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?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Case studies help you build a story around your customers, products, and services. And 90% trust what other customers say about a company over what the company says about itself. Case studies are one of the most powerful forms of content to have in your marketing repertoire. What are Case Studies in Content Marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 1, 2021

Content marketing has the potential to do great things for your brand. However, like any marketing initiative, you need to understand how it’s impacting your organization and the ROI (return on investment) it’s delivering. Quantifying content marketing is a standard part of determining its performance.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How does a relatively small marketing organization scale its content strategy and deliver more valuable content to its customer base? Customers crave useful and informative content, but in a busy company, there are only so many hours in a day—and often not enough to produce the quantities of content it needs.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2023

As content marketers, we are always on the hunt for interesting data to grab reader attention and support our claims. The journalistic protocol is to cite an original, authoritative source that is transparent about its methodology (like the description on page 41 in CMI’s annual B2C Content Marketing Report.)

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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. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The digital marketing world may continue to change, but one thing’s for sure: content remains king. And what sets great content apart from the rest? In-depth content marketing research. BuzzSumo Image Source: BuzzSumo Have you ever wondered how some content creators always seem to know what’s trending?

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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

JUNE 7, 2021

What if I told you the answer was quality content? Content is king today and will still be on the throne tomorrow. In 2020, 70% of marketers were already actively investing in content marketing ( HubSpot ). Years ago, experts projected that content marketing would be worth over $400 billion by 2021.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If your brand is earning tons of web traffic but seems lean on conversions, you might need more action words in your content marketing. Action words turn consumers from simple readers of your content into engaged potential customers. If you’re publishing content, you probably already are, but maybe not optimally.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

You probably already know how powerful customer retention can be for your business. However, in today’s world, where we can utilize predictive analytics tools to create highly personalized experiences for customers, it’s critical to focus on delivering value over making a sale or focusing too much on cost. With content marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

As video marketing continues taking the world by storm, more businesses adopt it as a pivotal strategy to educate consumers, generate leads, and boost ROI. Video marketing can be a powerful way to reach new prospects and provide extra value to new and long-term customers alike. Quick Takeaways. Source: Sprout Social.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Content marketing can be a highly effective way to build brand awareness. With every piece of branded content an individual sees, they become more familiar with your brand. Content can help to build your brand in several different ways. The more content you publish, the more exposure you give your brand.

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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? This content includes articles, blogs, videos and podcasts, as well as in-depth whitepapers and research.

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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. The findings?

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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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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. Don’t overlook video in your strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As the volume of online content grows daily, it can be difficult to make sure your voice is heard over the noise. Thought leadership content marketing is one of the most effective ways of establishing your name and company as an authority in your industry. But what exactly is thought leadership content marketing ?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 28, 2023

A well-rounded content marketing strategy will rely on several different types of content to achieve its goals. Understanding how each different content format works, which audience segments it appeals to, and how it fits into your overall sales and marketing funnel is key to success.

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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. Use a Metaphor to Illustrate How Content Drives ROI.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2021

Is anybody successful with content marketing? Content marketing with a thoughtful strategy and plan doesn’t usually provide the ROI (return on investment) expected. For anybody to be successful with content marketing, you must define success. How Do You Define Success for Content Marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 13, 2021

While it’s impossible to control everything related to your brand online, you can manage your online reputation with content marketing. With content marketing , you control the story. Your blogs, videos, social media posts, and every other aspect of content marketing are all within your realm to dictate.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2023

The search engine giant stomps the competition with over 90% of the market share, while the closest challenger barely gets 3%. That’s the reason you need advanced Google search strategies. You’ll learn if you need to improve your content if websites in unrelated fields appear. Advanced tips don’t just help you research.

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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

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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Debate raged for a long time about whether SaaS companies really needed content marketing. In 2022, that debate is dead — content is a critical piece of successful digital marketing for every SaaS brand. Topics covered in SaaS content are often technical. 5 Actionable Content Marketing Lessons for SaaS.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of the content marketing. Those insights lead to one of the biggest trends in Content Marketing: we need to develop content for the every stage of the buyer journey. Few companies have too much product content.

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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 16, 2020

‘Tis the season to believe in the holiday spirit AND the power of content marketing. If you’re new here, content marketing is a business opportunity to reach and convert new customers. It drives measurable results through powerful story-telling that’ll hit home with your customers. A broad content spectrum.

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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.

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Martech

JUNE 21, 2023

You’ve just hit the “publish” button on your company’s latest blog post. But let’s face it — the “publish and pray” era of content marketing is long gone. But let’s face it — the “publish and pray” era of content marketing is long gone.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2020

This is why always-on content marketing wins every time: each piece of content is a test. You learn every time you publish and share. According to CMI, only 9% of B2B marketers believe that their content strategy is effective. Lack of a strategy is a bullet train to failure.

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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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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. They want to discover solutions and make purchase decisions without being marketed or advertised.

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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From seasonal upticks and downturns in sales to market trends to consumer behavior tendencies, ecommerce brands must manage a variety of factors when attempting to surpass the average CR of (approximately) 2%. Content marketing is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to achieve this goal. Let’s dive in.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As content marketers, the wealth of information driven by human language can help us understand our audience and impact our decisions. Integrating NLP Into Your Content Marketing Efforts As a content marketer, you may think of NLP as a term you would hear from your engineering friends.

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FunnelEnvy

JUNE 26, 2023

In the middle of 2023, it’s safe to say content marketing is no longer the innovative, groundbreaking strategy it was ten or even five years ago. According to recent research, nearly 70% of companies plan to increase their content marketing budgets this year.

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