Hey all,
Welcome back to the monthly newsletter, where we share tactical insights that content marketers can use to improve their overall marketing impact at their companies.
This month we’re tackling the question:
What are some ways that marketers can see if their content is reaching the right people?
As much as we all enjoy the directional data provided by metrics like impressions, clicks, or number of engagements, we want to know if those numbers are growing amongst the people we value the most.
So here are 5 examples that you can use to understand if your content is attracting the right crowd:
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It’s an extraordinarily helpful snapshot that you can show your leadership team to say, look at the companies that match our ICP who viewed our content.
And you can use this information to support your sales team and your paid ads team as they look to build audiences and retarget folks who show signs of higher intent.
You’ve likely noticed that once you’ve established someone within your contacts in HubSpot, you can see what pages they visit on your website.
If you’d like to get an idea of exactly what those people looked at first or which pieces of content attracted which accounts, all you need to do is click on their contact activity and look at how they navigated through your website.
You can also use either of the two filters for lists:
Here is a helpful thread on how to generate these lists.
For a content marketer, you’re looking for any references to content and channels that’ll help you identify what’s influencing the people that were willing to turn over their email addresses and become a contact.
You’ve likely heard about this tactic from the loudest of the loud demand generation people on social, and it’s good advice.
You’ll get the following:
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This tool can be a considerable investment and requires setup, but its power to illustrate attribution for marketers is leading to its growth in popularity.
A few that’ll help you as a content marketer is the ability to see:
This tool has helped prove that our SEO-focused content is being read by hundreds of target accounts for our B2B SaaS clients and even reports on the millions of closed-won revenue the content has influenced.
That makes us proud of our work and gives the in-house content managers budget increases and promotions.
Great content helps close deals faster, helps a customer use your product in a specific way, and answers general questions about your product.
If you’re teaming up cross-functionally to create these types of content assets, which you ought to be, create a system for those teams to record when and which piece of content was used with a prospect or customer.
You’ll get a sense of the audience you’re building with your content by looking at several key insights, especially on a platform as job focused as LinkedIn.
A pretty quick glance at the following will tell you how you’re doing at creating the right type and level of content:
If there are multiple accounts (personal, co-workers, and brand) you can use these to target different levels of professionals within your industry to ensure your reach is expanded across department and management levels at your ICPs.
This list gives you a lot of options for getting a read on who is looking at your content whether you’re trying to have a full view of your buyer journey that’s integrated across your tech stack, or you simply need to do a quick, occasional check to make sure you’re still on the right track.
Has your team found other convenient ways or tools that allow you to identify who is looking at your content?
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