Content Marketing Institute

JULY 19, 2018

Editor’s note: Because understanding what your fellow marketers are doing and what’s happening in successful content marketing programs is critical to success, Lisa Murton Beets has updated her 2017 article. A little over halfway through 2018, you may be looking for insights on how to maximize your content marketing efforts.

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Exo B2B

JANUARY 23, 2024

I recently published on LinkedIn, part of the results of CMI’s annual content marketing study, “B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Outlook for 2024” This publication focused on LinkedIn’s dominance as the social network of choice for the vast majority of those who publish B2B content on social networks.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The outlook for B2C content marketing looks bright if budgets are any indication. Fifty-seven percent of B2C marketers surveyed expect their 2019 content marketing budget to increase over 2018, and 29% of those expect it to increase by more than 9%. CMIContent 2019 #research Click To Tweet. research Click To Tweet.

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Convert

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Marketers can easily make informed guesses and calculated assumptions based on insights and industry best practices , but there might be another way to get extremely valuable insights for your next optimization campaign: conducting user research. User research methods can span from simple to complex. Card Sorting.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 12, 2022

(This month's Research Round-Up features a look at "revenue marketing" benchmarks by Demand Spring, an extensive examination of the state of content marketing by Semrush, and a report by Considered Content discussing two surveys that show where B2B buyers and B2B marketers are on the same page.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Too many manufacturing organizations are still talking about themselves in the content they create. 51% of manufacturing marketers always or frequently prioritize audience’s needs in #content. 51% of manufacturing marketers always or frequently prioritize audience’s needs in #content. CMIContent Click To Tweet. Here’s how.

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Contently

APRIL 6, 2023

Love them or hate them, buyer personas are key to creating successful marketing strategies and effective content. But here’s the catch: Developing buyer personas requires research, analysis, and attention to detail. The trick here is to only include information that’s actually important to know.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 18, 2019

Understanding those needs requires significant initial and ongoing research to get the most valuable insights for your business. Thankfully, there are many reputable research firms, associations, and other outlets doing the hard work for you. Below are resources we recommend for your health IT product research. Journal of AHIMA.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Nielsen out-of-home advertising study found that interviewees spent 25 hours a week in vehicles, and 33% of them proceeded to look for information on an advertiser after seeing an out-of-home ad. When conducting surveys, you can ask questions such as: Have you seen the billboard for the product? How much did you like it?

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And this informs your marketing game plan. Marketing competitor analysis is the process of researching and analyzing your competitors’ marketing strategies and tactics to identify their strengths and weaknesses. You could also survey and ask your customers what other brands they considered when making a similar purchase.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

With each passing year, there are more examples of manufacturers doing impressive things with content marketing. What can manufacturers in the young/first steps phase do to take their content marketing to the next level? To get deeper insight, we looked at how their responses compared with those in the sophisticated/mature phase.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of our three-part series on email newsletter best practices, we addressed core foundational elements of an effective email newsletter , including compelling statistics, defining your goals and audiences and how to use competitive benchmarking to inform the overall email newsletter strategy.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 11, 2013

Research, guides, and marketing surveys help guide B2B marketers down the right path. Here are ten B2B marketing related research reports and guidelines we recommend for review, and a brief explanation on why they are important. Optify’s 2013 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. View the full report.

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Top Rank Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Not only that, but our original industry research helps shed a broader light on the B2B influencer marketing tactics being used most today. Social media influencer content It comes as no surprise that social media is the most popular channel for deploying B2B influencer marketing tactics.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Thankfully, as B2B marketers, we’re able to tap into the wants and needs of B2B consumers via online surveys, research reports, etc. These reports and surveys can often spark new ideas, or provide statistical support to reinforce the existence of current strategies. Moz’s 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey revealed 81% of US-based social marketers consider influencer marketing an essential part of their social media strategy. Doing so enables you to benchmark your influencer campaigns against business goals, determine the ROI of your partnerships and pivot quickly based on what is and isn’t working.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Software Advice’s recently released 2014 B2B Demand Generation Benchmark report revealed that the vast majority of B2B marketers (79 percent) use at least 11 different marketing software applications. research reports, trends, and important industry announcements in the B2B marketing space) for quite some time now.

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Animalz blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Content marketers fall for this same trap all the time. You analyze all your channels — including the unsexy ones — to find the biggest opportunities and only then double down with great content. Most content marketers spend too much time creating great content and not enough thinking about how to get it read and seen.

