{"id":888,"date":"2021-03-17T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growwithwill.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2021-03-14T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T13:53:04","slug":"why-content-marketing-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growwithwill.com\/why-content-marketing-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Content Marketing is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that content marketing was one of the most highly sought after skills of what companies were looking for in their next marketer? There&#8217;s good reason why. And in this article, we&#8217;re going to dig into five of those reasons to help you better understand as an entrepreneur or a side hustler why you need to start using content marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"700\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zO_-4HXMZRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growwithwill.com\/digital-marketing-jumpstart\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">Get my free Digital Marketing Jumpstart Kit!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason 1: Builds trust with your prospects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first reason why content marketing is so powerful is because it helps you build trust with your prospects. There is really no better way to build trust today than sharing information publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s say, for example, you were looking for an accountant and you had the choice between a CPA that just has a website but no content on it and an accountant that has answered hundreds of questions around taxes and accounting. Nine times out of 10, you would choose the CPA that had those hundreds of answers than the one without. And the reason why is because information is power these days. And we are in a time in which we like to learn more before we engage somebody in services. And so that&#8217;s what content marketing can fill the gap of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Content marketing is a great way for you to demonstrate your expertise and build trust with your prospects. Really effective content marketing shows your prospects that you know what you&#8217;re talking about. Nowadays, people that build in public and share their knowledge with others publicly reap the benefits of that trust factor as opposed to the people that keep that information behind a walled garden and don&#8217;t necessarily openly share their industry secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s for this exact reason why if you were to jump onto Twitter, you would find a ton of people that have built massive audiences because they&#8217;ve openly shared expertise that they might have previously not shared online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason 2: Makes your sales process more collaborative<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The second reason why content marketing is so powerful is because it makes your sales process so much more collaborative. In the past, I found it super effective to create content marketing pieces that share some of the stories of some of our greatest customer wins. And the reason why is because if we can share these stories about different ways that organizations of different sizes have seen success with our product, then that will make the prospect that we are talking to even more compelled to learn more about our product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It creates a situation in which by the time the buyer makes it further down in the buyer&#8217;s journey and continues to engage with a sales rep, they naturally have more and more questions about our product and want to learn more about different ways that they could or couldn&#8217;t use our product to solve their problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oftentimes, I have found that the more questions people ask along the way in getting to the point of being ready to be sold something, the more likely they are to also make that purchase. The reason why is because these are informed buyers that feel really confident about the solution at hand as a result of having consumed all these different forms of content marketing as well as having some productive sales conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you&#8217;re able to pair an effective piece of content marketing along with an engaged prospect, I have found it to be one of the best ways to increase the average client value or the deal size of your company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason 3: Meets your prospects in a different medium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The third reason why I think content marketing is so powerful is because it helps meet your prospects in a different medium. What I mean by this is that in most sales conversations, you&#8217;re either having an in-person meeting or you&#8217;re jumping on some sort of a call. So this means that when you have content marketing pieces that are in the form of a PDF or a printable or something else, you can have the prospect engage with your company and your brand in a different media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By meeting your prospect through a different medium, you&#8217;re giving another exposure point to your brand or a company that doesn&#8217;t require them interfacing with somebody from your brand. As a result, they have more power to form their own impression about your company or your brand, which allows them to feel more like an empowered consumer. This mere exposure effect really starts to compound over time because it really establishes yourself as the person or the company that your prospect will think of the next time they think about the thing that you solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back when I was a one-minute salesperson generating our first million dollars in sales, I had to use a combination of a lot of email marketing and content marketing in order to reach all of our prospects. Since we didn&#8217;t have all that much bandwidth. And this content marketing definitely worked because even though not every prospect bought from me that year, they would be prospects that would pop back into my inbox a year or even two years later, responding to an email campaign or some sort of content marketing piece because they thought about our company and what we solve when they were ready to make a purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growwithwill.com\/digital-marketing-jumpstart\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">Get my free Digital Marketing Jumpstart Kit!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason 4: Generates qualified leads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth reason why content marketing is so powerful is because it helps you generate qualified leads. Each content marketing piece that you create becomes another asset that will compound into your content marketing machine. And as a result, give you another opportunity to get in front of the right sort of customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we think back to that earlier example of the CPA site, if we were to add a simple call-to-action at the end of every single one of our answers to those hundreds of accounting or taxes questions, we could have another few hundred opportunities to get in front of the right sort of customer and have them reach out to us if they had additional questions about their tax situation or some sort of question that they couldn&#8217;t get answered from the content marketing piece. By providing this sort of channel, we would be able to better identify a more qualified lead than just somebody that would have contacted us through the contact page on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason 5: Bolsters your business&#8217; SEO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth reason why content marketing is so powerful is because it bolsters your businesses SEO. SEO is a long game. So over time, each of your content marketing pieces will snowball and build a bigger and bigger asset for your business. Building up your content marketing is very similar to building up a YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, every week I released two new videos on sales, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship. And as a result, I am gradually snowballing the different content marketing pieces that could be applicable for whatever business endeavor I want to expand into in the future. I&#8217;ll have some future videos that show you more about the different ways to optimize your content for SEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But trust me, when I say that it makes a big difference in building up your authority and trust in your space and as a result growing your brand or business. The reason why it&#8217;s so important to build up your trust and authority with Google is because it&#8217;s a major ranking factor in which if you are more trustworthy or more authoritative than your competitor, your website is more likely to be shown higher up in the search results on Google. As a result of that, the next time that somebody is looking for your product or service, they&#8217;re more likely to end up on your website than your competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two things I want you to remember from this article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>The first one is that content marketing helps you make your sales process way more efficient. If you can answer some of the questions that prospects are commonly asking you through your content marketing, you will make more sales because people are going to be more educated in their buyer&#8217;s journey.<\/li><li>The second big takeaway is that when done right, content marketing can create some powerful flywheel effects. In the past, I&#8217;ve built blogs that generate millions of pages every single month. And as a result, tons of qualified leads simply because of a commitment to a multi-year effort around content marketing.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you found this article helpful, be sure to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.growwithwill.com\/subscribe\">check out my YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;to get new videos every single week I\u2019ll help take you from zero to self-starter as you grow your business, get more customers, and hone your business acumen. Also, feel free to share this with anybody that you know that might benefit from learning as to why content marketing is so important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growwithwill.com\/digital-marketing-jumpstart\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">Get my free Digital Marketing Jumpstart Kit!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that content marketing was one of the most highly sought after skills of what companies were looking for in their next marketer? There&#8217;s good reason why. 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