Strategic Content Marketing: Creating Effective Content in Practice

Strategic Content Marketing offers a comprehensive guide to planning, creating, implementing and analyzing an effective content marketing strategy in practice.

Each chapter marries established theory with modern practice, illustrating concepts with real-world case studies and examples alongside interviews with prominent content marketers, including a foreword by Joe Pulizzi, founder of The Content Marketing Institute and often referred to as the Father of Content Marketing. Chapter objectives and summaries structure learning, while reflective questions and activities aid comprehension. On reading, students will understand:

• The definition, purpose, and practical implementation of a content marketing programme
• The relationship between content marketing and broader marketing, strategic positioning, buyer personas, and research initiatives
• The most effective and valued forms of content marketing and how they are structured and used, including a special focus on digital and B2B content marketing
• How to create persuasive content and measure the effectiveness of content marketing
• The careers, associated competencies, and software technologies in the burgeoning field of content marketing.

This comprehensive text is perfect core and recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying content marketing, inbound marketing, marketing communications, digital and social media marketing, and public relations. In practice, the book is also highly valuable for practicing professionals studying for professional qualifications and looking to develop their skills. Online resources include instructor teaching slides, four-color images and templates, and chapter test bank questions.

Rebecca Geier for over 30 years, Rebecca has worked with technical professionals to develop their brands and tell their company's stories to target audiences. She has worked in corporate marketing settings, founded and served as CEO of her own inbound and content B2B marketing agency, and has served as Chief Marketing Officer of two SaaS startups in the chemical and AI software industries. She has uniquely worked alongside engineers and scientists to develop specific, measurable content strategies and persuaded those who previously believed content marketing doesn't work for skeptical, technical audiences. Named by The Wall Street Journal editors among America's Most Innovative Entrepreneurs, Rebecca has dedicated her time to researching the modern, digital buying journey and published annual reports that are read by tens of thousands of B2B business leaders around the world. Based on her research and decades of practice, in 2016, she published her first book, Smart Marketing for Engineers: An Inbound Marketing Guide to Reaching Technical Audiences. She has served as the keynote speaker on the topic of inbound and content marketing globally, including serving for many years as a featured speaker at the premier annual event for content marketers, Content Marketing World.

Dan Farkas is a Lecturer in Strategic Communication at Ohio State University, US. Dan has taught courses on research methods, strategy, content creation, crisis communication, analytics, and measurement. Dan also advises chapters of the Public Relations Student Society of America. In Dan's 12 years of advising, his chapters have earned national recognition including Chapter of the Year, Student-Run Firm of the Year, Pacesetter, and Star Chapter. For this mentorship, Dan is one of only 19 people to have earned the Walt Seifert Award for Outstanding Service to PRSA. A nationally sought keynote speaker on emerging marketing, Dan is also a business owner who helped clients receive media coverage from ESPN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, NPR, and the Associated Press. Dan has earned more than 20 awards for his work in television news, which appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and SI.com. He currently hosts the Strategic Communicator podcast through the Marketing Podcast Network.