Getting Started
If you are new to content marketing, you have come to the right place! Here are some common questions you may have.
What exactly is content marketing?
Content marketing is the strategic marketing approach of creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.
In short, instead of pitching your products or services, you are delivering information that makes your buyer more intelligent. The essence of this content strategy is the belief that if we, as businesses, deliver consistent, ongoing valuable information to buyers, they ultimately reward us with their business and loyalty.
What Is Content Marketing?
What are the basic principles, tactics, and terms?
Like other forms of digital marketing, content marketing involves the strategic use of engaging, high-quality content. However, content marketers use content to serve the distinct purpose outlined above. Rather than replacing techniques like traditional marketing, public relations, or search engine optimization, content marketing is most effective when it’s applied in tandem with them.
Though content marketing shares many of the same tactics and terminology used in other marketing disciplines, they need to be viewed and applied through a different lens. To get a clear understanding of what those terms are – and where their distinctions lie – check out our essential glossary of key content marketing terms.
How do I get started?
These articles offer step-by-step approaches and templates to help you set up the foundation of your content marketing program:
- Content Marketing Basics: How To Start (or Jumpstart) Your Content Practice
- The 3 Strategic Pillars Behind Every Winning Content Strategy
- Content Creation Process: Everything You Need To Wow Your Audience
- Social Media Content Plan: Take Control of Your Strategy
- SEO for Digital Content Marketing: How To Optimize for Search in 2023
- How to Build a Successful Editorial Plan
- How to Measure Content Marketing: The (Updated) Essential Guide
Start with documenting your strategy so you can determine how your content will help people in a way that no other company is doing.
Download our 16-page guide to learn what questions to ask and how to develop your strategy.
How does content marketing relate to other forms of marketing?
Content marketing is quickly becoming part of the overall marketing process. Still, we get a lot of questions about how to adapt (or understand) traditional marketing concepts in the content marketing era.
These resources will help you understand how content marketing works with – but differs from – all of these forms and components of marketing:
- Demand generation
- Native advertising
- Branded content
- Media planning
- Product marketing
- Account-based marketing
- Social media
- SEO
- Inbound marketing
- Public relations
- Influencer marketing
Have more questions? Reach out and ask!