Put content creation at the top of the to-do list in 2017 - MAF112

This week’s show is a call to action for 2017.

It’s time for you to start putting content out there. To build your brands. To engage with your clients and to build your businesses. And we’ll be listening again to some of this year’s great guests and their insights and ideas on how you can do just that.

Welcome to episode 112 of the Marketing and Finance Podcast.

In this last episode of the year, I want to use the advice of some of my past guests to encourage you to produce more of your own marketing content next year.

During the last 8 months, I’ve presented to three large groups of financial advisers. Financial Liverpool, The Protect Association and most recently the Voyant User Group. We talked about financial professionals upping their game on marketing their businesses and creating brands for themselves.

All the equipment you need is in your pocket or your bag. Your smartphone can be a live TV outside broadcast unit – using Facebook Live, Periscope or YouTube to broadcast live video. It’s an HD or 4K video camera letting you shoot better than broadcast quality footage. It’s an audio recorder letting you put together podcast episodes, like this one, where you talk about your subject or interview an expert. It can take superb photographs. And the dictation app will let you write articles by speaking into your microphone.

With this remarkable device, you can create content to engage your clients. To answer their questions. Marketing is no longer only available to those with big budgets.

In this episode, using snippets of wisdom from past MAF guests we’re going to have a look at what you can achieve.

What you'll hear about in this episode

• How to use the smartphone in your pocket or bag to create blogs, podcasts, videos and more
• The key to making content your clients want rather than what you think they want
• How to keep your messages simple, be approachable and be you
• Why you should consider live streaming video for your business in 2017

Links and Show Notes.

For links to the books and apps mentioned, please visit http://rogeredwards.co.uk/MAF for the show notes.

What is the Marketing and Finance (MAF) Podcast?

The podcast for ideas and inspiration on marketing your business and growing your business, and for discussing topics on all things finance.

The MAF Podcast is a 30 minute radio show you download from http://rogeredwards.co.uk/MAF, iTunes or Stitcher Radio.

Each week you'll hear interviews with business experts, marketers, entreprenuers and journalists. Interviews to listen to in the car, on the train or on the treadmill. Or even in the bath!

We talk about:

• How you can grow your business using content marketing and social media
• How you can keep your Marketing strategy and communications simple
• Topics, issues, products and business models from the world of finance

You’ll take away one or two big ideas that you can apply to your business. So you can keep marketing your business to keep growing your business.

I’m your host, Roger Edwards.

A marketing guy from Edinburgh, Roger helps people keep their marketing simple in a world where complexity threatens to stifle business success.

An experienced marketing professional helping businesses with their marketing strategy, content and social media.

Roger clocked up many years in the ‘big corporate’ world as marketing director of several UK financial services brands before setting up his own...