How do you get more audience engagement with your content marketing campaign?
Are you having trouble with your content marketing campaign? Can’t seem to get your target audience to interact or engage with your target market?
Well it’s certainly important that you do, after all “content is king” and if you are not getting any interaction or engagement from your target audience, it could mean that your businesses isn’t actually getting the attention it needs to stand out.
Needless to say, internet marketing is all about standing out. So what can you actually do about it?
Tips on getting more interaction/engagement in content marketing
Well for one thing, you need to take a serious look at your content planning and analyze the content that your website currently offers. Ponder on the following 2 questions:
- Do you have a well-defined target audience for your content?
- Do you know whom you’ve created your website content for?
You can’t expect much success out of your content strategy if you are churning out content for people that you don’t even understand. It will be impossible for your business website to captivate their interest with content marketing if you don’t understand what it is that they need and what actually is of interest to them in the first place.
Now this takes us to the second part – researching what actually captures of your target audience. This involves among other things, understanding what is that they do outside the business context. If you keep dishing out content that only revolves around your business it’s likely that most of your target audience are going to find your content utterly boring ultimately leading to loss of interest and page abandonment
Try to ask yourself, what is it that people already know about your business? If they are on your website for the first time or they don’t really know much about the product or services that your business is in, then you should be producing content that caters to these people.
The same goes for those people that are fairly knowledgeable about what it is that your business does and what to expect out of it. Perhaps for such an audience you ought to be presenting fewer pictures and more facts or statistic.Factoring these things in your content strategy is a great way of encouraging your audience to continue engaging with your content over time.
You also need to consider your goals in content marketing or internet marketing in general. Are you perhaps looking to get more engagement or is it more important for you get your online marketing message across a bigger range of audience? Well whatever the case you need to check out analytics and put your goals in place to more effectively determine what it is that you need to do to make it happen.
Presenting solutions based on the information you are getting from your analytics will improve your chances of actually getting your audience to interact with your content. Many often make the mistake churning out content that simply doesn’t send a clear message to its audience which can lead to a lot of confusion which is never a good thing in content marketing.
Last but not least, you need to consider the ways in which you are actually presenting or sharing your website content to your targeted audience. Are you merely putting it there hoping that people would actually find and interact with it or are you promoting it through social media and bookmarking?
Hopefully you are doing the latter – when your audience can easily find your content, there’s a much higher chance that they would actually engage or interact with it and hopefully end up sharing it with more people which is always a good thing!
Other important things to consider in content marketing – the content itself
Ease of access – is it easy for people to access your content? If they have to register or sign up for something then it is less likely for your target audience to go through all the trouble just to interact with your web content? If you have such barriers in place, don’t be surprised that you aren’t getting much engagement out of your web content simply because you’ve made it difficult for them to do so.
Is your web content actually easy to engage with? Is it relatively easy for your audience to share with other people? It may seem rather unimportant but having such an option to share your website content with ease ultimately helps business get more engagement out of the content that they are putting up online.
What other ways do you have in mind to help boost engagement in content marketing?
