Small Business Casual: Content Marketing, Productivity, Customer Experience for Entrepreneurs & Creators
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Small Business Casual: Content Marketing, Productivity, Customer Experience for Entrepreneurs & Creators
Your Marketing Blueprint Made Easy(er)
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Do you feel like you just need a solid content marketing plan and you'll be good to go? Do you struggle to plan and knowing where to start?
"It'll all be great, you just need a plan," they say...
But how on earth are you actually supposed to make a content and marketing plan that you can execute and follow through on? Where do you start? What should you include? How specific and granular do you get?
In this episode, I'm going to give you some ideas for planning content and marketing that you can apply for yourself. My hope is that it inspires you to plan for 2025 to be your best, most consistent, abundant year yet!
In this episode:
- Reflecting on your year to move forward more intentionally
- Conducting a marketing and commitments audit
- Planning 3 months at a time for content marketing success
- Alternative ways to apply your plan
- How to use AI to map out your marketing blueprint
- And more!
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👉🏻 Extended Show Notes: Reflection Q's and Prompts:
- What are 3 things that at this time next year I’d like to be celebrating in my business?
- What do you REALLY want to bring into the world this year!? What do you want to build? Become? Create? Spark in others?
- Where do you want your business to take you in the coming year?
- What’s gone well this year in your marketing and business as a whole?
- What new things did you try?
- What new ways did you collaborate and connect with others?
- What are you celebrating from the past year? Or a goal you’ve achieved?
- What types of clients did you work with, and how did you feel about them?
- What’s something you need to let go of to move forward?
Current Marketing Audit
List out ALL marketing platforms, all ongoing commitments for content, networking, client work, and any other obligations in your business.
- How’s it going? Do you like it? Loathe it? Is it working? What might need to shift?
- If you’re unable to be consistent with how often you set out to do something, well, why? Are you doing too MANY things and need to cut some out? Do you love it all and you’re ready to rinse and repeat?
AI Planning Prompts
Provided by Alesia Galati of Galati Media and the Listeners to Leads Podcast
“Let’s work on planning the visibility strategy for [year] for my business.
My quarterly visibility goals are:
1. Goal one
2. Goal two
3. Goal three
What do you need to know about my business before we get planning?”
From there, it will ask questions about your business, clients, and perhaps your current strategy.
Ask it to provide you a thorough client avatar and choose from any of the following next steps to prompt it with:
- “Refine my target audience: Let’s delve deeper into my ideal client’s pain points, motivations, and online behavior to ensure my visibility efforts are reaching the right people.”
- “Develop a content strategy: Create me a plan for consistently creating and repurposing high-quality content that attracts, engages, and converts my target audience.”
- “Optimize my website and online presence: Help me ensure your website and social media profiles are optimized for lead generation and showcase my expertise.”
- “Create a promotional calendar: Map out my visibility activities for the year, including workshops, free resource releases, low-ticket offer promotions, and guest appearances.” <– Fill those in for your specific business goals.
Alesia Galati of Galati Media, Host of Listeners to Leads & Successful Podcasting Unlocked
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I’m Emily Aborn, I’m a Copywriter, Speaker, and Podcast Host. I live in the backwoods of New Hampshire where I spend time hiking, reading, and playing more Yahtzee than any human being should be allowed.
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