Making Content – How to Make Digital Content

What is the course about?

I’m very pleased that you’re just as interested in the topic of content as I’ve been since my youth. I’ve been dealing with content since the nineties. During my studies, I worked with a news agency, in the online editorial office of a television program, and even for MTV. I’ve always been fascinated by content, so it was a logical conclusion to found my own content agency in 2010 with the wonderful name of Crispy Content®.

At Crispy Content®, we navigate supply and demand using digital content in all shapes, colors, and languages. To us, this is the definition of “Content Marketing.”

This enthusiasm is also what drove me to create an online course on the subject. But really, there’s also another reason:

Most books, lectures, and webinars approach content from a strategic perspective. This makes sense, since content is a soft currency that can only be converted into financial success through its strategically planned use in marketing and sales. However, it’s just as much of a challenge to change the abstract idea of content into tangible reality and to regularly transform a large volume of high-quality users into enthusiastic customers. Good content can do this—we just have to create it.

The Book Related to the Course

If you’d like more background information, I would recommend picking up my new book, Methodisches Content Marketing, or “Methodological Content Marketing” in English, coming out in August 2019 with Springer Gabler Verlag. So far, it’s only in German, but hopefully there will be an English version soon. There you’ll find the material in this course, in more detail and with more extensive background information, which I also tie into the digital marketing canon.

All of my methodological, time-tested knowledge from the last years is included in my book. Because one thing is clear: creative content production also needs to have measurable results—and methodology gives us the security we require.

Course content

What will you learn?

This is an “Espresso Course.” Within 40 minutes, it should give you the practical knowledge you need to produce quality content for your target audience** in your everyday life painlessly and without major obstacles or writer’s block.” The course should provide you with not only *practical, but also methodological knowledge, which you can immediately use and develop in your everyday working life.

The Structure of the Course

1. First, you will receive a short introduction to the topic of content.
2. Afterwards, we’ll look at analyzing our target audience, using this to create a meaningful audience persona.
3. In the next section, I’ll explain various strategies and techniques for developing content and thematic contexts that fit both us and our target audience.
4. In the next lesson, we’ll develop a customer journey for the target audience persona.
5. In the fifth lesson, you’ll learn how content is planned and organized.
6. In the penultimate lesson, I’ll present the production process, which will help you to create relevant, valuable digital content with a high conversion rate.
7. To sum up, you’ll get another overview of the necessary steps for quickly and successfully creating content.

What is the target audience?

This course is intended for everyone who has to produce content in their everyday working life: in business communications, the marketing team, the sales department, at the management level. In other words, it’s intended for anyone who needs to use digital communication in some way. In the end, this course is really for everyone.