Even larger companies need to cut corners when it comes to their marketing budget. Learn how to minimize content creation costs for your company here.
Just because you’re with a large company doesn’t mean that you have an unlimited budget for content marketing. In fact, some larger companies – especially those that have been around since dinosaurs walked the earth – still do the bulk of their marketing with traditional TV and print ads. Whatever your situation, it’s always wise to minimize content creation costs. Saving money whenever you can enables you to stretch your budget even further with revenue-building content.
Quick Takeaways:
Start with a content marketing audit of your expenses and results.Repurpose top-performing content.Involve all your teams in content production.Outsource production and automate distribution to boost your ROI.Start with a Content Marketing Audit
Like learning to sing, learning how to create a successful content marketing strategy on a budget goes better if you start with the basics.
The “Do-Re-Mi” of enterprise content strategy is your company’s current content budget, together with the data on how each area of your strategy is working. For instance, if you spend a certain amount on your corporate blog, break down the monthly expenses you incur in publishing, as Entrepreneur’s Thomas Smale advises. Next, jot down what that investment has produced, such as:
SalesNewsletter subscriptionsSharesEngagementWhite paper or e-book downloadsIn fact, you can even break it down further to see how each piece of content has performed. Identifying your top performers can help you spot trends that can help you choose the types of content you need to focus on during the coming months.
With today’s analytics programs available on both Google and most social media platforms, you can even identify new market segments to target. For instance, if you sell commercial-grade vinyl tile to mainly businesses, you might discover that a passionate group of individuals has discovered your retro-chic line of commercial tile as a source for their DIY home restoration projects. Content tailored to that group – especially if they share it with their fellow retro aficionados – may prove to be a valuable source of new business.
Outsource and Automate Content Marketing Basics
Even with an uber-talented team and input from other teams within the enterprise, there will be times in which you need more content to meet your customers’ needs. Find talented freelancers or a content marketing agency who can take on the extra tasks for much less than you would pay to hire more in-house people for your in-house team.
For example, for many of our larger clients, we handle the basic SEO-driven articles they publish once or twice and week. We then help their experts (more on that below) to build thought leadership content.
We also help our clients automate their content distribution at a fraction of the cost they would pay any other agency or internal hire. We use contextual targeting that generates CPCs that are 10x lower than most paid social. This helps us give them more bang for their content marketing buck. Content automation can get the right content into the right hands at the optimum time without you or your team lifting a finger.
Repurpose Your Best-Performing Content
Let’s say that during your audit, you discover a post you wrote back in 2013. Most of it is still relevant today, but there are a few dated parts. Yet that post has produced more leads than many of your current posts put together. You can repurpose that content in a variety of ways to reach even more of your target customers.
Use All Your Employees’ Expertise to Inform Your Content
Larger companies often gather themselves into silos. The accounting department only hangs out with fellow numbers people; the content team stays in its own social circles, and the engineering and development departments rarely mingle with the other teams.
This siloed approach prevents ideas from flowing from one team to another. In fact, each of these groups has its own specialized jargon – developers with their “scrum masters,” accounting with their “GAAPs,” and management “circling back” to their colleagues as they “leverage” X to “scale” Y.
I paraphrase. Ms. CMO, tear down that wall. Or at least pull down a few bricks in those silos.
Instead of hanging out with your content team on lunch break, head over to the engineer over there to pick her brain about the video post you’re planning to do about the new gadget that’s coming out next month. Ask your receptionist to read your draft to see if it communicates well to non-departmental insiders.
It’s employee activation – turning all your teams into active participants in your content strategy. In fact, when you do involve non-marketing teams in content production, you’ll not only save money, but you’ll likely rake in more as well. Statistics show that employee-created content generates eight times as much engagement as official branded content.
You get the picture. Unite and conquer.
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By: Michael Brenner
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Published Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 09:55:37 +0000
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