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JANUARY 25, 2016

How to Dominate Your Market With Content from SalesEngine 1. As marketers tried to get the most out of this new digital world they re-discovered the importance of content. Today, I think so many companies are trying to muscle their way to more productivity with content rather than reimagining how they use it.

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JULY 29, 2016

) Lead generation through content marketing means attracting people with a problem you can solve (that they can afford to pay for!). Your audience must be built over time by generating superior content and putting it where they might see it—and if you’re out of touch, your content will fall on deaf eyeballs.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

) Lead generation through content marketing means attracting people with a problem you can solve (that they can afford to pay for!). Your audience must be built over time by generating superior content and putting it where they might see it—and if you’re out of touch, your content will fall on deaf eyeballs.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Most companies start with buying marketing automation without a solid strategy and underestimate the amount of content they require. The difference is that we’re now using content marketing to build that trust and demonstrate that you can solve their problem. A word of caution—this process falls apart all over the place.

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APRIL 24, 2018

3 Reasons to add pay-per-lead white paper syndication to your digital marketing plan There are three challenges every B2B marketer faces as they try to build a lead generating engine to feed their sales team: 1. Content marketing can be a long, expensive, and uncertain journey. Simply put, you need to do content marketing.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

They develop white papers, email campaigns, go to trade shows, and —well, you know, execute on lots of projects. But before making the decision to shift more of your resources towards content marketing and lead generation , you need to understand some harsh truths. For decades, the B2B marketer has been a manager of projects.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

I like the content from these companies, but there’s just no way that I can read that much stuff. Kevin Anderson at the Media Briefing refers to this overload as Peak Content. Of course, this phenomenon has not gone unnoticed by the giants in content marketing, as this recent research by Moz indicates.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Feeding the content marketing machine is an endless process, because once you stop publishing, your conversations start drying up. And to make it even more complicated, content development must be high-quality and add value or it will go unnoticed, regardless of how often you post. Do you have a dedicated content resource?

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 8, 2015

They develop white papers, email campaigns, go to trade shows, and —well, you know, execute on lots of projects. But before making the decision to shift more of your resources towards content marketing and lead generation , you need to understand some harsh truths. For decades, the B2B marketer has been a manager of projects.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 14, 2016

A newspaper editor, a digital producer and a content marketer walk into a bar…and they discovered that great stories and brand communications are no joke—it takes all of their combined skills to engage an audience and generate leads. Plan your story: Are you going to write a blog post, white paper or news feature article?

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The development of ongoing, thought-leadership content has become the necessary element for a marketing program that increases visibility and produces leads, but it’s not enough simply to publish a blog or white paper anymore. Start with a content audit. What pieces of content have you already developed?

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

PR firms and branding consultants proliferated, and blogs and social media became all the rage. Content Gets You Invited to the Dance The old-world tactics of both the sales and marketing realms are no longer effective for most companies. That's where compelling content comes in. You need to be invited.T Repeat steps 1-4.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

But the reality is that some of this process can be automated, and some can't, and one of the biggest reasons for this is that when we do find something that works predictably, others jump on the bandwagon and muddy the waters—much like what we’re seeing now with content marketing. Mass marketing is out, mass media is in.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

You know content marketing will work for your company—your competitors are doing it, and they’re kicking your butt. Here are 4 strategies you can use to get your content marketing budget approved in 2016. Realize, however, that most large-scale content marketing programs started out by testing the waters with a small pilot project.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Creating an end-to-end lead generation process with content marketing requires that your top-of-funnel content (the content that focuses on early stage buyers and is commonly found in blogs) is tied together with your premium conversion assets. But it can’t stop there.

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The development of ongoing, thought-leadership content has become the necessary element for a marketing program that increases visibility and produces leads , but it’s not enough simply to publish a blog or white paper anymore. Start with a content audit. What pieces of content have you already developed?

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Sales Engine

JULY 20, 2016

PR firms and branding consultants proliferated, and blogs and social media became all the rage. Content Gets You Invited to the Dance The old-world tactics of both the sales and marketing realms are no longer effective for most companies. That's where compelling content comes in. You need to be invited. Repeat steps 1-4.

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Sales Engine

JULY 20, 2016

PR firms and branding consultants proliferated, and blogs and social media became all the rage. Content Gets You Invited to the Dance The old-world tactics of both the sales and marketing realms are no longer effective for most companies. That's where compelling content comes in. You need to be invited. Repeat steps 1-4.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The problem is that when we find something that works predictably, others jump on the bandwagon and muddy the waters—much like what we’re seeing now with content marketing. Companies are doubling down on their content marketing expenditures, but it’s not enough to publish a blog and optimize it for search engines and expect people to find it.

