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Measuring Content Marketing Effectiveness

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Message Though difficult to capture quantitatively, it’s important to ensure that every piece of your marketing is addressing your goals. That means examining how well aligned your content is with your audience’s interests and with where they are in their buying process. Promotion Are you getting the word out about your content?

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The limits of content marketing

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As you’ve no doubt guessed, I’m a huge fan of content marketing. But unless you’re a content marketing “fanboy” who’s blind to reality, you have to recognize the practice’s limitations. Those limitations were real even before content marketing’s ubiquity created a whole new set of problems.

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The Wikipedia test for content marketing

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Good content marketing educates the customer. To see the difference between “marketing fluff” and clear expository copywriting, compare a marketing web page to Wikipedia. What you’ll find instead is straightforward, informative content. Content, in other words, that helps the customer understand.

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Influencers: the key to content marketing

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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. Digital is a different animal from traditional marketing. How do do B2B influencer marketing.

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Does a soft sell conflict with content marketing analytics?

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I was recently leading a client workshop where I get a question that I had never heard before, “Why are you emphasizing such an aggressive use of analytics if content marketing should be a soft sell?”. When I counsel clients on content marketing, I don’t take an idea-led, “come up with some catchy headlines” sort of approach.

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Your content marketing must sell solutions, not stuff

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The post Your content marketing must sell solutions, not stuff appeared first on Biznology. They’ll buy the stuff, just like in the old days, but only after you’ve proven it’s the solution they’re looking for. Like this post? Sign up for our emails here.

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What’s the missing link in personalized content marketing?

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What really changes the game is the holy grail of content marketing–the right content to the right person at the right time. Marketers are starting to understand how to do this. What your content is about. Do you know what content you have that speaks to that industry? That is the missing link.

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