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How to Measure the Results of Your Content Marketing | Ep. #46

Sep 15, 2016

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In Episode #46 Neil and Eric explain how to measure the results of your content marketing efforts. Listen as Neil and Eric illustrate why measuring your content marketing, while important, isn’t necessarily KEY until your content marketing and its reach has hit a certain level of exposure.

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00:30 – How to measure the results of your content marketing efforts
- 00:40 – What gets measured gets managed
00:55 – One thing you can do?—start simple. Track what’s important using a spreadsheet
01:45 – With content marketing, it takes time to measure results so be patient
01:50 – Neil never measures ROI from content marketing
02:25 – When you’re spending your OWN time on content marketing, there’s virtually no cost
02:45 – Content marketing is a LONG-TERM play
03:00 – As long as traffic keeps going up, you’ll be able to find a way to monetize
03:20 – Once traffic exceeds 10,000, start collecting emails
04:15 – Calculated Risk
04:55 – Content marketing is a 12-18 month journey before you see any traction
05:35 – Think of content marketing like you think of PR
06:35 – Writing eCommerce posts didn’t get the most traction…but they were the most loyal
- 06:50 – Moral of the story, buzz does not necessarily equate to sales
- 07:58 – Each visitor isn’t the same, attract the RIGHT type of readers
08:28 – Cyfe will allow you to build out dashboards with ease
09:10 – Make something people want before you start measuring

3 Key Points:

Content marketing takes time, there won’t be short term wins.
Attracting the RIGHT type of readers is more important than attractive LOTS of readers.
What gets measured gets managed.

Resources Mentioned:

Calculated Risk – Blog from a WSJ journalist
CYFE – Social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support, infrastructure... all in one place. Track your entire business in real-time.