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Introduction
You don’t have to be a professional writer to ensure your business creates content that inspire, educate, entertain and inform your audience.
In a report by A1, 35% of customers make purchase decisions after reading content that provides valuable information about a product/service.
Infact my client acquisition process is content writing –the same has got my articles featured on well –known publications and got me showing up on Google for the right reasons.
Let’s build you a business that attracts the right people and generate sales. Read on!
What is business content writing?
Simply put, business content writing is writing for businesses and involves a thorough consideration of the business goals and audience persona.
When creating your buyer persona consider factors such as;
- Demographics: Your ideal audience age, gender, race, income, educational level, ethnicity, marital status etc.
- Geography: This refers to your ideal audience city, state and country
- Psychographic: Includes factors such as attitudes, values, opinions, interests, personality and lifestyle
- Behaviour: includes factors such as loyalty status, purchasing patterns.
Understanding your audience gives you context to how your content should sound, where and when to distribute it.
| TONE | CHANNEL | TYPES OF CONTENT |
| Witty | Website | Videos |
| Formal | Linkedln | Podcast |
| Casual | Press release | |
| Fun and entertaining | Infographic | |
| Helpful and instructive | UGC | |
| Creative | Tiktok | Blog posts |
| Provocative | Youtube | Newsletters |
Business goals and what to do.
Every business exists with an objective and yours is no different –here are common business goals for most startups and how to achieve them.
- Increase organic visits- focus on high volume keyword with low competition
- Convert readers into leads- focus on middle and bottom of the funnel content
- Backlink for faster ranking: focus on building quality backlinks through guest posts, press releases, quality content and white-label SEO.
What is content writing?
Content writing is the process of planning, researching, writing, editing and publishing content for the purpose of marketing.
Content can include blog posts, podcasts, videos, E-books, social media copy, Ads, captions and more
A person that helps brands create content is known as a content writer, they help you build your digital footprint the right way.
Types of content
I’ve listed 41 types below
- A podcast
2. Customer research
3. Digital illustrations
4. Infographics
5. Animated explainer videos
6. Animated shorts
7. Ad creative
8. Live videos
9. TikTok content
10. Memes
11. Animated case studies
12. Web-based games
13. Interactive ads
14. Short films
15. Twitter threads
16. LinkedIn carousel decks
17. Free calculators/tools
18. Songs
19 . Education hubs
20. Original research
21. Product onboarding videos
22. Audible versions of your written content
23. Slide decks
24. Webinars
25. Commercials
26. Billboards
27. Vlogs/BTS
28. Checklists
29. A branded art style
30. Brand characters/ mascots
31. A fictional world (with storylines) for your brand characters to occupy
32. Ebooks/reports designed like comic books, graphic novels, or anything other than ebooks/reports
33. A YouTube show (e.g. Riddle, what if, Kurzgesagt – In A Nutshell, etc)
34. GIForagraphics
35. Social proof
36. Native content
37. AR/VR experiences
38. Free mobile/ web apps
39. Custom brand tunes
40. Video memes
41. An animated movie
Types of content writing
- SEO writing: This is the use of specific keywords to get your content to rank on search engines. This types of content has been misunderstood over the years, as writers/businesses only focused their content on what they think Google want –search optimized content is however content that address human queries.
- Ghostwriting: This is writing without credit, usually there is an agreement between you and the writer, you have ownership over the articles while compensating for the skill gap in your organization.
- Copywriting: Copywriting is the use of content for immediate sales.
- Technical writing: This involves taking a deep- dive into technical concepts and explaining it to your customers in the simplest forms.
- Email marketing: This involves nurturing and building a audience through relevant and useful information. In most cases businesses use gated content to capture leads.
What is the main purpose of content writing?
While there are general purposes of content writing such as:
- Lead generation
- Sales
- Traffic
- Customer loyalty
It is important that you define what each of these means to your business so that you can track your content marketing effort.
Content writing services
The content industry is worth $15B and will likely be over $40B by 2027.
More, than ever before there is an increase in trained experts who you can hire on your in-house team, agency, or freelancers who would make sure that you write content that fulfills your business goals.
Why is content writing important for startups?
In the state of marketing report collated by Hubspot, 82% of marketers are actively investing in content marketing. This shocking figure further demonstrates the importance of content for startups.
You are probably skeptical about what marketing methods work and which is worth your resource, for one content writing is reasonable as content marketing cost 62% less than paid ads.
It helps you build a community, reputation, and loyal customers while it might take some time before you see tremendous progress content marketing is the eighth wonder of the world (compound interest) it builds upon itself, and you will be amazed at how much you can achieve in six to twelve months. A crucial part of this success is having a strategy.
How content writing can grow your business?
- Brand awareness and recognition: Consistently creating content helps you reach a wider audience who does not know anything about your brand.
- Build a sustainable customer journey: With content writing comes a focus on appropriate communication, when you begin to create content you put into thought the likely messaging to share with prospects and customers at the awareness, consideration, purchase and post-purchase phase of the customer cycle.
- Support Google E.E.A .T: Putting out thought-leadership content within your industry supports Google experience-expertise-Authority and trust update. Which helps you rank higher on search engines.
- Increase traffic and conversion: Writing search-optimized articles with users in mind will not only get you to the top of Google, but it will also get you customers. It’s all about the EYEBALLS👀
9 Benefits of content writing for startups
If the purpose of content writing is to generate traffic, well it converts that traffic into customers itself.
- Boost Seo
- Improves the quality of your existing content
- Helps build brand awareness
- Help you develop your brand voice
- Differentiation
- Testing and iteration
- Organic shares
- Backlinks
- Lead generation
How should you structure your content writing strategy
- Choose clear over clever
- Create valuable and relatable content, when there are too many filters people can almost know
- Have a posting frequency: The algorithm seems to favour consistency, not to be mistaken with intensity. Consistency is simply doing the same thing over and over again. Want to post on Mondays at 9 am? Do it.
- Start with 2-3 channels: When you spread too thin, not only do you lose focus your result wouldn’t be as it should be. If you are a small team focus on two platforms where your audience hangout. You don’t have to be everywhere.
- Publish: If you handle your socials, I’m sure you’ve had a handful of imposter days. The good news? No, one cares as much as you think they do. You are over-judging yourself.
- Distribute: Share, share, and share. Your content wouldn’t distribute itself.
- Repurpose: It is arduous to create for all your socials, truth is you won’t always feel like it every day. So, create on one platform and adapt to the others.
| Advantage | Disadvantage |
| Cost-effective | Time-consuming |
| Brand awareness | Requires a lot of creativity and skills |
| Brand loyalty | Difficulty in finding ideas |
| Building Authority | Strategy |
| Increase traffic and conversion | |
Conclusion
Content writing is a viable investment for startups and small businesses.
Content writing has changed my life over the last year and that of my clients as people now respond to their offers and understand their business better.
People buy stories and relations, not products and services, if you cannot build that relationship with your prospect, they will not know, like, and trust you and you need all of that to remain in business.
