Google, Yahoo and Bing increasingly include results from social media discussions in their search results. Especially Google+ results are likely more visible on Google results pages. Bing favors Facebook and also search results on Facebook are also from Bing too.
But how to get into those results the smartest way?
The easiest way to get better found on search engines is content marketing. As content marketing has become the most powerful marketing strategy to increase brand awareness, trust and credibility with the audience.
As content is only a part of an integral marketing strategy there is more part of the marketing puzzle important to be used.
The most powerful internet marketing strategy which also has proven to be successful and to bring guaranteed results for businesses is Inbound Marketing.
Inbound marketing consist of content creation like Blogging, Social Media Marketing, Lead Conversion, Lead Nurturing and Closed-Loop Analysis.
Inbound Marketing has proven to:
• Save up to 62% of a businesses marketing budget.
• Make a business stand out of their competition.
• Help to generate a massive amount of leads with up to 55% higher lead conversion rates
• Increase customers, sales and revenue.
Content creation
Content Marketing has become a significant part of online marketing strategy. Content marketing has proven to be the best and most cost effective way to drive traffic to a company website and convert this traffic to leads and customers.
The most popular ways of content marketing are blogging, social media and video. Studies show that 57% of companies which operate a corporate blog get customers through their blogging effort!
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing has become a powerful tool to spread remarkable content to reach a wide audience.
For companies who engage in social media and show presence in these channels can open wide opportunities to get in touch with their audience. This leads to an increase of credibility and unfiltered feedback of the target audience and can lead to an improvement of products and services.
New studies show that up to 65 percent of today’s consumers expect a brand to listen and to respond on questions, comments and complaints in social media. Studies also show that companies which use social media actively to communicate with their audience are more successful than companies who do not.
Lead Generation
Inbound marketing has a 62% lower cost per lead than traditional marketing strategies. Inbound marketing way generated leads have a 55% higher lead conversion rate than lead generated through traditional marketing strategies.
Lead Nurturing – Lead Conversion
Effective lead nurturing increases lead conversion by up to 55%. Which does not mean that lead nurturing consist of sales pitches. Moreover effective lead nurturing is also a communication process with the future client in which the lead receives helpful and valuable information too. This grows the trust and increases the chances that a lead buys when he is ready to do so, because he knows the source as a trusted and reputable one.
Closed-Loop Analysis
All marketing tasks need to be measured to ensure you are walking the right way. During this closed loop analysis you increase successful tasks measure, improve and repeat. This ensures a step by step quality increase and a gradually decrease of marketing costs up to 62%.
Infographic: Content creation
Keep your inbound marketing flexible to react on real-time news! Always keep the news in focus. As news appears they can offer a tremendous opportunity for you to jump on this bandwagon to use it as your own marketing push the piggy pack way! But you must react quickly, in real-time!
Simply be the first who tweets, shares or likes the story and also take into account to write a blog article from your point of view ASAP! This can help to increase your brand awareness.
Did I missed something, what do you think?
Further important resources:
- Creating a Content Marketing Strategy | Business 2 Community
- What makes content marketing google worthy?
- Social media, content marketing top priorities for 70 percent of …
- The 10 Commandments of Social Media Content Marketing …
- How 3 Companies Took Content Marketing to the Next Level
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Social media is such a huge factor in a companies success, especially if they are a smaller company because it creates that brand presence and recognition that may make the brand appear to be bigger than they really are. Great article!
Social media only Social media is used these days. Linking and other seo method are vanished some some.