7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With a Headless CMS
The web is changing faster than we could ever imagine. Businesses and organizations have high expectations for their content management system (CMS). Your CMS is expected to facilitate impressive digital experiences, manage content for multiple digital channels, and collect data for crucial user insights.
But how is it possible to do all this with a CMS? Below, we'll explore the seven things you may not know you could do with a headless CMS. And trust me, you may be surprised by some if not all of them!
Automate Your Content Freely
Your editing team should be able to create, publish and automate content freely. Layouts give editors more power and flexibility to create and manage their content but also save time, increases ROI, and improves consistency across the board.
Layouts within Agility CMS allows editors to own their content completely and provide flexibility to add, move, or remove pages. It empowers editors to create and manage actual pages in the sitemap and the freedom to relate and structure their pages without involving a developer. Content zones and components force everyone to use the same architecture across the board in a consistent manner.
Streamline Content Localization
Managing content across multiple regions or languages can be daunting, but content localization becomes a breeze with a headless CMS like Agility CMS. Whether expanding into new markets or catering to a diverse audience, the platform's flexibility allows you to translate and adapt your content for different regions effortlessly. This ensures that your global audience receives content that resonates with them culturally and linguistically, ultimately leading to a more personalized and engaging user experience.
Enhance SEO
From managing meta tags and optimizing structured data to fine-tuning your content for search engines, platforms like Agility provide the tools to boost your website's rankings. This means more organic traffic, increased discoverability, and better visibility in search results, all of which are essential for driving online success.
Deliver Site-Wide Updates Across all your Digital Content
Content architecture defines all your content lists and items and where they will live. With the exemplary content architecture in place, the creation and management of your content delivery can happen smoothly in the background while your end-users enjoy the quality experience they seek.
A good Content Architecture makes it easy for your team to deliver site-wide updates across all your digital content. Performance updates can be tested, applied, and rolled back quicker and easier. New employees can start generating ROI quicker, and editors and designers can efficiently complete the work they need to do. The CMS is easier to manage, and it's relatively inexpensive to add new features such as integrating with any marketing automation platforms.
With a headless CMS like Agility CMS, you can start planning your content architecture and optimize your content across all your digital properties.
Reduce expenses and create happy customers - all the ingredients you need to deliver standout ROI!
Boost Your Movie Ticket Sales
Electronic ticketing allows your customers 24-hour easy access to events they are seeking. Instead of operating within box office hours, customers can browse and purchase at their leisure. This makes it easy to schedule events, coordinate with other guests and browse for additional events that may interest you.
You also provide additional value to your guests when you offer a better customer experience. The result is loyal customers who return to your website or app repeatedly. They tell all their friends about their great experiences, too! All these things lead to one significant benefit for you: increasing conversions and sales.
E-ticketing within the Agility CMS platform is managed from one central hub. It is not only customizable; it also provides secure and flexible integrations with customers' payment, shipping and CRM providers. The platform also boasts unlimited design freedom, a mobile-friendly user experience, customer account creation and tracking, multiple ticketing variant options and in-depth reporting.
Collect Data for Crucial User Insights
User-generated content is the content on your site that your website users submit. The most common types of UGC are comments, ratings, votes, blog post comments, reviews, form submissions etc. A way to store and organize this data correctly is significant, especially for your marketing team. It allows the company to respond to the feedback and improve, make changes, and connect with their client base and community. It's valuable information for a company's overall presence but also gives customers and clients a chance to be part of a large community, to feel like their voice is being heard.
As technology becomes increasingly user-friendly, it's simple for users to provide honest reviews and feedback in various formats. UGC serves as an excellent social proof. Seeing content from real customers increases your credibility and brings your brand's promises into perspective.
Agility CMS provides a flexible and fast way of managing your User Generated Content (UGC). This can range from something as simple as polling or a voting system to something more complex like forums, blogs, comments, or photo and video journals. Any form submissions on your website or app can also be defined and saved in UGC. In addition to the basic collection and storage of data, UGC includes functionality for defining and managing user profiles that allow users to register and log in to your website or app. UGC has workflows and mechanisms for approving content before it is published and the ability to automatically un-publish content if it is flagged as abusive by other users or contains offensive words.
Integrate Third-Party Services
In today's digital landscape, businesses rely on a myriad of tools and services to streamline operations and gain a competitive edge. Headless CMS excels in integration capabilities, allowing you to seamlessly connect with third-party services, such as marketing automation platforms, analytics tools, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and more. This integration offers a holistic view of user data, enhances marketing strategies, and facilitates data-driven decision-making for your organization.
Personalize User Experiences
Personalization is the key to capturing and retaining user attention. With Headless CMS, you can harness the power of data-driven personalization. By collecting and analyzing user data, the platform enables you to create tailored content and experiences that resonate with individual users. This increases user engagement and drives higher conversion rates, as users are more likely to interact with and respond positively to content that speaks directly to their interests and preferences.
Empower your Content Team to Do More
The web is changing faster than we could ever imagine. Businesses and organizations have higher expectations for their CMS and the content that powers them. To keep up with all your content changes, your CMS needs the speed and the capacity to keep up with all their content updates and the mass amounts of content accumulated over time. As an editor, being able to launch a campaign, schedule a blog post, or add new pages or components should be a piece of cake.
Agility CMS uses a content-first approach that enables you to be faster and more flexible. You can reuse content wherever you want and connect it to all your digital channels!
Accelerate Mobile App Development
The mobile app landscape is ever-evolving, and businesses must stay agile in delivering content to their mobile users. Agility CMS extends its capabilities to mobile app development, simplifying the process of content management for your mobile applications. This ensures that your app users receive the same high-quality and up-to-date content as your website visitors, offering a consistent and engaging experience across all platforms.
About the Author
Harmonie is the Senior Marketing Manager at Agility CMS