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Sophie Tahran – Clickminded Content Marketing Course
Tell me how close I am with this one. Most content marketing advice you find online starts like this:
- You need to have a blog
- You need to publish more content than what you’re doing right now
- You need to write longer content
- You need switch to video / infographics / podcasts / virtual reality / (insert the latest trend)
And I’m here to tell you that, like many other terrible ideas, this is a terrible idea.
Want proof? I just Googled “content marketing tips” and got 150 MILLION results.
A recent study by Ahrefs found that 91% of content gets absolutely no traffic from Google1.
People who blindly tell you to “publish more”, “create longer posts”, or “switch to video”, want you to spend more time and resources creating stuff that almost no one will see…and ultimately won’t help your or your client’s business.
Asking you to “just write more content” to get more customers is like suggesting you should watch the 1996 blockbuster movie “Space Jam” every day if you want to play basketball in the NBA.
It’s advice that kind-of feels like a solution, and it’s sort-of related to the problem, but it isn’t helpful at all.
We have a better idea.
What if you could create just a few pieces of content that drive massive growth to any business for years to come?
- Maybe you’d get more clients for your agency or charge more for your services
- Maybe you’d get significantly more leads and sales for your own business
- Maybe you’d get a promotion or a job in the company you’ve wanted to work in
Most content marketing advice you find online isn’t really helpful because it doesn’t address the true purpose of content marketing.
Content marketing is about using content strategically to:
- Attracting more visitors
- Converting visitors into leads
- Converting leads into customers
- Converting customers into repeat users and advocates
And to do that, you just need to answer this question:
Are you delivering the right message to the right people at the right time?
That’s what the ClickMinded Content Marketing Framework is for.
You can create content that compels your users to go to the next step of your funnel by delivering a relevant message right when they are most likely to convert.
We believe this is a 10x more effective way to think about content marketing.
You don’t have to churn out as much content as you can, as quickly as you can.
You don’t have to hire writers, buy equipment to shoot HD video, or even start a blog.
You don’t even have to become an expert copywriter.
You can use the tools and resources you have right now.
The ClickMinded Content Marketing Training teaches you EXACTLY how to develop massively profitable content campaigns
This is just a taste of what you’ll get in the course.
How content marketing fits into your business
- The role of content marketing in your marketing funnel (hint: you shouldn’t use it, in the same way, all the time—or even measure the same metrics!)
- Why it’s important to differentiate copywriting and content marketing (if you think they’re the same, you’re doing it wrong)
Discovering your “target persona”
- Why you shouldn’t send the same message to all of your users (with an example of how Lyft used personas and funnels to deliver valuable content to their users)
- The most common mistake marketers make when performing persona research (spoiler alert: it’s sticking to just demographic data)
- Discovering all the demographic data you already have access to but are not taking advantage of
- The first people you should talk to if you want to effortlessly get massive insights about your ideal users
- A step-by-step walkthrough on how we run customer interviews (with the exact scripts we use)
- How to validate that you’re ready to create a persona for your business (and when you need to do more research)
- The 3 mistakes to avoid when going through the process of creating your target persona
Crafting messages that convert
- How to use “single-minded value propositions” to create a more efficient sales funnel
- Crafting compelling single-minded value propositions for each persona at each stage of the sales funnel
- How to think like a reader in the attention-deficit era and the FOUR tactics you can use create content that people actually consume
- The four most effective types of long-form content you can use for your business (and examples from a bunch of different industries)
- Our favorite tools for creating high-quality and engaging long-form content
Top of the Funnel: Content that attracts traffic
- Proven content formulas to create blog posts, YouTube videos, social media posts, and podcasts that attract massive traffic to your website
Middle of the Funnel: Content that turns traffic into leads
- How to create high-converting landing pages, lead magnets, webinars, and trials that turn visitors into qualified leads
Bottom of the Funnel: Content that turns leads into customers
- 4 types of content campaigns to boost your sales and revenue (and work for any company and industry)
Building a strategic content calendar from scratch
- How to never run out of content ideas and making data-driven decisions about what content to create
- The framework to turn your single-minded value props into an entire content calendar for all of your marketing channels
- One simple way to determine which is the most important piece of content for your business
- The 4 types of emotions you want your users to have (and how each can help you accomplish a specific business goal)
- How to properly use automation to deliver relevant messages to your users (and the tool we like to use to easily map our entire communication strategy)
- Setting up processes that set you up for success (sounds boring, but this is how you truly scale content marketing)
- How to prioritize all the ideas in your content calendar to maximize growth (and avoid letting your biases drive your content strategy)
Picking the right channels for your content marketing
- Why email is probably the most important channel for your content marketing strategy (and the ONE element that can make or break the success of your emails)
- The three principles to follow if you decide to use paid channels for content marketing.
