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What is Content Marketing?

March 16, 20171 min read
What is Content Marketing?
Content marketing is a discipline of marketing, most often used within the inbound marketing framework, which relies heavily on creating and disseminating original content, such as articles, tips, videos, images, webinars, podcasts, and other assets which a potential customer may find interesting.
Content marketing generates 3 times as many leads as traditional outbound marketing, but costs 62% less. (Demand Metric)
Blogging is, perhaps, the most common form of content marketing. Businesses owners who generate interesting, relevant content on their blogs are often able to engage their website visitors, create opportunities for more traffic to their website via social sharing and do onsite-SEO with just one simple tool. Examples of the types of clients which often see success with this digital marketing tool: clients who have the resources to dedicate to quality original content creation – often those implementing an inbound marketing strategy

Explore a website growth scenario

Change the assumptions to see how traffic and inquiries affect the estimated lifetime revenue of customers acquired in one month. The starting values are examples. This calculator does not measure lost revenue or predict what a redesign will achieve.

Use the same monthly period for visitors and leads.

Use distinct inquiries attributable to those visitors.

Your own estimate of the share that fits your business.

Use your observed rate or label it as an assumption.

Revenue across the customer relationship, before costs.

A scenario you choose, not a prediction from Stoute.

For example, adding 1 point changes a 2% conversion rate to 3%.

One month’s acquired customers

Customers under current assumptions
3.0
Customers in your scenario
3.0
Current cohort’s estimated lifetime revenue
$3,000
Scenario cohort’s estimated lifetime revenue
$3,000
Difference across those customers’ lifetimes
$0

Visitor-to-lead rate: 2.0% → 2.0%. Scenario conversion is limited to 0–100%. Fractional customers represent an average, not a literal customer count.

These amounts are gross lifetime revenue, not monthly cash flow, profit, or return on investment. The model holds qualification, close rate, and customer value constant. It excludes project costs, advertising, delivery costs, and payment timing.

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