As a small business person, or a blogger, you are your own Marketing Manager!
That means you need to understand your online marketing strategies.
As your own Marketing Manager, one of your jobs is getting high-quality leads onto your list so that you can share more fabulous information about what you offer.
But how can you do that if you don’t know your answers to:
★ What keywords to use for your content marketing? ★
By now we all know how to enter the words for things we are searching for online. These are the keywords that the search engines like Google, Bing, and even the Social Media sites use to find what you are looking for online.
Keyword research and strategies are about finding out the words that your target audience types in to look for what you have to offer.
When you understand your online marketing, you’ll start to ‘get’ the basics of strategic keyword uses and how to research what you need as keywords in your content marketing.
The steps include:
- Knowing your ideal target audience
There are a lot of fabulous tools to help you understand your online marketing and keyword research.
Yet, it is really more about identifying and knowing your audience. This is how you gain power in pulling in your ideal audience with the words in the content you use.
- What do they talk about? The words they use.
- How do they talk about their issues that you may be able to solve?
- What are the words that they’ll use in the search bar to find what you have to offer?
- This means you need to talk with them – interact on forums and live networking events. Then telephone conversations, free tele-classes – this is huge is getting to know and understand your audience.
This is YOU understanding your targeted audience and YOU starting to understand your online marketing.
- Researching your competition
Make a list of blogs and businesses that serve your audience, or a similar audience as yours.
- How are they offering solutions for your ideal audiences’ problems and issues?
- What are they writing about?
- AND…check out the keywords and keyword phrases they use to attract.
I did share the SEMRush site in my post Still Discovering New Keywords –use this tool to see what your competitors top ranking keywords are.
These steps are part of you creating your list of keywords and phrases to use over and over so that when your ideal audience types in their keywords, you have a better advantage of popping up on page one and getting noticed!
It is you positioning your blog, brand, and business to get noticed!
You are your own Marketing Manager and now you can learn more about getting high-quality leads onto your list and ask me how I added over 1000 new prospective customers to my list in just 4 months…You can join other online small businesses at our monthly no-cost 
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Interesting stuff. I will have to go check out the keywords that other blogs use. Thanks.
Doree Weller recently posted..Sexy Costumes
Glad you found it helpful
Some good points here. I need to chew some of them over and try and to put them into practice.
Nick #thisyearinmusic recently posted..25/10/2014 – Klaxons-The Same Space (2010)
Yep, Nick – the more you practice the more natural it becomes! Thanks so much for stopping by 🙂
Hi Donna 🙂
Love, love, love this post! You are always right on target with your posts! Thank you for all of the value you provide 🙂 BIG HUGS 🙂 Shared of course 😉
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Awww…Joan, sweetie – You know I so love that you come over to see me and our conversations! Thank you – loving each one of your fabulously tip-filled posts, also! Big hugs – thank you fo sharing!!
Very good points, Donna. I suspect a lot of people in online marketing are more focused on the tasks and activities of getting websites right, making or finding products, creating offers etc that they sometimes forget to build their database – the market to sell to. Your advice is spot on for doing that.
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Hey Mel, smart response – and there are always lots to do – but, finding your audience and building your list of ideal prospects is at the top!
Hi Donna,
This is yet another helpful post from you. I do need to zero in on my target audience more. Thanks for the motivation.
Have a great weekend.
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Fabulous! Thanks for your note and loving your recipe posts!
I like that you have made me realise that I really am my own Marketing Manager. It is my responsibility to find the people who are looking for the service I offer. I defniitely need to do some keyword research and snoop on the competition too.
Thanks for this 🙂
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Super cool, Victoria – so glad I could be of help!
Great tip! As a new blogger, this is something I’ve been trying to improve upon. Thank you.
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So glad you found this helpful, Mary – thank you 🙂
Great advice! I always use google and youtube to learn my audience and create interesting topics 😉
Manu Kalia recently posted..Shoulder Mobility Exercise For Overhead Reaching
Good ideas, Manu! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Awsome post with a lot of valuable advice when it comes to online marketing 🙂
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Thanks so much, Tommy – Hope to hear what action you take from some of these points. 🙂
Understanding online marketing really makes a difference. I know it did for me when I finally started understanding it. This is good content to help someone do just that, glad I read it.
Jaye Carden recently posted..How To Market Your Business: 5 Tips To Reach The Next Level
Great, Jaye and the thing abut online marketing is that you keep learning, keep remembering what you learned and want more!
Thanks for this great post Donna. Identify my target audience and really talking to them, that’s a big one that I am constantly working on. Thanks for reminding us the importance of knowing what keywords to use.
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So very glad that you stopped by, Sandy – thank you – Keywords among other tactics are very important in getting our ideal clients to read our blog posts! 🙂
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Good post!