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Is ecommerce blogging still worth the investment?

ClickZ

Ecommerce websites are more about engaging their traffic in direct sales, creating an outreach list, and making sure to reach and connect with potential customers. Ecommerce websites are more about engaging their traffic in direct sales, creating an outreach list, and making sure to reach and connect with potential customers.

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Why community could be the next big thing in marketing

Martech

I wanted a way to talk to people who understood what I was doing — which is the entire ethos of community.” ” The first comment came from Mike Rizzo, telling me how the MO Pros community of marketing operations professionals started out as a Slack channel. Gamers have long constituted a network of online communities.

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Starting a Blog for Your Business: Checklist

Sharpspring

Lots of businesses set up blogs without any planning behind the effort. But starting a blog for your business isn’t a task to be taken on without forethought. And this is why many business blogs never deliver any noticeable results: They rank for random keywords that never bring any sales or leads. Here’s the checklist: 1.

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Your Blog Is Not a Publication (But It’s Not Just a Library Either)

Animalz blog

A few years back, I mentioned to John Collins, then content director at Intercom, how much Animalz customers admired their blog. Replicating their publication-style blog is not the right approach for most companies because it’s too costly, doesn’t bring the right outcomes, or both. John’s response?

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How To Increase Blog Traffic: 25 Proven Strategies for Guaranteed Uplift

Optinmonster

Do you want to learn how to increase blog traffic? Blog traffic isn’t rocket science, and there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. In this guide, we’ll share 25 proven strategies (with 7 case studies) to teach you how to increase blog traffic by 1064%. Here’s our exact, 5-step blog traffic process: 1.

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What Reddit can teach brands about creating community via email newsletters

Liveintent

Since the beginning of time, humans have understood the value of community. Whether for literal survival or for comforts slightly higher up on Maslow’s Hierarchy, we self-select into communities that fill our emotional and intellectual needs. The same is true for publishers. Here are some of the highlights.

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Harnessing the Power of Content Marketing for Credit Unions and Community Banks

ClearVoice

Given these advances, can credit unions and community banks still produce content that markets themselves effectively? Providing personalized service by understanding customer needs is still the goal of content marketing. Helping community banks optimize their content marketing initiatives and enhance their brand positioning.