Modern-day consumers are desensitised to advertising. From the sad soundtrack that tugs at your heartstrings to get you to donate money to a good cause… To the pulse-pounding cinematography that turns a car commercial into a miniature action movie… The audience has built up walls to resist these kinds of advertisements.
They know that whoever runs the ads is trying to sell them something, so they tune-out. They switch channels during a TV commercial break, they ignore pop-up ads online, and they let radio spots go in one ear and out the other.
Your customer base has built up walls against traditional marketing that can make getting them to listen, much less make a purchase seem almost impossible.
Until you bypass those walls, anyway. And that’s where content marketing comes in.
