To effectively promote your business, a comprehensive content strategy must be in place. Focusing on brand recognition helps people recognize what makes you different than similar businesses in your field.
Leverage a contemporary content distribution platform to amplify your brand’s message and reach a wider audience.
Start by gathering data on your target audiences’ demographics and online behaviors – this way you’ll know which content formats to create.
Press Releases
Distribution platforms for press releases are key to their effectiveness, especially journalists who serve as primary dissemination channels of news articles across the globe. By selecting an ideal distribution platform for your release, this modern content marketing tool will help reach your target audience, including journalists.
Press releases are one of the primary methods journalists use to find stories, and can increase brand recognition locally. They should include all necessary details pertaining to your news – the who, what, when, where and why of it all – while leaving out industry jargon that won’t resonate with customers.
Press releases are one of the great advantages of writing well; they can be reused to produce different types of content and rank higher in search results. Nashville-based real estate investment company Canopy South used one such press release as inspiration to write a blog article on self-directed IRAs which increased website views as well as social media reach.
Multimedia
Integrating multimedia as a content delivery method is an excellent way to draw in an audience and raise engagement and reach. Visuals and videos in your posts will increase interaction while also strengthening SEO rankings and increasing reach.
Multimedia communication refers to using various forms of media for conveying messages such as audio, images, infographics and video in various forms – audio recordings, photos, infographics and videos are often employed within multimedia presentations for education, business presentations or networked communications. Multimedia can be found everywhere from education programs and presentations in businesses to social networking services and the web itself.
Information presented visually makes it easier for audiences to memorize and recall information, while making information more accessible for people with disabilities. If you want to share a video clip that contains text, for instance, captions or descriptions could provide accessibility; otherwise you could add audio so visually impaired users could listen without straining their eyes; finally you could track metrics like views and engagement to measure how successful your multimedia presentations have been and make smarter decisions regarding future marketing efforts.
Blog Posts
Blog posts offer businesses a great way to both share industry-relevant information and express themselves creatively while improving search engine optimization and creating an ongoing traffic source that keeps growing long after it has been published.
Writing blog posts requires using evergreen copy and making content as user-friendly as possible, along with including a call-to-action (CTA) at the end to give readers an idea of what comes next – sometimes called conversion pathing, this approach is one of the best ways to nudge audiences toward action.
Writing blog posts alone won’t do. A content marketing strategy will ensure your business produces this type of content on an ongoing basis – this should include developing an editorial calendar.
Social Media
Social media is a modern content distribution platform that allows businesses to directly communicate with their customers. Key components of success on social media are developing relationships through authenticity and honesty.
Utilizing an online social media management solution enables business owners to prepare and schedule posts ahead of time. Many solutions also feature tools for writing captions, uploading photos and videos, analyzing engagement levels and tracking campaign results.
User-generated content (UGC) is an increasingly popular form of media distribution, including consumer reviews on popular apps like TripAdvisor and Yelp. These platforms enable consumers to voice their thoughts about products and services to a wide audience.
Earned media is a form of distributed media where third parties with influence share or promote your content voluntarily, such as through linking from popular blogs or news outlets featuring your story in their publication. This type of marketing often comes at no or low cost for businesses.
