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    The success factors for content marketing in 2019

    The success factors for content marketing in 2019

    Chart of the day: New research highlights activities from the top performers

    Joe Pullizzi and team over at the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) have been doing a great job in tracking trends in content marketing over the years. I still think of content marketing as a relatively new label for a marketing technique that has existed as long as print (see this video history of how content marketing has evolved from 1895 ). Yet it’s now ten years since I first read ‘ Get Content, Get Customers ’ by Joe, which was the first call-to-action to modern content marketing that started the latest trend.

    Content marketing management trends for 2019

    The latest trends and success factors for the year ahead are highlighted in this research, which focuses on B2B marketer responses, but highlights content marketing strategy success factors relevant for many other organisations. These are highlighted by categorisation of respondents by ‘top performers’ who characterizes his or her organization’s overall content marketing approach as extremely or very successful.:

    This chart forms a useful checklist to benchmark your content market strategy (alternatively, see our free visual digital marketing benchmarking template which features a Content Marketing review). Some of the key factors that separate leaders from ‘also rans’ are:

    • Having a defined content marketing strategy
    • Ability to measure content marketing
    • ROI Using personas to inform content marketing
    • Buy-in to content marketing from senior leaders in the organization
    • Prioritizes organizations informational needs over sales/promotional messages

    I have also distilled these ‘success factors’ from this related chart: How do your content marketing activities compare? Research source Source : Content Marketing Institute Research – 2019 B2B Content Marketing Research: It Pays to Put Audience First Sample : 771 North America respondents who indicated their organization is for-profit, primarily selling products/services to businesses (B2B), and […]

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