The Content Marketing Cost – Benefit Analysis (Proof You Need)
Making the case for content marketing requires a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether it can be a profitable investment, just like with any other project or initiative vying for corporate resources. Fortunately, when it comes to content marketing, the benefits far outweigh the costs.
Here’s an infographic that makes the business case for Content Marketing. It includes fun quotes related to an otherwise serious case. Please feel free to print it out and show it to your boss or management team (with attribution of course!)
For the specifics, here are the five benefits of using content marketing and the one cost of using content marketing – with the data sources.
Benefits
1. Consumers trust content not ads.
2. Consumers actively seek product information and reviews first.
3. Consumers need to see marketing messages multiple times.
PROOF:
4. Consumers consume digital content 24/7 (via mobile devices.)
PROOF:
5. Consumer purchases influenced by content.
PROOF:
Graph by Heidi Cohen; Research by based on research by Shop.org, comScore and the Partnering Group
Expenses
1. Content marketing requires human and finance resources for content creation, distribution and promotion.
PROOF:
The benefits of using content marketing to achieve your business objectives far outweigh the costs of resources in the form of human and financial support. Content marketing expenses may be reduced. It takes careful planning to create similar content at the same time (such as creating extra video during a photo shoot), extending content for multiple uses (such as a series of articles) and repurposing content (such as chopping an ebook into shorter blog posts.)
What other content marketing benefits and costs would you add to this list and why?
Happy marketing,
Heidi Cohen
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