Why Your Content Marketing is Failing (and how to fix it)

In a digital world where customers have all the power and everyone is a publisher, increasingly high competition and standards are pressuring marketing teams into a race to produce higher quality content, in greater volumes, and at a faster rate than ever before, often with the same amount of resources. But while content is the fuel for every digital marketing engine, not everyone gets the same mileage out of it. A 2016 report from Content Marketing Institute found that while 88% of B2B organizations are using content marketing, only 30% rated their content efforts as being effective for reaching their goals. This session delivers an insightful overview of common costly mistakes that can be killing your content marketing results, and a deep dive on how to maximize content marketing ROI with actionable tips and steps to amplify the impact of every content initiative, including: · Content Planning. Creating monthly and quarterly content plans aligned with the customer journey, and key business goals and metrics · Content Creation. Digital content creation approaches optimized for search, engagement and conversion, designed for re-purposing · Content Distribution. Integrated multi-channel content distribution tactics to reach both larger—and more qualified—target audiences across platforms · Data Utilization, Automation and Metrics. The utilization of data, automation and marketing technology to test, measure and enhance targeting to optimize results · Content Lifecycle Management. Understanding the stages of the digital content lifecycle to implement an efficient, repeatable process and lengthen the lifetime value of content