When brainstorming content for performance, don’t guess. Ask sales what concerns the prospect week by week and launch micro-campaigns to test your assumptions.
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💬 When everybody’s dead busy, you gotta think fast. In this new series, you’ll find quick answers to common content problems for brands that I work with. [lwptoc numeration=”none” smoothScroll=”1″ width=”full” itemsFontSize=”80%” hoverLinkColor=”” visitedLinkColor=”#6acebb”] It was an hour into a copywriting workshop I led for a company in the storage space development industry. Their conference room paved in black and gold elements encouraged us to lay back and get personal. My earlier predictions made after a 15 minute call with the client came true. They wanted to school Ela — their eager Marketing Specialist — in persuasive writing to lift their minimal engagement on LinkedIn and Facebook, but I diagnosed that she needs to define what makes content relevant in her field. I placed my bet on covering content strategy. Finding high-impact and low-effort content ideasInstead of fixating on writing practice, we shifted into a brainstorming hunt for the next 3 micro-campaigns to test theirs options. The rules were:
Priority content answers a pain-pointMy intuitive question was what their ideal client — a warehouse manager — wants to read about right now. By asking what are their top problems they’re bothered with, the CEO defined that their area of immediate interest is:
To confirm our findings, we browsed through the concept of a B2B magazine ran by their competitor with a significant following from the same city. We then created 3 low-effort campaigns the brand can produce right away. Examples of priority micro-content campaigns1. Weekly news updatesTheory: Professionals lack time for self-education, but they find being up-to-date essential for their success For Friday’s afternoon, Ela will republish a minimum of 3 news stories from most popular industry media outlets with a one sentence explanation of the key point. Instead of original links, the brand will use bitly link analytics to measure which category clicks best. In the business sphere, perceived usefulness of content is what stops the eye. That’s where their weekly news summary can come in, where prospects can save the time wasted every morning on finding relevant stories. 2. Newsletter remindersTheory: Keeping our calendars up to date is a pain, so we’d appreciate a help from an assistant Many of their prospects call in Mrs. Basia — their project manager — to tap into her experience in warehouse operations. My advice was to automate the process by sharing best practices through an editorial newsletter. The brand can run a unified Google Calendar with check-up dates for storage racks, forklifts, and logistics to be emailed to clients who will appreciate handling that responsibility for them. Think about the philosophy of push notifications – the best ones remind us about what to do before we even think of it. I love such. Don’t you? 3. Warehouse space optimization guideTheory: General managers keep on losing revenue on operation costs because they postpone the redesign process as it’s too challenging There’s thousands to be saved on warehouse operations if we redesign the workflow to use less storage space and energy input. Scaling down is a hot topic within the industry as rental prices peak each year. Yet since construction works bring considerable money-loss caused by delays, clients repeatedly avoid optimizing altogether. Since the brand has successfully completed downsizing projects for prospects such as Amazon, I encouraged publishing a step-by-step guide explaining the timeline and projected costs and savings. They can add 2-4 case studies to build brand authority as a trustworthy handler. When completed, this guide can be shared as a .pdf and branded posts by key employees on LinkedIn, through their newsletter bases, and within LinkedIn and Facebook industry groups. Every lead will be directed onto a landing page offering a free consulting call. Key points
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