What your site redesign can’t leave out

Unless you just redesigned your website, it could probably use a revamp. There a lots of things to keep in mind to make sure the new version of your website rocks, and content is one of those. But content for the emerging adult demographic is important because they’ll need guidance to make some pretty big decisions soon (think college, first jobs, buying their first cars).

What do you mean by useful content?

To put it simply, useful content is simply content that helps your customers, preferably within the realm of your expertise. So, if you’re a financial institution, content that young adults will find helpful could mean everything from tips about budgeting for a new car to an infographic about how much one person could save by taking meals from home to work for lunch.

An important caveat is that helpful posts are not boring posts. Content can get away with not being 100% practical if it’s incredibly interesting and relevant to what you do. For example, an infographic on jobs that didn’t exist five years ago doesn’t specifically solve your customers’ money problems, but it’s interesting and relevant (particularly if you’re a college student trying to figure out which major will make you money).

And don’t forget about segmentation! Remember that you have customers in different phases of their lives, so target your content to those life phases in order to reach your customers where they are. Emerging adults need content for the decisions they’re going to make now.

Why include it in my site redesign?

Having a place on your website for all your content is the best way to organize it (not to mention bring potential and current customers to your website). Sharing information from other sources is great, but if you’re only filling your Twitter feed and Facebook page with other people’s content, you’re a middle man, not the boss.

When you provide handy tips and tricks to those who are just finding their way into your area of expertise, you establish yourself as a trusted and valuable source. And people are likely to be loyal to a source they trust. So get in on the ground floor with emerging adults when they’re just starting out.

How can I include it?

The easiest and best way to do this is a blog. Blogs are a lot more versatile than they have been traditionally; nobody wants to read long blocks of text on their smartphone, and most blogging platforms now make it easy for you to post photos, embed social media posts and videos, and provide readers with brief bits of text for information. Blogs can do short, easily-digestible bits of information for young adult readers who are used to platforms like Tumblr and Instagram.

So don’t forget the blog in your redesign! Filling it with helpful content will help your next generation of customers find and trust you.

 

Fatemeh Fakhraie

Fatemeh Fakhraie

Fatemeh Fakhraie is brass Media, Inc’s Social Media & Marketing Specialist. She joined brass in 2012, but has been blogging, tweeting, and Facebooking for the last six years. Prior ... Web: www.brassmedia.com Details