Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 12, 2021

While content personalization isn’t easy, there are lots of opportunities to delight your customers with it. To provide content marketers with some guidance, we’ve gathered some great personalization strategies you’ll want to try. Content personalization is a way to build trust and loyalty with customers.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. Marrying the creative side of content marketing with the more technical parts of SEO is an art form many have yet to master. In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2021

Every business wants more customers and leads, but many aren’t sure about the best way to get them. When it comes to driving value, content marketing beats advertising (almost) every time. They can coexist and support each other, but there’s no better ROI for your efforts than what you’ll experience with content marketing.

Advertising Agencies 334

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 31, 2021

Learning how to tailor your marketing content to a local audience, therefore, is critical to content marketing success. Learn how to master customizing content to each locality, and you’ll have a formula for content marketing success no matter what markets you move into. Include local communities in your content.

Buyer Personas 327

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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.

Top of Funnel 358

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. Developing Your Buyer Personas. That’s Product Marketing 101. Everything!

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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. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Always-on content marketing is the only way to build new relationships for a brand. As my good friend Carla Johnson points out, you need only look at the rebranding MGM Resorts’ Las Vegas properties underwent to see what magic content marketing can work. Publish quality content and sustain the pace of publication.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Committing to content marketing is a sound investment with much greater ROI than other tactics. Consistently publishing weekly blogs doesn’t have to be time-consuming when you have a partner. The Challenges and How Weekly Blog Content Can Be the Answer. Instead, invest in content marketing. Image: SEMrush.

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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2020

Do you know who your business's buyer personas are? Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customers based on data and research. As a result, you'll be able to attract high-value visitors, leads, and customers to your business who you'll be more likely to retain over time.

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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. There are certain must-haves for success in content marketing.

Content Marketing 290

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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. What Is Content Saturation?

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Top Rank Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

Crafting a B2B SEO content strategy that fully accounts for the unique intricacies of this buyer journey holds the key to long-term digital growth. Drawing the line between B2B and B2C SEO content The defining difference between B2B and B2C is that one targets businesses and professionals, while the other targets individual consumers.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 5, 2024

What is a Content Audit? A content audit is a look at what content you currently have published, how it’s performing, any issues that could be affecting its efficacy, and how it impacts the user experience. Why Are Content Audits so Important? Which content is the most popular and most read among my audience?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 1, 2023

The AI-fueled transformation of content marketing is both exhilarating and distressing. OpenAI and an avalanche of new content tools and best practices are overwhelming many content marketers. You can’t build an effective content strategy without these facts and data. Writer onboarding.

Content Marketing 257

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2021

Video marketing can be a powerful way to reach new prospects and provide extra value to new and long-term customers alike. Videos are easy to digest, can help people understand your business better, and will bring life and motion to your content and messaging. Create Your Video Content. Quick Takeaways. Source: Sprout Social.

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xiQ

MARCH 31, 2020

Your keys to success: 1) Custom-tailor communications specific to the personality type of each individual and 2) stay plugged into the ground-level intelligence of your prospects’ business. Persona based marketing is dead. Traditionally, B2B marketers have relied on the age-old tactics of stereotyping individuals into personas i.e

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether your goal is to acquire leads, boost sales, or increase conversions, content is vital to moving people through the buyer’s journey. From bylined articles to informational videos, content helps prospects learn about brands and gather information about their products and services.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 15, 2023

B2B marketing may help businesses promote their products or services, but it’s more than that – it focuses on building customer relationships, establishing trust, and driving revenue through an optimized digital experience. The ultimate goal is to build customer relationships, establish trust, and drive revenue. Buyer Personas.

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B2B Marketing B2B Buyer Personas Mobile Advertising 310

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Let’s be frank—there is a saturation of content marketing. Almost every brand is producing content, and competition to rank is fierce. However, it’s not all bad news because a lot of content out there is surface level—it’s generic and has no new angle or point of view. What Is 10x Content? 10x Content Origins.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Introductions are not just a place to add fluff before you get to the real content. Blog introductions that directly address customer pain points make you relatable to your readers. Your content must always deliver on the promises you make in your blog introduction. Quick Takeaways. Be relatable.

