Complete marketing plan for service based business in 2024

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Complete marketing plan for service based business in 2024

In this episode of the Hybrid Hangout podcast, Devin + Shay chat about:

• We chat about our marketing goals in our service based business

• 3 part plan for marketing strategy —  make sure you stick with us all the way through this episode, you’ll leave with a SUPER SPECIFIC PLAN FOR 2024

• You need eyesss bby, your clients can’t hire you if they don’t know you exist 

• How do we maximize the effectiveness of our effort? 

Complete marketing plan for service based business in 2024

On this episode of Hey, Thriver, Devin and Shay chat alllll about their own marketing focuses in 2024 before diving into a 3 part framework for content marketing for service based businesses!

Shay’s main focus in 2024:

• YouTube as a vehicle for long form content

  • Repurposing on my blog; I experimented with the search query “How to elope in Montana” and got to #1 in video results quickly and the blog post climbed to the top of Google pretty quickly too — I’d give the video like a C, I didn’t add much text or graphics or interesting bits to it, I just basically talked through my blog post

  • Interviewing other vendors to help generate content, SEO for those search terms, and networking 

• Treating short form vertical video as a part time job —  being extremely disciplined with batching because lol I will not do it daily or even weekly have you met me

Devin’s main focus in 2024:

• YouTube as a “blog” for super 8 mm films 

• Research phase: keywords that people are searching for, keywords for what I want to be ranked for, optimizing my account in advance settings

• Adding more searchable information in the description section

• Short form video for Youtube + Pinterest 

• Experiment with super 8 clips on pinterest and link back to blogs or full youtube videos 

• Shorts for youtube: solely super 8 mm clips and talking head about super 8 

• More intentional social media: copy writers interviewed my past clients and they all said they really connected with me and decided to book with me after seeing my social posts and stories 

• Create soulful connect for clients to connect with 

• Maybe storytelling through talking heads? And Continue storytelling through captions 

• Showing myself outside of photography more on social and blog posts  

• More storytelling (gallery) blog posts instead of educational/informational

First action step for our 2024 marketing plan —  reverse engineer what you’re trying to sell:

1. Define your offers super specifically —  like every single way you intend your business to make money, jot those down 

2. Next to each offer, define who you’re selling to/who you’re talking to/who you can serve.

3. The next step is twofold —  what can you say to those people to help them? And then how can you get in front of them? 

Next, we need to think about searchability, key words:

• What is every single thing you would want to rank #1 in search results for? No matter how generic or specific, just brain dump those search terms —  Montana wedding photographer, Glacier National Park elopement videographer, traveling elopement photographer, destination weddings —  broad, specific, whatever. 

• Once those are defined, then you know what keywords to orient your content strategy around —  be on the nose with these keywords in the title, description, hashtags, closed captioning, literally everywhere that you can write those in…write them in.

Once our key words are alllll listed out, then we can start making a plan to implement: 

Implementation:

• Long term vs. short term strategy

• Organic content

• Long form content vs. short form content

• Function of long form 

• Repurposing long form

• Short form organic content at scale!! 

• Submissions/collaborations

• Publications

• uest blogging (I got asked by a DJ for an interview they could put on their blog after my St Louis wedding - yes they made it sound great for me - but great free content for them!!)G

• Audience borrowing —  IG lives, collaborative posts

• Paid ads

• Google, FB, IG 

• Vendor Directories

Links you’re gonna want, bby:

Includes affiliate links :)

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