- How to use social media for content marketing (and why you shouldn’t just publish your content to as many channels as possible)
- A simple, step-by-step process to perfectly optimize your content for search engines (even if you don’t know anything about SEO)
Writing copy that converts
- The four essential pieces of information you need to have BEFORE you can even start writing any content
- How to adapt storytelling for content marketing—and use it to convert users
- Why voice and tone are not the same and how to use them correctly in your messaging
- Mistakes to avoid when defining your brand’s voice (those that can become a crutch for your company in the future or even an obstacle for growth)
- The five principles you need to follow to write content that converts (and make sure everyone on your team does so as well)
- Creating powerful calls-to-action in four simple steps: design, develop, link, and describe
BONUS: Content marketing walkthroughs and templates
- Our favorite tools for content creation, project management, and copywriting
- The exact templates you can use to set up your content calendar and content creation process from scratch
- How ClickMinded’s content production process works (a ton of people have asked us for this so we created a comprehensive walkthrough over the entire thing)
- Our exact tactics for successfully outsourcing content creation (it took us years to get this process ironed out but we’ll save you the trouble and just tell you exactly what to do)
This is the most practical course on content marketing out there.
Content Marketing
Content Strategist, Lyft
After being evacuated from Cairo during the Arab Spring, Sophie realized her travel blog was being read by more than just Grandpa.
She turned her insane experience into an early role at one of the most compelling brands of our time, Lyft, the $11 billion juggernaut she helped grow. Sophie walks us through the strategy she uses to create content that spreads like wildfire – or pink mustaches.
- Content Framework
- Content & The Funnel
- Messaging Strategy
- Your Content Calendar
- Channel Selection
- Copywriting
- Favorite Tools
- Campaign Walkthroughs
- And more…
A Bulletproof Content Marketing Curriculum
That includes unlimited lifetime access and free updates for life.
Content Framework
A comprehensive outline of how content marketing fundamentally works.
Content Fundamentals
Understanding the basics of content marketing and why it works.
Segmentation
Implementing detailed content segmentation, so that you can focus on what matters.
Messaging
Catering the right message for the right person at the right time.
Content Calendar
Constructing a powerful content calendar that drives your strategy.
Channel Selection
Choosing the right place for your messaging and amplifying it.
Content Process & Goals
Creating the right process and attaching it to the right business goals.
Copywriting
How to write compelling copy that converts at every stage of the funnel.
Calls to Action
How to push users through each stage of the funnel with calls-to-action.
Optimization
The step-by-step process to optimizing already existing content.
Favorite Tools & Services
A full, complete list of our favorite content marketing tools and services.
Campaign Walkthrough
A walkthrough on how to start a brand new content campaign from scratch.
Earn Your Certification
The class includes a certification. Finish the class, pass the final exam and you’ll earn your content marketing certification.
It integrates seamlessly with LinkedIn and it’s included in the class for free.
Who’s a good fit for ClickMinded?
Who Should Enroll
- You want to learn everything there is to know about content marketing as fast as possible.
- You want lifetime access and free updates for life, because things change all the time.
- You want to save time and easily train new employees or new members of your team.
- You want more traffic and conversions from your content marketing campaigns.
- You have clients that are asking how they can increase sales from content marketing.
- You want to join the 8,000+ other businesses using ClickMinded to learn digital marketing.
- You’ll benefit from “over-the-shoulder” walkthroughs of technical optimization.
- You want to earn an content marketing certification (and add it to LinkedIn).
Who Should Not Enroll
- You have time to teach yourself through trial and error in order to save money.
- You are comfortable keeping up with changes in content marketing on your own.
- You already have a process to train employees and team mates on search engine optimization.
- You don’t need more traffic and conversions from your content marketing (oh come on).
- Your clients aren’t asking for ways that they can increase sales from content marketing.
- Screw everyone else! You don’t need nothin’ from nobody and can do it yourself.
- You understand the technical stuff and don’t need “over-the-shoulder” walkthroughs.
- You already have a portfolio or evidence to prove that you understand content marketing.
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