Every day you will find more businesses starting to promote their brand, products, and services with a digital marketing strategy. Did you know that magnetic content (pull marketing) improves conversion rates and lead generation? It can also build relationships. Using magnetic content in your digital marketing campaign not only makes your target audience think,but it can touch them emotionally as well.
Have you ever felt like telling the writer or sharing the piece of content with your own network when you have read something interesting that touches you emotionally? I have! Writing magnetic content that touches people emotionally may eventually lead to much more. So when you are busy with your digital marketing strategy, never forget that you can use magnetic content to build relationships with your campaign. At the end of the day, people like to do business with people that they know and that they trust.
How are you going to start building relationships with your magnetic content? Find below a couple of tips that can help you with this.
Blog comments
Posting comments on other relevant blogs in your industry is a great way to get people to start communicating. In the past, many digital marketers used blog commenting to build backlinks back to their websites and even though this can still be relevant, it’s better used for building a relationship with the blog owner and their readers by providing them with insights. The easiest way to start with this is by monitoring related blogs, forums, and message boards related to your niche. What are people current talking about? How can you join the conversation. Always try to add value to the conversation and not sounding like a spammer.
Social media marketing
On the social web, everyone is a citizen journalist. With social media you can make connections on a more personal level that can help build up trust and relationships. With this said, it doesn’t mean you will get instant results by publishing a blog post and feeding it through Facebook and Twitter. It is important that you encourage others to engage with your content. Once again you can do some monitoring/listening and see where the conversation is happening and what is currently trending. You can then create magnetic content based on your research. If you keep on creating magnetic content that pulls your audience in in will definitely pay off with powerful relationships. Using magnetic content with your social media marketing is a powerful method to start building your community.
Guest posting
If you want to position yourself, brand or business in front of larger audiences, why not give guest blogging a go for added exposure. If you write magnetic content on established blogs in your niche, you will create opportunities to build relationships with the readers of that blog. This doesn’t mean you should post your content and be done with it, answer comments you receive and see how you can add value to start building a conversation with those readers.
Using magnetic content in your digital marketing strategy is an excellent way to start building relationships with your target audience.
Hi Anton,
I like the concepts of magnetic content and pull marketing, great word pictures. Everything evolves to socializing more and building those relationships whereas some people are still chasing backlinks. We need to engage with people and enter into conversations with them – it’s not just a one-way conversation.
The issue is that too many people are too much concerned about technology while they should figure out a strategy first.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Best,
Oliver
That is so true Oliver. Content marketing shouldn’t be just about pushing out content for the sake of it. Those SEO days are over. Creating magnetic content that get people engaged with your topic is the new SEO. I did another post about this a while ago:
https://www.antonkoekemoer.com/digital-marketing/creating-magnetic-content-for-digital-marketing/