Table of Contents
- Summary
- Great content marketers use analytics to build support and crush silos
- Conclusion
- About Louis Columbus
- About GigaOm
- Copyright
1. Summary
Making content marketing strategies contribute to revenue involves more than delivering a continual stream of blog posts, e-books, website content, white papers, and video content. The best content marketers make a point of working with sales teams to gain a thorough understanding of the buying process and how each buying role contributes to a sale. Also, there are specific tips and rules to keep in mind when pursuing a strategy that involves collaboration between different groups in an organization.
Key findings from this report include:
- Combining story-based content in a problem/solution context increased conversion rates by 46 percent for a B2B marketer of enterprise software.
- Including customer videos and testimonials within story-based content increased conversion rates by 53 percent for a B2B marketer.
- Tracking each content-based tactic or strategy by program cost, pipeline generated, and expected or forecasted revenue and calculating the ratio of revenue to investment shows which content-based strategies are paying off and which aren’t.
- The bottom line is that conversion rates improve when content becomes contextual, tells a compelling story, and includes measurable results with which prospects quickly identify.
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