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What is "Content Marketing"?

Content marketing is a strategic approach to creating and publishing valuable, original, and relevant content that captures the attention of specific audiences and compels them to engage with brands. 

The content we create for clients is optimized for search engines and highly shareable, with focused messaging, beautiful visuals, and effective storytelling that help our campaigns maximize your brand’s reach and visibility to drive new customer acquisition.

4 Ways Great Content Delivers Value

Our content marketing services drive growth and ROI for our clients by focusing on these four key goals:

No. 1

Improves Lead Generation


When we create great content for you, it will extend your brand reach to a larger audience while also minimizing unqualified traffic through clear and focused messaging. As a result, our content marketing campaigns will generate a higher quality of leads for your business.

No. 2

Elevates Your Brand


We develop content that draws in the outside world to connect with your brand and learn more about what your company is doing and offering to customers, building awareness and growing interest in how your business can help solve their problems.

No. 3

Strengthens Your SEO


Content is a vital component of successful search engine optimization. We not only create content that your audience will love, but also implement deep technical SEO to ensure each content piece significantly improves your website’s performance in search.

No. 4

Grows Thought Leadership and Credibility


By promoting and establishing the professional expertise of your company and your team, great content positions your business as the authoritative resource for industry strategies, solutions, and knowledge.

What Makes Content Work

Our content will always support your goals by effectively prioritizing these four audience-centric qualities:

Be Informative

People love to learn new and valuable information, so your content can present compelling insights and data that inform your audience and demonstrate your brand’s expertise surrounding the topics they care about.

Be Useful

Solve a real problem for your audience, or provide a useful guide that empowers them to solve it themselves. This helps your content deliver ongoing value and positions your brand as a helpful expert and authority in your market.

Be Inspiring

Often, your content goals focus on persuading your audience to take a certain action or next step. Through messaging that resonates and aligns with their values, you can also inspire them to forward and share your content with others.

Be Entertaining

Even in a strictly business environment, your content can earn your audience’s trust by appealing to their human side through humor and entertainment. These connection points will make your brand more relatable and memorable, and ultimately make your content more shareable.

How We Develop Content That Wins

  • Learn What Matters to Your Customer

Once we understand your business goals, we research your target audiences to identify their goals and determine what motivates them to act, so we can create content we know will inspire them to perform valuable, goal-oriented actions.

  • Combine Creativity + Development Expertise

Whether it’s technical writing, infographics, or interactive content, we have the design and development capabilities to build captivating and delightful experiences that drive engagement and make your brand irresistible.

  • Involve Multiple Channels and Mediums

We help your brand reach more customers and stay top-of-mind through strategic deployment of your content marketing campaigns across multiple media channels, including online search, social, email, and trade publications.

We’ve Delivered Proven Results

Our content has made a measurable positive impact for DBS clients spanning multiple industries, supporting a variety of business goals and marketing strategies:

The Derby LLC home page on a laptop and cell phone.

3rd Party Logistics Provider

Derby LLC

We created infographics to strengthen the Derby brand’s connection to their local region, while also launching Kentucky Derby themed interactive content that created a brand trigger by associating the supply chain logistics business with a world-renowned sporting event.

View the Derby LLC Case Study
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International Energy Corporation

Schneider Electric

For Schneider Electric’s annual sustainability report, we designed and developed an interactive experience that led audiences to explore corporate sustainability and helped them set sustainability goals for their own organizations.

View the Schneider Electric Case Study
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Inkjet Solutions Manufacturer

The Ink Tank (Kao Collins Inc.)

For Kao Collins, a global manufacturer of industrial inkjet inks, we designed, launched, and published content for a new industry-focused blog all about inks, which has earned our client dozens of #1 organic rankings and featured snippets for competitive industry keywords in search engine results and generative AI results.

View the Kao Collins Case Study

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FAQs

Content marketing attracts buyers who are already researching solutions by answering specific, high-intent questions. When content is built around buyer needs, technical challenges, and use cases, it naturally filters out casual visitors and attracts prospects with genuine interest. Over time, this leads to higher lead quality and more efficient use of marketing spend.

Producing informative content that addresses audience challenges helps establish credibility. Sharing expert insights, original research, and helpful how-to guides positions your brand as a trusted resource.

A realistic content calendar and prioritizing quality over volume help maintain consistency. Repurposing content across channels extends its value, and many lean teams work with agencies or specialists to sustain output without increasing headcount.

Agencies provide specialized skills, strategic perspective, and added capacity that are difficult to maintain internally. They reduce execution burden and help content programs perform more consistently without stretching internal teams.

Agencies provide specialized skills, strategic perspective, and added capacity that are difficult to maintain internally. They reduce execution burden and help content programs perform more consistently without stretching internal teams.

SEO optimizes websites and content to rank higher in search results through technical fixes, keyword use, and link building. Content marketing creates assets like blogs, case studies, and guides to build trust and nurture leads. SEO makes content discoverable while content marketing attracts and educates buyers.

Create gated assets like ROI whitepapers on automation ROI, optimize for SEO keywords engineers search, promote via LinkedIn and email, capture emails with forms, and nurture leads through drip campaigns toward demos or RFQs.

Target question-based queries with concise lists, tables, or short paragraphs under H2/H3 headings, use schema markup, answer directly in 40-60 words, define terms early, prioritize E-E-A-T signals like author bios and sources.

Audit keywords that engineers search for, like automation ROI or OT security, create how-tos, case studies, and spec sheets as blogs or gated PDFs, publish regularly, and repurpose top performers into LinkedIn posts or infographics.

Technical SEO paired with precise writing enhances visibility in competitive search environments. Focusing on featured snippets, structured data, and direct messaging helps content surface where buyers are actively searching.

Research shows content marketing delivers measurable returns across manufacturing, energy, and logistics. A Genesys Growth ROI study found an average $3 return for every $1 spent, with results often appearing within 3–6 months. Success is usually measured through lead quality, conversion rates, and revenue attribution.

Publishing original research, niche insights, and valuable tools differentiates a brand. Assets competitors can't easily replicate position you as a resource buyers return to and recommend.

A realistic publishing schedule helps. Reusing content in different formats and working with freelancers or agencies when needed maintains steady output. Fewer, high‑quality pieces outperform high volumes of mediocre content.

Hiring and retaining SEO specialists, designers, and developers in-house is expensive and challenging to scale, often leading to cost overruns and delays. Agencies already have these skills in place, letting internal teams focus on strategy and customer relationships.

SEO increases discoverability through keywords, technical performance, and site speed. Content fills optimized pages with substance, while design ensures mobile usability, fast loads, and intuitive navigation for rankings and conversions.

Gate assets like ROI whitepapers behind forms, optimize titles for relevant SEO keywords, promote via LinkedIn and email, and nurture leads through drip campaigns toward demos or RFQs.

Answer questions in concise 40- to 60-word lists or tables under H2 headings, use schema markup, reinforce E-E-A-T with expert bios and credible sources, and avoid unnecessary fluff.

SEO enhances discoverability through keywords, technical optimization, and site speed, content fills those optimized pages with substance, design ensures mobile UX, fast load times, and intuitive navigation for rankings and conversions.

Conduct a keyword audit for terms like automation ROI or OT security, produce how-tos, case studies, and spec sheets as blogs or gated PDFs, publish regularly, and repurpose good performers into LinkedIn posts or infographics.