3 Content Management Tips for Social Media Marketers
As a social media marketer, content is everything. If you want to build a successful business, you have to create high-quality content that moves the needle for your brand. But it goes beyond content creation. You also have to think about systemization, security, and other important elements that happen behind the scenes.
3 Content Management Tips for Success
Anyone can zoom out, look at the big picture of content creation and publishing, and easily see that content management must be strategic. But the success is often in the details. Day-to-day content management has to be strategic, too. In other words, it has to be carefully documented, intentionally executed, and carefully aligned with the overall content strategy.
Research from Content Marketing Institute shows 78 percent of organizations take a strategic approach to content management. And those who don’t? Roughly 63 percent of them blame it on a lack of processes.
The point is clear: If you want to take a more strategic approach to content management as a social media marketer, you need to get organized and develop processes that put you in a position to be more successful.
Here are several tips:
1. Get Organized
Organization and systematization are at the heart of good content management. But with the velocity and volume of content that your business creates, it’s not an easy task. Thus, it’s imperative for you to figure out a way to wrap your arms around all of your content so that you can focus on all of the important aspects of executing.
One important step you can take is running regular content audits to keep detailed inventory of each piece of content you have in your organization. Content should be inventoried, organized, and clearly tagged within your system so that you can measure the effectiveness of each aspect of your content strategy.
It’s also smart to map out content as it aligns with the different stages in the customer journey. This ensures your content team isn’t just randomly producing content and throwing it against the wall to see what sticks. Instead, they can create intentional pieces of content that tie back to the end goal for each buyer persona.
Finally, work with your content creation team to develop a specific editorial calendar with all key dates of production, publication, and promotion.
2. Have a Plan for Unstructured Content
In the IT world, you’ll hear professionals discuss data in terms of “structured” and “unstructured.” And in the world of content, we also have structured and unstructured content.
Structured content is anything that can fit into a spreadsheet and has a URL attached to it. This is content that you can easily organize and track the analytics around. Unstructured content is all of the other content that doesn’t fit into columns and rows. This includes presentations, internal documents, PDFs, audio files, and even some video content.
In order to win with content management, you must have a plan for all content – including the unstructured variety. (IDC predicts 80 percent of …read more
Source:: Social Media Explorer
