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In this article, we explain how to use Confluence Cloud effectively for your marketing team.
Daily challenges for marketing teams
Structured marketing strategies are essential to achieve company goals and align the company with market needs. Together as a team, you prioritize topics, hold regular brainstorming meetings, and create competitor analyses. You also manage social media channels and deliver reports to stakeholders.
But day-to-day business also brings some challenges:
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Managing the enormous flood of data
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Clearly document important ideas
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Regulate responsibilities transparently
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Promote an open feedback culture
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Single source for diverse content
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Notifications about version changes
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Optimize (worldwide) remote work
You can overcome these hurdles with one single tool: Confluence Cloud.
What is Confluence Cloud?
Confluence Cloud is a digital team workspace that operates completely independent of time and location. Knowledge management, project collaboration and a modern intranet come together, at a single source of truth.
You can set access to specific areas for your team members. For example, you can create a marketing area where everyone can add current work. These documents are accessible to all and can be edited simultaneously. Version histories provide the ideal overview. In addition, you receive a notification as soon as something has been changed in one of your documents.
The centralization of information exchange ensures transparency. In this way, you can make qualified decisions faster and manage problems more easily.
How your marketing team works optimally with Confluence
With Confluence Cloud, you create excellent conditions for open communication for your marketing team and ensure that all team members have the same level of knowledge at all times.
Below, we will look at several areas in which Confluence Cloud can support teamwork in marketing.
Encourage feedback culture
A constructive feedback culture is also part of an agile way of working in marketing. Confluence’s comment function deserves special mention here. Team members can proofread each other’s documents and add comments. This feedback forms the ideal basis for personal development, which will also improve the marketing team as such.
Structure your content plan
Social media presence is hard to underestimate these days. But when should which post be published? Simply create a social media content plan on Confluence. Images can be put here, articles and even entire landing pages can be planned.
You can increase your team productivity even more by connecting your favorite tools to Confluence. Integrations with Jira, Trello, Slack, Microsoft Office, Dropbox and many more are possible.
Practical Confluence templates for your marketing
The collaboration tool offers some already installed page templates that you can use for your work. Do you already have templates with your own structures? Then simply import them into your template library with a few clicks.
Create personas
Before you plan your content, you need to understand your customers. Creating personas, which are typified representatives of your target group, helps you find gaps in the customer journey and identify current problems. Confluence provides you with a prepared template so that you don’t forget anything during the planning process.
Competitive and SWOT analyses
The sample template for competitive and SWOT analyses is a great way to discover your own potential. It allows all team members to better understand their own brand and plan campaigns more decisively.
