Introducing Content Marketing

15 Smart, Fast and Inexpensive Ways to Help You Find and Retain Customers

Content marketing:

  1. reaches your clients through the mediums they love: text, audio, video.

  2. is delivered through a variety of formats: blogs, ebooks, newsletters, podcasts, videos, infographics.

  3. helps your message become valuable to your audience. You create content that helps customers with their concerns, challenges, questions, needs.

  4. acknowledges the fact that customers are becoming better informed when buying products, and empowering them to make informed choices.

  5. takes advantage of the fact that nearly 60% of the purchasing decision is made before their first interaction with a salesperson, thanks to the ocean of information on Internet.

  6. establishes your business and yourself as a trusted, credible authority in the marketplace.

  7. improves your marketing even if you don’t have the money for advertising.

  8. makes it easy for your audience to remember your brand for a long time.

  9. builds your own media channels so that you don’t have to rely on existing often expensive existing channels (eg Google ads).

  10. communicates to your audience at different awareness levels: most-aware, product-aware, solution-aware, problem-aware, completely-unaware.

  11. is critical in our online, social, mobile world where customers make decisions based on the content they consume and share.

  12. is becoming crucial to stay competitive in business, whether online or offline.

  13. can benefit businesses in all industries and of all sizes.

  14. helps your website get better visibility on search engines.

  15. is a great way you build your brand online.

About the author

Alex is a pioneer in using the cloud to meet the needs of small and medium sized business (SMBs) and membership-based organizations. He has a BSc in computer science from the University of Michigan and has worked as a product manager at two Internet startups. Alex is a father of 2 and plays the trumpet for fun. He is the founder and the president of the University of Michigan Alumni Club of Toronto.