When visitors come to your website, what exactly are you feeding them? Have you ever stopped to think about it? Is your copy like a greasy burger and fries that you didnt put much thought into picking up, or more like a lovingly prepared home cooked Sunday supper with all of the trimmings?
Why the food comparison? Well, its actually quite logical. Your web copy provides your visitors with the information that they need to decide whether or not they want to purchase your goods or services. So in essence, your copy is food for their buying decision. The question is, do they leave your website properly satiated or will they find themselves hungry for something more substantial mere moments later?
The best way to ensure that your content provides readers with the information that they need to pick up that phone or submit your online form is to supply your cooks (aka your writers) with fresh, nutrient-dense ingredients. Truly nutritious content should have your fingerprints all over it. It should be redolent with your unique brand voice, toothsome with hearty information, and it should linger in their minds like a fine wine on the palate. If you want to convince them and convert them it is essential to offer something more than fast food copy.
This is a webinar BrightTalk asked me to present last week on how to tackle the main obstacle of modern marketers: developing content.
Some say content is the fuel of marketing but as it became so pervasive in all marketing activities, it also became the bottleneck. At Scoop.it, we developed a framework alongside top content marketing influencers to reach ROI with content and that we called lean content marketing. In this webinar, I presented some of the key lean content marketing strategies.