This is NOT content strategy
(despite what that one agency told you)
words that have no intent
Vague keyword masterlist
useless content calendar
boring A** article
What goes into an ideal customer profile
Building a content strategy can be challenging. The best place to start: build your ideal customer profile.
Define who you're selling to and you have a solid foundation for growth. Your ICP is your foundation.
The wrong topics for your audience
Blah content that no one actually wants to read
Why doesn't that work???
Think about it... "What goes into an ideal customer profile" ?
You have to ask yourself who is reading that. It likely isn't a decision-maker.
Like I said, it’s missing any real strategy.
Some agencies (and maybe you do too) honestly just go to Ahrefs, type in a few keywords, and export the list of related keywords in your industry.
That’s it.
That’s the whole strategy.
It’s not your fault. We’ve all been told this is the way to do it.
But here’s what’s missing (besides the strategy):
Audience insights (when was the last time you spoke to a customer?)
A narrow view of your ICP (yeah, most personas suck too)
Keyword intent (for all you know, you’re only attracting curious and not actual clients)
Distribution (your one and done publishing wastes time and money)
Success metrics, and a way to measure them (you don’t know your ROI, and it shows)
Worse, your content strategy only focuses on articles, leaving every other channel in the ditch.
A strategy here, a strategy there.... Sorry, but John your community manager posting what they want on social doesn’t help you build a brand message. Nor does the suggestion from your VP that all of your marketing topics should be on "marketing budgets because it's trending right now. Plus, with all those ask from other departments for emails and landing pages, you don't have a lot of time.
What a good content strategy should do:
Be usable by all teams
Whether it's community, social, email, your newsletter... everything should tie together into a singular strategy, with a singular message.
Answer your audience
There's no better source of content ideas than your audience. Instead of relying on vague keywords, I go straight to the readers and decision makers.
Bring in leads
A lot of people thinks articles are just something you do for brand awareness. But articles can, and should, convert readers to clients.
If you feel like you've been personally victimized by predatory marketing agencies (#not all agencies)... this is why.
A real content strategy...
Utilizes repeatable systems and frameworks to free up time and resources
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Bakes distribution into the plan right from the start
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Integrates all of your marketing tactics and channels
Aligns your organization under one brand strand
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"Sarah is easily one of the best writers I've ever worked with. Her communication, timeliness, and quality of work is exceptional. My only regret is not working with her sooner. A+++"
-Jacob Statler, Director of Marketing, Stat Digital
Alexa Young, CA
I’ve spent the last 10 years figuring out how to 10x revenue from content
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while slashing overproduction and sporadic planning, and freeing up bandwidth
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I started in-house, with PR firms in Florida, a B2C company, then agencies across the country, helping them grow leads by 30% in just 2 months, scaling their marketing teams, and writing for over 60 brands before I found the solution. It required a lot of streamlining, and getting a lot closer to the brands I worked with to create...
Frameworks
They’re essentially plug and play frameworks that help you focus on the content that truly adds value to your company, and forgetting the rest.
Processes
I create a set of repeatable processes for production, strategy, audience research, hiring and onboarding, and distribution to make your life easier.
Resources
To create the best content possible, we’ll build resources that’ll take your content to the next level– content repository, audience research, and interviews.
An absolute gem. She asks the right questions, researches your industry, and makes sure you get the right copy for your demographic. She gets uncomfortable and really digs deep by understanding pain points. That might mean speaking to high-level execs, a founder, myself our customers or our staff. No one has ever done this. Other copywriters detest talking to people to understand a demographic. Not Sarah!
-Puya Turkiyan, Smartcast Group
On the way to reducing your workload
Getting snacks for the road (aka collecting data)
Launch & execution
I’ll deliver the exact plan to create the most compelling content for your specific audience. No fluff, no weak keywords, and no budget wasted on content that doesn’t move the needle.
We have all our provisions, a destination, and a map. Now it's time to work together to get there.
Data collection can take 2-4 weeks, and typically consists of: speaking with your sales and customer success teams, pilfering reviews, conducting interviews, and scouring social media.
Strategy for the journey
Strategy for getting to our destinationPlane? Train? Automobile? Our own two feet? We'll make a plan for reaching your best customers, wherever they may be– we’ll find all that out in the data we’ve collected.
Swapping deets
We’re still strangers, so before we commit to taking this journey to better content together, let’s get to know each other. I find out your needs, and you find out how I’ll fulfill them.
'Sarah did an excellent job of seeding my content to significantly boost traffic to my website and helped boost awareness around my products and services, too. She was a pleasure to work with."
Kaleigh Moore, DTC Consultant
FAQs
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