Tips For Content Marketing: Get Started As A Content Marketer Today

Tips For Content Marketing: Get Started As A Content Marketer Today

Some inspiration and tips for content marketing beginners today. If you think that nobody’s interested in what you’ve got to say, you’re wrong! There’s always an audience that you’re a little bit further down the road from, that will more closely resonate with your story than with any of the big name content marketers out there…

“Well, I’ve got something pretty quick, but pretty awesome – should be pretty helpful for you – that I want to share today.

So yesterday… Y’know, we work with a lot of people. We’ve got a lot of clients, Certified Partners, and customers… And I’ve seen something continually coming up, especially when we’re teaching and advising in certain areas.

Whenever You’re Looking To Get Traffic Online, You Have To Produce Some Form Of Content

Now one of those areas is content creation. Because obviously, whenever you are looking to get traffic online, you have to produce some form of content, right? You are either creating a written content piece, or you’re producing a video piece, or an audio piece…

One Way Or Another, Content Has To Be Created

I remember, if I go way back to the earlier days of my business, I used to have this belief deep inside that I had nothing of value to share. And I also thought, “Why would anyone want to listen to me? There are far more successful people in the world than me. Why would anyone want to listen to little old me?”

Actually I Did Have A Voice, And People Did Want To Hear From Me

And it was only thanks to the advice of a mentor that I got then, that made me believe enough to try this – that I got to actually realise the reality of the situation. That actually I did have a voice, and people did want to hear from me.

You see, one of the things is… You might look at people that are more successful than you, that have better results than you, that seem more confident than you, that don’t seem to worry as much as you do about getting on camera. All that kind of stuff.

So, you see all that – and it can make you have this feeling of, “Why would anyone want to listen to me?” But the reality is that different people are all at different stages in life… On their journey to wherever they’re going, and where they want to be.

I Think This Is An Amazing Way Of Looking At Things

And depending on where you’re at, you can convey certain things, and certain lessons, and certain understandings.

I want you to remember this as one of the best tips for content marketing. I think this is an amazing way of looking at things.

You Are Writing A Page Of Your Book Every Single Day

If your life were a book, and each day were a page, you are writing a page of your book every single day. ‘Cos in every single day, there are 24 hours. And in every single 24-hour period, something is happening in your world and in your life.

It’s Your Experiences That You Are Living, That People ARE Interested In

And so, when it comes down to creating content and putting stuff out there on the Internet, you have all the information you need. Because all the information you need, is being given to you by your experiences in your day-to-day existence.

So whenever you feel like, “I don’t have anything worth sharing.” Or, “I don’t have any value to give.” Or, “Why would anyone listen to me?”… I want you to realise that – it’s your experiences that you are living, that people are interested in.

It’s your experiences, whether good or bad, that people can learn from. And the moment you have enough belief in realising that – at least to give you enough confidence to take that first step, to put that first video online, do that first Facebook Live, that first written post sharing something… That’s the moment things start getting easier.

Gosh, You Would Laugh Your Ass Off, If You Saw My First Videos!

And guess what? I am gonna allay your suspicions, or confirm them… At first you’re not gonna be great. In fact, you may indeed suck – unless you’re one of the fortunate, lucky few that have that natural born ability, Very few people have it though.

I didn’t… Gosh, you would laugh your ass off if you saw my first videos. In fact…

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How To Get More Subscribers On YouTube And Boost Your Online Presence

In this new video from The Drive series, “Tips To Help You Grow Your Presence Online & Your Business”, Dean Holland explains how to get more subscribers on YouTube, which also of course includes, how to get more views on YouTube as well. So here goes…

“Over 100 episodes! We recently crossed 100 episodes of The Drive. And not too long ago we crossed 1,000 YouTube subscribers on our channel where we publish these.

How To Get More Subscribers On YouTube

So I want to share today, a few tips that we’ve learned in doing 100 episodes, and getting to a thousand YouTube subscribers to help you grow your presence online and dominate your business.

Good morning everybody, what’s going on. Dean here of course, on the way to Internet Profits HQ here in the UK.

It is around about 7:30 in the morning. Been to the gym a little later than I wanted today. About 10 minutes behind schedule, but still ahead of where I used to be getting up late.

So, as I said in the introduction there, we crossed the 100 episode mark a couple of days ago. And I’ve been analysing like, what’s happened over this time…

How Have I Done It… Got To 1,000 YouTube Subscribers?

I used to never, ever be able to stick to stuff like this content creation for the long term. Because for me, I’m always like… I’m the type of person… I seek instant gratification! Not always a good thing.

But it’s just how I am. I’m just being honest. It’s a flaw of mine. So I found it tough, until I committed to this.

So I want to share with you some tips to help you. Number one, is just get started, right? Just get started. Don’t worry about it being perfect, don’t procrastinate, don’t put it off, don’t worry about being judged.

Some people are gonna like you, some people are not. Welcome to life… and your content is going to be no different.

Those that don’t like you, won’t follow you. Those that do like you, will be more…

Magnetically Attracted To Your Content

…because they’ve got something to follow from you. So, just get started would be my first tip. Tip number two…

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Call To Action: The One Thing You Must Do In Your Business At All Times

I want to share this one thing, the call to action, that you need to do in your business at all times, that will undoubtedly make you more money in your business.

So, I never used to do this, right? I never used to do this thing, because I used to assume that people would know what to do.

But when I started doing it, I made more money. And now I always do it!

Okay, so what am I talking about? I’m talking about…

Always Give A Clear Call To Action In Your Marketing

Whether this is in an email that you’re sending, in a sales video that you’re recording, in a sales letter you’re writing, whether it’s in a content piece that you’re creating, a blog post, a social media post.

Whatever it is, if you want your audience, whether they’re reading, watching, listening, whatever it is…

If You Want Them To Take An Action, Tell Them To Do It!

Don’t just assume, because you’ve got a button on the page, or a link in the email, that people will automatically click on it, or know to click on it, okay?

So, for example, right...

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Are You Creating Content Marketing Assets In Your Business? Eg. Marketing Webinars?

Are you creating content marketing assets in your business that will work for you for months, even years to come, to get you better results?

Are the things that you’re doing in your business; content that you create, tools that you build or utilize, assets that you create… Are they things that will work for you in your business, long term?

A lot of people create a lot of stuff, and they use it one time, once! And then it just sits there on their computer, never to be used again.

I’ve done it too… And if you think about it, it is absolutely insane! It’s crazy that you’d go through all that work.

Take a marketing webinar, for example. It can take you days, or sometimes weeks to build a high converting webinar presentation. And then people run it once, and then they move on and create something else.

And it’s like, “Why don’t you keep running it?”

One of my mentors, Russell Brunson, was telling me before, how somebody was explaining to him that with stage productions and shows – they take them on tour.

They’ll create a show, and then if it works, and it sells out, and it’s a great show… they will take it on tour, and they will take it around the country.

And sometimes if it’s really popular, then they’ll take it on tour globally!

And it’s the same with your content...

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Get 1000 YouTube Subscribers And Make Money For Free In Your Videos

I have some exciting news to share!

So, if you’re following this, or you have been following previous episodes of The Drive, you’ll know that every day I’ve got this filming rig set up in my car. And every day on the way to the Internet Profits headquarters here in the UK, I talk about and document what it is that’s going on in the business, how things are going, and share the lessons that I’m learning along the way.

Well this week we crossed a mile stone when we finally managed to…

Get 1000 YouTube Subscribers

…on our channel. And I want to share some of the things that I’ve learned, and some of the things that we’ve done and tried, that I feel has helped to get 1000 YouTube subscribers. And how we’re now hoping to really start to accelerate that at an even faster pace.

So let me just be clear on a few things. This didn’t happen overnight – this wasn’t an immediate thing. And to be honest, until about 10 days ago we weren’t really doing anything to try and encourage subscriptions on the YouTube channel, encourage people to subscribe.

So I’ll share with you…

What We Did Over The Last 10 Days To Really Accelerate That…

…and fill you in on some of the data and statistics.

So, first things first. You should know that we have now done over 70 episodes. So this one right now is probably I think, episode 72 (but don’t quote me on that, I might be one or two out.)

But we’ve crossed over 70 episodes. Now bear in mind I do these every weekday, Monday to Friday. So I do five episodes a week.

