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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?”. To some, it might seem like these analytics are leading to a hard sell instead of the soft sell that content marketing actually requires.

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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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Google took my keywords. 10 resources to get them back

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Google Analytics is the most widely used tool for understanding consumer behavior on a website. It is the GPS for a site but keywords are no longer one of the things Google Analytics gives. Google gave us Google Analytics for free but 96% of Google revenue is from ads. It is rich with insights. But what about the rest of us?

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

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For example, Facebook may generate the most orders of any social media network, but if you’re say, a B2B professional services firm, whatever orders you do generate come at a huge opportunity cost: namely, the much higher return you’d likely realize if you devoted your resources to your LinkedIn presence. . Do your own analytics!

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Where is B2B marketing headed? 7 predictions for 2018

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Predictive analytics becomes an essential tool in B2B. Particularly in prospecting, new resources like purchase signals (“intent data”) and lookalike modeling will continue to expand marketers’ access to new audiences and provide scale to their ABM programs. Self-service analytics.

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How Technology Will Make a Sustainable Impact in the Future

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There’s an argument to be made that the shift, in addition to fueling business growth , also cuts the number of resources they use. Meanwhile, in the healthcare industry, big data and analytics are poised to protect the public from the far-reaching detriments that environmental problems pose to wellness.

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Next for digital transformation: operational transformation

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Search, social, analytics, content, commerce, CRM, web, and mobile will all come into play. Transforming business process management (BPM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other internal day to day tasks and processes? Marketing transformation. It is an absolute requirement for survival in the current business environment.