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Can’t Stop. Won’t Stop. Why You Should Stop Selling In Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Today, brands pump out a ton of promotional material. And yet, when we are ready to buy, we seek out the information we need. Back in 2007, I joined SAP to run an online lead generation program. We also found out something else that was interesting: targeted content didn’t deliver more leads in the targeted audience.

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Crunchy, salty, nutritious news & views on B2B marketing for technology companies | Velocity - the B2B marketing acceleration agency for technology companies

Online Marketing Institute

Home > Our blog HOME | RSS FEEDS | SITEMAP | CLIENT ZONE | CONTACT US Our blog About Velocity Our clients What we do Who we are Recent posts The white paper is dead…or is it? New ones, perhaps Richmond based, rise out the rubble. A few people were so incensed they contacted me to say I was talking nonsense.

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48 Content Marketing Tools to Make Your Life Easier

Single Grain

Check out these content marketing stats: Content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates 3x as many leads. . Lead magnets such as white papers. With a database of over 7 billion keywords, Ahrefs makes sure you never run out of topic ideas. Content is definitely the future of marketing.