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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 counsel clients on content marketing, I don’t take an idea-led, “come up with some catchy headlines” sort of approach.

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Your Secret Weapon to Improved Conversions: Content Analytics

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Better targeting, A/B testing, content changes–there is a long list. But I believe that the most overlooked weapon is content analytics. Content analytics allow you to distinguish which content is working and which is not, through several approaches: Interaction. Are all bounces bad?

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What Digital Marketers Can Learn From Their Analytics Data

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And if you’re doing any sort of digital marketing, including content marketing, you’d better be measuring how well that marketing is working. Your analytics data can, of course, tell you a great deal about the health of your digital marketing activity. But only if you’re reading it regularly. Here are some things to look for.

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Are You Looking Deeply Enough Into Your Digital Marketing Analytics?

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We get it: digital marketing analytics can be by turns annoyingly opaque and jaw-droopingly obvious. The kinds of insights that are going to guide your marketing activities – and improve your bottom line – aren’t always going to be found on the summary page of Google Analytics or your email marketing or social media analytics.

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Content marketing metrics and analytics: it’s all about you

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When it comes to the bedrock, core truths of content marketing, there’s not much that’s more important than metrics and measurement. As important as it is to know your audience or create content that is relevant to your marketing goals, the work you do there won’t amount to much if you’re not measuring results in some way.

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The Creator Economy and the Rise of Content Monetization

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CB Insights points out that digital content creators have had to cobble together various tools to build and monetize their activities. Key quote: “… a slew of startups are looking to disrupt the way creators make content, develop their audiences, or grow their businesses beyond advertising.

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Influencers: the key to content marketing

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Mike invited me because of all the experience in B2B digital marketing I have accumulated at IBM , much of which we distilled into our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketi ng. So I asked the analytics person. At the end of that year, I asked the analytics person again.