5 Challenges of Content Marketing That You Need to Work on Right Now
The trends of marketing are changing at a fast pace, there are certain challenges of content marketing that must be noted to be a name in the crowd.
Marketing is not a gimmick anymore where you are done with a one time show. The marketing model is changing and not restricted to a single medium or form. The actions need to be quick in response to the audiences’ interest or soon you will lose out a prospective sale. So let’s have a look on the factors that the industry stalwarts are considering as challenges of content marketing. And, yes the solutions are there as well.
#1 Holding a good position amongst the tough competition
Your business might have something great to offer to your target audience. But wait here. Are you the only one who is providing this service? The chances of getting a ‘no’ to this question are high if you are not an inventor of a technology, service or product. In a general scenario, the audience gets several options to choose from. The more options, the less attention plan can be expected as per expert notes. When the audience has an idea that they have options more than their demands, their interest to search for more increases. Switching brands have become more frequent and there are comparisons drawn. The audience tends to search for the best deal available. Here the catch might be the price or the quality. The hack is to steal the attention from others and buy some more time for your brand. Attention holding here is more important than mere attention seeking.
So, how can this be done? Experts say- Focus on Content. Going by the social media trends, the marketing strategy should be targeted towards producing quality content consistently. Here, the frequency of the content is also important and your audience should always get the meaningful updates of your brand on their feed which will be a constant reminder to them and experts believe in that way your audience will choose your brand when they need the product.
#2 The changing trends of paid promotion
Your content might be exceptional but if that is not reaching the right audience, all the efforts behind that exceptional content go in vain. Paid promotion is a matter of high priority and you must reach the right segment of audiences. Knowing the market demographics and gauging the habits of the social media audience is important. The budget can be a challenging factor but experts say, if you have the right strategist this can be tackled well. While promoting the content you must take care of the compatibility of the ads running on various devices. The market is not ruled by desktop or computer users. With the users always on the social media, mobile compatibility over various kinds of devices is equally important.
Spending a whopping amount of money is not the solution for success. Experts suggest that you might have a well-defined strategy and target as per which you should plan the promotion. Even before planning the campaign, the target of the campaign should be clear.
#3 Measuring ROI
You must know for what you are doing your promotions. When you know that finding the right method to measure ROI will be easier, when you are using blog posts to generate leads, you must get the conversion paths and tracking done perfectly that will prove the results with the help of analytics. There are several tools with the help of which you can get to know where your strategy stands. There are attention metrics that will give you the idea of the quality of the audience engagement.
#4 Sticking to the comfort zone
The experts find this strategy of marketers smart to some extent but they also say that this process is boring and drab. When you know what your audiences are like, you tend to push more content on that line. You do not wish to disturb the page views that have been steady with all the same pattern of content. As per the experts, this would have been a good strategy if there were no risks of changes in the social media trends. The audience is very likely to get bored easily in this era and so needs a backup plan. Digital experts suggest that rather than quitting the existing strategy and signing up for a new one, try keeping both. While you are working on the known and approved theory also start experimenting with a few new things. Some might work, some won’t. But that way you will always have something new to offer to the social media audience. You cannot judge the varied taste of your audience until you come out of your comfort zones.
#5 Avoiding long-term goals
The digital stalwarts are seeing a pool of content all over but as per their reports, there is less sustainable content. Mark Schaefer says that it is just creating noise and no valuable message is reaching the audience. They see a content, there’s a substantial engagement over it and soon it is erased by some other content without any traces of the previous engagement.
These are just some few tips that can be suggested to marketers but as per experts, the only advice is keeping at par with the current trends and take the necessary measures of content marketing.
Source:
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/03/16/content-marketing-challenges