According to a study by Regalix, The State of B2B Content Marketing 2016, 73% of CMOs are dissatisfied with content marketing.
Crap content, of course, explains much of the dissatisfaction. Crap content won't give a brand a welcome seat at customers' tables.
CMOs' impatience explains the rest. They've spent all this dough. Where are the results?
Maybe they expect too much, too soon.
Content marketing isn't branding; but it sure as hell isn't selling, either.
To work, it takes time and amplification. Before results arrive, you have to cultivate an audience and win its trust.
Look at the number of readers you're getting. How large is your readership? How many readers are clicking from your blog to other value-added content? How many are sharing and recommending your content? If the numbers are low, you can't expect stellar results. Those take time.
So exercise some patience. Be like Orson Welles, who earned his "grocery money" in the 1970s by shooting TV commercials, the most famous of which has aged pretty well.
