Content Marketing

27Jan

Writing Your Content – Who will see it?

At M3 Media Publishing, we take care in writing content for our clients that will actually resonate with their customers, readers and web visitors.

Our journalists work closely with our clients to understand what issues and challenges they face, in order to attract their attention and engage with them.

However, after getting the content right, if nobody gets to see your articles, all this work may have been done for nothing.

So who can we get to see your content?

Well, YOU can choose who sees your content, up to a point.

Where to publish your content is sometimes down to you.

Most businesses have blogs on their websites and this is the obvious first choice for publishing your own articles.

However, if we can get your content published in other places, then we open up many wider opportunities for others to see what we have said about you.

Linkedin can help you publish content.

LinkedIn gives us all a very valuable social platform to have our articles published – via Linkedin Pulse and via your own and other groups.

Having said that, getting group managers to publish your content is not always easy. We do spend time working with group managers trying to understand what content they want to publish.

The well-managed groups will usually only publish your content if it is industry specific and informative and I applaud them for that.

This is the sort of content that we should all want to write and, more importantly, it is the sort of content that others want to share out!

If you can find the right audience and create valuable content, others will help you share it with all their Linkedin connections.

Social Media is the key to reaching a bigger audience

Once we have created some engaging content about you and your business, we set up a programme of distribution using twitter.

With our established reputation within three main business sectors, HR & Recruitment, Property & Construction and the Business Expertise sectors, we already have a network of content distributors in each sector.

Check out our 3 magazines within our portfolio HR Aspects – Property Aspects – Business Aspects

This gives us a massive advantage when working with our clients in each of these sectors, as we can use this extensive support network to help them reach a specifically targeted audience.

This is crucial to successful content marketing.

So distributing content can be quite daunting, but I hope this has helped.

For help with getting your message in front of your chosen target audience, please contact me via: david @m3publishing.co.uk

27Jan

article marketing can help drive visits to your website

By David LomasIn Content Marketing

How can articles generate business for you?

Articles on their own, may not be enough to generate business for you.

The articles need to sit as part of the route that your prospective customer can choose to follow, that will eventually lead to your front door.

I refer to this route as the ‘customer corridor’ and your articles will work better when they form part of this route.

Very simply, you need to create a number of simple steps for your prospects to take to reach you.
If at each point, your prospect is given some idea that you can still be helpful to him, then the next step is for you to offer them another piece of valuable information.

Thus drawing the customer closer to you.

Think of this as if you were laying a trail of breadcrumbs for them to follow.

The final document should contain a little more ‘in-depth’ information for the reader, which follows the theme of your initial article. Thus retaining the focus of your prospective customer on whatever caught his attention in the first place.

This ‘teaser’ document, as I sometimes call it, should contain information that your reader really wants to see and it should ideally be placed within your website – and hidden from view.

This, critically, will then allow you to offer this information to your reader, in exchange for his email address.

Thereby completing the customers’ ‘route’ to your door and more importantly, providing you with a method of measuring and converting your reader into a partly-qualified prospect.

For help with writing articles that generate business, please contact me via: david @m3publishing.co.uk

David Lomas

11Jul

By David LomasIn Content Marketing

Content-sharing – How can you benefit from it?

Sending or sharing good quality content with your audience makes perfect sense to me. We all need to give out a valuable message first, in order to subsequently attract and then engage with our target audience.

This is true in other ways of communication, when, for example, we may be giving a speech. If we start by talking about something that is relevant and ‘of real value’ to our audience, then maybe, we let them know we could have some answers to their challenges. Your audience are then immediately engaged with what you are saying and will hopefully pay attention to you.

The information does not need to be about our own products or services and in fact it only works if you talk about something OTHER than yourself. This is exactly the same with your social media activity.

Google likes valuable, well-written content

It is important that what we push out to our contacts via social media has value to THEM and is not just a sales message about our products and services. I am sure most of you will agree that we see too much of that already.

In this digital and social media world, sharing valuable information with others is the critical first stage of engagement. If this content is relevant to your audience, it will help you to initially connect with them and at some stage they will hopefully want to hear more from you.

One clever way of starting this engagement process is to have a ready supply of good quality content, ready-prepared. You can then use this content as part of your strategy to attract your target audience.

How to raise your social influence by ‘sharing content’.

M3 Content Marketing Programme enables you to boost your social media profile by providing you with well-written and engaging articles that you can share and tweet through your social media forums and groups. The articles they share with you are all professionally written by their team of journalists and will each be relevant to a particular sector.

These articles are published across a portfolio of professionally-managed blogs and higher Page-ranked websites, and can then be shared by you through your social media forums – thus boosting your activity and raising your profile and influence.

M3 Media Publishing can show you ways of including articles about you in this content in order to not only raise your profile, position you as an expert but actually generate leads and connections for your business.

The main sectors in which M3 presently provide content are:

Property & Construction
HR & Recruitment
Business Expertise
Marketing & Communications
Retirement Sector
Exporting

If you want to join our content distribution programme email us at:- info@ m3publishing.co.uk detailing the sectors in which you prefer to receive content.

13Oct

By David LomasIn Content Marketing, Internet and Digital

What do you know about ‘Hummingbird’ and how it affects you?

Google recently implemented their latest and most powerful search algorithm, ‘Hummingbird’.

What a great name, and a great way of catching our attention.

Named ‘Hummingbird’ because it deals with both ‘speed’ and ‘precision’, it was introduced around the beginning of September and its’ intention is that it will improve the relevance of Google’s search results – particularly for longer, multi-word queries.

Nowadays, consumers, whether they are in business or domestic consumers, behave differently. We all as consumers, have so much more confidence in Google as a search engine that we trust to get accurate results.

This is what Google want – To find, as accurately as possible, the exact information for which you are searching.

This leads people to enter much more complex search queries into the Google website.

So rather than searching for car servicing, the customer now may request something far more specific to their particular needs, like ‘Mercedes recommended oil brand CL500’ – effectively asking for exactly what they want to know about.

This means that your business has to work to attract a much more targeted customer, by using what we call ‘long-tail keywords’.

It is all getting a bit complicated but the end result, in my opinion, is that hummingbird will help you cut through wasted enquiries and find the customers that you can really want to help.

Read my full article here at LetsTalkSocialMedia.co.uk

David Lomas

Category : Content Marketing

Google likes valuable, well-written content

How to raise your social influence by ‘sharing content’.

This is what Google want – To find, as accurately as possible, the exact information for which you are searching.