Mirror the Market Content Marketing Framework: Rapid Real-World Message Testing

Generating demand and affinity is all about speaking the language of your audience.

Understanding their most challenging pain points — and demonstrating your understanding to buyers.

This framework is a lightweight way to quickly hone your messaging and shape your strategy to align directly with the most important and recognizable challenges your audience is facing.

It’s a systematic way to capture and test messages before you build expanded campaigns.

If your team is struggling to get agreement on specific content ideas or campaigns, this is a great way to quickly iterate and collect data you can use to align internal stakeholders and get buy-in.

Mirror the Market Content Marketing Framework: Rapid Real-World Message Testing

The process here is fairly straightforward:

  • Talk to your ICP
  • Identify their pain points
  • Create content that mirrors those pain points
  • Distribute content through channels like LinkedIn
  • Collect feedback in the form of engagement and reach
  • Expand the campaign for the messages that resonate the most

In Action: LinkedIn Content Campaigns

Our team uses the Mirror the Market framework in our own marketing.

Finding the signal example, shows how 4 posts are used to explore different topics or themes. then, the winning topic (the one that generates the most engagement, etc) is spun into several related pieces expounding on that same idea or theme.

We’re constantly talking to content leaders to learn about their biggest pain points.

Then we create content — usually for LinkedIn — that mirrors the messages we’re hearing from those conversations. 

Once we see which messages resonate most with our target ICP (content leaders), we expand the campaign. We create more content that focuses on that specific problem, including potential solutions and case studies that focus on how we’ve helped other teams overcome the same challenges.

Tina Harris

Tina Harris has been writing for and about content marketing for nearly ten years. She helps companies grow by covering topics from financial planning to content management systems and everything in between. When she isn't writing, editing, or planning retreats, she can be found shoveling snow in Colorado while her dog supervises.