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am trained with MarTech content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for marketing technology professionals.

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The Lead Agency

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Furthermore with the increasing use of the internet for buying and researching products and services, you need to bear in mind that you’re not just competing with your immediate neighbours, but also those online. Knowing your competitors means more than simply researching what’s already out there.

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Content4Demand

MARCH 25, 2021

At this time of year when everything is fresh and blooming, it’s good to refresh your ABM content marketing strategy. ABM remains high on the priority list of B2B marketers, according to the 2021 Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report. And that’s where content comes in. B2B Craves ABM in Strategy Baskets.

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Top Rank Marketing

AUGUST 16, 2023

B2B purchases are being scrutinized more deeply New research from Demand Gen Report and Vidyard shows that “buyers are focusing more on the value of a purchase and thoroughly researching solutions before making a decision.” This environment is raising the bar for impactful marketing that achieves bang for the buck.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 23, 2016

Marketers in B2B create a lot of content. We write, we design, we create videos, and post content all day long, but what content really matters to our buyers? Before you jump in and write another eBook, learn what content your buyers need and want. Think about where there may be a gap in your current content strategy.

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Buyer Personas Demand Generation Content Advertising Benchmark 124

NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

You’ve finally honed your content strategy for inbound marketing. But now a new strategy is on your doorstep — account-based marketing — and you have to create content to fulfill the vision. Content marketing works best when you get the right content to the right people at the right accounts at the right time and in the right format.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Create internal benchmarks by platform and across all media channels to identify areas of investment that are not worth continuing. Let’s look at these steps in detail. How has AI impacted the market?

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

MediaPost Is AI in Search Changing B2B Content Strategies?

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

To take a closer look at the report and its findings, we spoke to Lisa Murton Beets, Research Director at the Content Marketing Institute. Before you can expand your nurturing efforts, you need to be sure you really know your audience—and that takes research and conversation. What are their wants and needs?

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Contently

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When I started as an editorial intern at Contently, the first thing I realized was that I had a lot to learn about content marketing. And when I showed up for my first day at Contently, the marketing team had a list of links ready for me to read through. The more you can research going in, the better you’ll be.

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Kevin Indig

APRIL 1, 2023

AWT shows which keywords your pages rank for, how Google sees your content, and what changes can boost your traffic. The most popular SEO strategy is growing traffic through blog content. The same principle applies to content. Writing is a creative pursuit, but scaling content is a science. By measuring the right metrics.

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Sharpspring

JULY 27, 2021

To do that, SharpSpring partnered with Ascend2 to conduct a State of Lead Nurturing survey that was fielded to a panel of marketing professionals and marketing research subscribers. What we ended up with was an informative report that gave us a view into how the industry was implementing and struggling with this marketing strategy.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Just one day before I flew to Cleveland for Content Marketing World 2016 , I was approached for two content-related quotes, which may (or may not) be used by various journalists as they compile their articles on the “future” of content marketing and what to expect in 2017. It’s probably because your content stinks.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to our research , nearly 9 out of 10 business leaders are gearing up to boost their investments in AI and machine learning (ML), especially in marketing. AI is changing the game and setting new benchmarks for business excellence. Content generation AI is also impacting content creation and the way we write.

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Animalz blog

MAY 2, 2023

Massive Increase in Competition for All Search Results Generative AI will dramatically increase the amount of SEO content published each day. Publishing Frequency and Content Length Trend Upwards Publishing frequency is a powerful growth lever, but for most of SEO’s history, the mechanical process of writing has been the bottleneck.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to recent research, 51.2% But what’s a good benchmark for free trial conversions? But what’s a good benchmark for free trial conversions? According to RevenueCat’s benchmark study : Apps with the 4-day (or fewer) trials have a 30% conversion rate. Apps with 5-9-day trials have a 45% conversion rate.

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The Point

JUNE 5, 2018

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. Read more about the survey results on Lori’s blog.). for organization.

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Lead Ranking Forrester Lead Scoring Paid Search Agency 194

Launch Marketing

JUNE 16, 2021

Webinars have become an extremely popular format to communicate, interact and relay information to clients, prospects and other professionals in the industry. With the research and insight provided by the ON24 Webinar Benchmark Report for 2021, there were staggering statistics and behaviors that marketers exhibited in the past year.

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DivvyHQ

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If your content strategy is putting the brand’s promotional message ahead of your audience’s needs, it’s destined to fail. This is one of the clearest takeaways from the brand-new 2019 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends research, via Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, which hit the web last week.

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