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Does a soft sell conflict with content marketing analytics?

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I was recently leading a client workshop where I get a question that I had never heard before, “Why are you emphasizing such an aggressive use of analytics if content marketing should be a soft sell?”. When I kept hammering away at focusing your marketing on attracting people who will actually buy, I was asked the above question.

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Are you using your buyer’s journey for analytics?

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They are using analytics to show which content is working and which is not. After all, if you’ve aligned your content to the buyer’s journey, you can actually identify which content belongs to each step, so your analytics system can track buyers moving from step to step. Very smart. What about you? Like this post?

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9 Google Analytics metrics every marketer should know

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The GPS for a website and any brand’s online effort is Google Analytics. If you have a website and don’t regularly review analytics, it’s the same as getting into a car to drive someplace without knowing where you’re going. Google made available sophisticated analytic software for free.

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Emotional branding vs. quantitative measurement. Or how fear, happiness, sadness, anger, anticipation and surprise beat “Buy Now” every time

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In short, analytics can’t capture everything; emotion leading to a predictable outcome can. That’s why my digital colleague has a hard time wrapping his head around an analytics framework to measure its impact. Or how fear, happiness, sadness, anger, anticipation and surprise beat “Buy Now” every time appeared first on Biznology.

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Where is B2B marketing headed? 7 predictions for 2018

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B2B sales and marketing are evolving quickly as buying behavior changes and new technologies take hold, so there’s a lot to talk about. Predictive analytics becomes an essential tool in B2B. Self-service analytics. Understanding millennial buying behavior will be key to success. I predict major M&A next year.

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Google Analytics Upgrade Could Bode Well for Google Plus

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This week Google introduced some significant changes to its widely used analytics offering. The Google Analytics blog tells us “The new reports bridge the gap between social media and the business metrics you care about – allowing you to better measure the full value of the social channel for your business.

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Episode #50: M&A Comms Masterclass with Louis De Schorlemer

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Louis discusses the sensitive nature of M&A activities, such as when a cash-rich business buys a struggling company, and he doesn’t look away from the discomfort but instead guides clients on how to communicate through it in a mindful way. He lays out strategies for analytical mapping and putting people in the right mindset.