Content ideas for each stage of the Buyer Journey

Normally, people only show interest in acquiring a product or service when they must satisfy a need and it solves it. In other words, they only pay attention to something when they are motivated to do so. For this reason, it is often difficult to determine the best type of content to create for each of the stages of the customer journey. 

Maintaining good educational and interaction content throughout the customer journey is a great strategy to gain their attention and not lose it. In addition, if you want consumers to become leads with your content, it is necessary first to understand your buyer persona.

Related article: Buyer Persona: Key to the success of your commercial strategy. 

Once this happens, you will be able to strategically guide them through the shopping journey with the right offers, at the right time. 

Table of Contents: 

• Ideas for generating content at each stage of the customer journey. 
• Why create content for the stages of the buyer's journey? 

This article may interest you: The Buyer's Journey in Inbound Marketing strategies 

 
Ideas for generating content at each stage of the customer journey: 

The customer journey is a challenge for the marketing team, since this journey consists of a journey where the process makes decisions for the purchase of acquisition, this happens when buyers become aware of their needs and begin the search for solutions. Depending on the knowledge you have about the product, it is the stage where you are within the customer journey. 

To understand what content to generate, we must first know what each of the stages is about: 

• Awareness: In this first stage, the prospect discovers that they have a need through various types of content, so they start searches without any intention of purchase. The appropriate content for this stage of awareness is the generation of offers, videos, blogs or infographics that are educational and informative, to guide consumers to the next stage. 
• Consideration: For this stage, prospects have considerably reduced their options and are now investigating or comparing each one of them. So, by this point, it already shows strong buying interest. For this stage, the effective content to hook the client are downloadable, eBook, guides, tools or comparative videos. 
• Decision: Finally, at this stage the prospect makes the decision about the purchase, based on his research. However, to help the consumer finish this process, your team can generate content such as: webinar, discounts, free consultations or demos, it also helps to have positive reviews on your website. 

 Why create content for the stages of the buyer's journey? 

Each stage is a process that the prospect is in and it is vital to understand it to guide him to the final stage of purchase, if we do not understand it, someone else will do it and this sales opportunity will go away. 

1. Nurturing prospects through the stages of the buyer's journey 

Normally a prospect does not enter an eCommerce to make a purchase, more than anything he is in the process of research, on how to cover his recent need. Therefore, a benefit that describes this buyer's journey is that through each stage content is provided that nourishes the prospect towards a conversion and not towards an immediate sale. 

With the right content, at the right time or stage, you can effortlessly guide them to an effective purchase, and you wouldn't be overwhelming them with excess offers or ads. 

2. Qualification of potential customers at each stage of the buyer's journey 

While we try to guide prospects all the way to a sale, another benefit this gives us is that it allows us to qualify them before they get in touch with the sales team. So, it helps if the prospect can figure out for himself that your product does not fit what he is looking for, that is particularly good. But it's even better when stage-based content educates you rather than doing it yourself. 

In addition to helping, you save time and budget, the Costumer Journey reuses content for other prospects who are at the same stages of the buyer's journey, thus concentrating your efforts on filling gaps with new content. Always maintain a strategy to offer prospects quality, informative and educational content, you will see how they approach and become a potential client.