If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
— Henry Ford
What's a content marketer to do?
Scrape the web for feedback to create content customers search for? Or create content based on your vision of a better future?
We all know the merits of creating content based on web feedback.
Study upon study shows customers begin their "buying journey" by Googling familiar keywords... prefer those brands whose content they find... and find that content because it's stuffed with those keywords and conforms to their notions of a "buyer's guide."
Scrape the web for feedback to create content customers search for? Or create content based on your vision of a better future?
We all know the merits of creating content based on web feedback.
Study upon study shows customers begin their "buying journey" by Googling familiar keywords... prefer those brands whose content they find... and find that content because it's stuffed with those keywords and conforms to their notions of a "buyer's guide."
And we all know the pitfalls of creating content based on a vision.
That kind of content isn't stuffed with all the keywords customers know and doesn't otherwise meet their expectations of a "buyer's guide." So they never find it; or, if they do, don't click on it. Like the tree that falls in the empty forest, content based on a vision makes no sound.
That kind of content isn't stuffed with all the keywords customers know and doesn't otherwise meet their expectations of a "buyer's guide." So they never find it; or, if they do, don't click on it. Like the tree that falls in the empty forest, content based on a vision makes no sound.
How do you create content?
