The true power of a content marketing campaign only makes itself clear with a suitable investment of time. Initially, you won't see much in the way of results; your readership will be small, your authority will be negligible, and your content archives will be scarce.
However, each new piece you create will serve as a semi-permanent landmark, and each new reader you attract will feasibly stick around for the long haul. These features make content marketing a strategy with the potential for exponential growth—provided you're able to grow your efforts proportionally.
Most people "get" content marketing conceptually, and may even be able to piece a basic strategy together, but people really get thrown off when they try to devise a strategy for long-term growth. It's a confusing process, often manifesting in fits and starts, but you need to be able to predictably control it if you want to eventually reap the benefits.
To help you better understand this growth process, I've split the "typical" content marketing timeline into five key stages of growth:
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