Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. In fact, even in the glory days of Madison Avenue, the most successful agencies published authentic content that informed and humanized even as it entertained. Now don’t get me wrong.

Brand Identity 356

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2023

To that end, here are nine recommendations for strategies and tactics to get the attention of both search engines and your prospective customers or website visitors. Share relevant and compelling content, and interact with social media users who engage with the posts. Fresh Content Google loves fresh content.

Paid Content 243

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment). Bad content isn’t going to propel a company forward. Most of it sucks.

B2B Marketing 289

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2020

While it may seem counter-intuitive, when you take an approach that puts the customer’s needs in the driver’s seat, and you’ll be on the fast track to marketing success. How do you show your customers that you care about their needs? Weekly blogging is the express lane to boost your B2B sales by a factor of ten.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve decided to open up new markets for your products, but you have a major challenge: how to build brand awareness among your new target customers. When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Expand your team to handle the larger content workload.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 5, 2022

The phrase “content is king” was used by Bill Gates in 1996 to describe the future of the internet as a marketplace to share information. More than 25 years later and after countless innovations across both print and digital content, the familiar phrase continues to dominate business headlines. three to five pieces of content ?before

Thought Leadership 215

Thought Leadership B2B Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer Lead Scoring 215

Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

Marketing AI 132

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2020

I’m a big believer in making the content you publish the hub around which your content marketing strategy revolves. However, to rock content marketing in today’s omni-channel world, social media plays a key supporting role. Quick Takeaways: Your content marketing strategy needs more than a perfectly optimized website.

Social Media 325

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It’s not your meticulously researched blog posts that get all the online love. It’s employee-generated content (EGC) – the secret sauce that can transform your content marketing strategy beyond your wildest dreams. At Insider Marketing Group, we believe in the power of employee-shared content. Have a seat.

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Audit existing email nurture campaigns for performance Do you have engagement programs scheduled to kick off after a prospect attends a webinar, downloads content, or takes other actions with your brand? We published the full details here , if you want to check them out and apply the strategies to your own nurture campaigns.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2020

Learn how to minimize content creation costs for your company here. Just because you’re with a large company doesn’t mean that you have an unlimited budget for content marketing. Whatever your situation, it’s always wise to minimize content creation costs. Repurpose top-performing content. White paper or e-book downloads.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

At ClearVoice, we understand that not all people are content people. Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. In this way, content is a long play, winning trust over time. Let’s start with the business brass tacks.

Paid Content 92

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 27, 2020

A content strategy? The best way to do that – and statistics back it up – is content marketing. Did you know that even if you inherited a windfall, you could spend those hundreds of thousands on slick TV ads only to have some other upstart (who does do content marketing) rake in three times your leads? Give me a break, you say.

Startups 336

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

It's important for companies to engage in content marketing to build their online presence and grow brand awareness outside of word of mouth. The practice of content marketing allows companies to consistently put noteworthy content out there about what they do best and how their solution(s) can help consumers solve their problems.

Content Marketing 98

Content Marketing Planning Word of Mouth Content 98

SmartBug Media

MAY 8, 2023

B2B content marketing should be an essential focus to connect with your customers. The goal is to create content to solve a prospect’s potential problem or to educate or inspire them so your brand is top of mind when they choose a solution or product. Remember blogging—an oldie but a goodie!

Marketing Strategy 98

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy B2B Marketing Webinar Metrics 98

Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2024

“It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content that wins.” Think of your content as seeds of knowledge. Is content syndication worth the effort? Must Read: B2B Content Syndication Strategies The Challenge: Where’s the ROI? This guide will help you do just that.

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether your goal is to acquire leads, boost sales, or increase conversions, content is vital to moving people through the buyer’s journey. From bylined articles to informational videos, content helps prospects learn about brands and gather information about their products and services.

Top of Funnel 80

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 11, 2023

Connecting with your customers digitally means building trust and establishing a loyal relationship. Luckily, perfecting your website design, content creation, and other marketing tactics is simple when you work with digital marketing experts. Content Marketing Today’s consumers are eating up content. Content Creation.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

To establish your place as a thought leader and trustworthy authority in your industry, you need to publish original, high-level content. But writing effective thought leadership content is no easy task. Taking the time and effort to learn how to create high-authority content is worth the effort. Brainstorm Topics.

Thought Leadership 204

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Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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.

Paid Content 73

Paid Content Traffic Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 73

Trade Press Services Newsletter

JANUARY 4, 2024

Create customized content that speaks directly to their needs, wants, and challenges. Go full steam ahead with content creation. Whether it’s bylined articles, white papers, how-to guides or videos, new content is the best way to drive new leads and engage with your customers.

