Content4Demand

JULY 23, 2020

Search engines are smarter than ever and becoming smarter, so trying to game them by cramming keywords or phrases into content doesn’t make sense. Yet, not only do I still see B2B marketers doing this, but sometimes this is their only SEO strategy for content. That’s unfortunate four a couple of reasons. Focus on the Output.

Keywords 72

Keywords SEO Long Tail Marketing Buying Cycle 72

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Account-based marketing (ABM) and strategic content creation and distribution mesh perfectly. However, strategic content creation and distribution are great solutions to these challenges. This goes beyond understanding content topics and the search intent behind each keyword.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2012

We all know the backbone of any good SEO program is selecting the proper keywords to target. What does a company offer and what keywords do customers use to search for it? One factor that can often be overlooked when choosing the right keywords is the keyword intent. Here are four ways to evaluate keyword intent: 1.

Keywords 120

Keywords Intent Lead Gen Buying Cycle 120

Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. And, in our hyper-connected world where everyone is fighting for attention, good content is what drives good experiences. . Businesses use content marketing strategies to generate brand awareness, educate prospects and customers and establish credibility.

Digital Asset Management 136

Digital Asset Management Paid Content Work Management Marketing Management 136

Brandpoint

JULY 1, 2021

Companies that resisted digital investment were suddenly challenged, and the companies with the best content and digital experiences began to win the day. This will necessitate better content experiences to power our sales processes when it will be difficult if not impossible to get all the right decision-makers in a room at the same time.

Digital Transformation 169

Digital Transformation Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency Planning 169

ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Your content marketing strategy must connect your audience and your brand. This means continual planning, creating, publishing, and sharing of content. ” A content marketing strategy must not be stagnant. A flexible content marketing strategy helps to improve audience engagement. It needs to evolve. The result?

Marketing & Strategy 81

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Planning Content Marketing 81

Valasys

JUNE 8, 2020

Strategic content mapping is an orchestrated plan to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time to help customers sail through the specific stages of their buying cycles and to figure-out the opportunities to better address the pain-points of your customers. Allows Keyword Mapping in the Content Mix.

Buyer Personas 76

Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Content Template 76

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management 60

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. Content marketing allows you to build relationships that enhances brand trust.

Paid Content 166

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Content Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 166

Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

Personalization at scale: Crafting personalized content that resonates with each segment of your audience becomes more challenging as your business scales (which, again, is why humans can’t be taken entirely out of the loop). By automating this process, businesses can consistently engage leads with relevant and timely content.

Marketing Automation Services 155

Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles Efficiency Marketing Automation 155

Biznology

JUNE 23, 2017

Google is trying to answer that question, based on keywords for the product or service that meets that needs. And the advertiser with the most competitive bid for that keyword. They consume content that aligns with a huge range of personal interests, beliefs, ideologies, and values. BUDGET: Keywords or campaigns?

Adwords 175

Adwords Top of Funnel Cost Per Click Facebook 175

Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Because the search engines like Google have changed their algorithms in the last few years, the role that search engine optimization (SEO) plays in content marketing is causing a lot of confusion. This sort of thinking is where we get into trouble when it comes to our content development strategy.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel SEO Content Marketing Long Tail Marketing 120

KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Content is critical for B2B business to attract potential customers, capture leads, and guide those leads toward conversion. Different types of content, of course, play their unique parts in the buying cycle. However – the mantra “ quality over quantity ” is particularly important for B2B content marketers.

Top of Funnel 121

Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking B2B 121

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2013

Coming up with really good long-tail keywords for your SEO or pay-per-click campaigns can sometimes be daunting if you don’t understand how buyers use Google, what buying cycle they are in, and how your content or offers align with those search terms people use to look for what you do. Google’s keyword research tool.

Adwords 100

Adwords Keywords Work Management Paid Search Agency 100

Exo B2B

JUNE 26, 2023

You’ve probably heard a lot about B2B content marketing. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 13th annual study (2023), 71% of B2B content marketers say B2B content marketing is more important than it was last year. Yet you should be aware that quality content marketing performs better.

Marketing AI 52

Marketing AI B2B Marketing Optimization Content Marketing 52

EMagine B2B Blog

JANUARY 6, 2019

Content marketing personas are not new, however, tightly integrating these personas with SEO strategy and tactics is relatively new to most companies and organizations. What is a Content Marketing Persona? What is a Content Marketing Persona? A key step in this is remembering that your website is not about you.

Enterprise Management 90

Enterprise Management Content Marketing Work Management Planning 90

Biznology

JUNE 22, 2016

Because of the importance consumers and business decision makers are putting on content, many marketers and business owners are challenged with how to create the ongoing flow of quality business content that they need to drive their marketing objectives. Why a Video First content marketing strategy makes sense.

Top of Funnel 150

Top of Funnel Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 150

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2019

Here are additional definitions from around the web: Ardath Albee & MLT Creative : “A buyer persona is a composite of different factors that affect your buyer and motivate him/her to buy. SEO and PPC Keyword Research. Keyword research is both a fundamental and critical component of search marketing programs; paid and organic.

Buyer Personas 123

Buyer Personas Paid Content Online Marketing B2B Marketing 123

Hubspot

MAY 7, 2020

A sound content marketing strategy is one of the better ways a business can help shape its brand identity, garner interest from prospects, and retain an engaged audience. Content marketing isn't static. We're going to take a look at how content marketing has evolved in the past decade, and how it's going to evolve in the next one.

