There has been quite a lot of talk about content marketing recently- about how more than most of the marketers are turning away from the hard sell and emphasizing more on providing their audience with essential information.  Consequently, the valuable idea- ‘Set up the company as a trusted authority and leader, and the sales will ultimately go up,’ can thereby be achieved. But as you may know there is indeed required more than just creating content by video or producing white paper in this massive market scenario.

Further, according to the latest findings, most of the B2B marketers are implementing an array of tactics and distributing their content on a range of social networks than they did in the past. With these, unfortunately more uncertainty does prevail! 

The data shown below as per the recent study by a leading firm:

• 91 % B2B marketers are employing content marketing.
• On an average, marketers are spending 33 % of their budget for content marketing, i.e. surprisingly up from 26 % than the previous year.
• Almost all the content tactics are hugely being used in which mobile content is seeing a great influx.

Thus, content marketing is almost at every nook and corner in the market. Besides, creating content marketing which promises best results is not always an easy feat. That’s why spending some quality time to developing a better B2B content marketing strategy is a great step ahead in this knife-edge competitions.

Let’s have a look through some crucial elements of B2B content marketing strategy: 

Make out measurable objectives

The first step naturally is to mull over your objectives-including both qualitative and quantitative aspects. Since content marketing is rather resource-intensive, it’s pretty important to prioritize all the resource allocations in order to get excellent results.  For instance, if you’re drawing lots of active prospects, then you should prioritize: nurturing active engagement of your audience with the subject matter,   qualifying their sales willingness and thereby getting new prospects.

 

Effectively articulate your business to your customers

The next step immediately should be


a customer-focused by articulating about your business. Because this will help to recognize which content categories, subjects and approaches are most relevant and useful to your customers. Generally, all the companies and brands have their own specific areas of subject matters that are quite essential to operating and managing a business but not all of them are pertinent to what your heterogeneous customers would want to know. Thus, ensure that you’re giving what they want!

 

Decide your customer segments  

To building an effective marketing strategy, it’s better to profile your target customer segments. And to help you do so, you should use the tools such as sales profiles, personas and ideal customer models  which in turn will also add up to the effectiveness to your content marketing. The key in executing best segments is to make out the needs and pains of the customers, bring them into line with your business, group their needs and then generate the data to profile your targeted customer segments.

 

Create content for your audience 

Now that you need to create content aligned with what they would want to hear, read and know about. Ensure you develop content for them and not for yourselves. Besides the content you generate should meet the unique standards and of course, quality. Also bear in mind the search terms and keyword updates by the Google in order to get rid of any spamming issues.

Furthermore, don’t just bombard your audience with the information on the first date. Give them enough to arouse their appetite.  Then gradually, provide them with a breadcrumb trail of content which will whet their engagement at each touch-point.

Along with these, always continue making the most of content promotion, atomization, testing and learning!

 

About the Author :

David Anderson is an expert writer in the finance niche and understands the prominent role that


GC Accountants


play in B2B marketing he is a well established name in the field of marketing and business.