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strategic Content Marketing

Connections Planning

In the current media landscape, where noise often drowns out creativity, the focus has shifted toward quantifiable efficiency. Connections Planning counteracts this trend by crafting compelling brand experiences that harmonize ideas with their environments, transforming the intricacies of today’s media world into a strategic edge for our brands.

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content strategy playbook

Identify and set goals

Analyze your competitors

Identify and set goals

The initial step in crafting a sustainable social media strategy is to define your content objectives. Clearly established goals will guide you in planning the kind of content you want to produce.

Research your audience

Analyze your competitors

Identify and set goals

You can't craft outstanding social content without understanding your audience. Developing buyer personas for social media—essentially representations of your ideal customers—will play a crucial role in shaping your content strategy.  

Analyze your competitors

Analyze your competitors

Analyze your competitors

To effectively gauge the performance of your social media content strategy, it's essential to look beyond your own analytics. Conducting a competitive analysis can inspire fresh content ideas and establish more effective benchmarks and goals for your strategy.

Content Audit

Build a content calendar

Analyze your competitors

A content audit is an effective method to develop a performance-optimized content strategy for social media. By conducting this audit, you can back up your assumptions about what’s working with solid quantitative data that reveals how each post is performing.

Develop a content plan

Build a content calendar

Build a content calendar

Here’s a chance to unleash your creativity using data!  When you're putting together your content plan, remember those personas you created. Reflect on the types of formats that they’re most likely engaging with.

Build a content calendar

Build a content calendar

Build a content calendar

Once you have a clear understanding of what works best and have pinpointed your primary objectives, it’s time to create a content calendar. This calendar will provide you with a holistic view of your content strategy. You'll be able to visualize and organize your ideas, making it much simpler to implement your plan.

Integrate influencers

Promote and distribute

Promote and distribute

An effective influencer marketing strategy should seamlessly integrate with a brand's broader social media efforts. For both aspects to succeed, they must collaborate and complement each other.

Promote and distribute

Promote and distribute

Promote and distribute

Your approach is much more comprehensive than just posting on your profiles. A solid strategy focuses on actively sharing your content to enhance brand visibility and reach a wider audience.

Measure results

Promote and distribute

Measure results

The final piece of an impactful social media content strategy is all about measuring your results. Tracking your performance is essential for building a strategy that lasts. By maintaining thorough metrics, you can continuously refine and enhance your approach as time goes on.

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