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PUBLIC RELATIONS Information Overload? Fine-Tune Your Content Marketing Machine! By Irene Mbonge " The age of experimentation " Selling online means catering for its own sake is over. It is now the age of execution. Creat- ing and sharing content for its own sake, or throwing content at a Twitter or Facebook wall to see what sticks, aren’t good enough anymore. With so much content being created, the new challenge is to make sure that the content you create is engag- ing enough for the intended au- dience, speaks to the right au- dience, and effectively reaches that audience. " 18 MAL29/19 ISSUE to a complex set of social groups and online communities. Not ‘getting’ community rules and hierarchies can result in market- ing disasters. So, how do we in- fluence in today’s digital utopia? First of all, marketers need to connect with their ‘why’ more. Rather than spending tons of money on flashy, but ultimate- ly empty, campaigns, marketers need to get granular with their targeting and spend less to have more impact. "