This is Content Marketing explained in comprehensive fashion for you - the small business owner! We lay down the fundamentals, add dimension to bigger picture and bring home some practical, DIY points for your reference in making a start with your own content marketing journey today. "Why should a small business be so concerned about content marketing, when there are so many ways to promote your business today?" If this is your line of thought, then you DEFINITELY need to soak up this presentation before you defraud your business of today's most essential business marketing discipline. Content Marketing is much more than an online lead generation gimmick. When done properly, it conforms the very cultural makeup of your company to thinking exactly like your customers and therefore investing all your resources in providing them with what we call true service excellence. This is defined as giving all you have to your customer with no holding back to enable them to make the most valuable investment whether it be with you or a peer. This excellence is a condition of heart, placing you as the owner of your business at the bottom of the pile of stakeholders including staff and suppliers, laying down all self centered and opinionated thinking in favour of enabling those around you to perform optimally in giving all they have to give value to the customer. We'd go as far as to say that small business owners implementing Content Marketing culture within their organisation in 2015 can foster a market leading presence within 12months of campaign launch from new entrant / start-up. The benefits are as follows: - nullify advertising expense - solve customer's problems faster and more professionally - vastly increase brand reputation on and offline - lead your market in expertise and authority - increase your sales leads by thousands of percent - upgrade your target audience - no longer negotiate on price - be favoured amongst your peer companies - increase asset value massively - increase transfer value of your business unreservedly - increase your sales closing rate to 80-90% - become a global authority in your field - have the most valuable website in your industry - attract plenty of organic digital attention and social sharing - crank up WoM (word of mouth) - give yourself a route to exit your business profitably - have your finger on the pulse of customer trends - increase repeat business - introduce a wider variety of customer enquiry - help people with the best you have to offer - track the profitability of your marketing campaigns down to the penny - beat sales objections far more easily - grow your business exponentially - set the standard within your industry before others do - become the benchmark of success for your industry peers If you don't start Content Marketing today - you may have some EXPLAINING to do in time to come! Enjoy and please feel free to share (plus1, like or tweet) this with frie