How to hear your shout in the content marketing noise ?

Content marketing for interest

Content marketing tries to attract people and parties from the market segment that consist of your potential customers. The idea is when they consume your content they will retain your brand or even refer to your content during further discussions. This interest in the content should result in leads and eventually in sales.

Marketing noise

Due to all content published a lot of marketing noise is being created on the Internet all begging for the attention. The challenge is to make your content stand out and being found.
If it would be in a crowd you would just shout harder.

Shouting harder than the noise

On the Internet you only can shout harder by having more links pointing to your content. As such you need to promote your content on all possible social media and websites. This comes down to spamming using links to your content by tweeting, Facebook, posting comments on blogs in order to reach out to as much people in your target group as possible and at the same time scoring for the search engines.

Content marketing is not solely creating valuable and interesting content, it also requires marketign and promoting this content on the Internet.

What do you do for promoting your content ?