Growth Hacking With Content Marketing How To Increase Website Traffic
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Growth Hacking with Content Marketing: How to Increase Website Traffic
So you've got a product, service, e-commerce site, landing page, information product, or blog...now you just need viewers, users and customers! Customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges of building an online business of any kind. It's become easier to build a product, but it's as hard as ever to acquire customers. You might have the best product ever, but if no one knows about it, no one can use it, and you won't be able to build a business. The first step of acquiring customers is generating traffic. Traffic is the first step in the process of converting the billions of Internet users into paying customers. This book is all about how to drive traffic to your site using content marketing! THE NEW MARKETING There are a few emerging technology trends happening right now that make it an amazing time to be a marketer. These trends present both opportunities and challenges. There are now billions of people using the Internet. And it's no longer for just the young and rich. It's used in emerging markets and by old people too! Not only are people using the Internet, they're finally starting to get comfortable with buying stuff online. E-commerce penetration of total retail sales in the U.S. was only around eight percent in 2012. There's still a ton of opportunity for growth! Online retail has strong cost advantages over its offline competition and is rapidly taking share in many categories through better pricing and selection. The cost of building a product and taking it to market has gotten cheaper and easier. What used to take months if not years and millions of dollars now takes weeks (if not less) and thousands of dollars (if not less). New distribution networks such as Twitter and Facebook. give us access to hundreds of millions of potential customers at the click of a mouse. For free. The Internet is the great equalizer. Anyone with a message or product that people like can and will be found. Consumer buying behaviors are changing. People don't get sold anymore. They buy. Many of the old methods of advertising and customer acquisition are either not performing as well or simply not working. Traditional media buying and advertising is expensive, un-measurable, and less effective than it used to be. Content marketing, social media marketing, and "growth hacking" are proving to be lean, efficient, and highly effective! Innovation in payments has made it cheaper and easier than ever to transfer money. Paying for something is as easy as sending an email, clicking a hyperlink, or scanning a QR code. Mobile devices have become nearly as powerful as desktops or laptops. Furthermore, there are many things we can do with our phone that we can't do on our desktop/laptop. There has been mass adoption of mobile devices across the world, including in countries with high poverty where people could not previously afford a desktop or laptop. We're all walking around with high-powered computers in our pockets that can be used to buy products and/or consume content! ENTER CONTENT MARKETING A more efficient and effective way to attract, engage, and convert! This book covers strategies and tactics to attract an audience, engage with them, and convert them to customers TOPICS How to Get More Traffic, Exposure, and Views How to Boost Your Authority and Build a Following YouTube Marketing Strategies How to Increase Website Traffic Using Quora How to Use a Blog to Market Your Business Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Beginners How to Syndicate your Content on New Platforms and Reach Massive New Audiences LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and Facebook ...and more! WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Startups, entrepreneurs, app developers, book marketers, information marketers, affiliate marketers, b2b service companies, consultants and coaches, and more.
Growth Hacking with Content Marketing: How to Increase Website Traffic
Content marketing is any marketing that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire and retain customers. This information can be presented in a variety of formats, including news, video, white papers, e-books, infographics, case studies, how-to guides, question and answer articles, photos, etc. Content Marketing has been defined in multiple ways. The meaning of the term depends a lot on the purpose and context. One of the most used definition is "the technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire and engage a clearly defined target audience in order to drive profitable customer action" Content marketing creates interest in a product through educational, entertaining or informative material. Successful content marketing relies on providing "consistent, high-quality content that solves people's problems." Table of Contents: Preface 7 1 Introduction to Content Marketing 8 1.1 Old vs. New Rules of Marketing 9 1.2 Defining Content Marketing 10 1.3 Who Uses and Publishes Content 11 1.4 Where Content Marketing Is 12 1.5 The Benefits of Content Marketing 14 2 Content Marketing Strategy Development - How to Prepare and What to Use 15 2.1 What Does Content Do? 15 2.2 Preparing for a Content Marketing Strategy 16 2.3 Media Tools Available 18 2.4 Forms Used in Media Tools 20 2.5 A Final Word on Content 23 Content Marketing Search Engine Optimization in Content Marketing 24 3.1 Basics of SEO 24 3.2 What are Keywords? 25 3.3 Determining Keywords 26 3.4 Placing Keywords 28 4 Website and Profiles 31 4.1 Your Website 32 4.2 Social Media Profiles 33 4.3 Blogs 35 4.4 Email Content 36 5. External Sites 37 5.1 Benefits of Content Beyond the Organization 37 5.2 Common External Sites and Media Tools to Use 38 5.3 Article Directories 39 5.4 Open Source Content Sites 41 5.5 How-To Sites 42 5.6 Guest Posting (On Blogs, Newsletters, etc.) 45 5.7 Affiliate Programs 46 Content Marketing User-Generated Content 47 6.1 Where is User-Generated Content? 48 6.2 Creating a Space for User-Generated Content 48 6.3 Customer Reviews 49 6.4 Handling Negative User-Generated Content 49 6.5 The Pros and Cons of User-Generated Content 49 Resources 51 Executive