Everything in today’s business world begins with a content strategy which means the development, planning, creation, delivery and management of content. The process of strategic content includes the main four stages (planning & ideation, creation & optimization, distribution, and performance tracking & audit).

The Process of Strategic Content

Find out the main insights from over 1,880 content practitioner personas across each of these stages:

1. Planning & Ideation

• 37% of the content strategists, surveyed, said that planning was the most time-consuming part of their effort across the entire process.
• Defining the ROI of a content campaign is the second highest time-consuming task with a rate of 25%, followed by deciding what to write about (22%).
• Developing the content pieces that resonate with target audiences” is the topmost challenging task by 33% of content strategists.

2. Creation & Optimization

• In the stage, finding a balance between the creative element and search optimization in content is the topmost challenge for content writers with a rate of 47%, followed by understanding the target audience and its problems (38%).
• In terms of the most frequent collaborations, almost half of the editors defined content writers and designers as persons they collaborate with the most often.

3. Distribution

• The vast majority of PR/marketing managers (74%) find resources (media/blogs) for publishing their content by monitor what media/blogs are writing about their industry and make a list of the most relevant.
• 45% of them evaluate the authority of an external resource through their brand reputation and monthly traffic.

4. Performance Tracking & Audit

• Traffic is the number one success metric to evaluate the content with a rate of 49.1%.
• This is followed far by the number of shares/likes across social media platforms (31.2%) and “position of content in search engines” (24.9%).

A Graph Shows the Most Challenging Tasks for Content Writers in 2017

Methodology:

Data were driven from a total of 1,884 qualified content practitioners around the world. The study was conducted in the Fall of 2017.

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