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Who’s your favorite Superman? Is it Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, or Henry Cavill? If you’re like many Superman aficionados, you may not have a favorite. You enjoy them all on their own merits. Each rendition of Superman brought a new facet to the character. Content is much like those favorite characters who we keep bringing back.

Most businesses don’t have an infinite marketing budget, so it’s important to focus on smart content marketing. In creating a strategy, you can put your marketing dollars toward the most effective methods to increase your audience and boost sales. Here are five more content marketing ideas that you can use on a budget to see how your customers respond.

As we enter 2021 with innovative ideas and new opportunities in entrepreneurship, let’s take a look at how content marketing can lead to new customers, even if you don’t have a huge budget. The key is to get a content strategy and build your content vault as you grow your business. Here are five ideas you can build into your marketing plan to reach out to your audience.

As you look forward to your 2021 content strategy, look back at the roller coaster of 2020. This year—make no mistake—it was a pandemic that altered consumer behavior, forcing marketing teams to pivot their content plans. #BlackLivesMatter put the focus on minority businesses and diversity. Our focus was on helping businesses stay relevant while maximizing their online presence.

With everything going on in the world, you may be wondering if people care about grammar and spelling on your website and social media channels. Here’s the thing—people now have more time to notice errors in online content. Smashed Media estimates that “grammatical mistakes on websites can reduce sales by up to 50%.” Quality Logo Products reports that 42.5% of over 1,000 social media users who were surveyed about spelling mistakes would not purchase goods on websites that had misspellings. It’s not as though your audience comprises of language experts and schoolteachers, but consumers want to see that your brand cares about the details, even the seemingly unimportant details like grammar and spelling in digital content. To support your busy team of in-house writers, consider hiring an experienced SEO copywriter who can play the role of a content editor.   

Even if you can’t afford to hire a bunch of people to manage online content, you can support your team with a strategic plan to produce high quality content. Here are the best ways to develop the potential of your content marketing team, regardless of size.

Content is vital to your marketing strategy. The quality and volume of your content help drive your SEO rankings. The thing to remember is that SEO is just a skeleton without content. Content without SEO is just pretty fabric without a purpose. Many businesses produce content for SEO purposes. After all, you want your website to rank in search to gain customers. But if you forget about the human audience, your content won’t get consumed, shared and re-consumed. When you focus on your user first, making your content relevant and useful, your audience wants more, leading to better SEO rankings.

Modern consumers shop 24 hours a day. Most businesses don’t have the capability to be available every hour of every day to answer questions and provide information. Chatbots are a popular method of responding to your audience. Although chatbots have been around since 1966, today’s chatbots are becoming incredibly more useful and responsive. They’ve gone way beyond the telephone message system of the 1980s and 1990s. With a rise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), you can utilize this technology to benefit your own business. May content marketing work for you – in real-time!