Custom Publishing 348

Custom Publishing Tactics Search Marketing Lead Scoring 348

Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Content marketing is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to achieve this goal. So, how do you use content marketing to boost conversions? From curating content to appeal to specific segments of your audience to using it to inspire more purchases, here are the eight ways ecommerce content marketing influences conversion rates.

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Contently

JANUARY 26, 2023

Any organization can deliver thought leadership content if it has a system for generating ideas and a process for turning them into engaging assets. The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. Those ideas can really move the needle.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter , Content & Context, to receive more insights and updates on the content marketing world from Skyword CEO, Andrew C. Because, at the end of the day, his team is responsible for creating the entire library of personalized, modularized content that the platform needs available to do its job.

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Martech

JULY 7, 2022

The resulting grid captures four MOps archetypes or “personas.” Psychologists – Are now increasingly responsible for “reading customers’ minds,” i.e. interpreting customers’ interest through intent data and digital engagement. They do this while also overseeing targeting of customer and prospect segments.

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Anyword

AUGUST 25, 2022

They’ve branded the change: “The Helpful Content Update.”. What is Google’s “Helpful Content Update”? In short: The update targets websites with large amounts of “unhelpful content” , or content “that seems to have been primarily created for ranking well in search engines rather than to help or inform people.”.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many evolved business and marketing strategies to meet the new digital-first focus, heightened customer expectations, and so much more. To help put marketing efforts of this past year in perspective, we’re looking back at some of our top marketing content of 2021, focusing on B2B marketing strategies and new trends.

B2B Marketing 118

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Planning B2B Thought Leadership 118

SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

It's important for companies to engage in content marketing to build their online presence and grow brand awareness outside of word of mouth. The practice of content marketing allows companies to consistently put noteworthy content out there about what they do best and how their solution(s) can help consumers solve their problems.

Content Marketing 98

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

Are those stereotypes or personas? presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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Marketing Interactions

JANUARY 27, 2020

In a lot of the conversations I have with B2B marketers, many are overwhelmed when confronted with how to build truly actionable buyer personas. Building actionable personas takes a fair bit of time and effort. And along with that, so is your persona project. 3 B2B Buyer Persona Types. Primary Buyer Persona.

Buyer Personas 69

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Whether you’re a freelancer, a content marketing agency, or an in-house marketing professional hired to manage a brand’s content, you need to make the most of your existing strengths in content marketing creation, but you also need to shore up your weaknesses and develop your lesser skill sets. Your Treatment Plan.

Top of Funnel 126

Top of Funnel Planning Content Marketing Work Management 126

xiQ

MARCH 31, 2020

Your keys to success: 1) Custom-tailor communications specific to the personality type of each individual and 2) stay plugged into the ground-level intelligence of your prospects’ business. Persona Based Marketing is Dead. Traditionally, B2B marketers have relied on the age-old tactics of stereotyping individuals into personas i.e

Personalization 62

Personalization Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management B2B Sales 62

Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Her session at the 2019 Social Media Strategies Summit in New York City is titled “How Nationwide Leverages a Social Persona to Create a Culturally Relevant Brand,” and she aims to teach attendees how to build and leverage their brand personas, foster social engagement and grow a relevant audience.

Relevance 63

Relevance Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Social Media 63

SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Originally published Oct 19, 2017. Read any inbound marketing blog or article and it’ll tell you to start any new initiative with, first, your goal(s) and then, second, your buyer personas. Because personas are at the heart of content. Confusing Preferences with Personas. Having Too Few or Too Many Personas.

Buyer Personas 73

Buyer Personas Inbound Marketing Segmentation Webinar Metrics 73

SmartBug Media

APRIL 28, 2022

The goal of using HubSpot smart content is to create a personalized experience for those visiting your website. Below, we have put together six best practices for HubSpot smart content that you can follow when developing your next piece of smart content. Adapt by Persona. Customize to Location.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 19, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing You’ve spent months developing a content strategy and weeks laboring over a piece of content that you have deemed “high value”. Why are they unwilling to give you accurate contact information despite downloading your content?

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Binary Demand

MARCH 1, 2024

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/]Technological progress has always been a game-changer for businesses, opening new avenues to connect with customers. While some industry giants may balk at fully automated marketing through smart AI technology, the impact of AI-powered automation in customer service sectors is clear.

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