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Content Marketing Mistakes - Report 2013. 100 first hits on Google searching for Content Marketing Mistakes - Summarized, Analyzed and Narrated by Daniel Garplid at 100FirstHits.com

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CONTENTMARKETING

MISTAKES

2013

TOP 10Content Marketing Mistakes

2013

1# No Clear

Score: 748

21% of Tot.

Goals

2#Poor ContentQuality Score: 487

14% of Tot.

3#Poor Channels

Score: 44712% of Tot.

4#Score: 3349,3% of Tot.

5#Score: 303

8,4% of Tot.

6#Score: 2837,9% of Tot.

7#Score: 274

7,6% of Tot.

8#

Score: 2577,1% of Tot.

9#

Score: 2577,1% of Tot.

10#

Score: 257

7,1% of Tot.

Not Enough Content

No Target

No Relevant Metrics

Content Not Shareable

Not Involving OtherDepartments

No Call To Action

Loudspeaker

1# No Clear

Score: 748

21% of Tot.

Goals

As Winston Churchill said - "He who fails to plan plans to fail". Creating content without a

specific goal and a plan is waste of time.

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

MISTAKE

2# Poor Content

Score: 487

14% of Tot.

Quality

Content marketing is NOT about producing massive amounts of blog posts, whitepapers,

product stories or anything that is boring or not truly helpful for your audience.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

3# Poor

Score: 447

12% of Tot.

Channels

The main mistake is putting too much focus on one particular channel, most often the corporate

blog. You need to consider more channels.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

4# Not Enough

Score: 334

9,3% of Tot.

Content

Good quality content takes time to create. Time management is cruical for success, unless

you throw more money at the problem.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

5# No

Score: 303

8,4% of Tot.

Target

No one wants general content. There's no way you can please everyone with one

broad piece of content.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

6# No Relevant

Score: 283

7,9% of Tot.

Metrics

A common content marketing problem is that content creators focus on the wrong metrics

like number of words written per day, number of comments on blog posts

etc., instead of real metrics.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

7# Content Not

Score: 274

7,6% of Tot.

Shareable

You need to create content that people WANT to share. You also need to

make it simple to share.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

8# Not Involving Other

Score: 257

7,1% of Tot.

Departments

The worst thing that can happen when not involving other departments in your content

marketing initiatives is mixed messages for customers. No consistency.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

9# No Call To

Score: 236

6,6% of Tot.

Action

Content marketing materials need a call to action. The whole purpose is to

sell more without selling.

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid @ 100FirstHits.com

MISTAKE

10# The Loudspeaker

Score: 234

6,5% of Tot.

Problem

Talking too much without listening. Make sure your content isn’t yet another

sales pitch.

MISTAKE

Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

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Content Marketing Mistakes Report 2013 by Daniel Garplid. (daniel@100FirstHits.com)

CONTENTMARKETING

MISTAKES

2013

CONTENTMARKETING

MISTAKES

2013

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