This is a guest post by Jeff Herring at JeffHerring.com.
Content creation and content marketing are a great method for building your prospects and your profits. But you don't have to get that news just from me – a recent issue of Entrepreneur Magazine had this to say about content creation and content marketing:
When it comes to marketing strategies, content marketing has just been crowned king, far surpassing search engine marketing, public relations and even print, television and radio advertising as the preferred marketing tool for today's business-to-business entrepreneur.
Want to learn more about how you can create your own profit pulling content? Join me and Jeff Herring for a free workshop webinar to learn Jeff's insider tricks to creating Profitable Content That Practically Creates Itself.Wednesday, May 23, 201311:00 am Pacific Time (click here to see the time where you live)****Bonus For LIVE Attendees Only ****
If you are on the webinar live (as opposed to catching the replay) Jeff will tweak and strengthen the content you create while on the webinar.
Jeff Herring is The King of Content Marketing. Jeff has been building his own businesses with Content Marketing since 1994. With his exclusive Content Marketing strategies, Jeff has fast become a Living Legend of Quality Traffic Generation. He has long been the “behind the scenes” guy creating Direct Response Content for many top internet marketers and business leaders. Jeff is going to show you a simple yet powerful system for creating a repeatable end-to-end business that allows you to create, market and profit from your content at will, all without being a great writer or even writing one lousy word.
Andi the Minion
Hi Jeff, excellent post, if I can add, one good reason to do it yourself is that if you have someone else do it for you and then your customers finally get to hear the real you they can often feel cheated or scammed.
I remember watching a sales video with a slick American salesman’s voice introducing himself as ‘the person’, but when I sat on a webinar with the guy he turned out have a slow Indian accent. Not what I expected and I was kind of put off from him and his products.
Regards
Andi
Rebecca Livermore
The example of the call to action and the comments are great. I definitely agree with the importance of including a call to action. On a recent post, I forgot the include a call to action and though I still got a fair number of likes and tweets, I got ZERO comments.
This really showed how much difference the call to action makes. It’s almost like people didn’t know what to do since I didn’t flat out tell them!
Denise Wakeman
Thanks for your comment, Rebecca. I tend to think that it’s not that people don’t know what to do, it’s that it doesn’t occur to them because there are hundreds of other things screaming for their attention. By asking for the comment, you’re bringing it top of mind where they can make a conscious decision to act or not. Blog on!
Rebecca Livermore
Denise,
You may be right about that. I suppose it depends somewhat on the reader and how into blogs they are, if they blog themselves, etc.
I do think giving them a specific call to action helps focus the direction of their comment (unless they chose to go a different direction with it, as I will admit I sometimes do).
Walt Goshert
Thanks Jeff and Denise,
Three great points for business owners to adopt.
And a great lesson in practice: Include a Call To Action in your content.
Denise Wakeman
Thanks for stopping by, Walt. In my experience, most bloggers don’t include a call to action, yet that is the key to making your content work for you…blog on!