Yes businesses are creating a lot of content right now, but we need to think smartly about how to connect individual pieces of content in a way that creates an immersive editorial experience for their audiences.
Here are five tips to ensure your content is as editorially engaging as possible:
Ensure each piece of major collateral has a content promotion kit - copy teasers, social graphics, short videos, quotation material, etc - in place.
Hold creative conversations during the content planning phase to determine what contextual information - such as maps, videos, or summary boxes - you will include in the content.
Don't let significant pieces of content go to publication without professional design treatment. Focus on “the finishing touches,” such as high-end photography and cool sidebars, that give the rich creative feel you expect from a top-end publisher.
Constantly break your content into micro-sections for dissemination across social channels.
Expect tight, top-end copy from your writers. Get editors in place who know their stuff.
Strive toward integrated content experiences for your readers. Too many standalone pieces of content are thrown into resource centers and expected to fend for themselves without surrounding context or teasers to prise them into life. Present your content in intuitive ways that your audience readily understands.
“Too many standalone pieces of content are thrown into resource centers and expected to fend for themselves without surrounding context or teasers to help prise them into life. ”