Digital marketing

Content marketing is the words, visuals and messages you publish on purpose.

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Connecting with an audience through traditional marketing activities is becoming harder and harder. Put it down to the always-on world we live in. Today, successfully marketing your product or service to your audience requires a much more nuanced approach than it ever has.

This is done through content marketing: the strategic planning, creating and publishing of a suite of content that adds legitimate value for your audience. While creating and planning the roll out of your content marketing strategy is the first step, content is not a set and forget activity. The strategies we develop and execute for our clients are based on recurring monthly cycles.

How content marketing works

01

Content plan

Align your content with the customer journey. Identify what topics, needs and questions will be addressed in your content.

02

Content audit

Audit your existing content to determine what can be used as is, what must be updated and what must be created from scratch.

03

Production plan

Determine the genre and format of each content piece. Identify who will be the subject experts, authors and other contributors.

04

Distribution plan

Identify what online and offline channels will be used to get your content in front of buyers.

05

Performance measures

Determine the objective of each piece of content and how performance will be tracked and measured.

06

Success

Content marketing creates meaningful connections between your company and your target market, so your audience seeks you out.

“Connecting with an audience through traditional marketing activities is becoming harder and harder.”

Why content marketing works

Content marketing helps solve a common problem facing all businesses by enabling businesses to regularly connect and communicate with their target audience without directly selling to them. It’s all about building an engaged audience - but not simply to drive leads, convert sales, or upsell to that audience. Remember, your audience is not the same as your marketing database.

Through investing in content, your business will be investing in an asset that can serve many business purposes. This is not about selling your product or service so much as it is about selling legitimate help and usefulness that will place you front of mind when your audience is ready to buy.

Without content marketing, businesses risk losing their audience due to constantly trying to sell to them. How many of your prospects might you be turning away by constantly trying to convert them to customers instead of serving them useful information? That’s the cost of not investing in content marketing.

When precisely understood and executed, content marketing creates meaningful connections between your company and your target market. Through content marketing, your business can become a one-stop shop for valuable information for your target audience - because you are truly helping them.

What we deliver

  • Content strategy
  • Content audit
  • Content plan
  • Production plan
  • Distribution plan
  • Performance measurement
  • Blog writing
  • Case study creation

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Success story

Kumho Tyre Australia

Kumho Tyre Australia is one of several tyre manufacturers operating in Australia, competing for the consumer tyre market. Icon helped improve their SEO through a strategic blog that engaged customers and improved their Google ranking.

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