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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Stats Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Work Management 284

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s becoming more important than ever before for marketers to connect with customers and prospects across multiple channels. However, new research indicates that many are failing to achieve the objectives associated with utilizing existing multi-channel strategies. The same percentage is dedicated toward content and messaging.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 4, 2021

When it comes to developing growth marketing strategies, you don’t have every resource at your disposal. The best growth strategies involve organic SEO, content marketing, organic social media, and email marketing. Growth marketing strategies are not cookie cutter. Commit to Content Marketing.

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ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The success of that execution depends on how well your content operations support your content strategy. Content operations and content strategy are intrinsically tied together. What is Content Strategy? At its core, a content strategy is your master blueprint.

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Content Standard

APRIL 16, 2024

With organic search re-emerging as a cornerstone strategy for CMOs, top brands are harnessing AI to accelerate their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts and bring more efficiency to a traditionally cumbersome and resource-intensive practice. What’s driving the renewed focus on organic search?

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2021

All four brands mentioned above understand the importance of customer-centricity. Today, we’re covering several key strategies these four brands have been using for years. They know how to keep their focus on the customer and follow sound product marketing principles for success. What is a Product Marketing Strategy?

Marketing & Strategy 363

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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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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.

Marketing & Strategy 129

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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

MARCH 16, 2023

The Content Marketer Sorting Hat — Which house are you? That’s why when we think about brands who embody the Gryffindor spirit, we think of serious content marketing trailblazers — ones whose daring content has made them well known by just about everyone. Let’s look at a few Gryffindor-esque content examples.

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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.

Marketing AI 125

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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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Only B2B

JANUARY 12, 2022

Content syndication should be one of the most important of these strategies. It’s a marketing strategy that entails republishing material that you’ve created on your digital platforms on third-party websites. Publishing information on other websites enhances your credibility persona. Source: SalesBox.

Lead Generation 118

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 118

Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

Most brands expect to drive engagement and generate leads with social media strategies. However, ephemeral content is often overlooked in favor of long-form and feed content to achieve these goals. If leveraged properly, ephemeral content can help you beat the algorithm and keep your brand top of mind.

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New North

AUGUST 14, 2023

“How many blog posts did we publish this quarter? ” If you’re a B2B marketer, at some point you’ve heard these questions in a marketing strategy meeting. They’re the symptom of a larger issue — marketing teams struggle to craft an overarching content marketing strategy designed to help their customers.

Marketing & Strategy 52

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2021

With all the news around COVID-19, our usual social content just doesn’t feel relevant. Starting today, we're using social to support you by sharing resources and starting new conversations around remote work and open communication to help (even just a little) during this time. Resources for planning your reopening.

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Table of Contents Industrial Marketing for Manufacturers: Perspective of a Founder/Owner of a Manufacturing Company Industrial Marketing for Manufacturers: Point of View of a Sales Manager/Director of Marketing Why Would a Marketing Manager of a Manufacturing Company Outsource Industrial Marketing Tasks?

Top of Funnel 104

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Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This includes refocusing top-of-the-funnel efforts like content syndication to be more buyer-driven and effective. While content syndication is a tried-and-true channel in the B2B marketer’s toolkit, it’s also one that marketers have historically invested a lot of time and money in but have often struggled in proving its ROI.

Ideal Customer Profiles 107

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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.

Marketing AI 91

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Animalz blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It’s the belief that customers will find your great product without a distribution strategy. Content marketers fall for this same trap all the time. We pour ourselves into crafting a perfect piece, hit publish, and hope for the best. A distribution-first strategy starts with the “they will come” part.

Ideal Customer Profiles 82

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Contently

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s just say it: Most branded content isn’t very good. I worked for years as a content strategist. I’ve spent the last decade researching and reporting on the content marketing industry. Along the way, I’ve probably consumed more pieces of branded content than anyone else. I should know.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

If you’re thinking about adding virtual selling to your training program this year, we’ve rounded up our favorite sales training resources and speaker suggestions to help educate and inspire your team. An all-in-one video selling resource to support your strategic planning, SKO, and ongoing enablement. Get the Kit.

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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. New social media platforms and communication tools release every day.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The hunger from customers is palpable, their thirst for knowledge insatiable. Now, in this relentless race of innovation, financial institutions find themselves on the edge, feverishly ramping up their content strategies. AI-based personalized content 90% of loan and mortgage customers start their journey with an online search.

Marketing AI 52

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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. If your content comes across as salesy and pushy, readers will move on quickly.

B2B Marketing 114

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Content Marketing Brand Identity 114

Contently

AUGUST 5, 2020

Contently Case Stories tell the story behind the amazing work Contently customers are doing. On March 11, the content team at MD Financial was finalizing their Q2 content plan, built around themes like spring cleaning your finances and home-buying season. The COVID content strategy.

Top of Funnel 137

Top of Funnel SME Marketing & Strategy Budget Programs 137

BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Your company blog is great for pushing your own content marketing agenda and for providing endless resources to your leads and site visitors. There’s a lot of value in building your brand’s thought leadership by thinking beyond your customer. When it comes to content development, the more places you source ideas from.

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Resources Peer-to-peer Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Creation 94

Contently

JULY 24, 2019

We know that not every content marketer begins their program from scratch. If you’re a content marketer focused on growth rather than creation, you could be in any number of situations. You might have inherited a content program when you started a new job. No matter what brought you here, it’s time to expand.

Marketing & Strategy 133

Marketing & Strategy Content Paid Search Agency Custom Publishing 133

nDash

JULY 26, 2022

Content marketing is three times more efficient than traditional lead generation strategies. And, in 2022, you can ask almost any marketing professional out there– 92% say that content is a valuable asset. With all the positive feelings surrounding content marketing, why are some businesses still struggling to see results?

Marketing & Strategy 52

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 14, 2023

Launched by John Deere in 1895, The Furrow, also known as the “Journal for the American Farmer,” is one of the earliest examples of content marketing. The Furrow is still going strong, and so is content marketing. When done right, content marketing can help companies achieve several business goals. But there’s a problem.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 19, 2021

Success not only requires a solid inbound strategy, but it also requires deep knowledge of the latest best practices in marketing, content, and design.Lucky for us, there are tons of marketing resources out there for B2B marketers looking for ways to improve performance and move the needle for their company or organization.

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Paid Content Inbound Marketing Resources B2B Marketing 105

Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2024

“It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content that wins.” Think of your content as seeds of knowledge. Is content syndication worth the effort? Must Read: B2B Content Syndication Strategies The Challenge: Where’s the ROI? This guide will help you do just that.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

My team and I helped a mid-sized valve manufacturer increase leads by 31% by rewriting and revamping their product-centric content to address engineers’ real-world challenges. Your content needs to be technically sound, solution-oriented, and backed by data or proof points. Ready to dive into a perspective you won’t find anywhere else?

Tactics 75

Tactics B2B Marketing Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 75

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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ClearVoice

JANUARY 31, 2024

These were the ingredients chosen to create a successful content strategy, right? What we’re trying to say is there’s more than meets the eye when developing your content strategy. The secret ingredient often lies in the hands of a dynamic, well-structured content operations team.

Marketing Budget 52

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 31, 2024

These were the ingredients chosen to create a successful content strategy, right? What we’re trying to say is there’s more than meets the eye when developing your content strategy. The secret ingredient often lies in the hands of a dynamic, well-structured content operations team.

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Marketing & Strategy Allocation 52

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. In this way, content is a long play, winning trust over time. Let’s start with the business brass tacks.

Paid Content 92

Paid Content Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management 92