Author: Jay Baer / Source: Convince and Convert: Social Media Consulting and Content Marketing Consulting
If you talk to most content marketers about their work, they’ll talk about it like they’re living in a scene from Field of Dreams. But I’m here to tell you: if you build it, they won’t (necessarily) come. That’s a myth of modern content marketing.
Even so, I believe in content marketing. I wrote a whole book about it, produce a podcast about it, and speak about it all over the world.
That’s why I want content marketing to work for you. More than that, I want it to work for you better than it ever has in the past.
And to do that, you have to understand the truth of content marketing: You can’t just build it. You need to research it, find an audience for it, build it, then promote it. Then, they’ll come. They’ll read. They’ll click.
How to Double Your Content Marketing Results
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Most Content Marketers Are Frustrated
According to a research report from Buzzsumo and Moz, in a randomly selected sample of 100,000 posts, over 50 percent had two or fewer Facebook interactions, and over 75 percent had zero external links.
No wonder content marketers want to pull their hair out—for the vast majority, nobody is interacting with…
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