Content marketing is a valuable tool for the marketer. If it’s executed correctly, your prospects will seek your business out. That’s half the battle won for you, with no pushy sales tactics necessary.
Getting Content Marketing Right is Tricky
Unfortunately, content marketing can be tricky to master. Part of the reason is that it’s difficult to work out the return on investment. There’s no metric that measures the influence of a post on a consumer. You can track the visitor’s actions on your page, but that leaves you with a very narrow definition of success.
Traffic to a post is another very narrow way to define success. We all aim for our posts to go viral, but how much value is that adding to your business? It might help to boost your SEO results, but how much of that traffic results in a sale being made?
Another complication is that it takes a while for you to start to see results. The blog post that you publish now could take a few months to really start gaining traction. The delay between posting time and when you start to see results come in can seem interminable.
If only there was some way to gauge your target audience’s reaction faster. Could influencer marketing give you a head start here? Let’s see.
Influencer Marketing + Content Marketing
Depending on the type of content marketing strategy you’re engaged in, you might already be involved with an influencer. If you’ve created a guest post for someone serving the same target market, you’re relying on their influence to boost your results.
Guest posting can be highly effective, but there are also issues to be addressed:
That’s why I’m talking about a more formal approach here. One where you hire the influencer to promote your brand.
The Benefits of Hiring an Influencer
Hiring an influencer means that:
How to Make Content Marketing Work with an Influencer?
1. Measure the Right Metrics when Selecting Candidates
Before you start vetting candidates, it important to understand the difference between potential reach and engagement.
An influencer with a million followers can be said to have a greater reach than one with twenty thousand followers. That said, that’s not worth much if those users aren’t actively engaging with the influencer.
If they’re not actively liking, sharing, or commenting on posts, your reach becomes more limited. The engagement of the audience is a much better metric to base your decision on.
2. Getting the Content Right
Many businesses make the decision to create their own content to be shared. From the business’s standpoint, this makes sense – you need to control what’s published online about your company.
In this case, though, it could backfire. You’re hiring the influencer because they have a voice in the community. Choosing content that fits with both their brand, and yours is essential, or the message will seem inauthentic.
That’s why it pays to allow the influencer some leeway when it comes to content creation. Let them rephrase or reformat your content into something that works for them. You can always check the finished project before it’s published.
Your influencer will be able to advise you on the type of content that works best. You can get more ideas for the type of content from the infographic below. First published on the Review 42 site, it’s packed with even more tips to help you with your content marketing.
Final Notes:
Content marketing and influencer marketing can be a good fit. You take the content to the space that your target market likes to hang out at online. You get the benefit of the influencer’s advice, a fresh set of eyes to look over your content, and access to an audience of people who trust the influencer.
Making these campaigns successful means partnering with the right influencer and ensuring that your content is a great fit. Here it’s essential to get the input of the influencer that you’re hiring. That said, this is one shortcut that can be helpful in boosting your business and brand awareness. It could work out to be a profitable transaction for both of you.
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