boxes or just simply ignores the targeted ads while browsing. The smart marketers have realized that the traditional approaches are losing their effectiveness.
To connect with the current generation of customers the key lies with Content Marketing. As per the formal definition –
“Content marketing is the marketing and business process for creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action”
A simpler definition is given below
Content marketing is the art of communicating with your customers and prospects without selling. It is non-interruption
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In today’s digital age the customer is getting access to more and more information which he analyses before making a purchase decision. Today’s consumer is smart enough to ignore the sales pitches given by the traditional marketers. Content marketing takes a different approach to reaching out to the customers. Instead of pitching for the products or services it relies on delivering useful and relevant information which will increase the awareness levels of the customer. Let’s have a look at the buying cycle and where content marketing plays a role in
Direct marketing Direct marketing is important and it also links back with spamming and the fact that companies use current customer or buy new potential customers and send them direct messages to promote themselves. Direct marketing basically means that businesses can advertise to individual customer’s directly which means that the company has to have your personal details as direct marketing comes in the terms of text, mail, emailing and adverts online, however the downside to direct marketing is that sometimes it can be seen a spam and may be ignored. Quality of user
The road is rarely crowded on the extra mile. While others are settling for generic content that looks, smells and acts like the same content everyone else is producing and publishing, you should be taking your content to the next level and developing real solutions to your customers problems. I know you can do it! Take a listen to the latest Social Zoom Factor podcast episode #229 to learn 25 Ideas for Helpful Content Marketing that will inspire, educate and empower your dream customer! Need more help?
In her article “Marketing to the Millennials,” Suzy Menkes addresses the controversial topic of how companies and brands are changing the way they advertise to reach “younger” consumers. Menkes believes that finding a way to reach a generation that is so involved in social media and technology is the “focus of every smart luxury and fashion brand.” (Menkes, 497) She suggest that instead of the advertisement trying to sell the product, the marketers should be focused on what the consumers have to say. Although technology plays a big role in the 21st century, it is not always efficient in marketing and advertising, due to the fact that millennials are constantly using social media and technology for self-entertainment rather than marketing.
The commercial is played repeatedly through social media, spoken about and played again on tv, as well as talk about through newspaper ads and radio that the commercials brand. This process allows the corporate companies to acquired market
It is creating a dialogue with customers and potential customers. There are various ways to use interactive marketing such as search engine marketing, video marketing, email marketing. Building a competitive web presence is very important. Engaging the customer. We can create blog and update it regularly.
Advertising, Dustbowls, and Automobiles While reading Lands of Consumption: Auto Tourism and visual culture in California, 1920-1940, I couldn’t help but make connections between advertising back then compared to today. Advertisements today are much more competitive and have different means of reaching the consumers, but the idea is still the same. Get the consumer to buy your product. Today consumers are influenced by more than just the advertisements put in front of them, but also the media. I learned in one of my other classes that the media basically controls what advertisements you are exposed to.
Advertising is defined as “any form of paid communication by an identified sponsor aimed to inform and/or persuade target audiences about an organization, product, service, or idea". By strategically selecting the advertising channels, the company strives to reach the target market
Its aim is to delivering some value to the customers so they purchase or sell goods and/or services. Advertising, however is one of many tools used in marketing to reach and inform consumers. Of the four P’s in the marketing mix, advertising falls under ‘promotion’. Some other marketing tools are public relations, sales promotions, directing marketing and personal selling. There are various types of advertisements, among them political, public service, retail and directory.
Digital marketing isn’t simple as many people think. There are numerous cases of these strategies failing for some service providers. Studies reveal that digital strategies fail for some people because they do it for themselves or hiring a young and inexperienced computer marketing Companies. Experienced agencies have experience handling numerous tasks. Additionally, they have hired experienced technicians.
However, choosing the appropriate technology is essential to the success of the advertising industry because different markets prefer different ways of conveying information. The use of applications in phones or e-commerce to order goods and services all over the world may be appropriate to a certain market, but media may be appropriate to an illiterate market (Porter, 1998). The development of smart phones is also an added advantage to the development of marketing activities in the advertising industries. For instance, in Singapore China the Taxi industry uses the application in the smart phones to access the consumers. Although the media are one of the appropriate medium to convey the adverts to the consumers,
Advertisement is a method of mass promotion that’s typically used by different firms to reach large groups of potential consumers to persuade and inform them about a particular brand of product or service through oral or visual message. This means that the aim of any advertising is to differentiate and deliver various information about the product and the company to the prospective and existing consumers, it is therefore vital to make the message of the advertising effective, clear, focused and singular to make it easy for the target customers to hold on to it and catch it; as this provides a basis for
Most people today, own one at least one technological device which could be one of the access platforms that form online channels the company may apply for their digital marketing to achieve profitability and retention of customers. Chaffey and Ellis-Chadwick (2012) state that a digital marketing strategy is constantly needed to provide a sense of direction for an organization’s online marketing activities so that they integrate with its other marketing activities and support its overall business goals. According to Parise et al.
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 2.1 INTRODUCTION: Newspaper firms have started to search for online delivery channels so as to retain the young readers. As a result, they have transferred a considerable amount of their delivery channels from print to online format. Most of the media firms have started to implement a 360-degree strategy that integrates content decisions “shaped by the potential to generate consumer value and returns through multiple platforms of expression of that content via a number of distribution outlets” (Doyle, 2010).
Online Marketing Internet and powerful mobile technologies have rapidly increased company efforts to market their products and services and build customer relationships via websites, social media, e-commerce, mobile apps, online promotions etc. These are very powerful tools, especially to reach the younger generations of tech savvy
Attracting much attention on entertainment or news to allow people to talk about your brand. Viral Marketing: Developing amusing or informational messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by email. Community Marketing: