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Clear Your Mind, and Your 5-Step Content-Strategy Will Follow When you get clarity, you create content for specific results. Here are my five steps to getting there.

By Salma Jafri Edited by Dan Bova

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Clarity is power. When you get clarity, you create content for specific results, which in turn translates into momentum for your business and positively impacts your bottom line.

If you're creating content without a strategy, then you're just creating noise! Watch this video for my five-step basic formula for putting together a content strategy. Anyone can -- and should - do this!

  • Identify your goals, objectives and success metrics.
  • Know your ideal client's pain points.
  • Determine what kind of content will address that pain.
  • Determine your distribution plan for helping the content reach your client.
  • Analytics -- understand what the data tells you.

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Related: What's in a Name? In Branding, Pretty Much Everything.

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Salma Jafri

Content Marketing Consultant for Entrepreneurs

Salma Jafri is the host of Content Marketing Tips, a weekly vlog and blog on how women entrepreneurs can market authentically to their audience by using their natural strengths. Grab her free cheat sheet: 25 Free and Feel-Good Ways to Authentically Promote Your Content.

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