Content Marketing 101

Content Marketing Planning Mobile Marketing Advertising Mediums 101

Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 24, 2021

And they benefit from B2B content that shows them how to do those things. I agree with Gartner that this is a huge opportunity for marketers to help buyers by creating content that assists them with job completion. There’s a lot more to B2B content marketing than thought leadership, industry trends and infotainment.

B2B Thought Leadership 62

B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership B2B Gartner 62

NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2011

Promotional ads Get content now Landing page/microsite Immediate leads. SEO Learn about Us Website Find us first, let content persuade to become leads. This is an interesting method we typically utilize for keyword research.

SEO 100

SEO Content Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2011

Promotional ads Get content now Landing page/microsite Immediate leads. SEO Learn about Us Website Find us first, let content persuade to become leads. This is an interesting method we typically utilize for keyword research.

SEO 100

SEO Content Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 21, 2019

And, for many of our clients, whose buying cycles can reach up to 18 months, high volume keywords tend to drive top of the funnel traffic, which take time to convert. Of course, I could create an entire book on why a multi-channel keyword strategy is necessary but that’s not what this blog post is about.

Top of Funnel 141

Top of Funnel Tactics SEO Long Tail Marketing 141

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. Beef up your video content. Your blog reflects your content marketing strategy—right down to the keywords. Convert articles and blog posts to video.

Top of Funnel 112

Top of Funnel Work Management Video Marketing Marketing Management 112

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

B2B buying cycles can take up to 18 months , multiple touch points can occur, and on top of all of that, many businesses don’t have the right tools in place to measure marketing efforts. Analyze Your Content Funnel. We started by mapping content to the corresponding keyword targets: What was driving traffic?

Top of Funnel 147

Top of Funnel Multi-Touch Attribution ROI SEO 147

seo.co

JULY 28, 2020

Table of Contents. By increasing your organic rankings for relevant keyword terms and avoiding optimization for irrelevant terms, you can control the types of people who visit you organically. In other words, you can make sure your visitors are within your target demographics and at the right phase of the buying cycle.

Traffic 109

Traffic Paid Content Organization Lead Scoring 109

Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The straightforward ramifications of content marketing include attracting & engaging the prospects along with the sales cycles & ultimately driving sales conversions. Ever wondered how to build customer loyalty with content marketing?

Loyalty 72

Loyalty Top of Funnel Content Marketing Ad Building 72

Valasys

JULY 17, 2020

The proven way to advance the inquiries of your business customers through the online creation of content and campaigns is called inbound lead generation. Consider weaving your content strategy around your participation in events, conferences, or something as small as participating in extracurriculars. Create SEO-friendly Content.

Lead Generation 97

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Generation 97

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 8, 2013

Here at KoMarketing, we talk a lot about content and content marketing. And while we’re admittedly huge fans of content, our goal is never to create content merely for the sake of creating content. Current Content. That being said, it’s also important we understand how our current content is performing.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel B2B Content Advertising Funnels 120

NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 8, 2016

This will help B2B firms with products that have longer buying cycles better measure how paid search investments are generating offline value. Here’s a simple scenario: You promote content or trials within AdWords ads and direct prospects to landing pages with forms. Some may become opportunities; some become sales.

Adwords 172

Adwords Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Google 172

Valasys

MAY 15, 2020

Video content has evolved as a popular toolkit for modern content marketers. Leveraging video content boosts organic SEO by improving the online visibility of your brand, strengthening your brand equity, and improving the Click-Through-Rate (CTR) to drive more conversions over a period of time.

Organization 52

Organization SEO Video Marketing Lead Scoring 52

DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

Bombora’s intent is based on activity such as keyword searches, article views, and white paper downloads. Boosting the buying cycle The use of downstream intent data can accelerate the buying cycle by enabling brands to score, segment, and prioritize accounts based on recent behavior.

Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Ideal Customer Profiles Account Based Marketing ABM Intent 52

Valasys

MARCH 5, 2020

An adage goes that the old must perish & make way for the new to flourish, the same philosophy can be applied within the B2B set-up to evolve your content strategy in 2020. You can’t evolve your content strategy without engaging with your niche-specific communities in the first place.

Paid Content 59

Paid Content De-duplication WOMM Top of Funnel 59

seo.co

OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Conversions” are often loosely defined, and you’ll encounter some writers who will say a conversion has taken place when someone clicks through a different article, or socially shares your piece of content. This guide’s intention is to teach you how to use content to get more of these hardline conversions for your site.

Ad Exchange 98

Ad Exchange Content Copywriting Lead Scoring 98

KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2017

For example, recent research suggests that marketers may want to shift to shorter pieces of content to reel in B2B buyers. DemandGen’s “ 2017 Content Preferences Survey Report ” discovered that 46 percent of B2B buyers have moved towards shorter formats of content in the past year. What Are Buyer Personas?

Buyer Personas 121

Buyer Personas Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership B2B 121

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 18, 2017

While these reports are valuable to our clients, they’re also extremely valuable to myself and the rest of the content marketing team. Before diving into the nitty-gritty of blog performance, you should first understand the content’s impact on site traffic. Total site traffic (including new content assets). Blog Traffic.

B2B 121

B2B Top of Funnel Keywords CTR 121

Exo B2B

AUGUST 20, 2020

The current pandemic has led many companies to increase the use of live content and conferences to: be discovered increase your notoriety educate customers and prospects convey your competitive advantages replace conversations that the sales force is no longer able to have! . At the moment, we don’t shake hands anymore, as we used to.

Conference 52

Conference Skype Content Webinar Metrics 52