I have been a Rand Fiskin fan for a long time. His Whiteboard Friday series taught me more than everything else I have read or watched in the SEO game.
But this series of tweets perfectly articulates what we are going for with our content marketing strategies. Yes, we use Facebook ads and yes, we use some Google paid search, but not before we lay down a solid foundation of educational content, and not unless we have a long-term content marketing plan in place.
Channels outside FB/GG (and Amazon if you're e-commerce) are:
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) May 20, 2021
- More challenging
- More research-intensive
- More effort per conversion
But, also:
- Create competitive advantage (b/c your competition probably isn't doing it)
- Higher ROI
- Boosts your FB/GG efficacy, too
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E.G. You start a podcast, an email newsletter, a blog, a webinar series, a PR campaign—any marketing investment.
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) May 20, 2021
The first dozen times you do that thing, the ROI is usually worse than your FB/GG ad spend. That's why most folks throw in the towel.
But, over time...
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Human beings are bad at estimating compound models. We can imagine linear growth. We can't envision exponential growth.
— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) May 20, 2021
But if you find ways to reach your audience that gain ever-increasing efficiency w/ repeated effort, you win. Maybe not next month, but in 3 years?
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