The only reason, for me at least, that I’m able to keep that consistency is because…

I’ve Engineered This ‘Way’…

…where I can create the content without actually having to really go out of my way to do it.

I’m driving to the office anyway, and I’m always planning in my own head what’s going on, or what’s happening. So all I’m really doing is talking to myself here. And you get to kind of be like a fly on the window, if you like.

We’ve done over 70 episodes, right? That equates to Monday to Friday, 70 episodes, what’s that? Like 14, 15 weeks of doing The Drive series.

So it’s taken 14 weeks to reach this point. You could say, “Wow! That’s a long time!” But really…

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Sometimes In Business, Things Take Longer Than Expected

Well, yesterday… If you saw yesterday’s post, you’ll have heard me talking about how we were trying to create about 35 or 40 videos.

Everything was looking great. Everything was going good, and then things that I’d forgot about throughout the day began to come evident. For example, I had two podcast episodes; one of which was with a special guest.

Podcasts are something I’ve not actually spoke about publicly. It’s actually myself and someone else in launches next week. So we’ve actually been doing some episodes. We’re getting a bunch of them ready so that we’re ahead of schedule for the podcast episode release.

So we had two of those, which was basically…

Two Hours Of Yesterday, Gone!

As well as that you’ll remember if you saw it, that Louis, who heads up the coaching division, or the coaching side of things here in the company – it turned out he had to actually leave and get a train around just after 6pm. But he also had a webinar at 4 o’clock to host. My two podcasts were at just before 4pm and then at 5pm ’til 6pm.

So we kind of lost a chunk of the day…

This Isn’t Excuses…

…this is just actual stuff that popped up. So I’m trying to think how many we did.

I think out of like the 35 or so that we really wanted to aim to get done. I think we only managed to… trying to think… I think we probably recorded – I don’t know how many Louis recorded – anyway, it was probably like only 30% of them.

We might have got like, maybe 30-50%. We might’ve got like 10-15 – might’ve recorded 10, but I’ve got about another 5 ready to just jump in and record.

One of the things that took a lot of time was; we were creating a lot of presentations. A lot of them were stood in front of the large screen in the training room in the office.

Everything Just Took A Lot Longer Than We Anticipated

…which sometimes happens right? Often in business, a lot of things that we do, tend to take longer than we think...

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Creating An Insane Amount Of Content In A Small Amount Of Time

So, we’re doing a lot of filming yesterday and today. Yesterday didn’t quite go to plan with filming.

Put it this way, we have one day today – it’s 8:50am right now, Louis’ got a webinar to do with our clients at 4:00pm and then has to get on a train around about 6:30pm.

So we literally have from 9:00am when we arrive to about 4pm, and in that time we have to create slide presentations and record about 35 / 36 videos for an entire $2,000 certification program.

I don’t know what is going to happen today. The reason we just went to the store is, we need to get everything we need for the entire day right now, so we don’t have to leave the office. We cannot afford to go out for lunch and waste any time later on. So we just had to stop at the store and get some quick microwave meals, some noodles and things.

We’re planning to win… We’re going to get it done… We’ve got to make it happen!

So Today’s Going To Be Wild!

I can’t wait until I can tell you tomorrow, how we got on with this.

But we’ve done some crazy stuff in the past, like we’ve done this 24-hour challenge to come up with an idea for a product, and create it, and make a sale within 24 hours or less.

We did that not long ago. I think this is actually tougher. I think this is going to be a lot tougher. Because of the sheer amount of stuff we’ve got to get done.

Now obviously the good thing is here – the positive – is that we’ve got a whole team. So I haven’t got to personally record and edit the videos – we’ve got Adam who’ll obviously do that. Then we’ve got Chris that can upload them and put them online.

So Louis and I just purely have to focus on getting these videos done. So I want to – it’s probably gonna be quite a helpful thing to share this today – like what is the battle plan to …

Create An Insane Amount Of Content In A Small Amount Of Time

Here’s our plan right. Out of – let’s say we’ve got 35 videos. I don’t know if it’s exactly that but it’s, give or take, about 35 videos.

Now of those 35 videos some of them are actually going to be with a...

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