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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. Companies need to keep growing to succeed, and content is one of the most effective ways to do that.

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Paid Content Promotion: Advertising Audiences Actually Want

Content Standard

As a consultant, I’ve noticed an odd dilemma emerge among my client companies. Many brands are willing to allocate substantial funds for the creation and launch of content initiatives. However, I see tons of resistance when it comes to rerouting ad spend to promote these content efforts. What gives?

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What is Content Marketing, Really? (And Other Content Questions Answered)

Marketing Insider Group

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. What Is Content Marketing Really?

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How to Approach Advertising and Marketing During a Recession

SmartBug Media

The uncertainty of a recession and COVID-19–related market disruptions is undoubtedly daunting, but you can’t hide from it. Here’s a nugget of truth that serves as good news: When a recession happens and causes everyone to panic and shrink their advertising budgets, your marketing voice naturally grows louder.

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Leveraging Paid Search Insights to Optimize Other Advertising Channels

QuanticMind

Over the last decade, there has been an extraordinary growth of technology that empowers marketers to collect and then leverage troves of data across each of the varying stages of their buying cycle. Of course, being data-driven is much trickier than it would first appear.

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Everything you need to know about native ads in email newsletters

Liveintent

What are native ads? Native ads are ads that match their environment or surroundings. Native ads are similar to an advertorial but come in a variety of formats. The three main types of native ad formats are branded content native ads, in-feed native ads, and content recommendation native ads.

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The Key to Being Recession-Proof: Never Stop Marketing or Advertising

SmartBug Media

But a recession is no reason to shutter your marketing and advertising efforts. You must keep marketing and advertising in order to beat the odds. How Past Recessions Prove That Prioritizing Marketing Works. It’s official: We’re in a recession.