Monday, June 18, 2012

Tips for creating killer content: conduct original research

     Customers, prospects, bloggers, and reporters covering your industry LOVE new data. Find ways that you can mine your recent sales information or your audience for unique new research about your niche.
     For example, the online luggage retailer Suitcase.com created a Consumer Luggage Report by surveying its customers about their luggage preferences. “People responded very quickly to us and told us what they are looking for,” said John Ebb, the company’s CEO. Traffic to the Suitcase. com’s blog jumped five times after the report was published, according to a MarketingSherpa case study.
     SurveyMonkey and SurveyGizmo make it easy to conduct online surveys of your audience. But if you don’t want to create a survey, you can look at sales data for interesting trends about your marketplace, such as your top selling products, the geographic distribution of your customers, customer shopping habits (time of day, day of the week, etc.), or demographic breakdown of your customers.

     Source: A practical guide to killer marketing content (HubSpot) e-book

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