Seven ways to maximize ROI for your website
I believe you know that content promotion can be a very attractive form of marketing. You should also know that producing a good content will take a lot of time and money. But there is something you don't know, but I am not sure of that. Because a piece of content was viewed by a thousand of viewers or a hundred of share on social media doesn't guaranty that it will produce a positive ROI.
A thousand of dollars can be spent on the most excellent piece of content and yet never give anything in return close to the amount you spend on it. Note that content marketing is profitable only when it is efficient and something is returned.
Content marketing is an excellent marketing strategy, but it is so disheartening that only a few marketers can achieve a positive ROI. Let's put that aside and discuss ways to maximize your ROI for your website so that you can join the winning team.
Pick particular channel and work around them
One of the common mistake marketers makes when creating a piece of content is trying to promote the same content on every social media. This media includes Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Forums and many other marketing channels available. The reason why this was a mistake is that the same content is promoted on this social media, but different target audiences are present on each of the press. Content that is popular on one might be a trash on another. This decision is a waste of time and will leads to negative ROI.
Solution to this is simple, follow the above-listed point.
- Be specific
Find three channels in which your content sells best. I will advise you to focus on Twitter and Facebook and one mail. It will be good to identify these channels before you even create content for them. Then you can create everything including topic, title, and angle for the more right audience.
- How will your pick a channel to focus on
You can easily do this by analyzing your past content, and determine the number of visitors your gain from each. Then, concentrate on the one with the highest number of visitors.
Never stop updating
There are two type of content, the evergreen content, which stays applicable for years and nonevergreen content, which are short-lived and went out of date quickly. No matter how much serious you are, you will end up creating both of the content. The major downside of the nonevergreen content is that once the initial value is obtained, it fades away and become irrelevant to your business.
The question is now why did you need to update? Well, this is more applicable to the reader because it makes the content more valuable. If you keep updating your content, you can quickly send tweet or mail to previous readers who have enjoyed it before. This update will get you some extra share and links. It will also serve reminder for readers to share with their family and friends.
Never quit promoting
Most ROI arises from content production, While a great material is fascinating at times, it is equivalent to nothing without promotion. Some top marketer spends most on promoting content and less on creating it. The problem is initiated; because a good promotion will spike your traffic but will be short-lived. You can make it long lived by never quit promoting them because your old content never reached half of the target audience. Take full advantage of your ROI by developing your old content. For a beginner, repost your content on media and forum once a while. You can also set up Google alert to let you know when someone mentions anything about the topic you wrote. With this, you come in and recommend they visit your guide
Know about diminishing return between ROI and Quality content
Creating an epic content is a good idea, but sometimes a better content might leave a worse ROI. This reason behind is that creating custom layout and images drains a lot of money or time. Instead, create content that is better than your competitor. If your content is not better, you will be lucky to achieve any positive ROI. So, make your content stand out from the rest and leave the reader to make the comparison. Readers will have no choice than to stand with you.
When you achieve the final content, remember to update them so that any of your competitors won’t create a guide that is better than yours.
Advertising is not the rival of inbound marketing
If Facebook is your chosen social media, you must know that the organic reach percentage- which is the number of users that sees your content is dismal. If you solely rely on organic traffic on social media, you will be missing a lot of reaches. Most marketers don't like to advertise. If you find yourself to be a strict inbound marketing, outbound marketing might seem difficult. Believing outbound marketing 's hard is not a good option, use both options. Since both can be utilized at the same period to promote content, then you may try it. With right combination be expecting a significant ROI
What might arises from not optimizing
What have been discussed earlier focuses on content and promotion, but just as important as they are what happens after is important. Did you have a clear path of generating revenues from visitors? Are you planning to optimize your email marketing? If you don't plan all this before, you need to plan now and optimized it. Strategizing and optimizing what next after content and promotion is also required in maximizing ROI for your website
Measure your ROI for every piece of content
Calculating your ROI for each of the content produced is very essential. If you don’t calculate, it becomes impossible for you to try different promotion and content creation technique. It also checks which of the ROI will elevate your quality content. A quality of good marketer is to improve content strategy continuously and looks for improvement.
Bottom line
Content marketing is a great tool in marketing; it will only elevate your business if you spend quality time creating it. Try all the above-listed point and see the significant boom in your ROI.
Thirumalesh Prasad C G (Thiru) is an entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of Inboundsys. He has over 22 years of experience working for various multinational IT products and services companies in India and abroad. He was a significant member and worked as a user interface architect, designing the user interface for many web applications and products. In addition to running Inboundsys, he is an advisory board member in various other design studios and digital marketing agencies. He is a passionate blogger who loves writing on digital marketing, inbound marketing, lifestyle, philosophy, positive thinking, and motivation.