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Social Spotlight: VSCO’s #BlackJoyMatters Shows Social Issues Through a New Lens

Sprout Social

Photography blogger John Watson says, “the right focus can create an emotional connection with the viewer.” Their photo-editing mobile app has over 150 million Android and iPhone downloads since it first launched in 2012. Focus is what enhances a subject or object by making it stand out from its surroundings.

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The New Risks in Pay-for-Placement Guest Blogging

Hinge Marketing

For those who don’t know, guest blogging is when you create a piece of content and reach out to other websites to host the content, thus reciprocating links. The key is creating valuable content that digs deeper – providing new thoughts and insights on a topic, as search engines can tell when there are spammy links.

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The Business Blog Editorial Calendar Every Marketer Needs [Free Template]

Hubspot

In fact, according to the 2012 State of Inbound Marketing , 70% of companies that publish articles 2-3 times per week have acquired a customer through their blog. Furthermore, according to our 2012 Marketing Benchmarks report , companies that increase blogging from 3-5X/month to 6-8X/month almost double their leads.

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8 Ready-Made Job Descriptions to Recruit an All-Star Marketing Team

Hubspot

That's why you need a team of lean, mean, digitally fluent, content-creating machines to take your marketing from good to remarkable. What's better than a blogger for a dog supply-selling ecommerce site? A blogger with four poodles at a dog supply-selling ecommerce site! 2) Blogger/Blog Manager. 1) Social Media Manager.

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How 5 Companies Are Using Inbound Marketing to Succeed in Competitive Markets

Hubspot

She discovered people were searching “legal separation in PA” without seeing a lot of valuable content, so she started targeting that phrase and similar ones with blog content. All they did was embrace inbound marketing by creating a content-based campaign that addressed customer concerns. The results paid off. Even better?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

The ROI Guy

Spending on IT cloud services will triple in the next 5 years, reaching $42 billion and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona.

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The Time-Crunched Marketer's Guide to Creating Lead-Gen Offers

Hubspot

The problem is, creating content takes time, which might be why so few marketers are utilizing landing pages to their fullest extent. The time for excuses is over, because there are ways to create valuable marketing offer content quickly; it just takes a little out-of-the box thinking. So what's a time-crunched marketer to do?