What is content marketing? In a nutshell, it’s relevant content you’ve researched and developed targeting your defined audience’s interests as it relates to your business. What it’s not is a sales pitch. It’s used to inform and educate, while hopefully building your database to later convert to leads and a sale. Content marketing formats can consist of videos, slide presentations and articles and much more. What you do with all of the formats, is up to you based on your target audiences personality.

Content Marketing Checklist

For example, if you’re researchs hows that your audience is straight laced and conservative, maybe creating quirky content is not such a good idea. You could stand out, but not necessarily in a good way. The challenge is developing informative and educational content that your audience cares about.

So how/where can you generate great content marketing ideas?

So you’re desperately reading this post, asking can you just get to the point? Yes! Below is the link to generate 100 content marketing ideas. If you know what to do with the ideas, you’re about to download, then get to work. If not, read on…

100 Quick Content Marketing Ideas

Hubspot’s Blog Idea Generator

You’ll never run out of ideas with this one. Hubspot has created an amazing tool that, with just 3 suggestions, can generate 100 topics you can download! After you enter your nouns, on the results page, scroll down, fill out of the form and you’ll be able to download them all or  email them to a colleague

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So now that you’re loaded with ideas, who’s going to develop them to meet all of your content marketing requirements?

 

 

 

If you’re a start-up, you probably have several balls up in the air, you don’t have the time, right? Here’s a quick fix cost effective solution to get your content strategy going. It’s FIVERR. Fiverr houses freelance writers, video editors, graphic designers and more at extremely affordable prices. Why do freelancers offer their services on the cheap? It’s not because they aren’t qualified. They usually have full-time jobs, and are trying to make some extra cash.

After I provided the key words required for each topic and other SEO writing tactics required to please the search engines AND readers, I was able to hire a Los Angeles Times writer for as little as $75 a week to develop 5 articles a week based on subjects I provided. I use fiverr for all types of graphic design, ppts decks and much more. You’re able to read the reviews and see examples of work. JUST DO IT!

Don’t forget the content marketing short list to make sure your articles meet the requirements…