A huge part of marketing is the ability to have an infinite stream of content to support your people, product or service. In the business world, things change every day – we get new business, we develop new products, we offer new services and we get new customers. Each event provides great fodder for new content!
In fact, the only way to run out of great content on a corporate web site is to run out of people, products, services or customers. That can happen and it’s probably a good sign that a blog or other marketing medium isn’t really where you need to be focusing!
Chris complimented me today that I’m able to create content like water. It’s not always easy but here’s how I do it…
How to Tap into Lots of Content
The reason I don’t run out of content is that my blog covers a wide swath of topics. I might comment on form validation one day, a book that bored me the next, how to calculate distance with PHP and MySQL and a WordPress tweak some other day.
All of these are within the realm of Marketing Technology. Form Validation is the front-end, or most visible, part of a software application or website. If you can’t make forms easy to use and don’t pay attention to the user experience, it impacts your credibility in the space… and as a result, impacts your Marketing – to either overcome the perception or to move beyond it.
A wordy book? Well, it’s a book on how many companies grow exponentially without the supporting data that says it should. The Black Swan. That’s important to Marketers, right? It should be!
Calculating distance? Where are your clients coming from? If you’re a retailer, you know exactly where your clients are coming from so it’s best you learn how to figure out where your web visitors are.
And WordPress tweaking? Well, the post deals with keeping customers on your website by providing related content and providing search engine optimization methods for finding new ones.
Marketing isn’t just Marketing Blogs, Books and Conferences
If you ask yourself who your Marketing Department is nowadays, you need to look beyond the ol’ organizational chart. Every person in your company from your Salesperson to your Customer Service Representative can impact your marketing more than those guys building the fancy newsletters. It’s time that, as a Marketer, you began to pay attention!
Don’t believe me? Do a Google Search for “Huntington Bank Sucks”. A combination of a poor website, terrible support and a staff that is frozen in inefficiency has made the top of the Search Engines! How’s that for great marketing?
The Blog isn’t Focused on Marketing
There’s a list of the top Marketing Blogs that has a great following out on the net. I love the list and check it every month. Every month, my blog isn’t on it. Every month I ask why. I got my answer a few days ago… paraphrased: my blog isn’t focused on Marketing.
While I appreciate that there’s some strict boundaries to what the Marketing Blog has been defined as, I’m glad that I didn’t make the list! If you’re a Marketer and the only things you’re paying attention is to any work that comes in and out of your department, marketing blogs, books and conferences… Good Luck! You’re going to need it.
As for me? I won’t be running out of Content any time soon!
Regarding “…tapping into lots of content”,I came across a way for website owners to find extra content by using Google’s advanced search functions…it allows you to target your searches to “free to use,commercially,or even modify” content….just a tip.