Marketing AI 130

Marketing AI Course B2B Thought Leadership Planning 130

Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 18, 2023

A study including behavioral data and a poll of 38,000 B2B professionals finds the more B2B content your “audience consumes, the more likely they are to be closing in on a purchase decision.” B2B content and buyer intent are two of the hottest topics in B2B marketing – and a new study offers some details as to how these are linked.

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Intent Buy Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel 95

ClearVoice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Creating high-quality content is only the first step in creating a powerful demand generation strategy. Regardless of how good your content is, it’s only effective if it reaches your target audience. Business-to-business (B2B) demand generation is a critical part of any successful content marketing strategy.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

What impact does this have on the readers of our white papers? How do we ensure that our white paper is not only read but also acted upon? Jonathan Kantor addresses this question and more in his new book Crafting White Paper 2.0: Crafting White Paper 2.0 Tell us about The White Paper Company.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2020

If you read marketing publications as much as I do, you’ve seen your fair share of blog posts, white papers, and videos that reference it. It makes my case for personalizing content , doesn’t it? When you personalize content for every segment of your target customer base, you’ll be sure to hit the mark every time.

Marketing AI 557

Marketing AI Stats Planning Case Studies 557

Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 19, 2021

That’s why SaaS companies win with content marketing. It’s also why we use a SaaS-based model with our own content marketing. Those challenges include: Identifying their target customers. Explaining what their products and expertise can do for those customers. Quick Takeaways: Identify your customer segments.

Startups 337

Startups B2B Marketing Buyer Personas Advertising Agencies 337

Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 11, 2010

Many companies are producing video white papers as online presentations based on information that would normally go into a printed white paper. We asked our panel of white paper experts "In what scenarios should video white papers be used? What are components of a good video white paper?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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. The year before we did this, I edited 280 white papers (average length, 40 pages). So I asked the analytics person.

Paid Search Agency 187

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Advertising Agencies 187

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

How do you concisely convey the information you want to present in your white paper? How long should a white paper be to convey information and yet hold readers interest from start to end? We have invited White Paper Experts to shed light on the following question: "What is the ideal length of a white paper?"

Paper 100

Paper Enterprise Management Marketing Management Case Studies 100

Biznology

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Here’s an easy way to round out your content marketing strategy with videos that that increase engagement at lots of different spots on the customer journey map. Convert articles and blog posts to video. Beef up your video content. Your blog reflects your content marketing strategy—right down to the keywords.

Top of Funnel 112

Top of Funnel Work Management Video Marketing Marketing Management 112

Hinge Marketing

JUNE 14, 2021

High quality premium content is arguably one of the most important elements of a successful content marketing strategy. Savvy professional services firms and other expertise driven sales teams develop content specifically to educate potential clients and showcase their expertise and areas of focus. Premium Content Defined.

Paid Content 144

Paid Content Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership 144

Content Standard

JUNE 27, 2023

Yet, webinars and white papers from professional organizations and mainstay publications are no longer enough to support healthcare organizations and providers in their search for solutions. Make an effort to focus your content strategy on the needs of your market, and you’ll realize a range of benefits.

Work Management 90

Work Management Marketing Management Differentiation Education 90

Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A lead magnet is a valuable piece of content offered to website visitors in exchange for contact details, like an email address. Here’s how they work… You create a lead magnet, usually a piece of digital, downloadable content, such as a free PDF checklist, report, eBook, whitepaper, video, etc.

Small Business Marketing 96

Small Business Marketing Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 96

SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

It's important for companies to engage in content marketing to build their online presence and grow brand awareness outside of word of mouth. The practice of content marketing allows companies to consistently put noteworthy content out there about what they do best and how their solution(s) can help consumers solve their problems.

Content Marketing 52

Content Marketing Planning Word of Mouth Content 52

Launch Marketing

APRIL 13, 2022

Content marketing has long been a staple of B2B marketing and continues to be so as 2022 brings more opportunities and challenges for content ideation, creation and distribution. Here, we take a look some shifts in content marketing over the past year and how that impacts strategy, planning, and execution moving forward.

Trends 126

Trends B2B Marketing Webinar Metrics Planning 126

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Are you asking customers to marry you on a first date, or are you wooing them over time with all your charms? Content marketing is a long game. You need to work to make customers warm up to you through many touchpoints. This means you need an effective content production strategy. Let’s dive in.

Marketing Budget Creation 105

Marketing Budget Creation Planning Marketing Budget Paid Search Agency 105

Contently

MARCH 30, 2020

A number of people have reached out to me asking for advice on how to protect their budget and make the case for content. But we’re not cutting content; we’re doubling down on it. The compounding returns of content. The biggest mistake people make with content marketing ROI is taking a short-term view.

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