How To Use Content Marketing Growth Hack Strategies

Hey everyone, this is Brad fromĀ UnitedPress.Media, in this article we are going to go over how to use content marketing growth hack strategies and get the most out of your content marketing efforts. It can take a bit of trial and error to find what content marketing strategies work best for your brand and resonate with your brand community. By reading this article we hope to give you a list of options that you can pick and choose from to find the best strategies that will work for your brand objectives.
Discussed in previous articles:
- how to use content marketing to grow a business online
- how to use content marketing to grow a brand community
8 Content Marketing Growth Hack Strategies
The following content marketing growth hack strategies will help to strengthen your business, grow a brand community, and increase your return from your content marketing efforts.
- How to answer community questions
- How to build an email list (Call to action CTA)
- How to use social media influencers
- How to use tier 1 media
- How to use affiliates
- How to use SEO, Tags, Hashtags
- How to monetize content
- How to use 3rd party reviews and testimonials
Content Marketing Strategy: Answer Community Questions
The question being solved:
How to answer community questions as part of a content marketing strategy.
Objective/Outcome:
- Rank for things that people in your niche are searching
- Provide quality content that helps build your brand reputation as a source for quality niche information
- Strengthen and grow a brand community
- Increase organic traffic
How:
- Listen to your customers to find out what questions they have. Create content based on your findings.
- Content can be published to your blog or to third-party sites that allow contributions.
- Articles and videos are good forms of content to use to answer community questions
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Make page rank well using SEO and backlinking
- Direct traffic from site content is placed on
- Share, Comment, Like with your social accounts
- Use influencers to mention and share the content (social boost)
- Share to your email list
- Network share trade (collaborate with others and share their content for them, and get them to share yours)
- Combine with special offers/promotions
Content Marketing Strategy: Email List Build for Newsletter Subscribers
The question being solved:
How to build an email list using content marketing.
Objective/Outcome:
- Grow an email list so that it can be used as a tool to share news, promotions, answer questions, new products and services and so on to your customers, fans, and community.
How:
- Create valuable quality content (when possible get do-follow backlinks)
- Get content placed on reputable sitesĀ
- Call to action (CTA) – Include an opt-in form
- Pop up
- Text link
- Integrated form
- Use giveaways, exclusive content offers, update notifications. Make it worth it to the person to give up their email address.
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Direct traffic from site content is placed on
- Make page rank well using SEO and backlinking
- Use influencers to mention and share the content/opt-in form
- Combine with special offers/promotions
Content Marketing Strategy: Social Media Influencers
The question being solved:
How to Use Influencers for Content Marketing
Objective/Outcome:
- Include a call to action for the influencer to nudge subscribers to act upon
- Build brand awareness
- Create a relationship with influential people in your niche
- Create brand integrated content
- Get a third party perspective
How to use content marketing growth hack strategies:
- Find influencers who have a strong following and good reputation in your niche
- Collaborate with influencers to create valuable brand integrated content
- Video interviews
- Project reviews/explainers
- Sponsorships
- Mentions/Shoutouts
- Contests and giveaways
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Direct traffic from influencers (Use existing networks that have an audience)
- Make content rank well using SEO and backlinking
- Use additional influencers to mention and share the content
- Share, Comment, Like with your social accounts
- Share to your email list
- Network share trade (collaborate with others and share their content for them, and get them to share yours)
- Combine with special offers/promotions
Content Marketing Strategy: Tier 1 Media + Newsletter & Social Update
The question being solved:
How to Get Tier 1 Media Using Content Marketing (AKA public relations and journalism)
Objective/Outcome:
- Strengthen brands reputation
- Build brand awareness
- Build a strong ‘As seen in section’
How to use content marketing growth hack strategies:
- Work with authors/contributors who have posting access to tier 1 sites
- Create content or provide talking points for the contributor to include in their content
- Content can be either full articles, interview format, quotes, or mentions
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Direct traffic from site content is placed on
- Use additional influencers to mention and share the content
- Share, Comment, Like with your social accounts
- Share to your email list
- Network share trade (collaborate with others and share their content for them, and get them to share yours)
- Combine with special offers/promotions
Content Marketing Strategy: Using an Affiliate Program
The question being solved:
How to Use Affiliates for Content Marketing.
Objective/Outcome:
- Have affiliates produce content that does not cost you money upfront.
- Increase the amount of organic traffic to your money site
- Improve your SEO and site metrics by having backlinks directed towards your site by each affiliate
How to use content marketing growth hack strategies:
- Create a product of your own and use an affiliate program to track conversions
- Get quality affiliates to produce quality content
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Reach out directly to niche affiliate bloggers
- Offer early testing, early information to share, freebies, giveaways
Content Marketing Strategy: SEO, Tags, Hashtags
The question being solved:
How to Use SEO, Tags, and Hashtags as Part of a Content Marketing
Objective/Outcome:
- Increase search rankings for articles, videos, and images.
- Get more views on content (appear in more categories)
How to use content marketing growth hack strategies:
- Publish quality content on your site or a 3rd party site. Include keyword-rich titles, backlinks, images, URL, and keyword density throughout the article. Install a plugin such as YOAST SEO to easily keep track of your SEO score for each piece of content that you write.
- When posting content to social media, make use of connection tags and hashtags. Label your content with related tags so that you create ways people can find your content.
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Make page rank well via search using SEO and backlinking
- Use an affiliate program to encourage others to create content with no upfront cost
- Focus on attainable keywords and publish content both on your site and on 3rd party sites
- Use popular hashtags related to your content
- Tag connections
- Combine with special offers/promotions
Content Marketing Strategy: Monetize Content
The question being solved:
How to monetize content and create positive ROI.
Objective/Outcome:
- Add ways that visitors can buy products or services through the content you release
- Monetize content through sponsorships
How to use content marketing growth hack strategies:
- Add links to your content that send visitors to your products or services section
- Add links to your content that send visitors to affiliate landing pages where you earn commissions from sales
- All sponsored posts on your blog
- Allow sponsored posts and mentions in your newsletter blasts
- Allow keyword backlinks to be integrated into new or existing content
Marketing/Traffic strategy:
- Direct traffic from site content is placed on
- Direct traffic from influencers (Use existing networks that have an audience)
- Make content rank well using SEO and backlinking
- Use additional influencers to mention and share the content
- Share, Comment, Like with your social accounts
- Share to your email list
- Network share trade (collaborate with others and share their content for them, and get them to share yours)
- Combine with special offers/promotions