A brief visual guide to the basic aspects of content marketing, answering questions like what is content marketing, what are the different types of content, and different content formats like blogs, videos and info graphics. It also covers what tone and writer's voice to use.
2. In this guide we’ll cover:
Goals for your content
Different content formats
Creating the right content mix
Creating your ‘Voice’ - Tone & Style
3. Goals for your content:
Ultimately, we’ll assume we want
leads and customers
But interim goals might include:
• Building awareness for your brand
• Building Trust
• Engaging your target audience through:
• Informing
• Educating
• Entertaining
4. Goals for your content:
Other Purposes:
• Content designed for a particular
marketing campaign
• Content designed for a particular customer
segment
• Or even one particular customer
6. Different Content
Formats:
Written
• Web Pages
• Blogs
• eBooks
• Checklists
• Cheat sheets
• Expert Guides
• Tip Sheets
• FAQ’s
• Industry Reports
• White Papers
• Full length Books
9. Content expert
Ann Handley
of Marketing Profs
uses the analogy of
food groups,
to help think through
What a balanced
mix of content
looks like:
Creating the right
content mix:
16. Creating a recognizable brand voice
will help you stand out
from the noise
Creating your ‘Voice’
Tone & Style
17. Your brand persona
is the tone or
feeling you want
your brand to
convey.
It depends you your
company, how you
want to represent
yourself.
Also may depend
on your industry.
Source: Dayna Rothman,
from Marketo
18. C o n v e r s a t i o n a l
Humorous
Informal
Use Jargon
Direct!
Formal
Technical
Voice can be:
Your brand persona
is the tone or
feeling you want
your brand to
convey.
It depends you your
company, how you
want to represent
yourself.
Also may depend
on your industry.
19. Harendra Kapur of
Velocity Partners
(a leading content agency in London)
wrote a recent blog post
about voice.
She says that our writing
voice comes from our
opinion
about what we’re writing
about.
So we need to develop an
opinion to be able to
develop a voice.
Where ‘Voice’ comes from:
21. To learn a lot more, check out the
Content Marketing
Institute
especially their really cool documentary, here:
youtube.com/watch?v=dBnpr3pkFlk
.com
This wouldn’t be complete without a word about us:
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