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APRIL 13, 2016

Just because B2B companies are investing heavily in content marketing doesn’t mean that they’re successful at generating the leads they need for business growth. In fact, the Content Marketing Institute’s 2016 Benchmarks Report estimates that only 30% of the companies surveyed consider their content marketing efforts to be effective.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 9, 2015

When it comes to B2B marketing—whether it be social media, email marketing, blogs, white papers or attending trade shows—it has to be about lead generation. It’s great when content shows up in one of our prospect's Twitter feed because of a targeted hashtag. What’s your strategy?

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JULY 21, 2016

Where most B2B companies are investing in content marketing , less than a quarter are satisfied with their return. A demand generation strategy must map directly to the sales funnel to be effective, which is why most B2B content marketing initiatives miss the mark—they don’t understand sales process. How do you get people to engage?

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Sales Engine

JULY 21, 2016

Where most B2B companies are investing in content marketing , less than a quarter are satisfied with their return. A demand generation strategy must map directly to the sales funnel to be effective, which is why most B2B content marketing initiatives miss the mark—they don’t understand sales process. How do you get people to engage?

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MARCH 24, 2016

Inbound marketing , a term popularized by Hubspot, is all about producing content that extends the boundaries of company-owned web properties in order to catch the attention of prospects and entice them to engage with your web properties, including social channels and blogs. The right offer at the right time will always work.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Most marketing organizations today do not have the right resources in place to properly execute a content marketing strategy for lead generation, and if you’ve had less than desirable results, this could be a major reason why. Branding is a Side Benefit of Content Marketing, But Not the Goal.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

According to Marketing Sherpa, B2B Buyers find the Sellers 80% of the time, usually online, and most often through their marketing content. Hubspot cites direct and indisputable correlation between the number of Blog Posts that a company creates and the number of inbound leads that they receive. Your free content, advice and expertise.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

According to Marketing Sherpa, B2B Buyers find the Sellers 80% of the time, usually online, and most often through their marketing content. Hubspot cites direct and indisputable correlation between the number of Blog Posts that a company creates and the number of inbound leads that they receive. Your free content, advice and expertise.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

To make B2B sales today, you have to have a variety of content, distributed in a variety of ways, to create and deepen the awareness needed to bring buyers closer to the sale. Content solidifies your brand and creates awareness. Of those who consumed a piece of your content, how many downloads turned into leads?

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Sales Engine

MARCH 13, 2017

To make B2B sales today, you have to have a variety of content, distributed in a variety of ways, to create and deepen the awareness needed to bring buyers closer to the sale. Content solidifies your brand and creates awareness. Of those who consumed a piece of your content, how many downloads turned into leads?

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Sales Engine

MAY 12, 2016

To make B2B sales today, you have to have a variety of content , distributed in a variety of ways, to create and deepen the awareness needed to bring buyers closer to the sale. But it’s not the main goal of today’s demand generation engine fueled by content marketing. Content solidifies your brand and creates awareness.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

But B2B companies have found success in content marketing , and they’re upping the ante. For example, companies create content on their blogs and websites, and then use social media to distribute that content—but all they’re really getting out of that is branding and awareness, which is what we did as marketers in the 90s.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

But B2B companies have found success in content marketing , and they’re upping the ante. For example, companies create content on their blogs and websites, and then use social media to distribute that content—but all they’re really getting out of that is branding and awareness, which is what we did as marketers in the 90s.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

A common issue with content creators is when to gate content and when not to. Gated content is defined as a content asset that lives behind a landing page—someone has to enter their information into a form to get to the page.) It’s also easy for them to share that non-gated content, and that’s what you ultimately want.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Simply producing content isn’t going to get the job done anymore. That’s good news if you’re just getting your feet wet in content marketing because you can learn from best practices to drive superior execution to stand out. In other words, where does your audience want to consume content and where they actually live today?

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Most B2B companies have stuck a toe in the content marketing water by shifting some of their resources to generate white papers, thought-leadership articles, infographics, and video— primarily for use in the marketing automation systems that they’ve purchased. video, long-form content, graphic etc.)

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Most B2B companies have stuck a toe in the content marketing water by shifting some of their resources to generate white papers, thought-leadership articles, infographics, and video— primarily for use in the marketing automation systems that they’ve purchased. video, long-form content, graphic etc.)

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AUGUST 14, 2015

You’ve been writing some blogs and white papers, using marketing automation to assist in your distribution, and you’re getting some traction—but it’s not enough. Management has decided to that they want more content marketing, but they haven’t seen enough results to justify a large expenditure. So what are your options?

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