3 Reasons Every Entrepreneur Should Develop Content Creation Skills

September 14, 2017

Every successful entrepreneur must realize they need a set of refined skills to be successful. These days, it’s not good enough to specialize in one thing and one thing only. You have to develop your skills so you can take on other tasks and improve your business.
As you may have guessed by the title, one of those skills is content creation. Having the ability to create content is a valuable asset to every entrepreneur. To help further emphasize this point, here are a few reasons every entrepreneur needs to have content creation skills:
 
Drive Traffic To Your Website
Content is a great way of driving traffic to your website in more that one way. If you have good content creation skills, it means you can write great blog posts. By having a blog on your website, you’ve immediately got a great tool to draw in traffic. But, you could also use your skills to write guest posts. You could submit a guest post with GuestPostTracker.com, and get your content on other people’s blogs. Why do this? Because you can include a backlink to your site in all your guest posts. This is a form of link building, and it’s a very effective way of improving your search ranking – which can lead to traffic boosts. The more guest posts you create, the more sites you can submit them on, and the more backlinks you’ll generate. With good content creation skills, you can write multiple blog posts per day aimed at different websites and audiences.
Save A Lot Of Money
There’s no hiding from the fact that every company relies on good content. Whether it’s social media content, blog posts, news articles, press releases, or even website content – it’s all important. As such, if you don’t have the skills to write everything yourself, you’ll need to hire someone who can. This causes many entrepreneurs to pay freelance writers to do everything for you. And, as the infographic on clearvoice.com shows, it can cost you over $250 per month for social media posts alone. Factor in all the other content, and you could spend a lot of money on freelancers. Why waste all this money when you can do it yourself for free? The money you save can further your business in other ways.
 
Convey The Proper Brand Image
The final reason you should develop content creation skills is that they give you the chance to convey the proper image for your brand. As the owner, you know exactly how you want your company to be perceived and the tone with which your content is produced. By creating it yourself, you can replicate this perfectly to your own desires. There’s no worry about other content writers maybe not giving off the right vibes with their content, it’s all down to you, and your image will be perfect.
If you’re keen to be a better entrepreneur, then you need to develop your content creation skills. There are loads of skills and entrepreneur should have, but this is one of the most useful and worthwhile ones to develop.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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