Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

You see it on billboards, hear it on the radio, and read it anywhere there is content to consume. There is a reason for the data-everywhere reality: data gives content its credibility. SurveyMonkey was so confident that people preferred consuming content with data that it conducted a survey (go figure) to prove it.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2021

Research into the most trusted brands based on social listening gives us some interesting insights into what a brand must do to build trust with its audience. If you do a little more research, you’ll soon discover that all of these brands are putting a lot of time and effort into content marketing. Weight Watchers.

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B2B Marketing Directions

APRIL 20, 2024

Source: Edelman and LinkedIn (This month's Research Round-Up discusses the sixth edition of the B2B thought leadership impact study by Edelman and LinkedIn. This research has consistently provided valuable insights about the impact of thought leadership content on the perceptions and behaviors of business decision-makers.)

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2021

When you humanize your brand with authentic content, you can build the kind of trust that makes your company the go-to authority in its field. In fact, even in the glory days of Madison Avenue, the most successful agencies published authentic content that informed and humanized even as it entertained. Now don’t get me wrong.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 11, 2023

AI is being used to automate mundane tasks, drive data analysis, create personalized customer experiences, and much more. Image credit: Nguyen Dang Hoang Nhu on Unsplash AI can also be used—carefully—to help create more content for your blog and social media. This post explores how AI can assist with content creation.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The way B2B technology buyers conduct research make buying decisions is changing. Those are just a few of the findings from B2B Buying Disconnect: Forecasting Radical Changes in Tech Buying Behavior just published by software rating site TrustRadius. Mismatched Content Type Priorities. as opposed to products.

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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. Top 7 Content Marketing Mistakes.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It sets great content apart from the average and helps you stand out from competitors. This post explores how combining the art of storytelling with hard data can create the most compelling content. To hold your audience’s attention: Storytelling is a great way to add interest and keep readers engaged with your content.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered if your paid content is actually doing its job? What you consider valuable content might be seen as worthless by your customers when they’re trying to make a purchase. Gated content filled with handy how-to guides and relevant research can be the fastest route for your clients to make up their minds.

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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 trend is not isolated to news outlets alone.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Then, you should work with your marketing team on adding more journalistic content to your mix. Buyers are turning away from salesy ads and overtly promotional media and gravitating toward content that is educational and informative. Learn what creating content like a journalist really means and discover our best tips on how to do so.

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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

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

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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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 4, 2022

As B2B marketers look for more impactful ways to resonate with their customers and prospects, new research indicates that content may be the key to making a lasting impression. About 19% claimed they consume between five and seven pieces of content, and 11% said they consume more than seven pieces.

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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

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 ). 79% of B2B content marketers say their organization has a content marketing strategy ( Content Marketing Institute).

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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

MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve decided to open up new markets for your products, but you have a major challenge: how to build brand awareness among your new target customers. When you leverage content marketing to expand your business into new territory, you’ll be a step ahead of your competitors. Expand your team to handle the larger content workload.

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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

MAY 24, 2023

No matter what tools you have, you probably do a lot of your marketing research on good old Google. Advanced tips don’t just help you research. Find New Ideas for Content When you’re publishing weekly, bi-weekly, or daily (like we do here), you can soon start to struggle to come up with new ideas. Image Source: Zyppy 5.

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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. Most of it sucks.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Contrast that with a majority of B2B brands had emotional connections with more than 50% of their customers. These speakers were able to use original research as part of their B2B content strategy, which appealed to the left cerebral hemisphere of my brain, associated with logic and reason. I can attest to this statistic.

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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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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2020

By blending the market strength and brand awareness of two or more companies, co-branding often improves customer bases, customer loyalty, brand image, and perceived value for all participants. Source: Seismic, Hinge Research Institute. Content is king. Everyone is creating content. So, how is your content doing?

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Title Options A Quick Start to Research-Informed Content for Healthcare Vendors Healthcare Vendors and Research-Informed Content: 4 Tactics You Can Implement Today Healthcare Vendors and Research-Informed Content-Part 1: The Low-Hanging Fruit “Half of them are working off instinct and hunches.”

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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. Granted, those factors make content marketing a long-term investment.

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Content Standard

APRIL 16, 2024

At the same time, Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer research cites search engines as the source consumers most trust for news and information—outstripping trust in traditional, owned, and social media channels. Ownable IP: Per the latest guidance from the U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Understanding the needs of your customers is a vital element in the definition of 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. It is a top tactic.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 26, 2021

It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight. What is social media market research? What is social media market research?

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Martech

AUGUST 24, 2023

The only enterprises making money are conference organizers and content publishers.” And now the latest AI-powered martech solutions, enhancements and upgrades: Quickads.ai , an AI Ad platform, offers virtual product photography, eliminating the need for photoshoots while allowing advertisers to produce visual content easily.

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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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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Most professional services firms place little value on research. Just the other day we presented the results of client and prospect research to one of our clients. The Real Importance of Research in Business Growth. In short, research will help you grow your firm. So how do these two types of firms approach research?

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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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Seismic

JANUARY 24, 2023

Sales enablement has changed tremendously since Aragon Research published its first Aragon Research Globe on sales enablement in 2016. The Aragon Research Globe for Sales Enablement Platforms, 2023 This SEP Globe marks the fifth consecutive time Seismic has been recognized as the top Leader. OUT: Siloed digital tools.

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NetLine

MARCH 21, 2023

Our 6th Annual B2B Content Consumption Report Won a Finny Award Recently, NetLine presented at B2BMX 2023 and was invited to attend The Killer Content Awards. Our 2022 State of B2B Content Consumption and Demand Report for Marketers won a Killer Content Award (better known as a Finny) in the Research-Based category.

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