Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. They will consume content, but only if it’s valuable to them. Do Your Research.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

The best marketing articles are not only chock-full of valuable insight, but they also stand the test of time. As content marketing experts, we realize that not everyone has this superpower. And if they do, they definitely don’t have the time to sift through Google SERPs to find the real marketing gems. No problem.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 13, 2021

Leading up to 2020, demand gen goals involved creating content for search discovery and satisfying prospects’ information needs. Continue reading → The post Demand Gen for Content Marketing in the Next Decade [New Research] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. Well, guess what?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2024

It’s a wake-up call for content marketers and publishers everywhere. The way people engage with these platforms is changing, and it’s reshaping how they interact with content outside of these social bubbles, particularly in driving traffic to external sites. This isn’t just a blip on the radar.

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Martech

MARCH 22, 2024

AI tools and large language models (LLMs) are changing the content marketing process, impacting how we conceive, produce and distribute content. Below, I delve into the content marketing lifecycle to show how content teams are incorporating generative AI at different stages. Keywordinsights.ai

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Optinmonster

APRIL 26, 2024

Do you want to learn how to use Google search operators to improve your content marketing research? Advanced operators help you fine-tune your Google search queries, speeding up your research and making your job a lot easier. Of these operators, I’ve found 9 of them the most useful for content marketing research.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2020, 70% of marketers were already actively investing in content marketing ( HubSpot ). 79% of B2B content marketers say their organization has a content marketing strategy ( Content Marketing Institute). Content marketing costs 62% less than outbound marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Careless content marketing mistakes are costing businesses more than their monthly budget. Blindly navigating your marketing strategy can cause your content to capsize. Turn your mistakes into mastery and learn how to build an effective content marketing strategy that guarantees smooth sailing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 1, 2021

With businesses conducting more of their communication online even before the pandemic’s onset, content marketing has taken on a greater role. Consumers, too, cut the cable pre-pandemic and have turned to streaming services, podcasts, and other platforms for information and entertainment. Then the pandemic hit. The reason?

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2023

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level. But what exactly are the best content marketing practices?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At this point, there’s no denying that content marketing is being used by most companies. In this post, we’ll be looking at how to tell if content marketing saturation has hit your industry. Content marketing is highly prevalent in just about every industry, making it hard to cut through the noise.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2021

Content marketing is one of the fastest-growing professions in the business world today. This beginners’ course in content marketing will take you from the bare basics to having marketable skills that can help you command a better salary or grow your business. Why Should I Learn Content Marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 28, 2021

If you were to step back in time into a marketing conference from a decade or so ago, content marketing SEO would be the buzzword you’d hear on everyone’s lips. But back then, content was only a vehicle for injecting keywords into blog posts and other website content. Lots of them. Because, you know, SEO.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Content marketing is a contact sport. Such is the life of a content marketer, where you must balance content marketing strategy vs. execution. You can’t “win” at content marketing without a solid strategy. Your first play should be a content marketing strategy. Image: SEMRush.

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Contently

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Customer research can surprise you. Why you can’t afford to skip customer research. Why you can’t afford to skip customer research. Customer research involves gathering data about your ideal consumers—who they are, what they want, and how you can help them. 5 types of customer research. The takeaway?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing? Yes, it is true that we use content marketing to: Help our target audience solve problems. Provide information our audience can’t find elsewhere.

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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.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. And we are all consuming more information online. Content Marketing is the about building measurable business growth.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The measure of any marketing strategy is in its effectiveness. In content marketing, we measure effectiveness by the amount of organic search traffic and rankings we deliver for our clients. And that is derived from the value our content brings to a brand’s prospects and current customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A research study found that over 80% of people searching for a product on Google chose to click on websites they were already familiar with, regardless of their position in the results. Content marketing can be a highly effective way to build brand awareness. Content can help to build your brand in several different ways.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For years now, the internet has created a massive platform for brands to share content with their target audiences. If web analytics aren’t integrated into every part of your content marketing strategy, the answer is no. How web analytics can help you improve content marketing. 9 percent?! Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 17, 2021

“Is content marketing the right choice for my business?” Content marketing isn’t just one of those trends that come and go in the marketing world. It’s an essential ingredient in marketing success in the digital universe. After all, it appears on a content marketing agency’s blog, right?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Content marketing is leading the way for effective marketers. Many businesses hire content marketing agencies to help develop and distribute their messaging. However, there are some potential content marketing agency problems you want to consider. Information is more accessible than ever before.

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Scoop.it

APRIL 11, 2024

Below are the benefits of a webinar and why it’s necessary for your brand’s content curation strategy. These webinar tools facilitate immediate information and feedback exchange between you and your targets. The brand recently hosted a webinar session to educate its audience on how to do efficient keyword research.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Being a content marketing influencer is no joke. In a world where the amount of stuff online continues to grow exponentially each day, developing content and a marketing strategy that makes your stuff stand out is something to be proud of. Take this information one step further and you have a gold mine of information.

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Animalz blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Our in-house innovation lead, Tim Metz, explores new ideas and technologies for our customers and content. In this article, he shows how content teams can use AI tools in their research process. What you need to know to make the most of this guide What follows are advanced AI research tactics.

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Content Standard

APRIL 2, 2019

Audience personas, segmentation, and journeys are common pillars of content marketing —informing all elements of the content strategy, targeting techniques, and distribution methods. Original research for content marketing takes the guesswork out of audience development. Image attribution: Omar Lopez.

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Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

At B2B Forum the two companies held a panel to discuss the research and share insights. ROI Measurement: 64% of marketers face challenges measuring the ROI of their webinars. Laura Ramos, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Technology and Insights: Webinar platforms that offer actionable insights are invaluable.

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 16, 2022

Data is the backbone of everything we do as content marketers. But you may not have the benefit of a large amount of content consumption data to guide and inform your content strategy and planning.

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Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For B2B brands, having a content marketing program tends to be a given. But one of the challenges of having a baseline assumption is that it can be easy to lose sight of why content marketing became such a cornerstone of B2B marketing in the first place. But that initial goodwill only goes so far.

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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. Or, maybe you need some great stats to help you build your business case for content marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 4, 2018

It would be easy to chalk up these changes to the internet and the ease with which buyers can gather information. But what happens when there is alignment – in particular, between content marketing and sales? That’s the question the CMI research team pondered prior to conducting a new study on the topic with LinkedIn this year.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Whenever someone posts on social media, searches on Google, writes a product review, or engages with a chatbot, they leave behind a trail of information. As content marketers, the wealth of information driven by human language can help us understand our audience and impact our decisions.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

Content marketing is not a new concept but it has evolved over the years, especially in the past few. With the rise in digital content, the impact of a pandemic and many workplace changes, new content marketing trends have emerged and evolved priorities. Here’s to strong B2B content and effective marketing efforts!

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2023

The mysterious force of gravity is the most vivid analogy I can use to describe the power of a successful inbound content marketing plan. In this article, we will enter the gravity well of inbound content marketing. Let’s begin by providing a definition of the term inbound content marketing. .

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Contently

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Content marketing is like cooking. In its State of Content Marketing 2022 Global Report , keyword research tool company Semrush surveyed 1,500 content marketers worldwide. Among their ongoing challenges: attracting traffic to content, improving its SEO performance, and generating content ideas.

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Spiralytics

JANUARY 25, 2023

You create a well-strategized content marketing campaign with some fancy design, and it feels like you are on the right track. So what can you do to generate more traffic via your content marketing campaigns? Usually, the problem is not about the content you present, but how you present it. Heatmap in Capturly 1.

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