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How does culture influence content marketing? How can you navigate the cultural seas of your prospects and customers?
Much has been written about content creation, SEO, online communities, big data, analytics and influencers in content marketing. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to culture.
Guilty pleasures. That’s something many of us suffer from. Especially when it comes to consuming online content.
We scroll through never-ending feeds of the sizzling and sensational. From celebrity confessions, adorably cute animals, to gruesome murders, religious riots and the latest episode of “Who should we publicly shame today?”
Ever created a “perfect” ad or content, only to find that nobody gave a hoot?
Well, the problem probably lies in your failure to understand who your target audiences are, and what attracts them.
OK, you are a complete newbie to digital marketing. And your customers are businesses not consumers.
How can a B2B company like yours make use of digital marketing? After all, B2B marketing is very much a face-to-face deal involving a generous meal and a hand shake right?
Visual content marketing is the new digital black. In an attention-starved digitally distracted world, images and videos rule.
As I’ve previously written in Visual Content Marketing: Insights from Asia, 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual. Moreever, our brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text.
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Do you know that 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual? Or that visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text?
In the age of high definition screens of all sizes – from 2 inch smart watches to 50 inch television monitors – visual content rules. This fact is further cemented by the meteoric rise of the image-based threesome in social media – Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr.
In the age of social media and mobile digital devices, the greatest opportunity for marketers lies in how they can delight customers both online and offline.
Also known as customer experience management, it seeks to provide a holistic brand experience across all customer channels, going beyond traditional measures of customer satisfaction.
Do you recognise these social media influencers? (Courtesy of Economic Times India)
How do bloggers, YouTubers, Instagrammers and other social influencers use content to market themselves? Are there any useful lessons which we can learn?
Avid producers of social media content, influencers often deploy their skills in writing, photography, videography and design to grow an audience. Honing their talents over time, they know how to push the right content buttons to grow their fan base.
You invested considerable time, money and effort into building up your content factory.
You hired the best writers this side of the universe, employed the most talented designers, and have scripted a few “killer” marketing videos.
Gary Vaynerchuk once famously said that “If Content is King, then Context is God.”
Indeed in the world of content and social media marketing, context matters a whole lot. The best content in the world would fail miserably if it is crafted and disseminated without any consideration of the context surrounding it.