Beyond the Buzz: How to Use Intentionality to Elevate Your Content Marketing Game

Sherry —The Biz Starter Author

Posted On Mar 19, 2023 |

Deliberate content marketing is like the secret sauce that adds the perfect flavor to your business marketing recipe. 

It's that game-changing ingredient that can't be overlooked if you want to spice up your success!

While the primary goal of content marketing may vary from business to business, building relationships with your target audience is the key benefit that cannot be overlooked. 

Intentional content marketing is a purposeful method of producing and sharing content that focuses on developing robust relationships with your intended audience. The objective is to craft meaningful, useful, and captivating content for your viewers to establish your brand as a reliable authority and to create long-term loyalty.

Building strong customer relationships is essential for any business to succeed, especially online businesses. People are not just looking for information on search engines; they look for experts who can help them solve their problems. By building relationships, entrepreneurs place themselves in the position to be experts in their respective fields and gain the trust and loyalty of their customers.

In this blog, we explore how entrepreneurs can use intentionality to elevate their content marketing approach, build strong relationships with their audience, and attract and repel the right audience.

🎯Intentional Customer Focus

The first step towards building strong relationships is to focus on your ideal customer. Brick-and-mortar businesses don't build relationships by talking about themselves or focusing on our needs. The same principle applies to online businesses. To build relationships, entrepreneurs must offer what their customers need. This means understanding their challenges, problems, and questions. Researching to gain insights into the customer's pain points can help entrepreneurs create content and ideas to address their needs and offer them value.

Creating high-quality content to attract your ideal customer can also help you repel those customers you do not want. You can create unique content that speaks directly to your target audience. Quality content means putting your audience's best interests at heart and doing something different that no one else is doing. Creating quality over quantity content and engagement with your ideal customer will help you avoid the pitfalls of taking shortcuts and attracting an audience that is not ideal who won’t buy from you.

🎯Intentionally Showing Up

Another essential aspect of building relationships is authenticity. Social media and the internet can be impersonal, so your content with intention must have a personal touch and can help entrepreneurs build strong relationships with their audience. Show up for your audience, flaws and all, and be transparent and authentic. Your authenticity and willingness to be human help you establish a connection with your audience. The best practice is to use actual pictures of yourself for profile images, tell stories, and add personal anecdotes to help you connect authentically with your audience through social media, email campaigns, events, and offers.

Monitoring relationship building is important for building and improving intentional content marketing. Measuring key metrics can help you evaluate whether your efforts are paying off. Metrics such as email open rates and click-through rates, time spent on site, and social media engagement can provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of content marketing efforts. More importantly, the quality of leads you attract is a good indicator of your efforts to intentionally attract premium customers and repel those who are not a good fit for you.

🎯More Intention—Less Buy My Stuff

It's important to note that entrepreneurs should avoid promoting their products or services when building relationships. The focus should be on helping the audience and offering value. Sales will naturally follow when entrepreneurs establish trust and credibility with their audience. Building relationships is a crucial aspect of a successful business. By focusing on being intentional with your audience, creating high-quality content, and being authentic, you can establish yourself as an expert in your respective field and gain the trust and loyalty of your customers. Monitoring key metrics can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your intentional content marketing efforts. With a deliberate and intentional approach to content marketing, you can build strong relationships with your audience and drive sales.

🎯Intentional Content

Content is what draws customers in and helps them engage with a brand, building trust and loyalty over time. But with so many different types of content out there, how do you know what to create for your audience? The answer lies in identifying the goal for that content. By determining what you hope the content will achieve, you can tailor it to meet your audience's needs and drive the desired results.

The first goal for content is to raise awareness of your brand. When you're starting out, your target audience may not even know your business exists. Creating content that introduces yourself and your business to your audience can expand your reputation, build brand visibility, and build trust and credibility. This type of content should be publicly posted in as many places as possible, including blog posts, podcasts, social media posts, videos, infographics, and images. The content should offer something helpful or valuable to your target audience and showcase your expertise with the intention of attracting your ideal customer and repelling the ones who are not willing to take action toward their own success and invest in themselves to solve their problems.

🎯Attract and Repel

One of the most important goals for your content, whether on social media, on a blog, on a podcast, or during an event, is for you to attract your ideal premium customer and repel the people who won’t invest in themselves. Once your audience knows your brand, they may want to learn more about what you offer. This is where you can create intentional content that helps you determine which people in your sales funnel are potential buyers. This content should solve one of the audience members' pressing problems that goes deeper than what they can use Google to answer. That’s why lead magnets are important to entrepreneurs wanting to grow and sell more products and services. Examples include checklists, reports, cheat sheets, courses, resource lists, email messages, and other content. You can demonstrate your value and build a relationship with your audience by offering something unique with a helpful message.

Building strong relationships with your audience is the next goal for content. This is where you can create personalized and exclusive content for your audience, helping to keep them loyal to you and creating repeat customers. This content should solve problems and be highly unique. You can use personal channels like email messages, social media content, or webinars to deliver this content. By offering exclusive and helpful information, you can demonstrate your value to your audience and keep them engaged with your brand.

🎯No Strategy—No Wins

A comprehensive strategy is needed to succeed at attracting your premium, ideal customer and repelling lurkers who have no interest in working with or buying from you. It involves aligning each piece of content with a specific goal to be intentional. You may need content to get people into your sales funnel and more content to build relationships, eventually leading to paid content. By identifying your goals and creating content that meets those goals, you can drive the results you desire and grow your business over time.

Intentional content marketing is about building strong relationships with your audience. To achieve this, you must focus on your customers and create high-quality content that offers real value. Don't forget to be yourself and add a personal touch to your content. Remember, by building relationships with your audience, you'll create a loyal following and drive sales and success in your business.

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