Tips on Managing a Content Marketing Calendar

Ambreen Jamil
October 26, 2022
4 min read

Your business benefits significantly from content marketing. It elevates your website's position in search engine results, draws visitors, informs and earns your readers' trust, and hopefully encourages them to purchase from you (and stay loyal into the future). But creating even one flawless piece of content, much less several in a week, involves a lot of moving elements. A content calendar is helpful in this situation.

1. A dedicated resource should manage the content calendar

You must designate a person to take charge of and supervise your calendar once it has been created. With someone taking accountability for it, it becomes simple to stay caught up on content, ignore the steps involved in creating content, or commit other errors.

If you'd like, you can complete this yourself. You might also give it to a member of the marketing department. To guarantee your customers have the best experience regardless of how they want to communicate with your brand, it is best to have a specific team member who can handle your company's social media content calendar and Facebook comment moderation.

Whatever the case may be, ensure the availability of a backup manager to take care of your calendar in case the primary resource is unavailable.

2. Standardize the process for content publishing

If you haven't already, you should standardize your content development process. People need to know their duties with a standard content development process. In the absence of a standardized procedure, everyone also approaches tasks slightly differently. Consequently, inefficiencies result. Consult with your staff and find out how they currently produce material as you develop your approach. A new, standardized content development process can then be developed by looking for inefficiencies and redundancies that may slow down content generation.

3. Track content status continuously

The publication status of a piece of content is the most crucial status to monitor in terms of your content. Therefore, monitoring each piece of content as it moves through the various stages of your content creation life-cycle is best.

For instance, most content development procedures, at the very least, include planning, writing, revising, and publishing steps. You can set a due date and status for every one of these milestones. This makes it simple to adjust to changing conditions, reassign resources as needed, and assign the proper duties to your content creators.

4. Keep refining your content calendar

The variety of your content requirements will develop as your firm expands. For your content production to keep up, you'll need to modify your content schedule and development procedure.

For instance, while you're young, you might organize your calendar using straightforward spreadsheets. Spreadsheets, however, may become ineffective as your business expands and your activities get more complex. So instead, you should spend money on marketing automation tools.

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