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How Much Should Brands Pay for Content Marketing?

At least one time per day, every day for three years, someone emails us at Junta42 or submits a project looking for a content vendor wondering how much content marketing (both print and web content) should cost them. And who wouldn't want to know?

Before now, we've never put all our thoughts and answers together into one post, but here it is, quite lengthy, but important enough to discuss in detail.

The Short Answer

 

Question: How much should I pay for my content?

Answer: It depends.

Unfortunately, it always depends, but there are ways to determine a fair price for content.

 

When most marketing professionals budget for content, whether that be for web content, blogs, editorial for print magazines, enewsletters and more, they go by what "feels" right. I'm not saying this is right or wrong...it's just a fact. Marketers inherently judge content pricing based on what they've paid for PR or other creative, or even the value of their own time. Content and copy are always subjective and there are always multiple steps.  But the starting point is the Content Goal.

Look at it this way.  I can pay $12 dollars to play eighteen holes of golf at a Sandusky, Ohio golf course.  I can walk on and carry my bag (the gas carts have been known to die on the course, so I choose to walk).  The course is not in good shape. There are brown spots in the fairway...big ones.  The greens are bumpy.  There are no places to get drinkable water on the course.  Holes four and five kind of smell.  Sometimes you get some people on the course that shouldn't be on a golf course. 

 

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